1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
8 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
11 * new remapping channel filter
14 * portaudio audio output
16 Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
17 ---------------------------------
20 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
21 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
22 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
23 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
24 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
25 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
26 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
27 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
28 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
29 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
30 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
31 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
32 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
33 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
34 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
35 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
36 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
37 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
38 --http-crl (optional CRL).
39 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
40 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
41 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
42 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
43 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
44 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
45 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
47 Important changes for packagers:
48 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
49 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
50 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
51 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
52 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
53 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
54 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
55 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
56 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
57 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
60 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
61 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
62 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
63 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
64 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
65 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
66 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
69 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
70 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
71 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
72 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
73 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
74 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
75 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
76 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
77 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
78 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
79 * PulseAudio audio input support
80 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
81 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
82 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
83 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
84 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
85 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
86 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
87 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
90 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
91 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
92 are notably concerned.
93 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
94 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
95 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
96 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
97 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
98 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
99 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
100 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
101 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
102 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
103 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
104 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
105 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
106 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
107 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
110 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
111 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
112 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
113 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
114 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
115 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
116 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
117 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
118 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
119 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
120 * Improved support of tracker files
123 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
124 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
125 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
126 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
127 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
128 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
129 and important cleanups and optimisations
130 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
131 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
132 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
133 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
134 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
135 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
136 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
137 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
138 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
139 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
140 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
141 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
142 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
143 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
144 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
145 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
146 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
147 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
148 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
149 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
150 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
153 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
154 * New video output for iOS platform
155 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
156 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
157 * Various vmem improvements
158 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
159 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
160 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
161 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
162 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
163 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
165 Audio Output and Filters:
166 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
167 * New audio output in memory (amem)
168 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
169 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
170 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
171 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
172 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
173 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
174 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
175 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
178 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
179 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
180 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
181 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
182 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
183 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
184 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
185 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
186 * New anti-flickering filter
187 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
188 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
189 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
190 blackbox and customizable shadow.
191 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
192 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
193 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
196 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
197 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
198 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
199 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
200 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
201 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
202 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
203 * Major rework of VoD support
204 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
205 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
206 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
207 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
208 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
209 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
210 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
211 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
212 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
213 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
216 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
217 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
220 * New capabilities for libVLC:
221 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
222 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
223 list of available audio and video filters
224 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
225 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
226 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
229 * asademux: use libass only
230 * subsass: use libass
231 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
232 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
234 * upnp: use upnp_intel
235 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
236 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
237 * removal of the noise filter
238 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
239 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
240 removed in Growl's next release, too.
241 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
244 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
245 ----------------------------------
248 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
249 including support for OS X Lion
250 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
251 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
254 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
257 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
258 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
259 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
262 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
265 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
266 ----------------------------------
269 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
270 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
273 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
274 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
275 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
276 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
277 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
279 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
280 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
281 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
283 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
284 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
287 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
290 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
293 * Fix quitting on Linux
294 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
298 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
301 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
304 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
305 ---------------------------------
307 Windows and Mac OS X:
308 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
311 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
312 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
315 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
318 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
321 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
323 Miscellaneous fixes in:
324 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
326 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
327 * RTP output and XML export
328 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
332 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
333 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
334 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
335 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
338 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
339 --------------------------------
341 Windows and Mac OS X:
342 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
345 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
348 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
349 * Improve Apple Remote handling
350 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
351 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
352 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
353 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
356 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
357 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
361 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
362 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
363 * New Luganda Translation
366 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
367 --------------------------------
370 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
373 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
374 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
375 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
376 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
379 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
381 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
