1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
17 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
20 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
21 * Major improvements in DASH support
22 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
25 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
26 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
27 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
28 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
29 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
30 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
33 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
34 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
37 * new remapping channel filter
38 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
39 * new VSXu visualization plugin
42 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
43 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
44 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
45 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
48 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
49 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
50 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
51 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
54 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
55 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
56 VLC's internal volume level
57 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
58 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
59 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
63 * portaudio audio output
64 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
65 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
68 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
69 --------------------------------
72 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
73 * fix the samba module compilation
74 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
75 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
76 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
77 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
80 * Support for MXPEG files
81 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
82 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
85 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
86 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
87 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
90 * Fix ogm header creation
93 * limit spatializer filter distortions
94 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
97 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
98 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
99 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
100 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
103 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
106 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
107 * allow to hide the sidebar
108 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
109 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
110 * noticebly faster launch time
111 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
112 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
113 * improve track synchronization panel
114 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
115 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
118 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
119 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
120 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
121 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
124 * fix for menus display
125 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
126 * documentation update
129 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
130 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
133 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
134 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
135 * Update Jamendo selections
139 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
140 * fix a crash on VLM close
143 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
144 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
145 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
146 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
149 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
152 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
153 ---------------------------------
156 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
157 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
158 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
159 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
160 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
161 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
162 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
163 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
164 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
165 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
166 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
167 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
168 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
169 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
170 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
171 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
172 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
173 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
174 --http-crl (optional CRL).
175 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
176 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
177 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
178 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
179 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
180 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
181 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
183 Important changes for packagers:
184 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
185 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
186 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
187 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
188 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
189 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
190 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
191 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
192 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
193 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
196 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
197 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
198 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
199 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
200 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
201 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
202 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
205 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
206 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
207 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
208 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
209 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
210 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
211 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
212 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
213 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
214 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
215 * PulseAudio audio input support
216 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
217 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
218 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
219 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
220 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
221 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
222 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
223 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
226 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
227 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
228 are notably concerned.
229 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
230 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
231 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
232 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
233 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
234 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
235 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
236 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
237 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
238 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
239 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
240 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
241 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
242 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
243 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
246 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
247 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
248 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
249 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
250 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
251 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
252 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
253 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
254 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
255 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
256 * Improved support of tracker files
257 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
260 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
261 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
262 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
263 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
264 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
265 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
266 and important cleanups and optimisations
267 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
268 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
269 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
270 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
271 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
272 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
273 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
274 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
275 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
276 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
277 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
278 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
279 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
280 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
281 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
282 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
283 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
284 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
285 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
286 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
287 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
290 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
291 * New video output for iOS platform
292 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
293 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
294 * Various vmem improvements
295 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
296 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
297 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
298 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
299 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
300 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
302 Audio Output and Filters:
303 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
304 * New audio output in memory (amem)
305 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
306 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
307 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
308 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
309 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
310 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
311 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
312 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
315 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
316 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
317 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
318 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
319 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
320 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
321 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
322 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
323 * New anti-flickering filter
324 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
325 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
326 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
327 blackbox and customizable shadow.
328 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
329 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
330 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
333 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
334 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
335 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
336 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
337 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
338 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
339 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
340 * Major rework of VoD support
341 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
342 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
343 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
344 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
345 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
346 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
347 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
348 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
349 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
350 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
353 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
354 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
357 * New capabilities for libVLC:
358 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
359 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
360 list of available audio and video filters
361 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
362 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
363 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
366 * asademux, subsass: use libass
367 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
368 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
370 * upnp: use upnp_intel
371 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
372 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
373 * removal of the noise filter
374 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
375 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
376 removed in Growl's next release, too.
377 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
380 * Update of translations for most languages.
381 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
384 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
385 ----------------------------------
388 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
389 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
392 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
393 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
396 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
397 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
398 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
401 * Camtasia decoding fix.
