1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
10 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
11 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
12 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
13 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
14 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
15 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
16 --http-crl (optional CRL).
17 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
18 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
20 Important changes for packagers:
21 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
22 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
23 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
24 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
25 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
26 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
27 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
28 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
29 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
30 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
31 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
33 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
34 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
37 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
38 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
39 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
40 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
41 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
42 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
45 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
46 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
47 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
48 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
49 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
50 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
51 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
52 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
53 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
54 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
55 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
56 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
57 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
58 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
59 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
62 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
63 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
64 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
65 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
66 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
67 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
68 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
69 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
70 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
71 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
72 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
73 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
74 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
75 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
78 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
79 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
80 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
81 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
82 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
83 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
84 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
85 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
88 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
89 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
90 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
91 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
92 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
93 and important cleanups and optimisations
94 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
95 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
96 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
97 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
98 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
99 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
100 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
101 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
102 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
103 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
104 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
105 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
106 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
107 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
110 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
111 * New video output for iOS platform
112 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
113 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
114 * Various vmem improvements
115 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
117 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
118 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
119 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which now requires a
120 Quartz Extreme capable machine
123 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
124 * New audio output in memory (amem)
125 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
126 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
127 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
130 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
131 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
132 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
133 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
134 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
135 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
136 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
137 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
138 * New anti-flickering filter
139 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
140 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
141 blackbox and customizable shadow
144 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
147 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
148 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
149 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
150 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
151 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
152 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
153 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
154 * Major rework of VoD support
155 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
156 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
157 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
158 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
159 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
160 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
161 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
162 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
163 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
164 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
167 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
168 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
171 * New capabilities for libVLC:
172 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
173 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
174 list of available audio and video filters
175 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
176 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
177 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
180 * asademux: use libass only
181 * subsass: use libass
182 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
183 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
185 * upnp: use upnp_intel
186 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
187 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
188 * removal of the noise filter
189 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
190 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
191 removed in Growl's next release, too.
192 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
195 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
196 ----------------------------------
199 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
200 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
203 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
204 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
205 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
206 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
207 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
209 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
210 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
211 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
213 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
214 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
217 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
220 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
223 * Fix quitting on Linux
224 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
228 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
231 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
234 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
235 ---------------------------------
237 Windows and Mac OS X:
238 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
241 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
242 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
245 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
248 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
251 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
253 Miscellaneous fixes in:
254 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
256 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
257 * RTP output and XML export
258 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
262 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
263 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
264 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
265 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
268 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
269 --------------------------------
271 Windows and Mac OS X:
272 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
275 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
278 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
279 * Improve Apple Remote handling
280 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
281 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
282 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
283 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
286 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
287 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
291 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
292 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
293 * New Luganda Translation
296 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
297 --------------------------------
300 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
303 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
304 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
305 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
306 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
309 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
311 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
312 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
313 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
314 * mp4 demuxer improvements
315 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
316 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
317 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
318 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
320 Miscellaneous fixes in:
321 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
322 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
323 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
324 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
325 * Configure and build system improvements
326 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
329 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
330 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
331 * New icelandic translation
334 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
335 --------------------------------
338 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
342 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
343 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
344 and stability reasons
347 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
351 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
354 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
355 ----------------------------------
358 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
361 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
362 ---------------------------------
365 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