382 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
383 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
384 * mp4 demuxer improvements
385 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
386 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
387 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
388 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
390 Miscellaneous fixes in:
391 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
392 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
393 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
394 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
395 * Configure and build system improvements
396 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
399 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
400 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
401 * New icelandic translation
404 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
405 --------------------------------
408 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
412 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
413 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
414 and stability reasons
417 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
421 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
424 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
425 ----------------------------------
428 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
431 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
432 ---------------------------------
435 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
436 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
437 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
438 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
441 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
444 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
445 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
446 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
447 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
450 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
451 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
452 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
454 Subtitles and renderer:
455 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
456 * Mark more freetype options as safe
457 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
458 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
459 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
462 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
463 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
464 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
465 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
468 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
469 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
472 * KDE device solid actions
474 * Transcode integer overflow
475 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
476 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
479 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
480 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
481 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
484 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
485 ----------------------------------
488 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
492 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
495 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
498 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
499 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
500 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
501 * Taglib thread-safety fix
504 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
508 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
511 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
514 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
515 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
517 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
521 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
522 * Miscellaneous fixes
525 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
526 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
528 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
529 * New Asturian translation
532 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
533 ----------------------------------
536 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
538 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
541 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
544 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
545 * Various fixes for Windows
548 * New Armenian translation
549 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
550 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
553 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
554 --------------------------------
557 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
559 * Fix folders opening from the interface
562 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
563 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
566 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
567 --------------------------------
570 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
571 * fix for podcasts parsing
572 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
575 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
576 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
579 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
580 * fix m3u playlists exports
583 * fix video autoresize behaviour
586 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
589 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
592 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
595 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
598 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
599 --------------------------------
602 * Avformat fps displaying fix
603 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
606 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
607 of mono streams, especially on Windows
610 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
611 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
612 * fix console output encoding
614 Interface and extensions:
615 * Youtube and other scripts updates
616 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
619 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
620 --------------------------------
623 * New capabilities for libVLC:
624 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
625 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
626 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
627 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
628 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
629 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
630 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
631 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
632 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
633 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
634 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
635 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
636 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
637 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
638 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
642 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
643 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
644 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
645 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
646 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
649 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
652 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
653 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
654 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
658 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
661 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
662 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
663 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
666 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
667 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
668 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
669 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
672 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
673 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
676 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
677 --------------------------------
679 Important changes for users:
680 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
681 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
683 Important changes for packagers:
684 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
685 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
686 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
687 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
688 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
690 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
692 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
693 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
694 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
695 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
696 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
699 * Support for the sftp protocol
700 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
701 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
702 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
703 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
704 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
707 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
708 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
709 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
711 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
712 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
713 * Invmem module improvements
714 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
715 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
716 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
717 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
718 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
719 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
720 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
721 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
722 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
723 * Support for VP8 codec
724 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
727 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
728 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
729 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
730 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
731 * Various EGP improvements
732 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
733 * Metadata and cover art improvements
736 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
737 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
738 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
739 * Podcast images are now displayed
742 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
743 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
744 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
745 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
746 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
747 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
748 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
749 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
750 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
751 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
752 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
755 * New content extensions lua framework
758 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
759 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
760 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
761 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
762 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
763 * NEON assembly audio converter module
764 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
767 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
768 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
769 * Service discovery based on libudev
770 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
773 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
774 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
775 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
776 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
777 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
778 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
779 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
782 * New smem module, streaming to memory
783 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
784 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
787 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
789 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
790 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
793 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
796 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
797 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
798 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
799 by Andy Matuschak et al.
800 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
801 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
802 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
805 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
806 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
809 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
810 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
811 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
815 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
816 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
817 * Improved Solaris port
820 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
821 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
824 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
825 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
826 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
827 * transrate: broken since too long
828 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
829 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
830 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
831 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
832 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
833 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
834 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
835 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
836 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
837 * cddax: use cdda instead.