404 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
405 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
408 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
411 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
412 ----------------------------------
415 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
416 including support for OS X Lion
417 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
418 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
421 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
424 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
425 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
426 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
429 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
432 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
433 ----------------------------------
436 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
437 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
440 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
441 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
442 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
443 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
444 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
446 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
447 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
448 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
450 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
451 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
454 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
457 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
460 * Fix quitting on Linux
461 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
465 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
468 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
471 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
472 ---------------------------------
474 Windows and Mac OS X:
475 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
478 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
479 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
482 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
485 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
488 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
490 Miscellaneous fixes in:
491 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
493 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
494 * RTP output and XML export
495 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
499 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
500 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
501 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
502 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
505 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
506 --------------------------------
508 Windows and Mac OS X:
509 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
512 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
515 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
516 * Improve Apple Remote handling
517 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
518 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
519 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
520 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
523 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
524 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
528 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
529 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
530 * New Luganda Translation
533 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
534 --------------------------------
537 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
540 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
541 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
542 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
543 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
546 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
548 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
549 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
550 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
551 * mp4 demuxer improvements
552 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
553 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
554 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
555 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
557 Miscellaneous fixes in:
558 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
559 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
560 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
561 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
562 * Configure and build system improvements
563 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
566 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
567 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
568 * New icelandic translation
571 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
572 --------------------------------
575 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
579 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
580 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
581 and stability reasons
584 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
588 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
591 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
592 ----------------------------------
595 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
598 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
599 ---------------------------------
602 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
603 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
604 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
605 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
608 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
611 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
612 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
613 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
614 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
617 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
618 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
619 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
621 Subtitles and renderer:
622 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
623 * Mark more freetype options as safe
624 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
625 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
626 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
629 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
630 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
631 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
632 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
635 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
636 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
639 * KDE device solid actions
641 * Transcode integer overflow
642 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
643 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
646 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
647 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
648 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
651 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
652 ----------------------------------
655 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
659 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
662 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
665 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
666 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
667 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
668 * Taglib thread-safety fix
671 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
675 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
678 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
681 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
682 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
684 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
688 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
689 * Miscellaneous fixes
692 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
693 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
695 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
696 * New Asturian translation
699 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
700 ----------------------------------
703 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
705 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
708 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
711 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
712 * Various fixes for Windows
715 * New Armenian translation
716 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
717 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
720 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
721 --------------------------------
724 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
726 * Fix folders opening from the interface
729 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
730 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
733 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
734 --------------------------------
737 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
738 * fix for podcasts parsing
739 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
742 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
743 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
746 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
747 * fix m3u playlists exports
750 * fix video autoresize behaviour
753 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
756 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
759 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
762 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
765 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Avformat fps displaying fix
770 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
773 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
774 of mono streams, especially on Windows
777 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
778 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
779 * fix console output encoding
781 Interface and extensions:
782 * Youtube and other scripts updates
783 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
786 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
787 --------------------------------
790 * New capabilities for libVLC:
791 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
792 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
793 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
794 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
795 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
796 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
797 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
798 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
799 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
800 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
801 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
802 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
803 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
804 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
805 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
809 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
810 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
811 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
812 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
813 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
816 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
819 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
820 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
821 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
825 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
828 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
829 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
830 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
833 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
834 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
835 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
836 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
839 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
840 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
843 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
844 --------------------------------
846 Important changes for users:
847 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
848 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
850 Important changes for packagers:
851 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
852 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
853 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
854 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
855 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
857 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
859 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
860 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
861 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
862 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
863 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
866 * Support for the sftp protocol
867 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
868 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
869 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
870 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
871 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
874 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
875 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
876 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
878 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
879 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
880 * Invmem module improvements
881 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
882 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
883 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
884 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
885 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
886 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
887 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
888 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
889 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
890 * Support for VP8 codec
891 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
894 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
895 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
896 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
897 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
898 * Various EGP improvements
899 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
900 * Metadata and cover art improvements
903 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
904 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
905 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
906 * Podcast images are now displayed
909 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
910 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
911 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
912 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
913 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
914 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
915 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
916 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
917 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
918 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
919 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
922 * New content extensions lua framework
925 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
926 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
927 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
928 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
929 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
930 * NEON assembly audio converter module
931 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
934 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
935 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
936 * Service discovery based on libudev
937 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
940 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
941 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
942 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
943 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
944 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
945 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
946 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
949 * New smem module, streaming to memory
950 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
951 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
954 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
956 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
957 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
960 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
963 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
964 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
965 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
966 by Andy Matuschak et al.
