1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
22 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
23 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
24 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
25 * Support for Daala video
26 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
27 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
28 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
29 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
30 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
33 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
34 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
35 * Support Daala in Ogg
36 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
37 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
38 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
39 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
40 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
43 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
46 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
47 * Wayland shell surface window provider
48 * Wayland shared memory video output
49 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
50 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
51 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
54 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
55 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
58 * Chromecast output module
61 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
64 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
65 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
69 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
72 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
73 * Port to Yosemite X.10
76 * Batch convert support
79 * Support key accelerators
82 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
83 --------------------------------
86 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
87 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
90 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
91 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
92 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
93 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
96 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
97 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
98 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
99 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
101 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
102 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
105 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
106 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
107 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
108 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
109 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
110 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
111 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
112 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
113 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
114 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
115 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
116 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
117 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
118 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
119 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
120 * New jpeg image decoder
121 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
122 * New SVG image decoder
123 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
124 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
125 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
128 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
129 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
130 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
131 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
132 * New png image encoder using libpng
135 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
136 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
137 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
138 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
139 synchronization and tracks exclusion
140 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
141 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
142 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
143 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
144 * Support Opus in MKV
146 * Basic support for WebVTT
147 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
148 * Support HDPR TS files
149 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
150 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
151 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
152 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
153 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
154 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
155 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
156 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
157 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
158 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
159 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
160 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
163 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
164 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
165 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
166 * New Android native window provider module
167 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
168 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
169 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
172 * New Oldmovie effect filter
173 * New VHS effect filter
174 * New Freeze effect filter
175 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
176 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
177 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
180 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
181 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
182 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
183 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
184 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
185 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
188 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
189 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
191 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
194 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
195 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
196 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
197 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
198 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
199 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
200 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
201 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
202 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
204 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
205 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
206 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
209 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
210 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
213 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
214 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
217 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
218 * Add record button in Qt menus
219 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
220 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
221 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
224 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
225 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
226 * Fixes for advanced preferences
227 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
228 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
229 * Option to increase playlist font size
230 * Improved crash log reporting
233 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
234 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
235 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
238 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
241 * iOS video output: use ios2
242 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
243 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
246 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
247 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
248 * Update of all translations:
249 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
250 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
251 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
252 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
253 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
254 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
255 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
258 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
259 --------------------------------
262 * Fix compilation on OS/2
265 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
267 Mac OS X audio output:
268 * Fix channel ordering
269 * Increase the buffersize
272 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
273 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
274 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
277 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
280 * Correctly support video-on-top
281 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
282 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
285 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
288 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
289 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
292 * Update British English
295 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
296 --------------------------------
299 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
302 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
305 * Fix DVD playback regression
306 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
307 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
310 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
311 --------------------------------
314 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
315 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
318 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
319 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
320 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
323 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
324 by updating codec libraries
325 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
326 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
327 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
330 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
331 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
332 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
333 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
336 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
337 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
340 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
341 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
342 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
343 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
344 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
347 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
348 * Fix record file names
351 * Fix minimal size possible on start
352 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
353 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
354 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
355 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
358 * Fix album art display on Windows
361 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
362 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
363 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
364 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
365 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
366 and Simplified Chinese translations
367 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
370 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
371 --------------------------------
374 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
375 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
376 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
377 audio devices on OS X
378 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
379 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
382 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
383 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
386 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
387 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
390 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
393 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
394 * Improve A-B loop control
395 * Fix album art update when changing media
398 * Add a language option in the interface
399 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
400 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
401 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
402 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
403 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
404 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
405 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
408 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
411 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
412 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
413 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
414 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
417 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
418 --------------------------------
421 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
423 * Fix some subtitles track selection
426 * VP9 support in WebM
427 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
428 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
431 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
432 * Support Speex in ogg files
433 * Fix some .mov playlists support
434 * Support Alac in mkv
435 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
436 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
439 * Fix DVB options parsing
440 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
441 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
444 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
445 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
448 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
449 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
452 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
453 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
454 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
455 * Fix play after drag'n drop
456 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
459 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
460 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
463 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
464 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
467 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
468 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
469 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
470 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
471 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
472 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
473 * Improves interface resizings
476 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
477 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
478 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
479 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
480 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
484 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
485 --------------------------------
488 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
489 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
490 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
491 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
492 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
494 3rd party libraries (contrib):
495 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
498 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
499 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
500 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
501 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
502 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
505 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
506 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
510 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
511 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
512 * Support for Ulead DV audio
513 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
514 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
515 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
516 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
517 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
518 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
519 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
520 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
521 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
522 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
525 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
526 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
527 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
530 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
531 remove support for previous OS X releases
532 * Major improvements in DASH support
533 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
534 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
535 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
536 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
537 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
538 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
539 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
540 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
541 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
542 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
543 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
546 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
547 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
548 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
549 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
550 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
551 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
552 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
553 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
554 * Support for more MJPEG streams
555 * Add support for liveleak streams
556 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
557 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