838 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
839 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
840 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
841 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
844 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
845 --------------------------------
848 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
850 Decoders/Packetizers:
851 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
854 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
855 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
856 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
857 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
858 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
861 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
862 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
865 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
866 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
869 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
870 and Walloon translations updated
871 * Sinhala translation started
874 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
875 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
878 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
879 --------------------------------
882 * SubRip extra styles improvements
883 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
886 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
889 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
890 increase performance and fix x264 issues
893 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
894 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
895 Russian, Slovak translation updates
896 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
899 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
900 --------------------------------
903 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
904 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
907 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
908 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
911 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
912 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
915 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
918 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
919 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
922 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
923 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
926 * New Walloon translation
927 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
930 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
931 --------------------------------
934 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
935 regressions in most popular drivers
936 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
939 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
940 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
941 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
944 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
945 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
948 * Update for appletrailers lua script
949 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
950 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
951 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
952 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
955 * New udev module for linux
958 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
961 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
964 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
965 --------------------------------
968 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
969 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
970 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
973 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
974 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
977 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
978 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
981 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
984 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
985 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
986 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
987 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
990 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
991 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
992 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
993 - no support for Goom and SDL
994 - limited text rendering support
995 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
998 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
999 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1000 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1001 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1002 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1003 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1004 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1005 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1006 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1010 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1013 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1016 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1017 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1018 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1019 Arabic and French translation updates
1022 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1023 --------------------------------
1026 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1027 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1028 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1029 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1030 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1031 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1034 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1035 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1036 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1039 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1040 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1041 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1044 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1047 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1048 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1051 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1052 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1053 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1054 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1055 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1056 * Fix various crashes
1059 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1061 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1065 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1066 ---------------------------------
1070 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1071 See 'Access:' for more info.
1072 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1075 * Instantaneous pausing
1076 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1077 * Finer speed control
1078 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1079 * Timeshift for most medias
1080 * RTSP trickplay support
1081 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1084 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1085 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1086 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1087 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1088 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1089 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1090 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1091 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1092 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1093 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1096 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1097 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1098 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1099 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1100 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1101 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1102 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1105 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1106 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1109 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1110 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1111 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1112 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1113 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1114 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1115 * DVB scanning on linux
1116 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1117 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1118 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1119 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1120 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1121 * MTP device access on Unix
1122 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1123 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1126 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1127 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1128 Windows and Mac OS X.
1131 * Export the playlist in HTML
1132 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1133 * Better metadata handling and reading
1135 Linux/Windows interface:
1136 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1137 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1138 * Recently played items list
1139 * Interface toolbar customizations
1140 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1141 - More menus actions
1142 - Finer speed slider
1143 - Improvements on many dialogs
1144 - New dialog for plugins listing
1145 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1146 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1147 * Better integration in GTK environments
1150 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1151 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1152 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1153 * Additional usability improvements
1156 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1157 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1158 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1159 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1160 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1163 * New Maemo port with:
1164 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1165 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1168 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1171 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1172 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1173 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1174 * Support for latest iSight models
1177 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1178 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1181 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1182 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1183 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1184 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1185 The old image video output has been removed.
1186 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1187 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1190 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1198 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1199 --------------------------------------
1205 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1206 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1207 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1208 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1209 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1210 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1211 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1213 Various fixes to the following modules:
1216 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1217 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1218 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1220 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1225 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1226 ---------------------------------
1229 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1230 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1233 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1234 ---------------------------------
1237 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1240 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1243 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1244 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1245 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1246 main controller window.
1247 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1250 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1255 * Updates of other localizations
1258 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1259 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1260 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1261 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1262 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1265 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1266 ---------------------------------
1269 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1271 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1274 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1275 --------------------------------
1280 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1281 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1284 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1285 --------------------------------
1287 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1288 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1291 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1294 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1295 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1298 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1299 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1302 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1303 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1304 * Various fixed in playlist
1307 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1310 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1313 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1314 ------------------------------------
1316 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1317 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1320 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1321 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1322 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1325 * Stability fix for the video output.
1328 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1329 --------------------------------
1332 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1333 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1334 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1335 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1336 * Fixed update system bugs
1337 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1340 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1341 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1342 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1343 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1344 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1345 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1346 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1347 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1348 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1349 modern Mac OS X versions
1352 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1353 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1355 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1356 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1359 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1360 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1361 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1362 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1363 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1364 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1367 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1368 --------------------------------
1370 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1371 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1372 * Multiple bugfixes.
1375 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1376 --------------------------------
1378 * Multiple bug fixes.
1381 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1382 ---------------------------------
1386 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1387 recent to work correctly
1388 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1389 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1390 edit the ".hosts" file.