366 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
367 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
368 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
371 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
374 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
375 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
376 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
377 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
380 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
381 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
382 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
384 Subtitles and renderer:
385 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
386 * Mark more freetype options as safe
387 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
388 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
389 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
392 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
393 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
394 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
395 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
398 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
399 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
402 * KDE device solid actions
404 * Transcode integer overflow
405 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
406 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
409 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
410 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
411 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
414 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
415 ----------------------------------
418 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
422 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
425 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
428 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
429 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
430 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
431 * Taglib thread-safety fix
434 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
438 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
441 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
444 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
445 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
447 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
451 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
452 * Miscellaneous fixes
455 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
456 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
458 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
459 * New Asturian translation
462 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
463 ----------------------------------
466 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
468 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
471 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
474 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
475 * Various fixes for Windows
478 * New Armenian translation
479 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
480 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
483 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
484 --------------------------------
487 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
489 * Fix folders opening from the interface
492 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
493 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
496 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
497 --------------------------------
500 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
501 * fix for podcasts parsing
502 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
505 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
506 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
509 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
510 * fix m3u playlists exports
513 * fix video autoresize behaviour
516 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
519 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
522 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
525 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
528 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
529 --------------------------------
532 * Avformat fps displaying fix
533 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
536 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
537 of mono streams, especially on Windows
540 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
541 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
542 * fix console output encoding
544 Interface and extensions:
545 * Youtube and other scripts updates
546 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
549 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
550 --------------------------------
553 * New capabilities for libVLC:
554 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
555 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
556 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
557 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
558 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
559 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
560 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
561 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
562 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
563 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
564 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
565 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
566 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
567 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
568 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
572 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
573 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
574 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
575 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
576 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
579 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
582 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
583 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
584 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
588 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
591 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
592 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
593 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
596 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
597 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
598 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
599 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
602 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
603 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
606 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
607 --------------------------------
609 Important changes for users:
610 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
611 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
613 Important changes for packagers:
614 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
615 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
616 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
617 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
618 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
620 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
622 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
623 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
624 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
625 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
626 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
629 * Support for the sftp protocol
630 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
631 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
632 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
633 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
634 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
637 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
638 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
639 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
641 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
642 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
643 * Invmem module improvements
644 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
645 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
646 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
647 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
648 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
649 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
650 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
651 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
652 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
653 * Support for VP8 codec
654 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
657 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
658 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
659 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
660 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
661 * Various EGP improvements
662 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
663 * Metadata and cover art improvements
666 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
667 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
668 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
669 * Podcast images are now displayed
672 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
673 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
674 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
675 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
676 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
677 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
678 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
679 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
680 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
681 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
682 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
685 * New content extensions lua framework
688 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
689 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
690 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
691 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
692 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
693 * NEON assembly audio converter module
694 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
697 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
698 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
699 * Service discovery based on libudev
700 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
703 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
704 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
705 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
706 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
707 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
708 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
709 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
712 * New smem module, streaming to memory
713 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
714 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
717 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
719 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
720 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
723 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
726 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
727 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
728 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
729 by Andy Matuschak et al.
730 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
731 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
732 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
735 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
736 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
739 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
740 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
741 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
745 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
746 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
747 * Improved Solaris port
750 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
751 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
754 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
755 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
756 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
757 * transrate: broken since too long
758 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
759 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
760 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
761 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
762 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
763 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
764 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
765 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
766 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
767 * cddax: use cdda instead.