558 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
561 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
562 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
563 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
564 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
565 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
566 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
567 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
568 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
569 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
570 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
571 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
574 * New remapping channel filter
575 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
576 * New VSXu visualization plugin
577 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
578 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
579 * New gain audio filter
582 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
583 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
584 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
585 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
586 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
587 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
588 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
589 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
590 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
593 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
594 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
595 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
596 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
597 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
598 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
599 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
602 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
603 * Options support for AVIO output module
604 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
605 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
606 * Livehttp stream encryption support
607 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
608 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
611 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
614 * configurable password for the HTTP server
615 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
616 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
617 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
618 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
619 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
620 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
621 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
625 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
628 * Add support for multiple video outputs
629 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
631 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
632 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
633 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
634 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
635 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
636 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
637 VLC's internal volume level
638 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
640 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
641 selection and to manage the list of presets
642 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
643 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
644 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
645 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
646 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
647 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
648 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
649 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
650 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
651 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
653 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
654 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
655 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
656 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
657 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
658 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
659 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
660 3rd party applications
661 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
662 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
663 (system-wide settings)
664 * Add support for the Video Title option
665 * Add support for the Boss Key
666 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
667 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
670 * Partial support for Qt5.0
671 * Menus modifications and improvements
672 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
673 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
674 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
675 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
676 * EPG display fixes and improvements
677 * Add SD pixmap sources
678 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
679 * Display playlist total duration
680 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
681 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
682 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
687 * Extend sliders, offsets options
688 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
689 * Numerous fixes and improvements
690 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
693 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
694 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
695 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
696 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
697 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
698 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
699 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
700 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
701 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
702 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
705 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
706 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
707 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
708 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
709 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
710 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
712 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
713 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
714 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
715 * Broken crop video filter
717 * OSD parser and menu
718 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
719 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
720 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
721 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
725 * Update of all translations
728 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
729 --------------------------------
732 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
733 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
736 * Fix modplug security issues
739 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
740 --------------------------------
744 * Fix crash in QTsound
745 * Fix screen mouse file location
746 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
749 * Fix use after free in sgimb
750 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
753 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
756 * Fix interface crashes
757 * Fix autostart playback option
758 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
761 * update Welsh translation
762 * New Kannada translation
765 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
770 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
774 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
777 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
780 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
783 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
787 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
790 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
793 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
794 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
795 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
798 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
799 --------------------------------
802 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
805 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
808 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
809 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
810 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
811 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
812 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
813 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
816 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
817 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
818 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
819 * 3rd party codecs updates
822 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
823 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
824 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
825 in the advanced preferences panel
826 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
827 * Fix crash within the video output code
828 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
829 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
830 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
831 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
833 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
836 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
839 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
840 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
843 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
846 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
847 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
848 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
849 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
850 Dutch, Danish, translations
851 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
854 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
855 --------------------------------
858 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
861 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
862 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
863 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
866 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
867 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
868 * Fix koreus lua parser
869 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
870 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
871 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
872 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
875 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
876 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
879 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
882 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
883 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
884 * Fix Time counter UI look
885 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
888 * Fix https streaming
891 * Fix audio and video track selection:
892 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
893 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
896 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
897 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
898 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
899 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
900 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
903 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
904 --------------------------------
907 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
908 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
909 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
910 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
911 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
912 during playback on Mac OS X
915 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
916 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
917 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
920 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
921 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
922 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
923 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
924 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
927 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
928 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
929 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
930 * Support Youtube live streams
933 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
936 * Fix media info dialog update
937 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
938 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
939 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
940 * Fix album art display at start
943 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
944 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
945 * Fix menus display and behavior
946 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
947 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
948 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
949 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
950 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
951 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
952 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
955 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
956 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
957 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
958 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
959 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
960 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
961 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
962 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
963 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
966 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
967 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
968 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
969 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
970 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
973 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
974 --------------------------------
977 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
980 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
981 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
984 * Add GateKeeper support
985 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
986 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
987 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
990 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
993 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
994 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
995 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
996 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
997 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1000 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1001 --------------------------------
1004 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1005 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1006 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1007 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1008 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1009 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1010 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1011 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1012 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1013 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1014 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1018 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1019 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1020 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1021 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1022 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1023 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1024 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1025 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1026 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1027 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1028 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1029 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1032 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1033 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1035 * Fix MP3 free format support
1038 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1039 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1040 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1041 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1042 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1045 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1046 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1048 Audio filters and output:
1049 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1050 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1051 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1052 * Do not apply volume in file output
1053 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1054 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1057 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1058 the persistant media library
1059 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1060 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1061 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1062 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1063 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1064 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1065 press on the Play/Pause button
1066 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1067 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1068 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1069 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1070 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1071 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1072 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1073 Synchronization panel
1074 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1075 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1076 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1077 * Fix crashes on exit
1078 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1080 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1081 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1082 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1083 automatically reset on the first launch.