1391 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1392 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1393 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1394 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1395 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1396 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1397 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1398 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1399 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1400 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1401 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1402 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1403 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1404 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1405 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1406 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1407 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1408 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1409 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1410 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1411 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1412 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1413 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1414 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1415 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1416 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1417 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1418 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1419 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1420 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1421 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1422 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1423 and postproc modules.
1424 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1425 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1426 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1427 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1429 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1430 filter. For example:
1431 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1432 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1434 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1435 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1441 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1443 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1444 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1447 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1448 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1450 * Shoutcast TV listings
1451 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1453 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1454 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1456 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1459 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1460 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1461 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1462 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1463 * JACK audio input support
1464 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1465 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1466 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1467 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1468 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1469 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1470 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1471 (available as a separate download).
1472 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1473 * RTMP input support
1474 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1475 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1476 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1478 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1479 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1482 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1483 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1484 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1485 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1487 * APEv1/2 tags support
1488 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1489 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1491 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1492 * TiVo Series 2 support
1493 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1498 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1499 * Flash Screen Video support
1500 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1501 * DosBox Capture support
1502 * Karl Morton's Video support
1503 * limited atrac3 support
1505 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1506 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1507 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1508 * H.264 PAFF support
1509 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1510 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1511 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1512 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1513 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1516 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1517 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1518 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1519 * AQTitle subtitles support
1520 * MKV USF subtitles support
1521 * HTML-based subtitles support
1522 * MPSub subtitles support
1523 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1524 * MPL2 subtitles support
1525 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1526 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1527 * Realtext subtitle support
1528 * DKS subtitle support
1529 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1530 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1533 * Flash Screen Video support
1534 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1536 Video outputs and filters:
1537 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1538 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1539 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1540 * New puzzle video output filter
1541 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1542 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1544 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1545 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1546 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1547 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1548 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1549 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1550 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1551 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1552 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1553 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1554 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1555 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1556 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1557 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1559 Audio outputs and filters:
1560 * Replay gain support
1561 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1562 new scaletempo audio filter)
1563 * New spatializer audio filter
1564 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1567 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1568 * New RTP payload formats:
1569 * Speex voice audio codec
1570 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1571 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1572 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1573 * DCCP transport for RTP
1574 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1579 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1580 end-user suitable way.
1581 * Improved user interaction
1582 * Improved mouse gestures
1583 * Vastly improved Update checker
1584 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1586 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1587 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1589 * Improved video output features
1590 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1591 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1592 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1593 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1594 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1596 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1597 if libncursesw is available.
1598 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1599 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1600 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1602 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1603 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1604 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1605 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1606 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1607 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1608 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1609 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1612 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1613 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1614 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1617 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1618 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1619 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1620 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1621 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1622 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1625 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1626 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1636 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1637 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1638 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1641 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1642 ----------------------------------
1645 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1648 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1649 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1650 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1651 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1652 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1653 * Updated Polish translation
1656 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1657 ----------------------------------
1660 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1661 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1662 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1665 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1666 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1667 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1668 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1669 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1670 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1671 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1672 to an unexpected application termination
1673 * New Serbian translation
1674 * Updated Romanian translation
1677 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1678 ----------------------------------
1681 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1682 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1683 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1684 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1685 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1686 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1687 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1688 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1691 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1692 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1693 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1694 * Fixed AAC resampling
1695 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1696 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1699 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1700 ----------------------------------
1703 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1704 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1705 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1706 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1707 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1710 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1711 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1712 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1713 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1714 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1717 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1718 ----------------------------------
1721 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1722 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1725 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1726 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1727 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1728 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1730 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1734 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1737 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1740 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1743 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1746 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1747 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1748 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1749 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1750 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1752 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1753 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1754 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1755 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1758 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1761 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1762 ----------------------------------
1765 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1766 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1767 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1769 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1770 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1772 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1773 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1776 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1778 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1779 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1780 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1781 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1782 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1783 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1784 two different movies
