3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
39 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
40 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
41 states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
42 FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
43 reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
49 * Vastly improved playlist support:
50 * Media library support
52 * Shoutcast TV listings
53 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
55 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
56 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
57 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
58 share/lua/meta/README.txt
61 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
62 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
63 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
64 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
65 * JACK audio input support
66 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
67 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
68 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
69 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
70 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
71 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
72 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
73 (available as a separate download).
75 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
76 taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
77 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
79 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
80 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
83 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
84 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
85 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
86 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
88 * APEv1/2 tags support
89 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
90 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
92 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
93 * TiVo Series 2 support
94 * CD+G karaoke Files support
98 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
99 * Flash Screen Video support
100 * CamStudio Screen Video support
101 * DosBox Capture support
102 * Karl Morton's Video support
103 * limited atrac3 support
104 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
105 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
106 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
107 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
109 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
110 * NellyMoser ASAO support
111 * APE (Monkey audio) support
112 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
113 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
116 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
117 * AQTitle subtitles support
118 * MKV USF subtitles support
119 * HTML-based subtitles support
120 * MPSub subtitles support
121 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
122 * MPL2 subtitles support
123 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
124 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
125 * Realtext subtitle support
126 * DKS subtitle support
127 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
128 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
131 * Flash Screen Video support
132 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
134 Video outputs and filters:
135 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
136 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
137 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
138 * New puzzle video output filter
139 * Re-written motion detection video filter
140 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
142 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
143 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
144 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
145 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
146 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
147 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
148 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
149 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
150 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
151 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
152 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
153 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
155 Audio outputs and filters:
156 * Replay gain support
157 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
158 * New spatializer audio filter
159 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
162 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
163 * New RTP payload formats:
164 * Speex voice audio codec
165 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
166 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
167 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
168 * DCCP transport for RTP
169 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
174 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
176 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
177 end-user suitable way.
178 * Improved user interaction
179 * Improved mouse gestures
180 * Vastly improved Update checker
181 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
183 * Improved video output features
184 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
185 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
186 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
187 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
189 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
190 if libncursesw is available.
191 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
192 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
194 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
195 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
196 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
197 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
198 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
199 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
200 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
201 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
204 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
205 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
206 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
209 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
210 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
211 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
212 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
213 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
214 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
217 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
218 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
226 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
227 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
228 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
231 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
232 ----------------------------------
235 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
236 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
237 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
240 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
241 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
242 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
243 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
244 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
245 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
246 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
247 to an unexpected application termination
248 * New Serbian translation
249 * Updated Romanian translation
252 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
253 ----------------------------------
256 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
257 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
258 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
259 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
260 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
261 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
262 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
263 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
266 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
267 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
268 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
269 * Fixed AAC resampling
270 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
271 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
274 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
275 ----------------------------------
278 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
279 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
280 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
281 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
282 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
285 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
286 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
287 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
288 * Close MMS access on network timeout
289 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
292 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
293 ----------------------------------
296 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
297 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
300 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
301 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
302 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
303 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
305 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
309 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
312 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
315 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
318 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
321 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
322 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
323 encoding on multi-cpu systems
324 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
325 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
327 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
328 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
329 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
330 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
333 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
336 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
337 ----------------------------------
340 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
341 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
342 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
344 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
345 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
347 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
348 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
351 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
353 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
354 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
355 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
356 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
357 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
358 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
360 * Support for current Ogg file formats
361 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
362 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
365 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
368 * The automatic updating facility was removed
369 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
370 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
371 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
374 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
375 ----------------------------------
377 Various bugfixes, notably:
378 * Windows Vista compatibility
379 * Cropping in Direct3D
380 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
381 * RSS filter string overflow
383 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
385 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
386 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
389 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
390 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
393 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
396 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
399 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
402 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
403 ----------------------------------
405 Various bugfixes, notably:
406 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
407 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
408 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
409 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
410 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