967 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
968 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
969 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
972 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
973 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
976 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
977 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
978 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
982 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
983 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
984 * Improved Solaris port
987 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
988 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
991 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
992 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
993 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
994 * transrate: broken since too long
995 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
996 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
997 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
998 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
999 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1000 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1001 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1002 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1003 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1004 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1005 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1006 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1007 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1008 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1011 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1012 --------------------------------
1015 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1017 Decoders/Packetizers:
1018 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1021 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1022 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1023 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1024 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1025 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1028 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1029 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1032 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1033 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1036 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1037 and Walloon translations updated
1038 * Sinhala translation started
1041 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1042 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1045 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1046 --------------------------------
1049 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1050 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1053 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1056 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1057 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1060 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1061 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1062 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1063 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1066 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1067 --------------------------------
1070 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1071 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1074 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1075 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1078 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1079 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1082 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1085 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1086 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1089 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1090 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1093 * New Walloon translation
1094 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1097 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1098 --------------------------------
1101 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1102 regressions in most popular drivers
1103 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1106 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1107 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1108 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1111 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1112 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1115 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1116 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1117 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1118 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1119 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1122 * New udev module for linux
1125 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1128 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1131 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1132 --------------------------------
1135 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1136 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1137 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1140 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1141 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1144 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1145 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1148 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1151 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1152 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1153 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1154 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1157 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1158 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1159 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1160 - no support for Goom and SDL
1161 - limited text rendering support
1162 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1165 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1166 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1167 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1168 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1169 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1170 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1171 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1172 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1173 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1177 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1180 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1183 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1184 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1185 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1186 Arabic and French translation updates
1189 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1194 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1195 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1196 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1197 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1198 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1201 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1202 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1203 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1206 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1207 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1208 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1211 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1214 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1215 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1218 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1219 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1220 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1221 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1222 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1223 * Fix various crashes
1226 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1228 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1232 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1233 ---------------------------------
1237 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1238 See 'Access:' for more info.
1239 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1242 * Instantaneous pausing
1243 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1244 * Finer speed control
1245 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1246 * Timeshift for most medias
1247 * RTSP trickplay support
1248 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1251 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1252 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1253 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1254 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1255 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1256 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1257 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1258 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1259 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1260 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1263 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1264 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1265 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1266 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1267 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1268 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1269 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1272 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1273 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1276 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1277 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1278 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1279 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1280 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1281 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1282 * DVB scanning on linux
1283 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1284 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1285 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1286 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1287 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1288 * MTP device access on Unix
1289 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1290 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1293 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1294 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1295 Windows and Mac OS X.
1298 * Export the playlist in HTML
1299 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1300 * Better metadata handling and reading
1302 Linux/Windows interface:
1303 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1304 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1305 * Recently played items list
1306 * Interface toolbar customizations
1307 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1308 - More menus actions
1309 - Finer speed slider
1310 - Improvements on many dialogs
1311 - New dialog for plugins listing
1312 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1313 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1314 * Better integration in GTK environments
1317 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1318 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1319 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1320 * Additional usability improvements
1323 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1324 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1325 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1326 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1327 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1330 * New Maemo port with:
1331 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1332 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1335 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1338 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1339 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1340 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1341 * Support for latest iSight models
1344 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1345 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1348 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1349 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1350 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1351 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1352 The old image video output has been removed.
1353 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1354 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1357 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1365 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1366 --------------------------------------
1372 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1373 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1374 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1375 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1376 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1377 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1378 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1380 Various fixes to the following modules:
1383 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1384 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1385 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1387 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1392 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1393 ---------------------------------
1396 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1397 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1400 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1401 ---------------------------------
1404 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1407 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1410 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1411 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1412 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1413 main controller window.
1414 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1417 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1422 * Updates of other localizations
1425 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1426 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1427 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1428 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1429 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1432 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1433 ---------------------------------
1436 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1438 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1441 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1442 --------------------------------
1447 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1448 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1451 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1452 --------------------------------
1454 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1455 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1458 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1461 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1462 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1465 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1466 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1469 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1470 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1471 * Various fixed in playlist
1474 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1477 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1480 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1481 ------------------------------------
1483 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1484 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1487 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1488 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1489 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1492 * Stability fix for the video output.