1084 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1085 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1086 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1089 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1090 * Fixes for icecast SD
1093 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1094 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1095 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1096 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1097 * Fix tags and file names display
1098 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1101 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1102 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1105 * Fix display of some buttons
1106 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1107 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1110 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1111 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1112 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1115 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1116 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1117 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1118 Thai translations update
1119 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1122 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1123 --------------------------------
1126 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1127 * fix the samba module compilation
1128 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1129 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1130 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1131 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1134 * Support for MXPEG files
1135 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1136 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1139 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1140 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1141 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1144 * Fix ogm header creation
1147 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1148 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1151 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1152 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1153 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1154 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1157 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1160 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1161 * allow to hide the sidebar
1162 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1163 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1164 * noticebly faster launch time
1165 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1166 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1167 * improve track synchronization panel
1168 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1169 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1172 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1173 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1174 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1175 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1178 * fix for menus display
1179 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1180 * documentation update
1183 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1184 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1187 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1188 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1189 * Update Jamendo selections
1193 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1194 * fix a crash on VLM close
1197 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1198 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1199 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1200 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1203 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1206 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1207 ---------------------------------
1210 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1211 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1212 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1213 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1214 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1215 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1216 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1217 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1218 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1219 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1220 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1221 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1222 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1223 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1224 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1225 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1226 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1227 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1228 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1229 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1230 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1231 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1232 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1233 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1234 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1235 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1237 Important changes for packagers:
1238 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1239 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1240 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1241 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1242 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1243 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1244 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1245 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1246 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1247 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1250 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1251 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1252 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1253 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1254 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1255 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1256 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1259 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1260 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1261 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1262 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1263 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1264 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1265 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1266 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1267 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1268 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1269 * PulseAudio audio input support
1270 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1271 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1272 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1273 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1274 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1275 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1276 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1277 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1280 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1281 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1282 are notably concerned.
1283 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1284 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1285 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1286 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1287 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1288 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1289 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1290 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1291 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1292 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1293 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1294 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1295 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1296 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1297 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1300 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1301 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1302 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1303 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1304 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1305 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1306 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1307 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1308 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1309 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1310 * Improved support of tracker files
1311 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1314 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1315 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1316 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1317 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1318 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1319 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1320 and important cleanups and optimisations
1321 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1322 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1323 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1324 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1325 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1326 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1327 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1328 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1329 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1330 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1331 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1332 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1333 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1334 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1335 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1336 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1337 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1338 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1339 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1340 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1341 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1344 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1345 * New video output for iOS platform
1346 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1347 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1348 * Various vmem improvements
1349 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1350 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1351 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1352 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1353 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1354 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1356 Audio Output and Filters:
1357 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1358 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1359 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1360 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1361 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1362 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1363 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1364 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1365 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1366 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1369 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1370 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1371 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1372 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1373 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1374 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1375 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1376 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1377 * New anti-flickering filter
1378 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1379 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1380 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1381 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1382 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1383 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1384 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1387 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1388 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1389 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1390 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1391 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1392 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1393 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1394 * Major rework of VoD support
1395 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1396 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1397 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1398 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1399 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1400 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1401 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1402 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1403 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1404 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1407 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1408 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1411 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1412 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1413 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1414 list of available audio and video filters
1415 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1416 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1417 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1420 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1421 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1422 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1423 * id3tag: use taglib
1424 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1425 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1426 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1427 * removal of the noise filter
1428 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1429 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1430 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1431 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1434 * Update of translations for most languages.
1435 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1438 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1439 ----------------------------------
1442 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1443 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1446 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1447 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1450 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1451 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1452 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1455 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1458 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1459 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1462 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1465 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1466 ----------------------------------
1469 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1470 including support for OS X Lion
1471 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1472 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1475 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1478 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1479 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1480 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1483 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1486 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1487 ----------------------------------
1490 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1491 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1494 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1495 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1496 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1497 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1498 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1500 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1501 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1502 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1504 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1505 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1508 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1511 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1514 * Fix quitting on Linux
1515 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1519 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1522 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1525 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1526 ---------------------------------
1528 Windows and Mac OS X:
1529 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1532 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1533 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1536 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1539 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1542 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1544 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1545 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1547 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1548 * RTP output and XML export
1549 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1553 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1554 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1555 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1556 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1559 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1560 --------------------------------
1562 Windows and Mac OS X:
1563 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1566 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1569 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1570 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1571 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1572 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1573 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1574 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1577 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1578 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1582 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1583 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1584 * New Luganda Translation
1587 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1588 --------------------------------
1591 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1594 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1595 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1596 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1597 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1600 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1602 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1603 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1604 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1605 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1606 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1607 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1608 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1609 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1611 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1612 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1613 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1614 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1615 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1616 * Configure and build system improvements
1617 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1620 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1621 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1622 * New icelandic translation
1625 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1626 --------------------------------
1629 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1630 #234484 and #260719.