768 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
769 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
770 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
771 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
774 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
775 --------------------------------
778 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
780 Decoders/Packetizers:
781 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
784 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
785 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
786 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
787 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
788 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
791 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
792 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
795 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
796 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
799 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
800 and Walloon translations updated
801 * Sinhala translation started
804 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
805 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
808 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
809 --------------------------------
812 * SubRip extra styles improvements
813 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
816 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
819 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
820 increase performance and fix x264 issues
823 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
824 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
825 Russian, Slovak translation updates
826 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
829 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
830 --------------------------------
833 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
834 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
837 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
838 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
841 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
842 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
845 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
848 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
849 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
852 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
853 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
856 * New Walloon translation
857 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
860 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
861 --------------------------------
864 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
865 regressions in most popular drivers
866 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
869 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
870 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
871 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
874 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
875 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
878 * Update for appletrailers lua script
879 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
880 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
881 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
882 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
885 * New udev module for linux
888 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
891 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
894 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
895 --------------------------------
898 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
899 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
900 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
903 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
904 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
907 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
908 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
911 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
914 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
915 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
916 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
917 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
920 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
921 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
922 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
923 - no support for Goom and SDL
924 - limited text rendering support
925 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
928 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
929 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
930 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
931 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
932 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
933 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
934 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
935 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
936 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
940 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
943 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
946 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
947 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
948 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
949 Arabic and French translation updates
952 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
953 --------------------------------
956 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
957 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
958 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
959 * Fix Dailymotion access script
960 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
961 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
964 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
965 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
968 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
969 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
970 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
973 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
976 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
977 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
980 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
981 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
982 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
983 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
984 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
985 * Fix various crashes
988 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
990 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
993 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
994 ---------------------------------
998 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
999 See 'Access:' for more info.
1000 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1003 * Instantaneous pausing
1004 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1005 * Finer speed control
1006 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1007 * Timeshift for most medias
1008 * RTSP trickplay support
1009 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1012 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1013 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1014 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1015 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1016 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1017 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1018 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1019 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1020 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1021 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1024 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1025 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1026 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1027 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1028 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1029 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1030 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1033 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1034 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1037 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1038 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1039 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1040 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1041 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1042 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1043 * DVB scanning on linux
1044 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1045 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1046 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1047 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1048 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1049 * MTP device access on Unix
1050 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1051 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1054 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1055 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1056 Windows and Mac OS X.
1059 * Export the playlist in HTML
1060 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1061 * Better metadata handling and reading
1063 Linux/Windows interface:
1064 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1065 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1066 * Recently played items list
1067 * Interface toolbar customizations
1068 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1069 - More menus actions
1070 - Finer speed slider
1071 - Improvements on many dialogs
1072 - New dialog for plugins listing
1073 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1074 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1075 * Better integration in GTK environments
1078 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1079 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1080 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1081 * Additional usability improvements
1084 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1085 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1086 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1087 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1088 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1091 * New Maemo port with:
1092 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1093 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1096 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1099 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1100 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1101 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1102 * Support for latest iSight models
1105 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1106 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1109 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1110 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1111 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1112 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1113 The old image video output has been removed.
1114 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1115 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1118 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1126 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1127 --------------------------------------
1133 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1134 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1135 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1136 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1137 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1138 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1139 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1141 Various fixes to the following modules:
1144 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1145 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1146 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1148 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1153 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1154 ---------------------------------
1157 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1158 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1161 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1162 ---------------------------------
1165 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1168 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1171 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1172 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1173 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1174 main controller window.
1175 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1178 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1183 * Updates of other localizations
1186 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1187 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1188 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1189 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1190 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1193 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1194 ---------------------------------
1197 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1199 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1202 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1203 --------------------------------
1208 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1209 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1212 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1213 --------------------------------
1215 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1216 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1219 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1222 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1223 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1226 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1227 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1230 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1231 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1232 * Various fixed in playlist
1235 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1238 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1241 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1242 ------------------------------------
1244 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1245 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1248 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1249 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1250 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1253 * Stability fix for the video output.
1256 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1257 --------------------------------
1260 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1261 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1262 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1263 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1264 * Fixed update system bugs
1265 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1268 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1269 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1270 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1271 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1272 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1273 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1274 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1275 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1276 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1277 modern Mac OS X versions
1280 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1281 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1283 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1284 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1287 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1288 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1289 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1290 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1291 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1292 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1295 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1296 --------------------------------
1298 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1299 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1300 * Multiple bugfixes.
1303 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1304 --------------------------------
1306 * Multiple bug fixes.
1309 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1310 ---------------------------------
1314 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1315 recent to work correctly
1316 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1317 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1318 edit the ".hosts" file.
1319 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1320 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1321 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1322 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1323 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1324 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1325 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1326 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1327 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1328 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1329 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1330 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1331 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1332 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1333 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1334 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1335 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1336 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1337 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1338 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1339 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1340 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1341 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1342 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1343 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1344 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1345 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1346 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1347 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1348 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1349 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1350 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1351 and postproc modules.