1495 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1496 --------------------------------
1499 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1500 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1501 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1502 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1503 * Fixed update system bugs
1504 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1507 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1508 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1509 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1510 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1511 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1512 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1513 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1514 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1515 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1516 modern Mac OS X versions
1519 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1520 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1522 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1523 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1526 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1527 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1528 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1529 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1530 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1531 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1534 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1535 --------------------------------
1537 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1538 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1539 * Multiple bugfixes.
1542 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1543 --------------------------------
1545 * Multiple bug fixes.
1548 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1549 ---------------------------------
1553 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1554 recent to work correctly
1555 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1556 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1557 edit the ".hosts" file.
1558 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1559 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1560 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1561 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1562 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1563 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1564 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1565 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1566 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1567 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1568 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1569 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1570 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1571 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1572 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1573 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1574 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1575 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1576 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1577 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1578 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1579 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1580 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1581 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1582 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1583 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1584 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1585 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1586 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1587 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1588 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1589 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1590 and postproc modules.
1591 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1592 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1593 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1594 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1596 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1597 filter. For example:
1598 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1599 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1601 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1602 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1608 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1610 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1611 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1614 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1615 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1617 * Shoutcast TV listings
1618 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1620 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1621 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1623 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1626 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1627 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1628 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1629 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1630 * JACK audio input support
1631 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1632 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1633 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1634 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1635 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1636 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1637 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1638 (available as a separate download).
1639 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1640 * RTMP input support
1641 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1642 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1643 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1645 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1646 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1649 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1650 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1651 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1652 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1654 * APEv1/2 tags support
1655 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1656 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1658 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1659 * TiVo Series 2 support
1660 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1665 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1666 * Flash Screen Video support
1667 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1668 * DosBox Capture support
1669 * Karl Morton's Video support
1670 * limited atrac3 support
1672 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1673 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1674 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1675 * H.264 PAFF support
1676 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1677 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1678 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1679 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1680 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1683 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1684 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1685 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1686 * AQTitle subtitles support
1687 * MKV USF subtitles support
1688 * HTML-based subtitles support
1689 * MPSub subtitles support
1690 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1691 * MPL2 subtitles support
1692 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1693 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1694 * Realtext subtitle support
1695 * DKS subtitle support
1696 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1697 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1700 * Flash Screen Video support
1701 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1703 Video outputs and filters:
1704 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1705 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1706 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1707 * New puzzle video output filter
1708 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1709 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1711 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1712 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1713 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1714 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1715 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1716 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1717 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1718 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1719 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1720 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1721 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1722 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1723 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1724 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1726 Audio outputs and filters:
1727 * Replay gain support
1728 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1729 new scaletempo audio filter)
1730 * New spatializer audio filter
1731 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1734 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1735 * New RTP payload formats:
1736 * Speex voice audio codec
1737 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1738 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1739 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1740 * DCCP transport for RTP
1741 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1746 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1747 end-user suitable way.
1748 * Improved user interaction
1749 * Improved mouse gestures
1750 * Vastly improved Update checker
1751 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1753 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1754 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1756 * Improved video output features
1757 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1758 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1759 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1760 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1761 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1763 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1764 if libncursesw is available.