1633 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1634 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1635 and stability reasons
1638 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1642 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1645 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1646 ----------------------------------
1649 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1652 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1653 ---------------------------------
1656 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1657 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1658 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1659 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1662 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1665 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1666 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1667 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1668 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1671 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1672 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1673 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1675 Subtitles and renderer:
1676 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1677 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1678 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1679 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1680 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1683 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1684 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1685 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1686 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1689 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1690 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1692 Miscellaneous fixes:
1693 * KDE device solid actions
1695 * Transcode integer overflow
1696 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1697 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1700 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1701 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1702 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1705 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1706 ----------------------------------
1709 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1713 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1716 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1719 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1720 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1721 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1722 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1725 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1729 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1732 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1735 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1736 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1738 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1742 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1743 * Miscellaneous fixes
1746 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1747 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1748 French and Ukrainian
1749 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1750 * New Asturian translation
1753 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1754 ----------------------------------
1757 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1759 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1762 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1765 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1766 * Various fixes for Windows
1769 * New Armenian translation
1770 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1771 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1774 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1775 --------------------------------
1778 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1779 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1780 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1783 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1784 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1787 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1788 --------------------------------
1790 Access and demuxers:
1791 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1792 * fix for podcasts parsing
1793 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1796 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1797 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1800 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1801 * fix m3u playlists exports
1804 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1807 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1810 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1813 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1816 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1819 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1820 --------------------------------
1823 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1824 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1827 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1828 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1831 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1832 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1833 * fix console output encoding
1835 Interface and extensions:
1836 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1837 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1840 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1841 --------------------------------
1844 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1845 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1846 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1847 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1848 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1849 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1850 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1851 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1852 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1853 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1854 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1855 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1856 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1857 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1858 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1859 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1863 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1864 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1865 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1866 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1867 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1870 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1873 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1874 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1875 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1879 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1882 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1883 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1884 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1887 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1888 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1889 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1890 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1893 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1894 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1897 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1898 --------------------------------
1900 Important changes for users:
1901 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1902 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1904 Important changes for packagers:
1905 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1906 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1907 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1908 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1909 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1911 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1913 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1914 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1915 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1916 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1917 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1920 * Support for the sftp protocol
1921 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1922 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1923 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1924 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1925 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1928 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1929 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1930 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1932 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1933 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1934 * Invmem module improvements
1935 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1936 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1937 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1938 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1939 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1940 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1941 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1942 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1943 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1944 * Support for VP8 codec
1945 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1948 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1949 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1950 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1951 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1952 * Various EGP improvements
1953 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1954 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1957 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1958 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1959 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1960 * Podcast images are now displayed
1963 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1964 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1965 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1966 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1967 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1968 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1969 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1970 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1971 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1972 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1973 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1976 * New content extensions lua framework
1979 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1980 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1981 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1982 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1983 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1984 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1985 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1988 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1989 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1990 * Service discovery based on libudev
1991 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1994 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1995 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1996 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1997 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1998 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1999 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2000 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2003 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2004 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2005 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2008 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2010 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2011 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2014 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2017 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2018 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2019 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2020 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2021 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2022 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2023 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2026 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2027 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2030 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2031 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2032 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2036 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2037 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2038 * Improved Solaris port
2041 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2042 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2045 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2046 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2047 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2048 * transrate: broken since too long
2049 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2050 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2051 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2052 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2053 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2054 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2055 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2056 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2057 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2058 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2059 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2060 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2061 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2062 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2065 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2066 --------------------------------
2069 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2071 Decoders/Packetizers:
2072 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2075 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2076 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2077 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2078 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2079 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2082 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2083 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2086 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2087 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2090 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2091 and Walloon translations updated
2092 * Sinhala translation started
2095 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2096 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2099 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2100 --------------------------------
2103 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2104 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2107 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2110 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2111 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2114 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2115 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2116 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2117 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2120 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2121 --------------------------------
2124 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2125 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2128 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2129 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2132 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2133 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2136 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2139 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2140 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2143 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2144 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2147 * New Walloon translation
2148 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2151 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2152 --------------------------------
2155 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2156 regressions in most popular drivers
2157 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2160 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2161 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2162 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2165 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2166 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2169 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2170 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2171 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2172 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2173 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2176 * New udev module for linux
2179 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2182 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2185 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2186 --------------------------------
2189 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2190 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2191 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2194 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2195 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2198 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2199 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2202 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2205 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2206 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2207 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2208 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2211 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2212 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2213 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2214 - no support for Goom and SDL
2215 - limited text rendering support
2216 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2219 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2220 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2221 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2222 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2223 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2224 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2225 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2226 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2227 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2231 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2234 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2237 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2238 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2239 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2240 Arabic and French translation updates
2243 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2244 --------------------------------
2247 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2248 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2249 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2250 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2251 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2252 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2255 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2256 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2257 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2260 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2261 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2262 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2265 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2268 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2269 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2272 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2273 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2274 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2275 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2276 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2277 * Fix various crashes
2280 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2282 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2286 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2287 ---------------------------------
2291 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2292 See 'Access:' for more info.