1352 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1353 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1354 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1355 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1357 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1358 filter. For example:
1359 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1360 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1362 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1363 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1369 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1371 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1372 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1375 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1376 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1378 * Shoutcast TV listings
1379 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1381 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1382 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1384 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1387 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1388 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1389 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1390 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1391 * JACK audio input support
1392 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1393 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1394 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1395 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1396 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1397 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1398 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1399 (available as a separate download).
1400 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1401 * RTMP input support
1402 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1403 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1404 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1406 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1407 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1410 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1411 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1412 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1413 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1415 * APEv1/2 tags support
1416 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1417 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1419 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1420 * TiVo Series 2 support
1421 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1426 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1427 * Flash Screen Video support
1428 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1429 * DosBox Capture support
1430 * Karl Morton's Video support
1431 * limited atrac3 support
1433 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1434 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1435 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1436 * H.264 PAFF support
1437 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1438 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1439 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1440 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1441 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1444 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1445 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1446 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1447 * AQTitle subtitles support
1448 * MKV USF subtitles support
1449 * HTML-based subtitles support
1450 * MPSub subtitles support
1451 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1452 * MPL2 subtitles support
1453 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1454 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1455 * Realtext subtitle support
1456 * DKS subtitle support
1457 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1458 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1461 * Flash Screen Video support
1462 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1464 Video outputs and filters:
1465 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1466 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1467 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1468 * New puzzle video output filter
1469 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1470 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1472 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1473 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1474 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1475 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1476 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1477 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1478 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1479 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1480 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1481 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1482 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1483 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1484 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1485 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1487 Audio outputs and filters:
1488 * Replay gain support
1489 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1490 new scaletempo audio filter)
1491 * New spatializer audio filter
1492 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1495 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1496 * New RTP payload formats:
1497 * Speex voice audio codec
1498 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1499 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1500 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1501 * DCCP transport for RTP
1502 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1507 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1508 end-user suitable way.
1509 * Improved user interaction
1510 * Improved mouse gestures
1511 * Vastly improved Update checker
1512 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1514 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1515 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1517 * Improved video output features
1518 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1519 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1520 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1521 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1522 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1524 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1525 if libncursesw is available.
1526 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1527 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1528 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1530 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1531 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1532 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1533 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1534 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1535 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1536 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1537 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1540 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1541 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1542 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1545 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1546 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1547 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1548 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1549 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1550 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1553 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1554 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1564 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1565 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1566 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1569 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1570 ----------------------------------
1573 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1576 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1577 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1578 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1579 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1580 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1581 * Updated Polish translation
1584 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1585 ----------------------------------
1588 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1589 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1590 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1593 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1594 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1595 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1596 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1597 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1598 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1599 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1600 to an unexpected application termination
1601 * New Serbian translation
1602 * Updated Romanian translation
1605 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1606 ----------------------------------
1609 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1610 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1611 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1612 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1613 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1614 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1615 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1616 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1619 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1620 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1621 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1622 * Fixed AAC resampling
1623 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1624 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1627 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1628 ----------------------------------
1631 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1632 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1633 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1634 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1635 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1638 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1639 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1640 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1641 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1642 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1645 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1646 ----------------------------------
1649 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1650 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1653 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1654 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1655 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1656 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1658 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1662 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1665 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1668 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1671 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1674 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1675 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1676 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1677 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1678 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1680 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1681 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1682 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1683 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1686 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1689 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1690 ----------------------------------
1693 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1694 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1695 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1697 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1698 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1700 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1701 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1704 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1706 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1707 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1708 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1709 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1710 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1711 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1712 two different movies
1713 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1714 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1715 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1718 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1721 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1722 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1723 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1724 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1727 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1728 ----------------------------------
1730 Various bugfixes, notably:
1731 * Windows Vista compatibility
1732 * Cropping in Direct3D
1733 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1734 * RSS filter string overflow
1736 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1738 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1739 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1742 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1743 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1746 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1749 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1752 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1755 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1756 ----------------------------------