1765 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1766 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1767 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1769 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1770 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1771 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1772 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1773 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1774 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1775 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1776 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1779 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1780 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1781 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1784 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1785 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1786 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1787 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1788 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1789 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1792 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1793 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1803 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1804 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1805 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1808 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1809 ----------------------------------
1812 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1815 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1816 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1817 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1818 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1819 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1820 * Updated Polish translation
1823 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1824 ----------------------------------
1827 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1828 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1829 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1832 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1833 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1834 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1835 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1836 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1837 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1838 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1839 to an unexpected application termination
1840 * New Serbian translation
1841 * Updated Romanian translation
1844 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1845 ----------------------------------
1848 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1849 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1850 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1851 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1852 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1853 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1854 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1855 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1858 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1859 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1860 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1861 * Fixed AAC resampling
1862 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1863 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1866 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1867 ----------------------------------
1870 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1871 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1872 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1873 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1874 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1877 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1878 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1879 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1880 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1881 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1884 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1885 ----------------------------------
1888 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1889 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1892 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1893 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1894 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1895 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1897 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1901 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1904 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1907 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1910 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1913 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1914 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1915 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1916 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1917 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1919 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1920 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1921 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1922 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1925 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1928 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1929 ----------------------------------
1932 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1933 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1934 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1936 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1937 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1939 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1940 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1943 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1945 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1946 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1947 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1948 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1949 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1950 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1951 two different movies
1952 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1953 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1954 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1957 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1960 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1961 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1962 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1963 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1966 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1967 ----------------------------------
1969 Various bugfixes, notably:
1970 * Windows Vista compatibility
1971 * Cropping in Direct3D
1972 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1973 * RSS filter string overflow
1975 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1977 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1978 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1981 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1982 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1985 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1988 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1991 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1994 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1995 ----------------------------------
1997 Various bugfixes, notably:
1998 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1999 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2000 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2001 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2002 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2003 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2006 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2007 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2010 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2012 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2013 * Diverse usability improvements
2014 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2015 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2016 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2019 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2020 ---------------------------------
2022 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2023 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2026 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2029 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2030 --------------------------------
2033 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2036 * Support for RTSP authentication
2037 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2038 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2039 * ATSC support for DVB input
2040 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2041 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2042 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2045 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2046 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2047 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2048 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2049 * Matroska WavPack support
2050 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2051 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2052 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2055 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2056 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2057 * Improved libcaca support
2061 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2062 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2064 * Systray support in skins
2066 * Support for Apple Remote control
2067 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2068 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2069 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2070 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2072 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2075 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2076 Windows 9x/ME users:
2077 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2078 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2079 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2080 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2081 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2083 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2084 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2093 * Updates to the libvlc API
2094 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2097 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2098 --------------------------------
2101 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2102 * Support for downloading updates
2106 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2107 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2108 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2109 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2111 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2112 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2113 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2116 * Cook (Real audio) support
2118 Playlist / Services discovery:
2119 * XSPF playlist support
2121 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2124 * New JACK audio output
2127 * New video filters:
2128 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2129 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2130 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2131 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2132 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2133 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2136 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2139 * System to inform the user and request information
2140 - HTTP authentication
2144 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2145 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2146 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2149 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2150 - Improved playlist handling
2151 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2153 - Embedded Video output
2154 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2155 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2156 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2157 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2158 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2160 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2161 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2164 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2167 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2168 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2169 * Growl "Now playing" support
2172 * Ability to log to syslog
2173 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2176 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2178 * A bit more automatic testing
2181 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2182 ---------------------------------
2185 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2186 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2189 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2190 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2193 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2196 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2197 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2203 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2206 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2207 --------------------------------
2210 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2214 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2215 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2216 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2219 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2220 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2221 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2222 * GnomeVFS input module
2223 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2224 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2227 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2228 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2229 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2232 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2233 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2239 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2240 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2243 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2244 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2245 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2248 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2250 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2251 - New extended controls panel
2252 - New bookmarks window
2253 - Fixed playlist sorting
2254 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2256 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2257 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2258 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2259 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2263 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2264 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2266 - Include macro to include other files
2270 * Should now work outside IE as well
2273 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2276 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2277 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2280 The following languages were added:
2284 * Simplified Chinese
2285 The following languages were re-added:
2289 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2290 --------------------------------
2293 * Rewrite of the playlist
2295 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2296 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2297 * Preferences improvements:
2298 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2299 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2301 * Core image manipulation support
2302 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2303 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2304 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2305 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2306 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2307 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2308 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2309 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2310 * Access filter architecture
2311 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2312 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2316 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2317 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2318 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2319 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2320 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2321 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2322 * Massive Matroska improvements
2323 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2325 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2326 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2327 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2328 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2329 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2331 Decoders / Encoders:
2332 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2333 * PNG decoder/encoder
2334 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2335 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2338 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2341 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2342 * Brand new SAP module
2343 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2344 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2345 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2346 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2347 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2348 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2352 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2355 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2356 * Image file video output (png)
2357 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2358 * Improvements to wall video filter
2359 * Support for font color and opacity
2365 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2366 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2367 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2371 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2372 - Improved preferences
2373 - Improvements to the wizard
2374 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2376 - Redesigned playlist
2377 - Improved preferences
2379 - Support for multiple actions
2382 - Support for the new playlist system
2384 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2387 * Screensaver disabling fix
2388 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2389 * Support for no-decoration windows
2392 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2393 * The OpenGL video output is back
2394 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2395 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2396 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2397 is not yet available in the new module
2398 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2401 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2410 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2413 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2416 The following languages were added:
2422 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2423 --------------------------------
2426 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2427 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2430 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2431 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2432 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2435 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2438 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2441 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2444 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2445 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2446 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2450 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2452 * Support of playlist group announcement
2455 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2456 --------------------------------
2459 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2460 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2461 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2462 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2463 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2464 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2467 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2468 (Stream your desktop)
2469 * Improved DVD support:
2470 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2471 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2472 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2473 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2474 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2475 (selection of titles/chapters).