2293 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2296 * Instantaneous pausing
2297 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2298 * Finer speed control
2299 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2300 * Timeshift for most medias
2301 * RTSP trickplay support
2302 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2305 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2306 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2307 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2308 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2309 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2310 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2311 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2312 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2313 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2314 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2317 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2318 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2319 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2320 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2321 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2322 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2323 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2326 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2327 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2330 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2331 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2332 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2333 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2334 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2335 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2336 * DVB scanning on linux
2337 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2338 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2339 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2340 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2341 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2342 * MTP device access on Unix
2343 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2344 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2347 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2348 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2349 Windows and Mac OS X.
2352 * Export the playlist in HTML
2353 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2354 * Better metadata handling and reading
2356 Linux/Windows interface:
2357 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2358 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2359 * Recently played items list
2360 * Interface toolbar customizations
2361 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2362 - More menus actions
2363 - Finer speed slider
2364 - Improvements on many dialogs
2365 - New dialog for plugins listing
2366 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2367 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2368 * Better integration in GTK environments
2371 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2372 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2373 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2374 * Additional usability improvements
2377 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2378 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2379 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2380 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2381 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2384 * New Maemo port with:
2385 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2386 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2389 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2392 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2393 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2394 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2395 * Support for latest iSight models
2398 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2399 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2402 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2403 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2404 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2405 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2406 The old image video output has been removed.
2407 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2408 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2411 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2419 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2420 --------------------------------------
2426 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2427 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2428 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2429 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2430 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2431 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2432 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2434 Various fixes to the following modules:
2437 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2438 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2439 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2441 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2446 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2447 ---------------------------------
2450 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2451 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2454 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2455 ---------------------------------
2458 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2461 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2464 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2465 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2466 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2467 main controller window.
2468 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2471 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2476 * Updates of other localizations
2479 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2480 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2481 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2482 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2483 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2486 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2487 ---------------------------------
2490 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2492 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2495 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2496 --------------------------------
2501 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2502 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2505 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2506 --------------------------------
2508 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2509 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2512 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2515 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2516 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2519 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2520 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2523 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2524 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2525 * Various fixed in playlist
2528 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2531 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2534 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2535 ------------------------------------
2537 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2538 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2541 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2542 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2543 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2546 * Stability fix for the video output.
2549 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2550 --------------------------------
2553 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2554 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2555 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2556 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2557 * Fixed update system bugs
2558 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2561 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2562 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2563 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2564 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2565 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2566 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2567 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2568 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2569 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2570 modern Mac OS X versions
2573 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2574 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2576 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2577 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2580 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2581 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2582 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2583 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2584 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2585 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2588 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2589 --------------------------------
2591 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2592 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2593 * Multiple bugfixes.
2596 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2597 --------------------------------
2599 * Multiple bug fixes.
2602 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2603 ---------------------------------
2607 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2608 recent to work correctly
2609 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2610 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2611 edit the ".hosts" file.
2612 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2613 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2614 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2615 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2616 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2617 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2618 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2619 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2620 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2621 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2622 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2623 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2624 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2625 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2626 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2627 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2628 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2629 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2630 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2631 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2632 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2633 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2634 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2635 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2636 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2637 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2638 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2639 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2640 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2641 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2642 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2643 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2644 and postproc modules.
2645 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2646 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2647 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2648 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2650 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2651 filter. For example:
2652 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2653 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2655 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2656 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2662 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2664 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2665 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2668 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2669 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2671 * Shoutcast TV listings
2672 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2674 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2675 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2677 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2680 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2681 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2682 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2683 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2684 * JACK audio input support
2685 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2686 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2687 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2688 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2689 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2690 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2691 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2692 (available as a separate download).
2693 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2694 * RTMP input support
2695 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2696 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2697 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2699 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2700 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2703 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2704 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2705 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2706 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2708 * APEv1/2 tags support
2709 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2710 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2712 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2713 * TiVo Series 2 support
2714 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2719 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2720 * Flash Screen Video support
2721 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2722 * DosBox Capture support
2723 * Karl Morton's Video support
2724 * limited atrac3 support
2726 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2727 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2728 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2729 * H.264 PAFF support
2730 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2731 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2732 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2733 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2734 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2737 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2738 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2739 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2740 * AQTitle subtitles support
2741 * MKV USF subtitles support
2742 * HTML-based subtitles support
2743 * MPSub subtitles support
2744 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2745 * MPL2 subtitles support
2746 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2747 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2748 * Realtext subtitle support
2749 * DKS subtitle support
2750 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2751 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2754 * Flash Screen Video support
2755 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2757 Video outputs and filters:
2758 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2759 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2760 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2761 * New puzzle video output filter
2762 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2763 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2765 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2766 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2767 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2768 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2769 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2770 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2771 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2772 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2773 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2774 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2775 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2776 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2777 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2778 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2780 Audio outputs and filters:
2781 * Replay gain support
2782 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2783 new scaletempo audio filter)
2784 * New spatializer audio filter
2785 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2788 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2789 * New RTP payload formats:
2790 * Speex voice audio codec
2791 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2792 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2793 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2794 * DCCP transport for RTP
2795 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2800 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2801 end-user suitable way.