1758 Various bugfixes, notably:
1759 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1760 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1761 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1762 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1763 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1764 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1767 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1768 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1771 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1773 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1774 * Diverse usability improvements
1775 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1776 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1777 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1780 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1781 ---------------------------------
1783 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1784 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1787 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1790 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1791 --------------------------------
1794 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1797 * Support for RTSP authentication
1798 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1799 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1800 * ATSC support for DVB input
1801 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1802 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1803 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1806 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1807 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1808 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1809 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1810 * Matroska WavPack support
1811 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1812 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1813 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1816 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1817 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1818 * Improved libcaca support
1822 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1823 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1825 * Systray support in skins
1827 * Support for Apple Remote control
1828 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1829 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1830 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1831 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1833 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1836 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1837 Windows 9x/ME users:
1838 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1839 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1840 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1841 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1842 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1844 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1845 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1854 * Updates to the libvlc API
1855 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1858 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1859 --------------------------------
1862 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1863 * Support for downloading updates
1867 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1868 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1869 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1870 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1872 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1873 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1874 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1877 * Cook (Real audio) support
1879 Playlist / Services discovery:
1880 * XSPF playlist support
1882 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1885 * New JACK audio output
1888 * New video filters:
1889 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1890 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1891 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1892 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1893 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1894 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1897 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1900 * System to inform the user and request information
1901 - HTTP authentication
1905 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1906 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1907 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1910 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1911 - Improved playlist handling
1912 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1914 - Embedded Video output
1915 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1916 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1917 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1918 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1919 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1921 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1922 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1925 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1928 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1929 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1930 * Growl "Now playing" support
1933 * Ability to log to syslog
1934 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1937 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1939 * A bit more automatic testing
1942 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1943 ---------------------------------
1946 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1947 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1950 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1951 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1954 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1957 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1958 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1964 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1967 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1968 --------------------------------
1971 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1975 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1976 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1977 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1980 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1981 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1982 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1983 * GnomeVFS input module
1984 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1985 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1988 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1989 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1990 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1993 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1994 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2000 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2001 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2004 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2005 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2006 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2009 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2011 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2012 - New extended controls panel
2013 - New bookmarks window
2014 - Fixed playlist sorting
2015 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2017 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2018 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2019 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2020 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2024 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2025 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2027 - Include macro to include other files
2031 * Should now work outside IE as well
2034 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2037 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2038 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2041 The following languages were added:
2045 * Simplified Chinese
2046 The following languages were re-added:
2050 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2051 --------------------------------
2054 * Rewrite of the playlist
2056 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2057 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2058 * Preferences improvements:
2059 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2060 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2062 * Core image manipulation support
2063 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2064 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2065 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2066 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2067 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2068 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2069 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2070 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2071 * Access filter architecture
2072 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2073 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2077 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2078 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2079 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2080 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2081 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2082 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2083 * Massive Matroska improvements
2084 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2086 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2087 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2088 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2089 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2090 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2092 Decoders / Encoders:
2093 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2094 * PNG decoder/encoder
2095 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2096 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2099 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2102 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2103 * Brand new SAP module
2104 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2105 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2106 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2107 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2108 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2109 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2113 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2116 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2117 * Image file video output (png)
2118 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2119 * Improvements to wall video filter
2120 * Support for font color and opacity
2126 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2127 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2128 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2132 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2133 - Improved preferences
2134 - Improvements to the wizard
2135 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2137 - Redesigned playlist
2138 - Improved preferences
2140 - Support for multiple actions
2143 - Support for the new playlist system
2145 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2148 * Screensaver disabling fix
2149 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2150 * Support for no-decoration windows
2153 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2154 * The OpenGL video output is back
2155 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2156 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2157 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2158 is not yet available in the new module
2159 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2162 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2171 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2174 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2177 The following languages were added:
2183 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2184 --------------------------------
2187 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2188 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2191 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2192 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2193 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2196 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2199 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2202 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2205 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2206 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2207 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2211 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2213 * Support of playlist group announcement
2216 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2217 --------------------------------
2220 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2221 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2222 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2223 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2224 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2225 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2228 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2229 (Stream your desktop)
2230 * Improved DVD support:
2231 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2232 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2233 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2234 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2235 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2236 (selection of titles/chapters).