411 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
414 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
415 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
418 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
420 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
421 * Diverse usability improvements
422 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
423 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
424 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
427 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
428 ---------------------------------
431 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
434 * Fullscreen controller improvements
437 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
438 --------------------------------
441 * Shoutcast TV listings support
444 * Support for RTSP authentication
445 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
446 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
447 * ATSC support for DVB input
448 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
449 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
450 * Improved support for Flash Video files
453 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
454 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
455 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
456 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
457 * Matroska WavPack support
458 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
459 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
460 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
463 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
464 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
465 * Improved libcaca support
469 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
470 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
472 * Systray support in skins
474 * Support for Apple Remote control
475 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
476 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
477 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
478 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
480 * Notifications using notification-daemon
483 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
485 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
486 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
487 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
488 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
489 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
491 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
492 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
501 * Updates to the libvlc API
502 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
505 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
506 --------------------------------
509 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
510 * Support for downloading updates
514 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
515 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
516 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
517 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
519 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
520 * Improved subtitles encoding support
521 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
524 * Cook (Real audio) support
526 Playlist / Services discovery:
527 * XSPF playlist support
529 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
532 * New JACK audio output
536 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
537 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
538 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
539 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
540 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
541 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
544 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
547 * System to inform the user and request information
548 - HTTP authentication
552 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
553 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
554 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
557 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
558 - Improved playlist handling
559 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
561 - Embedded Video output
562 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
563 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
564 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
565 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
566 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
568 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
569 - A bunch of new RPN functions
572 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
575 * Mac-Intel compatibility
576 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
577 * Growl "Now playing" support
580 * Ability to log to syslog
581 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
584 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
586 * A bit more automatic testing
589 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
590 ---------------------------------
593 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
594 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
597 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
598 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
601 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
604 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
605 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
611 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
614 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
615 --------------------------------
618 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
622 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
623 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
624 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
627 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
628 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
629 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
630 * GnomeVFS input module
631 * Support for RTP packet reordering
632 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
635 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
636 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
637 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
640 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
641 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
647 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
648 Mixer and Dolby Surround
651 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
652 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
653 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
656 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
658 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
659 - New extended controls panel
660 - New bookmarks window
661 - Fixed playlist sorting
662 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
664 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
665 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
666 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
667 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
671 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
672 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
674 - Include macro to include other files
678 * Should now work outside IE as well
681 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
684 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
685 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
688 The following languages were added:
693 The following languages were re-added:
697 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
698 --------------------------------
701 * Rewrite of the playlist
703 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
704 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
705 * Preferences improvements:
706 - New organization, designed to improve usability
707 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
709 * Core image manipulation support
710 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
711 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
712 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
713 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
714 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
715 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
716 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
717 now separated by ':' instead of ','
718 * Access filter architecture
719 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
720 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
724 * Support for SOCKS proxy
725 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
726 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
727 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
728 * Better support for Kasenna streams
729 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
730 * Massive Matroska improvements
731 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
733 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
734 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
735 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
736 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
737 * Support for FTP over IPv6
740 * Dirac decoder and encoder
741 * PNG decoder/encoder
742 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
743 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
746 * New Record and Timeshift filters
749 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
750 * Brand new SAP module
751 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
752 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
753 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
754 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
755 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
756 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
760 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
763 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
764 * Image file video output (png)
765 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
766 * Improvements to wall video filter
767 * Support for font color and opacity
773 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
774 - Seeking support in VoD streams
775 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
779 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
780 - Improved preferences
781 - Improvements to the wizard
782 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
784 - Redesigned playlist
785 - Improved preferences
787 - Support for multiple actions
790 - Support for the new playlist system
792 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
795 * Screensaver disabling fix
796 * DirectShow tuner configuration
797 * Support for no-decoration windows
800 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
801 * The OpenGL video output is back
802 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
803 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
804 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
805 is not yet available in the new module
806 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
809 * Support for single-buffered overlay
818 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
821 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
824 The following languages were added:
830 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
831 --------------------------------
834 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
835 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
838 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
839 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
840 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
843 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
846 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
849 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
852 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
853 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
854 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
858 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
860 * Support of playlist group announcement
863 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
864 --------------------------------
867 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
868 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
869 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
870 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
871 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
872 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
875 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
876 (Stream your desktop)
877 * Improved DVD support:
878 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
879 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
880 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
881 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
882 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
883 (selection of titles/chapters).