2802 * Improved user interaction
2803 * Improved mouse gestures
2804 * Vastly improved Update checker
2805 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2807 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2808 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2810 * Improved video output features
2811 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2812 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2813 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2814 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2815 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2817 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2818 if libncursesw is available.
2819 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2820 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2821 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2823 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2824 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2825 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2826 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2827 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2828 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2829 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2830 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2833 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2834 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2835 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2838 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2839 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2840 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2841 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2842 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2843 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2846 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2847 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2857 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2858 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2859 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2862 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2863 ----------------------------------
2866 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2869 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2870 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2871 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2872 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2873 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2874 * Updated Polish translation
2877 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2878 ----------------------------------
2881 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2882 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2883 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2886 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2887 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2888 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2889 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2890 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2891 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2892 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2893 to an unexpected application termination
2894 * New Serbian translation
2895 * Updated Romanian translation
2898 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2899 ----------------------------------
2902 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2903 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2904 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2905 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2906 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2907 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2908 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2909 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2912 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2913 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2914 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2915 * Fixed AAC resampling
2916 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2917 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2920 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2921 ----------------------------------
2924 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2925 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2926 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2927 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2928 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2931 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2932 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2933 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2934 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2935 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2938 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2939 ----------------------------------
2942 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2943 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2946 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2947 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2948 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2949 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2951 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2955 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2958 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2961 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2964 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2967 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2968 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2969 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2970 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2971 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2973 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2974 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2975 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2976 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2979 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2982 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2983 ----------------------------------
2986 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2987 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2988 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2990 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2991 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2993 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2994 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2997 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2999 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3000 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3001 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3002 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3003 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3004 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3005 two different movies
3006 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3007 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3008 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3011 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3014 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3015 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3016 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3017 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3020 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3021 ----------------------------------
3023 Various bugfixes, notably:
3024 * Windows Vista compatibility
3025 * Cropping in Direct3D
3026 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3027 * RSS filter string overflow
3029 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3031 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3032 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3035 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3036 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3039 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3042 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3045 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3048 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3049 ----------------------------------
3051 Various bugfixes, notably:
3052 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3053 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3054 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3055 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3056 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3057 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3060 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3061 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3064 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3066 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3067 * Diverse usability improvements
3068 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3069 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3070 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3073 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3074 ---------------------------------
3076 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3077 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3080 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3083 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3084 --------------------------------
3087 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3090 * Support for RTSP authentication
3091 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3092 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3093 * ATSC support for DVB input
3094 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3095 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3096 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3099 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3100 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3101 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3102 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3103 * Matroska WavPack support
3104 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3105 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3106 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3109 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3110 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3111 * Improved libcaca support
3115 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3116 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3118 * Systray support in skins
3120 * Support for Apple Remote control
3121 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3122 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3123 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3124 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3126 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3129 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3130 Windows 9x/ME users:
3131 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3132 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3133 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3134 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3135 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3137 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3138 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3147 * Updates to the libvlc API
3148 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3151 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3152 --------------------------------
3155 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3156 * Support for downloading updates
3160 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3161 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3162 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3163 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3165 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3166 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3167 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3170 * Cook (Real audio) support
3172 Playlist / Services discovery:
3173 * XSPF playlist support
3175 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3178 * New JACK audio output
3181 * New video filters:
3182 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3183 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3184 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3185 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3186 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3187 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3190 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3193 * System to inform the user and request information
3194 - HTTP authentication
3198 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3199 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3200 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3203 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3204 - Improved playlist handling
3205 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3207 - Embedded Video output
3208 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3209 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3210 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3211 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3212 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3214 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3215 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3218 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3221 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3222 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3223 * Growl "Now playing" support
3226 * Ability to log to syslog
3227 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3230 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3232 * A bit more automatic testing
3235 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3236 ---------------------------------
3239 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3240 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3243 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3244 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3247 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3250 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3251 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3257 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3260 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3261 --------------------------------
3264 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3268 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3269 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3270 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3273 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3274 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3275 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3276 * GnomeVFS input module
3277 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3278 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3281 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3282 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3283 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3286 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3287 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3293 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3294 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3297 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3298 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3299 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3302 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3304 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3305 - New extended controls panel
3306 - New bookmarks window
3307 - Fixed playlist sorting
3308 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3310 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3311 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3312 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3313 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3317 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3318 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3320 - Include macro to include other files
3324 * Should now work outside IE as well