2478 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2479 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2480 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2481 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2482 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2483 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2484 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2485 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2486 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2487 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2490 * G.726 audio support
2491 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2492 * MPEG-4 text support
2493 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2494 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2495 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2499 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2500 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2501 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2502 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2503 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2504 * DVB subtitles encoder
2505 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2506 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2508 * Text track muxing for mp4
2509 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2510 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2511 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2512 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2513 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2514 * Improved ASF muxer
2516 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2517 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2518 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2521 * New audio equalizer filter
2522 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2523 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2524 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2525 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2528 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2529 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2530 with support for effects.
2531 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2532 - New filters can be streamed.
2533 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2534 - Centralized scaling and blending
2536 - "time", to display current time
2537 - "marq", to display a marquee
2540 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2541 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2542 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2543 * A few skins2 improvements
2544 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2545 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2546 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2547 * Improved CORBA control module
2550 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2551 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2552 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2555 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2556 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2557 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2560 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2561 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2562 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2563 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2564 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2567 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2570 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2571 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2574 * Server/client network synchronization module
2575 * VBrick streams fully supported
2576 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2580 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2581 --------------------------------
2584 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2585 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2586 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2587 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2590 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2591 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2592 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2593 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2594 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2595 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2596 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2599 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2600 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2601 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2602 * Improved directory access module.
2603 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2604 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2605 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2606 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2607 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2610 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2611 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2612 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2615 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2616 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2617 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2620 * Improved session announcement system.
2621 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2622 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2623 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2624 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2625 * Improved transrater.
2626 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2627 * New configuration system.
2628 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2631 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2632 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2633 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2634 * Supports scheduling.
2635 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2636 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2639 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2640 - Ability to embed video output.
2641 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2642 - Lots of improvements.
2643 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2644 - New design and set of icons.
2645 - Ability to embed video output.
2646 - Support for hotkeys.
2647 - Support for bookmarks.
2649 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2650 - Better hotkeys handling.
2653 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2654 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2655 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2656 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2659 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2660 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2661 * Improved Windows installer.
2667 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2668 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2671 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2672 ---------------------------------
2675 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2676 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2679 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2680 --------------------------------
2683 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2684 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2687 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2688 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2689 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2690 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2693 * Internal improvments
2694 * Improved import/export
2697 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2699 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2700 small and strange formats.
2702 * New MOD audio demux.
2703 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2704 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2705 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2706 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2709 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2710 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2711 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2717 * New opengl video output plugin.
2720 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2721 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2724 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2725 --------------------------------
2728 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2729 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2730 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2731 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2732 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2733 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2734 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2735 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2738 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2743 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2744 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2745 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2746 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2747 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2748 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2749 * Better Icecast support.
2750 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2751 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2754 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2755 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2756 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2757 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2758 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2759 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2760 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2763 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2764 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2765 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2766 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2767 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2768 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2769 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2770 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2771 * Preliminary RTP support.
2772 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2777 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2778 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2780 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2781 - Improvements and help in preferences
2782 - New streaming wizard
2783 - Revised Disc Open menu
2785 - Improvements of the standard pages
2786 - Support for new commands
2787 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2790 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2791 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2794 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2795 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2796 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2797 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2798 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2799 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2800 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2801 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2802 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2805 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2807 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2808 * Support for Panther.