886 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
887 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
888 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
889 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
890 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
891 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
892 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
893 * Improved Ogg demuxer
894 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
895 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
898 * G.726 audio support
899 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
900 * MPEG-4 text support
901 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
902 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
903 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
907 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
908 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
909 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
910 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
911 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
912 * DVB subtitles encoder
913 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
914 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
916 * Text track muxing for mp4
917 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
918 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
919 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
920 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
921 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
924 * H.263 RTP streaming support
925 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
926 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
929 * New audio equalizer filter
930 * Very trivial volume normalizer
931 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
932 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
933 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
936 * Roku HD1000 Video output
937 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
938 with support for effects.
939 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
940 - New filters can be streamed.
941 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
942 - Centralized scaling and blending
944 - "time", to display current time
945 - "marq", to display a marquee
948 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
949 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
950 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
951 * A few skins2 improvements
952 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
953 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
954 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
955 * Improved CORBA control module
958 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
959 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
960 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
963 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
964 * Experimental SVG rendering module
965 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
968 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
969 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
970 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
971 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
972 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
975 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
978 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
979 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
982 * Server/client network synchronization module
983 * VBrick streams fully supported
984 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
988 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
989 --------------------------------
992 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
993 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
994 * Improved HTTP daemon.
995 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
998 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
999 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1000 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1001 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1002 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1003 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1004 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1007 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1008 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1009 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1010 * Improved directory access module.
1011 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1012 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1013 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1014 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1015 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1018 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1019 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1020 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1023 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1024 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1025 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1028 * Improved session announcement system.
1029 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1030 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1031 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1032 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1033 * Improved transrater.
1034 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1035 * New configuration system.
1036 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1039 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1040 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1041 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1042 * Supports scheduling.
1043 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1044 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1047 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1048 - Ability to embed video output.
1049 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1050 - Lots of improvements.
1051 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1052 - New design and set of icons.
1053 - Ability to embed video output.
1054 - Support for hotkeys.
1055 - Support for bookmarks.
1057 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1058 - Better hotkeys handling.
1061 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1062 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1063 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1064 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1067 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1068 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1069 * Improved Windows installer.
1075 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1076 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1079 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1080 ---------------------------------
1083 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1084 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1087 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1088 --------------------------------
1091 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1092 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1095 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1096 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1097 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1098 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1101 * Internal improvments
1102 * Improved import/export
1105 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1107 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1108 small and strange formats.
1110 * New MOD audio demux.
1111 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1112 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1113 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1114 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1117 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1118 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1119 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1125 * New opengl video output plugin.
1128 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1129 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1132 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1137 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1138 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1139 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1140 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1141 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1142 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1143 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1146 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1151 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1152 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1153 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1154 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1155 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1156 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1157 * Better Icecast support.
1158 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1159 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1162 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1163 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1164 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1165 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1166 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1167 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1168 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1171 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1172 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1173 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1174 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1175 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1176 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1177 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1178 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1179 * Preliminary RTP support.
1180 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1185 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1186 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1188 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1189 - Improvements and help in preferences
1190 - New streaming wizard
1191 - Revised Disc Open menu
1193 - Improvements of the standard pages
1194 - Support for new commands
1195 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1198 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1199 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1202 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1203 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1204 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1205 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1206 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1207 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1208 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1209 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1210 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1213 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1215 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1216 * Support for Panther.
1217 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1218 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1221 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1222 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1223 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1224 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1225 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1226 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1227 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1228 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1231 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1232 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1233 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1236 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1239 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1240 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1241 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1242 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1245 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1246 --------------------------------
1249 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1252 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1253 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1256 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1257 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1260 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1263 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1264 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1267 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1270 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1273 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1274 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1278 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1279 --------------------------------
1282 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1283 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1287 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1288 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1289 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1291 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1292 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1295 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1298 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1301 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1302 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1306 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1307 --------------------------------
1310 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1311 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1315 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1316 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1317 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1318 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1319 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1322 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1323 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1324 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1327 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1328 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1329 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1332 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1333 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1334 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1335 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1336 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1339 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1340 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1341 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1344 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1347 * Improved build system.