3327 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3330 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3331 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3334 The following languages were added:
3338 * Simplified Chinese
3339 The following languages were re-added:
3343 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3344 --------------------------------
3347 * Rewrite of the playlist
3349 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3350 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3351 * Preferences improvements:
3352 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3353 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3355 * Core image manipulation support
3356 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3357 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3358 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3359 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3360 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3361 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3362 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3363 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3364 * Access filter architecture
3365 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3366 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3370 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3371 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3372 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3373 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3374 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3375 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3376 * Massive Matroska improvements
3377 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3379 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3380 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3381 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3382 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3383 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3385 Decoders / Encoders:
3386 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3387 * PNG decoder/encoder
3388 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3389 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3392 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3395 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3396 * Brand new SAP module
3397 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3398 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3399 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3400 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3401 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3402 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3406 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3409 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3410 * Image file video output (png)
3411 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3412 * Improvements to wall video filter
3413 * Support for font color and opacity
3419 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3420 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3421 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3425 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3426 - Improved preferences
3427 - Improvements to the wizard
3428 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3430 - Redesigned playlist
3431 - Improved preferences
3433 - Support for multiple actions
3436 - Support for the new playlist system
3438 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3441 * Screensaver disabling fix
3442 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3443 * Support for no-decoration windows
3446 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3447 * The OpenGL video output is back
3448 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3449 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3450 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3451 is not yet available in the new module
3452 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3455 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3464 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3467 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3470 The following languages were added:
3476 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3477 --------------------------------
3480 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3481 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3484 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3485 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3486 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3489 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3492 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3495 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3498 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3499 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3500 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3504 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3506 * Support of playlist group announcement
3509 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3510 --------------------------------
3513 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3514 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3515 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3516 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3517 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3518 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3521 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3522 (Stream your desktop)
3523 * Improved DVD support:
3524 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3525 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3526 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3527 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3528 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3529 (selection of titles/chapters).
3532 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3533 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3534 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3535 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3536 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3537 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3538 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3539 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3540 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3541 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3544 * G.726 audio support
3545 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3546 * MPEG-4 text support
3547 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3548 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3549 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3553 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3554 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3555 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3556 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3557 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3558 * DVB subtitles encoder
3559 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3560 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3562 * Text track muxing for mp4
3563 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3564 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3565 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3566 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3567 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3568 * Improved ASF muxer
3570 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3571 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3572 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3575 * New audio equalizer filter
3576 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3577 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3578 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3579 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3582 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3583 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3584 with support for effects.
3585 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3586 - New filters can be streamed.
3587 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3588 - Centralized scaling and blending
3590 - "time", to display current time
3591 - "marq", to display a marquee
3594 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3595 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3596 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3597 * A few skins2 improvements
3598 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3599 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3600 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3601 * Improved CORBA control module
3604 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3605 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3606 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3609 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3610 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3611 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3614 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3615 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3616 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3617 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3618 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3621 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3624 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3625 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3628 * Server/client network synchronization module
3629 * VBrick streams fully supported
3630 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3634 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3635 --------------------------------
3638 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3639 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3640 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3641 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3644 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3645 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3646 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3647 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3648 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3649 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3650 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3653 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3654 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3655 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3656 * Improved directory access module.
3657 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3658 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3659 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3660 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3661 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3664 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3665 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3666 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3669 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3670 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3671 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3674 * Improved session announcement system.
3675 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3676 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3677 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3678 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3679 * Improved transrater.
3680 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3681 * New configuration system.
3682 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3685 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3686 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3687 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3688 * Supports scheduling.
3689 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3690 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3693 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3694 - Ability to embed video output.
3695 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3696 - Lots of improvements.
3697 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3698 - New design and set of icons.
3699 - Ability to embed video output.
3700 - Support for hotkeys.
3701 - Support for bookmarks.
3703 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3704 - Better hotkeys handling.
3707 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3708 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3709 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3710 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3713 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3714 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3715 * Improved Windows installer.
3721 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3722 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3725 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3726 ---------------------------------
3729 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3730 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3733 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3734 --------------------------------
3737 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3738 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3741 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3742 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3743 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3744 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3747 * Internal improvments
3748 * Improved import/export
3751 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3753 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3754 small and strange formats.
3756 * New MOD audio demux.
3757 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3758 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3759 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3760 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3763 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3764 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3765 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3771 * New opengl video output plugin.
3774 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3775 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3778 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3779 --------------------------------
3782 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3783 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3784 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3785 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3786 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3787 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3788 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3789 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3792 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3797 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3798 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3799 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3800 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3801 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3802 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3803 * Better Icecast support.
3804 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3805 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3808 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3809 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3810 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3811 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3812 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3813 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3814 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3817 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3818 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3819 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3820 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3821 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3822 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3823 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3824 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3825 * Preliminary RTP support.