2239 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2240 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2241 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2242 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2243 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2244 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2245 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2246 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2247 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2248 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2251 * G.726 audio support
2252 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2253 * MPEG-4 text support
2254 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2255 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2256 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2260 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2261 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2262 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2263 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2264 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2265 * DVB subtitles encoder
2266 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2267 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2269 * Text track muxing for mp4
2270 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2271 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2272 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2273 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2274 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2275 * Improved ASF muxer
2277 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2278 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2279 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2282 * New audio equalizer filter
2283 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2284 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2285 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2286 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2289 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2290 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2291 with support for effects.
2292 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2293 - New filters can be streamed.
2294 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2295 - Centralized scaling and blending
2297 - "time", to display current time
2298 - "marq", to display a marquee
2301 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2302 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2303 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2304 * A few skins2 improvements
2305 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2306 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2307 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2308 * Improved CORBA control module
2311 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2312 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2313 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2316 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2317 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2318 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2321 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2322 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2323 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2324 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2325 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2328 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2331 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2332 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2335 * Server/client network synchronization module
2336 * VBrick streams fully supported
2337 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2341 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2342 --------------------------------
2345 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2346 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2347 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2348 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2351 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2352 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2353 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2354 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2355 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2356 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2357 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2360 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2361 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2362 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2363 * Improved directory access module.
2364 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2365 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2366 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2367 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2368 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2371 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2372 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2373 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2376 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2377 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2378 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2381 * Improved session announcement system.
2382 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2383 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2384 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2385 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2386 * Improved transrater.
2387 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2388 * New configuration system.
2389 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2392 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2393 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2394 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2395 * Supports scheduling.
2396 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2397 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2400 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2401 - Ability to embed video output.
2402 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2403 - Lots of improvements.
2404 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2405 - New design and set of icons.
2406 - Ability to embed video output.
2407 - Support for hotkeys.
2408 - Support for bookmarks.
2410 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2411 - Better hotkeys handling.
2414 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2415 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2416 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2417 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2420 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2421 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2422 * Improved Windows installer.
2428 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2429 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2432 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2433 ---------------------------------
2436 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2437 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2440 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2441 --------------------------------
2444 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2445 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2448 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2449 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2450 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2451 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2454 * Internal improvments
2455 * Improved import/export
2458 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2460 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2461 small and strange formats.
2463 * New MOD audio demux.
2464 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2465 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2466 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2467 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2470 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2471 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2472 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2478 * New opengl video output plugin.
2481 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2482 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2485 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2486 --------------------------------
2489 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2490 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2491 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2492 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2493 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2494 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2495 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2496 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2499 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2504 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2505 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2506 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2507 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2508 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2509 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2510 * Better Icecast support.
2511 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2512 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2515 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2516 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2517 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2518 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2519 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2520 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2521 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2524 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2525 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2526 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2527 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2528 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2529 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2530 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2531 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2532 * Preliminary RTP support.
2533 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2538 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2539 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2541 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2542 - Improvements and help in preferences
2543 - New streaming wizard
2544 - Revised Disc Open menu
2546 - Improvements of the standard pages
2547 - Support for new commands
2548 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2551 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2552 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2555 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2556 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2557 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2558 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2559 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2560 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2561 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2562 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2563 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2566 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2568 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2569 * Support for Panther.
2570 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2571 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2574 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2575 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2576 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2577 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2578 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2579 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2580 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2581 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2584 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2585 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2586 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2589 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2592 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2593 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2594 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2595 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2598 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2599 --------------------------------
2602 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2605 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2606 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2609 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2610 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2613 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2616 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2617 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2620 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2623 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2626 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2627 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2631 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2632 --------------------------------
2635 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2636 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2640 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2641 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2642 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2644 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2645 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2648 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2651 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2654 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2655 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2659 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2660 --------------------------------
2663 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2664 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2668 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2669 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2670 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2671 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2672 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2675 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2676 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2677 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2680 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2681 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2682 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2685 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2686 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2687 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2688 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2689 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2692 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2693 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2694 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2697 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2700 * Improved build system.