1785 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1786 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1787 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1790 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1793 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1794 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1795 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1796 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1799 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1800 ----------------------------------
1802 Various bugfixes, notably:
1803 * Windows Vista compatibility
1804 * Cropping in Direct3D
1805 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1806 * RSS filter string overflow
1808 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1810 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1811 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1814 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1815 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1818 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1821 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1824 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1827 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1828 ----------------------------------
1830 Various bugfixes, notably:
1831 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1832 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1833 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1834 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1835 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1836 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1839 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1840 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1843 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1845 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1846 * Diverse usability improvements
1847 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1848 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1849 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1852 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1853 ---------------------------------
1855 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1856 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1859 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1862 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1863 --------------------------------
1866 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1869 * Support for RTSP authentication
1870 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1871 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1872 * ATSC support for DVB input
1873 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1874 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1875 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1878 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1879 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1880 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1881 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1882 * Matroska WavPack support
1883 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1884 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1885 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1888 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1889 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1890 * Improved libcaca support
1894 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1895 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1897 * Systray support in skins
1899 * Support for Apple Remote control
1900 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1901 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1902 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1903 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1905 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1908 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1909 Windows 9x/ME users:
1910 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1911 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1912 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1913 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1914 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1916 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1917 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1926 * Updates to the libvlc API
1927 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1930 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1931 --------------------------------
1934 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1935 * Support for downloading updates
1939 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1940 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1941 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1942 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1944 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1945 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1946 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1949 * Cook (Real audio) support
1951 Playlist / Services discovery:
1952 * XSPF playlist support
1954 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1957 * New JACK audio output
1960 * New video filters:
1961 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1962 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1963 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1964 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1965 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1966 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1969 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1972 * System to inform the user and request information
1973 - HTTP authentication
1977 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1978 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1979 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1982 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1983 - Improved playlist handling
1984 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1986 - Embedded Video output
1987 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1988 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1989 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1990 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1991 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1993 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1994 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1997 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2000 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2001 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2002 * Growl "Now playing" support
2005 * Ability to log to syslog
2006 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2009 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2011 * A bit more automatic testing
2014 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2015 ---------------------------------
2018 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2019 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2022 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2023 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2026 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2029 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2030 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2036 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2039 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2040 --------------------------------
2043 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2047 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2048 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2049 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2052 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2053 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2054 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2055 * GnomeVFS input module
2056 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2057 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2060 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2061 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2062 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2065 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2066 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2072 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2073 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2076 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2077 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2078 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2081 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2083 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2084 - New extended controls panel
2085 - New bookmarks window
2086 - Fixed playlist sorting
2087 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2089 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2090 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2091 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2092 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2096 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2097 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2099 - Include macro to include other files
2103 * Should now work outside IE as well
2106 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2109 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2110 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2113 The following languages were added:
2117 * Simplified Chinese
2118 The following languages were re-added:
2122 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2123 --------------------------------
2126 * Rewrite of the playlist
2128 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2129 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2130 * Preferences improvements:
2131 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2132 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2134 * Core image manipulation support
2135 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2136 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2137 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2138 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2139 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2140 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2141 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2142 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2143 * Access filter architecture
2144 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2145 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2149 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2150 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2151 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2152 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2153 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2154 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2155 * Massive Matroska improvements
2156 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2158 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2159 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2160 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2161 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2162 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2164 Decoders / Encoders:
2165 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2166 * PNG decoder/encoder
2167 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2168 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2171 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2174 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2175 * Brand new SAP module
2176 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2177 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2178 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2179 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2180 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2181 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2185 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2188 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2189 * Image file video output (png)
2190 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2191 * Improvements to wall video filter
2192 * Support for font color and opacity
2198 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2199 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2200 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2204 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2205 - Improved preferences
2206 - Improvements to the wizard
2207 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2209 - Redesigned playlist
2210 - Improved preferences
2212 - Support for multiple actions
2215 - Support for the new playlist system
2217 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2220 * Screensaver disabling fix
2221 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2222 * Support for no-decoration windows
2225 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2226 * The OpenGL video output is back
2227 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2228 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2229 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2230 is not yet available in the new module
2231 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2234 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2243 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2246 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2249 The following languages were added:
2255 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2256 --------------------------------
2259 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2260 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2263 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2264 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2265 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2268 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2271 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2274 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2277 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2278 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2279 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2283 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2285 * Support of playlist group announcement
2288 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2289 --------------------------------
2292 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2293 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2294 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2295 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2296 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2297 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2300 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2301 (Stream your desktop)
2302 * Improved DVD support:
2303 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2304 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2305 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2306 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2307 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2308 (selection of titles/chapters).