3826 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3831 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3832 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3834 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3835 - Improvements and help in preferences
3836 - New streaming wizard
3837 - Revised Disc Open menu
3839 - Improvements of the standard pages
3840 - Support for new commands
3841 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3844 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3845 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3848 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3849 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3850 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3851 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3852 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3853 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3854 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3855 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3856 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3859 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3861 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3862 * Support for Panther.
3863 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3864 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3867 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3868 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3869 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3870 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3871 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3872 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3873 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3874 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3877 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3878 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3879 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3882 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3885 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3886 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3887 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3888 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3891 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3892 --------------------------------
3895 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3898 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3899 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3902 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3903 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3906 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3909 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3910 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3913 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3916 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3919 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3920 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3924 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3925 --------------------------------
3928 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3929 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3933 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3934 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3935 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3937 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3938 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3941 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3944 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3947 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3948 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3952 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3953 --------------------------------
3956 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3957 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3961 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3962 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3963 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3964 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3965 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3968 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3969 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3970 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3973 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3974 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3975 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3978 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3979 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3980 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3981 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3982 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3985 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3986 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3987 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3990 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3993 * Improved build system.
3994 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3995 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3996 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3997 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4000 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4001 --------------------------------
4004 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4007 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4008 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4009 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4010 * Video 4 Linux support
4011 * CD Digital Audio support
4012 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4015 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4016 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4017 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4018 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4021 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4022 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4023 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4024 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4025 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4026 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4027 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4030 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4031 * New HTTP remote control interface
4034 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4035 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4036 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4037 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4038 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4041 * New reset option for the preferences
4042 * You can set your language in the prefences
4043 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4044 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4045 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4046 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4049 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4050 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4051 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4054 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4055 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4056 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4057 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4058 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4059 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4060 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4061 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4062 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4063 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4066 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4067 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4068 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4069 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4070 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4071 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4072 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4075 * Interface localization
4076 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4077 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4078 * New full-featured Preferences window
4081 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4082 --------------------------------
4085 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4086 * support for skins at the interface level
4087 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4088 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4089 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4090 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4091 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4094 * fixed HTTP redirects
4095 * support for opening an entire directory
4096 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4097 * new video4linux access plug-in
4098 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4101 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4102 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4103 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4106 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4107 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4108 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4109 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4110 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4111 * new codec for raw I420 video
4112 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4115 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4116 (although it still misses some important features)
4117 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4120 * new HTTP output support
4121 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4122 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4125 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4128 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4131 * reorderable playlist
4132 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4133 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4134 * support for mono audio output devices
4135 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4136 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4137 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4138 * the messages window remembers more lines
4139 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4140 * http and ogg stream output options
4141 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4144 * new skinnable interface
4145 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4147 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4148 * support for FLAC audio format
4149 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4151 * network tab in the interface
4152 * "apply" handling in preferences
4155 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4156 ---------------------------------
4159 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4160 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4161 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4162 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4164 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4165 * DTS S/PDIF support
4168 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4169 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4170 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4171 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4174 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4175 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4178 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4181 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4184 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4186 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4187 * rc interface is now fully useable
4188 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4191 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4192 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4193 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4194 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4195 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4197 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4198 * support for mouse gestures
4199 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4202 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4203 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4206 * improved ID3 tag detection
4207 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4208 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4209 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4211 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4214 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4215 ---------------------------------
4218 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4219 English was set as the preferred language
4222 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4223 --------------------------------
4226 * new mouse gesture interface
4227 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4231 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4232 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4233 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4236 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4237 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4241 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4244 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4245 without the user consent
4248 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4250 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4251 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4252 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4255 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4256 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4257 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4258 * playlist enhancements
4259 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4260 * new step forward/step backward commands
4261 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4262 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4263 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4266 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4267 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4268 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4271 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4272 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4275 * native video output is working again
4276 * only commandline interface support
4277 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4280 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4281 --------------------------------
4284 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4285 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4286 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4287 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4288 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4289 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4290 and A/52 streams are supported)
4291 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4296 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4297 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4298 * VCD entry points support
4299 * VCD image file support
4302 * support for *.asf format
4303 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4304 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4305 * support for ogg encapsulation
4306 * support for raw DV format
4307 * support for *.wav format
4308 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4311 Stream discovery & playlists:
4312 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4313 * support for .m3u file format
4314 * support for .asx file format
4315 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4318 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4319 (only available with the .avi demux)
4320 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4321 * support for raw PCM data
4322 * support for Cinepak video codec
4323 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4324 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4325 * support for Xvid codec
4326 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4327 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4328 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4330 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4332 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4335 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4338 * new WxWindows interface
4339 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4340 device and the channels configuration
4341 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4342 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4343 format that VLC can play
4344 * new swedish translation
4345 * enhancements of the playlist window
4346 * new messages window to see debug info
4347 * fixed a few crashes
4350 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4351 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4352 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4353 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working