2809 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2810 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2813 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2814 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2815 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2816 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2817 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2818 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2819 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2820 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2823 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2824 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2825 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2828 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2831 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2832 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2833 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2834 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2837 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2838 --------------------------------
2841 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2844 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2845 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2848 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2849 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2852 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2855 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2856 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2859 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2862 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2865 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2866 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2870 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2871 --------------------------------
2874 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2875 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2879 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2880 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2881 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2883 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2884 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2887 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2890 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2893 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2894 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2898 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2899 --------------------------------
2902 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2903 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2907 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2908 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2909 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2910 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2911 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2914 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2915 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2916 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2919 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2920 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2921 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2924 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2925 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2926 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2927 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2928 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2931 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2932 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2933 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2936 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2939 * Improved build system.
2940 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2941 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2942 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2943 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2946 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2947 --------------------------------
2950 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2953 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2954 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2955 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2956 * Video 4 Linux support
2957 * CD Digital Audio support
2958 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2961 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2962 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2963 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2964 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2967 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2968 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2969 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2970 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2971 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2972 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2973 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2976 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2977 * New HTTP remote control interface
2980 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2981 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2982 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2983 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2984 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2987 * New reset option for the preferences
2988 * You can set your language in the prefences
2989 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2990 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2991 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2992 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2995 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2996 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2997 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3000 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3001 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3002 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3003 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3004 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3005 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3006 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3007 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3008 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3009 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3012 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3013 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3014 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3015 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3016 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3017 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3018 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3021 * Interface localization
3022 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3023 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3024 * New full-featured Preferences window
3027 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3028 --------------------------------
3031 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3032 * support for skins at the interface level
3033 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3034 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3035 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3036 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3037 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3040 * fixed HTTP redirects
3041 * support for opening an entire directory
3042 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3043 * new video4linux access plug-in
3044 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3047 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3048 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3049 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3052 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3053 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3054 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3055 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3056 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3057 * new codec for raw I420 video
3058 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3061 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3062 (although it still misses some important features)
3063 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3066 * new HTTP output support
3067 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3068 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3071 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3074 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3077 * reorderable playlist
3078 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3079 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3080 * support for mono audio output devices
3081 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3082 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3083 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3084 * the messages window remembers more lines
3085 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3086 * http and ogg stream output options
3087 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3090 * new skinnable interface
3091 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3093 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3094 * support for FLAC audio format
3095 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3097 * network tab in the interface
3098 * "apply" handling in preferences
3101 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3102 ---------------------------------
3105 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3106 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3107 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3108 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3110 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3111 * DTS S/PDIF support
3114 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3115 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3116 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3117 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3120 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3121 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3124 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3127 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3130 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3132 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3133 * rc interface is now fully useable
3134 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3137 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3138 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3139 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3140 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3141 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3143 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3144 * support for mouse gestures
3145 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3148 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3149 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3152 * improved ID3 tag detection
3153 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3154 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3155 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3157 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3160 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3161 ---------------------------------
3164 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3165 English was set as the preferred language
3168 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3169 --------------------------------
3172 * new mouse gesture interface
3173 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3177 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3178 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3179 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3182 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3183 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3187 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3190 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3191 without the user consent
3194 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3196 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3197 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3198 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3201 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3202 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3203 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3204 * playlist enhancements
3205 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3206 * new step forward/step backward commands
3207 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3208 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3209 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3212 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3213 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3214 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3217 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3218 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3221 * native video output is working again
3222 * only commandline interface support
3223 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3226 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3227 --------------------------------
3230 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3231 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3232 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3233 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3234 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3235 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3236 and A/52 streams are supported)
3237 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3242 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3243 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3244 * VCD entry points support
3245 * VCD image file support
3248 * support for *.asf format
3249 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3250 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3251 * support for ogg encapsulation
3252 * support for raw DV format
3253 * support for *.wav format
3254 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3257 Stream discovery & playlists:
3258 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3259 * support for .m3u file format
3260 * support for .asx file format
3261 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3264 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3265 (only available with the .avi demux)
3266 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3267 * support for raw PCM data
3268 * support for Cinepak video codec
3269 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3270 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3271 * support for Xvid codec
3272 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3273 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3274 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3276 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3278 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3281 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3284 * new WxWindows interface
3285 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3286 device and the channels configuration
3287 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3288 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3289 format that VLC can play
3290 * new swedish translation
3291 * enhancements of the playlist window
3292 * new messages window to see debug info
3293 * fixed a few crashes
3296 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3297 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3298 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3299 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working