2311 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2312 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2313 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2314 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2315 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2316 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2317 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2318 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2319 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2320 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2323 * G.726 audio support
2324 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2325 * MPEG-4 text support
2326 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2327 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2328 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2332 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2333 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2334 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2335 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2336 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2337 * DVB subtitles encoder
2338 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2339 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2341 * Text track muxing for mp4
2342 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2343 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2344 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2345 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2346 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2347 * Improved ASF muxer
2349 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2350 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2351 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2354 * New audio equalizer filter
2355 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2356 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2357 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2358 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2361 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2362 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2363 with support for effects.
2364 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2365 - New filters can be streamed.
2366 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2367 - Centralized scaling and blending
2369 - "time", to display current time
2370 - "marq", to display a marquee
2373 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2374 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2375 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2376 * A few skins2 improvements
2377 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2378 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2379 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2380 * Improved CORBA control module
2383 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2384 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2385 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2388 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2389 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2390 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2393 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2394 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2395 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2396 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2397 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2400 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2403 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2404 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2407 * Server/client network synchronization module
2408 * VBrick streams fully supported
2409 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2413 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2414 --------------------------------
2417 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2418 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2419 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2420 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2423 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2424 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2425 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2426 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2427 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2428 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2429 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2432 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2433 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2434 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2435 * Improved directory access module.
2436 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2437 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2438 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2439 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2440 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2443 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2444 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2445 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2448 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2449 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2450 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2453 * Improved session announcement system.
2454 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2455 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2456 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2457 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2458 * Improved transrater.
2459 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2460 * New configuration system.
2461 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2464 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2465 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2466 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2467 * Supports scheduling.
2468 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2469 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2472 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2473 - Ability to embed video output.
2474 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2475 - Lots of improvements.
2476 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2477 - New design and set of icons.
2478 - Ability to embed video output.
2479 - Support for hotkeys.
2480 - Support for bookmarks.
2482 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2483 - Better hotkeys handling.
2486 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2487 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2488 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2489 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2492 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2493 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2494 * Improved Windows installer.
2500 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2501 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2504 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2505 ---------------------------------
2508 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2509 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2512 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2513 --------------------------------
2516 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2517 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2520 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2521 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2522 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2523 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2526 * Internal improvments
2527 * Improved import/export
2530 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2532 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2533 small and strange formats.
2535 * New MOD audio demux.
2536 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2537 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2538 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2539 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2542 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2543 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2544 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2550 * New opengl video output plugin.
2553 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2554 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2557 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2558 --------------------------------
2561 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2562 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2563 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2564 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2565 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2566 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2567 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2568 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2571 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2576 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2577 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2578 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2579 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2580 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2581 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2582 * Better Icecast support.
2583 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2584 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2587 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2588 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2589 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2590 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2591 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2592 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2593 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2596 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2597 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2598 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2599 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2600 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2601 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2602 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2603 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2604 * Preliminary RTP support.
2605 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2610 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2611 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2613 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2614 - Improvements and help in preferences
2615 - New streaming wizard
2616 - Revised Disc Open menu
2618 - Improvements of the standard pages
2619 - Support for new commands
2620 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2623 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2624 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2627 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2628 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2629 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2630 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2631 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2632 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2633 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2634 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2635 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2638 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2640 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2641 * Support for Panther.
2642 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2643 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2646 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2647 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2648 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2649 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2650 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2651 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2652 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2653 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2656 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2657 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2658 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2661 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2664 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2665 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2666 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2667 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2670 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2671 --------------------------------
2674 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2677 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2678 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2681 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2682 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2685 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2688 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2689 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2692 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2695 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2698 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2699 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2703 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2704 --------------------------------
2707 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2708 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2712 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2713 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2714 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2716 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2717 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2720 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2723 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2726 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2727 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2731 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2732 --------------------------------
2735 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2736 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2740 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2741 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2742 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2743 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2744 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2747 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2748 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2749 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2752 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2753 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2754 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2757 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2758 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2759 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2760 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2761 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2764 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2765 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2766 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2769 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2772 * Improved build system.