2701 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2702 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2703 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2704 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2707 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2708 --------------------------------
2711 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2714 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2715 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2716 * Video 4 Linux support
2717 * CD Digital Audio support
2718 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2721 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2722 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2723 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2724 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2727 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2728 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2729 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2730 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2731 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2732 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2733 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2736 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2737 * New HTTP remote control interface
2740 * 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.
2741 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2742 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2743 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2746 * New reset option for the preferences
2747 * You can set your language in the prefences
2748 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2749 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2750 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2751 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2754 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2755 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2756 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2759 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2760 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2761 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2762 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2763 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2764 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2765 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2766 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2767 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2768 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2771 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2772 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2773 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2774 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2775 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2776 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2777 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2780 * Interface localization
2781 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2782 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2783 * New full-featured Preferences window
2786 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2787 --------------------------------
2790 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2791 * support for skins at the interface level
2792 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2793 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2794 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2795 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2796 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2799 * fixed HTTP redirects
2800 * support for opening an entire directory
2801 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2802 * new video4linux access plug-in
2803 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2806 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2807 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2808 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2811 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2812 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2813 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2814 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2815 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2816 * new codec for raw I420 video
2817 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2820 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2821 (although it still misses some important features)
2822 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2825 * new HTTP output support
2826 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2827 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2830 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2833 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2836 * reorderable playlist
2837 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2838 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2839 * support for mono audio output devices
2840 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2841 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2842 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2843 * the messages window remembers more lines
2844 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2845 * http and ogg stream output options
2846 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2849 * new skinnable interface
2850 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2852 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2853 * support for FLAC audio format
2854 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2856 * network tab in the interface
2857 * "apply" handling in preferences
2860 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2861 ---------------------------------
2864 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2865 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2866 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2867 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2869 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2870 * DTS S/PDIF support
2873 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2874 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2875 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2876 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2879 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2880 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2883 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2886 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2889 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2891 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2892 * rc interface is now fully useable
2893 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2896 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2897 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2898 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2899 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2900 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2902 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2903 * support for mouse gestures
2904 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2907 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2908 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2911 * improved ID3 tag detection
2912 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2913 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2914 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2916 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2919 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2920 ---------------------------------
2923 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2924 English was set as the preferred language
2927 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2928 --------------------------------
2931 * new mouse gesture interface
2932 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2936 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2937 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2938 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2941 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2942 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2946 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2949 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2950 without the user consent
2953 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2955 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2956 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2957 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2960 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2961 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2962 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2963 * playlist enhancements
2964 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2965 * new step forward/step backward commands
2966 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2967 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2968 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2971 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2972 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2973 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2976 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2977 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2980 * native video output is working again
2981 * only commandline interface support
2982 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2985 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2986 --------------------------------
2989 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2990 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2991 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2992 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2993 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2994 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2995 and A/52 streams are supported)
2996 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3001 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3002 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3003 * VCD entry points support
3004 * VCD image file support
3007 * support for *.asf format
3008 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3009 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3010 * support for ogg encapsulation
3011 * support for raw DV format
3012 * support for *.wav format
3013 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3016 Stream discovery & playlists:
3017 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3018 * support for .m3u file format
3019 * support for .asx file format
3020 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3023 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3024 (only available with the .avi demux)
3025 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3026 * support for raw PCM data
3027 * support for Cinepak video codec
3028 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3029 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3030 * support for Xvid codec
3031 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3032 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3033 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3035 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3037 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3040 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3043 * new WxWindows interface
3044 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3045 device and the channels configuration
3046 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3047 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3048 format that VLC can play
3049 * new swedish translation
3050 * enhancements of the playlist window
3051 * new messages window to see debug info
3052 * fixed a few crashes
3055 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3056 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3057 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3058 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working