1348 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1349 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1350 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1351 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1354 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1355 --------------------------------
1358 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1361 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1362 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1363 * Video 4 Linux support
1364 * CD Digital Audio support
1365 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1368 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1369 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1370 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1371 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1374 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1375 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1376 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1377 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1378 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1379 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1380 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1383 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1384 * New HTTP remote control interface
1387 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1388 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1389 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1390 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1393 * New reset option for the preferences
1394 * You can set your language in the prefences
1395 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1396 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1397 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1398 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1401 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1402 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1403 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1406 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1407 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1408 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1409 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1410 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1411 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1412 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1413 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1414 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1415 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1418 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1419 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1420 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1421 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1422 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1423 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1424 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1427 * Interface localization
1428 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1429 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1430 * New full-featured Preferences window
1433 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1434 --------------------------------
1437 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1438 * support for skins at the interface level
1439 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1440 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1441 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1442 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1443 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1446 * fixed HTTP redirects
1447 * support for opening an entire directory
1448 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1449 * new video4linux access plug-in
1450 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1453 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1454 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1455 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1458 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1459 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1460 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1461 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1462 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1463 * new codec for raw I420 video
1464 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1467 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1468 (although it still misses some important features)
1469 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1472 * new HTTP output support
1473 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1474 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1477 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1480 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1483 * reorderable playlist
1484 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1485 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1486 * support for mono audio output devices
1487 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1488 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1489 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1490 * the messages window remembers more lines
1491 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1492 * http and ogg stream output options
1493 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1496 * new skinnable interface
1497 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1499 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1500 * support for FLAC audio format
1501 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1503 * network tab in the interface
1504 * "apply" handling in preferences
1507 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1508 ---------------------------------
1511 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1512 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1513 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1514 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1516 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1517 * DTS S/PDIF support
1520 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1521 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1522 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1523 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1526 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1527 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1530 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1533 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1536 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1538 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1539 * rc interface is now fully useable
1540 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1543 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1544 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1545 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1546 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1547 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1549 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1550 * support for mouse gestures
1551 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1554 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1555 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1558 * improved ID3 tag detection
1559 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1560 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1561 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1563 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1566 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1567 ---------------------------------
1570 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1571 English was set as the preferred language
1574 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1575 --------------------------------
1578 * new mouse gesture interface
1579 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1583 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1584 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1585 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1588 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1589 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1593 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1596 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1597 without the user consent
1600 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1602 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1603 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1604 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1607 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1608 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1609 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1610 * playlist enhancements
1611 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1612 * new step forward/step backward commands
1613 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1614 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1615 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1618 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1619 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1620 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1623 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1624 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1627 * native video output is working again
1628 * only commandline interface support
1629 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1632 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1633 --------------------------------
1636 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1637 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1638 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1639 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1640 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1641 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1642 and A/52 streams are supported)
1643 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1648 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1649 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1650 * VCD entry points support
1651 * VCD image file support
1654 * support for *.asf format
1655 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1656 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1657 * support for ogg encapsulation
1658 * support for raw DV format
1659 * support for *.wav format
1660 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1663 Stream discovery & playlists:
1664 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1665 * support for .m3u file format
1666 * support for .asx file format
1667 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1670 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1671 (only available with the .avi demux)
1672 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1673 * support for raw PCM data
1674 * support for Cinepak video codec
1675 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1676 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1677 * support for Xvid codec
1678 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1679 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1680 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1682 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1684 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1687 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1690 * new WxWindows interface
1691 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1692 device and the channels configuration
1693 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1694 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1695 format that VLC can play
1696 * new swedish translation
1697 * enhancements of the playlist window
1698 * new messages window to see debug info
1699 * fixed a few crashes
1702 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1703 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1704 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1705 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working