2773 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2774 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2775 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2776 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2779 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2780 --------------------------------
2783 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2786 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2787 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2788 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2789 * Video 4 Linux support
2790 * CD Digital Audio support
2791 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2794 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2795 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2796 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2797 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2800 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2801 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2802 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2803 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2804 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2805 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2806 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2809 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2810 * New HTTP remote control interface
2813 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2814 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2815 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2816 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2817 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2820 * New reset option for the preferences
2821 * You can set your language in the prefences
2822 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2823 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2824 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2825 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2828 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2829 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2830 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2833 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2834 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2835 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2836 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2837 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2838 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2839 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2840 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2841 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2842 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2845 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2846 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2847 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2848 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2849 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2850 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2851 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2854 * Interface localization
2855 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2856 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2857 * New full-featured Preferences window
2860 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2861 --------------------------------
2864 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2865 * support for skins at the interface level
2866 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2867 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2868 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2869 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2870 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2873 * fixed HTTP redirects
2874 * support for opening an entire directory
2875 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2876 * new video4linux access plug-in
2877 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2880 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2881 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2882 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2885 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2886 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2887 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2888 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2889 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2890 * new codec for raw I420 video
2891 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2894 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2895 (although it still misses some important features)
2896 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2899 * new HTTP output support
2900 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2901 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2904 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2907 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2910 * reorderable playlist
2911 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2912 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2913 * support for mono audio output devices
2914 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2915 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2916 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2917 * the messages window remembers more lines
2918 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2919 * http and ogg stream output options
2920 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2923 * new skinnable interface
2924 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2926 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2927 * support for FLAC audio format
2928 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2930 * network tab in the interface
2931 * "apply" handling in preferences
2934 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2935 ---------------------------------
2938 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2939 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2940 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2941 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2943 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2944 * DTS S/PDIF support
2947 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2948 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2949 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2950 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2953 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2954 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2957 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2960 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2963 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2965 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2966 * rc interface is now fully useable
2967 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2970 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2971 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2972 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2973 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2974 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2976 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2977 * support for mouse gestures
2978 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2981 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2982 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2985 * improved ID3 tag detection
2986 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2987 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2988 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2990 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2993 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2994 ---------------------------------
2997 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2998 English was set as the preferred language
3001 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3002 --------------------------------
3005 * new mouse gesture interface
3006 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3010 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3011 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3012 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3015 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3016 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3020 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3023 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3024 without the user consent
3027 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3029 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3030 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3031 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3034 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3035 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3036 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3037 * playlist enhancements
3038 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3039 * new step forward/step backward commands
3040 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3041 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3042 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3045 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3046 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3047 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3050 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3051 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3054 * native video output is working again
3055 * only commandline interface support
3056 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3059 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3060 --------------------------------
3063 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3064 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3065 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3066 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3067 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3068 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3069 and A/52 streams are supported)
3070 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3075 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3076 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3077 * VCD entry points support
3078 * VCD image file support
3081 * support for *.asf format
3082 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3083 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3084 * support for ogg encapsulation
3085 * support for raw DV format
3086 * support for *.wav format
3087 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3090 Stream discovery & playlists:
3091 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3092 * support for .m3u file format
3093 * support for .asx file format
3094 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3097 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3098 (only available with the .avi demux)
3099 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3100 * support for raw PCM data
3101 * support for Cinepak video codec
3102 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3103 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3104 * support for Xvid codec
3105 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3106 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3107 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3109 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3111 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3114 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3117 * new WxWindows interface
3118 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3119 device and the channels configuration
3120 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3121 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3122 format that VLC can play
3123 * new swedish translation
3124 * enhancements of the playlist window
3125 * new messages window to see debug info
3126 * fixed a few crashes
3129 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3130 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3131 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3132 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working