1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
15 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
16 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
20 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
21 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
22 x11 (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
23 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
24 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
25 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
28 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
29 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
30 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
31 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
32 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
33 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
34 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
35 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
36 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
37 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
38 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
39 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
40 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
41 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
42 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
45 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
46 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
47 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
48 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
49 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
52 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
53 * Ogg seeking improvements
54 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
57 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
58 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
59 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
60 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
61 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
62 and important cleanups and optimisations
63 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
64 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
65 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
66 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
67 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
68 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
71 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
72 * New video output for iOS platform
73 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
74 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
75 * Various vmem improvements
76 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
80 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
81 * New audio output in memory (amem)
84 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
85 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
86 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
87 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
88 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
89 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
90 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
91 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
92 * New anti-flickering filter
95 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
98 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
99 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
100 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
101 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
102 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
103 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
104 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
105 * Major rework of VoD support
106 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
107 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
108 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
109 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
110 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
111 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
112 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
113 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
114 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
117 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
118 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
121 * New capabilities for libVLC:
122 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
123 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
124 list of available audio and video filters
125 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
126 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
129 * asademux: use libass only
130 * subsass: use libass
131 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
132 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
134 * upnp: use upnp_intel
135 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
136 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
139 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
140 --------------------------------
142 Windows and Mac OS X:
143 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
146 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
149 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
150 * Improve Apple Remote handling
151 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
152 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
153 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
154 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
157 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
158 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
162 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
163 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
164 * New Luganda Translation
167 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
168 --------------------------------
171 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
174 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
175 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
176 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
177 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
180 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
182 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
183 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
184 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
185 * mp4 demuxer improvements
186 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
187 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
188 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
189 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
191 Miscellaneous fixes in:
192 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
193 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
194 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
195 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
196 * Configure and build system improvements
197 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
200 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
201 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
202 * New icelandic translation
205 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
206 --------------------------------
209 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
213 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
214 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
215 and stability reasons
218 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
222 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
225 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
226 ----------------------------------
229 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
232 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
233 ---------------------------------
236 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
237 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
238 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
239 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
242 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
245 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
246 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
247 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
248 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
251 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
252 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
253 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
255 Subtitles and renderer:
256 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
257 * Mark more freetype options as safe
258 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
259 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
260 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
263 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
264 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
265 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
266 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
269 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
270 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
273 * KDE device solid actions
275 * Transcode integer overflow
276 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
277 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
280 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
281 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
282 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
285 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
286 ----------------------------------
289 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
293 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
296 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
299 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
300 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
301 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
302 * Taglib thread-safety fix
305 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
309 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
312 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
315 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
316 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
318 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
322 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
323 * Miscellaneous fixes
326 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
327 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
329 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
330 * New Asturian translation
333 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
334 ----------------------------------
337 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
339 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
342 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
345 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
346 * Various fixes for Windows
349 * New Armenian translation
350 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
351 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
354 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
355 --------------------------------
358 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
360 * Fix folders opening from the interface
363 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
364 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
367 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
368 --------------------------------
371 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
372 * fix for podcasts parsing
373 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
376 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
377 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
380 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
381 * fix m3u playlists exports
384 * fix video autoresize behaviour
387 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
390 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
393 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
396 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
399 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
400 --------------------------------
403 * Avformat fps displaying fix
404 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
407 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
408 of mono streams, especially on Windows
411 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
412 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
413 * fix console output encoding
415 Interface and extensions:
416 * Youtube and other scripts updates
417 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
420 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
421 --------------------------------
424 * New capabilities for libVLC:
425 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
426 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
427 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
428 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
429 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
430 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
431 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
432 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
433 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
434 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
435 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
436 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
437 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
438 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
439 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
443 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
444 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
445 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
446 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
447 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
450 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
453 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
454 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
455 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
459 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
462 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
463 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
464 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
467 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
468 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
469 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
470 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
473 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
474 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
477 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
478 --------------------------------
480 Important changes for users:
481 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
482 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
484 Important changes for packagers:
485 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
486 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
487 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
488 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
489 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
491 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
493 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
494 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
495 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
496 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
497 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
500 * Support for the sftp protocol
501 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
502 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
503 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
504 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
505 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
508 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
509 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
510 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
512 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
513 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
514 * Invmem module improvements
515 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
516 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
517 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
518 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
519 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
520 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
521 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
522 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
523 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
524 * Support for VP8 codec
525 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
528 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
529 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
530 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
531 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
532 * Various EGP improvements
533 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
534 * Metadata and cover art improvements
537 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
538 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
539 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
540 * Podcast images are now displayed
543 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
544 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
545 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
546 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
547 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
548 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
549 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
550 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
551 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
552 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
553 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
556 * New content extensions lua framework
559 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
560 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
561 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
562 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
563 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
564 * NEON assembly audio converter module
565 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
568 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
569 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
570 * Service discovery based on libudev
571 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
574 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
575 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
576 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
577 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
578 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
579 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
580 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
583 * New smem module, streaming to memory
584 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
585 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
588 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
590 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
591 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
594 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
597 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
598 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
599 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
600 by Andy Matuschak et al.
601 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
602 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
603 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
606 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
607 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
610 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
611 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
612 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
616 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
617 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
618 * Improved Solaris port
621 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
622 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
625 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
626 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
627 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
628 * transrate: broken since too long
629 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
630 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
631 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
632 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
633 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
634 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
635 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
636 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
637 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
638 * cddax: use cdda instead.
639 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
640 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
641 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
642 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
645 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
646 --------------------------------
649 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
651 Decoders/Packetizers:
652 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
655 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
656 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
657 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
658 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
659 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
662 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
663 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
666 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
667 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
670 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
671 and Walloon translations updated
672 * Sinhala translation started
675 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
676 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
679 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
680 --------------------------------
683 * SubRip extra styles improvements
684 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
687 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
690 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
691 increase performance and fix x264 issues
694 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
695 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
696 Russian, Slovak translation updates
697 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
700 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
701 --------------------------------
704 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
705 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
708 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
709 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
712 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
713 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
716 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
719 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
720 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
723 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
724 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
727 * New Walloon translation
728 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
731 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
732 --------------------------------
735 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
736 regressions in most popular drivers
737 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
740 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
741 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
742 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
745 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
746 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
749 * Update for appletrailers lua script
750 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
751 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
752 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
753 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
756 * New udev module for linux
759 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
762 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
765 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
770 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
771 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
774 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
775 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
778 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
779 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
782 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
785 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
786 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
787 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
788 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
791 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
792 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
793 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
794 - no support for Goom and SDL
795 - limited text rendering support
796 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
799 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
800 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
801 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
802 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
803 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
804 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
805 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
806 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
807 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
811 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
814 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
817 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
818 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
819 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
820 Arabic and French translation updates
823 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
824 --------------------------------
827 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
828 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
829 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
830 * Fix Dailymotion access script
831 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
832 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
835 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
836 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
839 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
840 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
841 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
844 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
847 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
848 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
851 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
852 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
853 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
854 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
855 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
856 * Fix various crashes
859 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
861 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
864 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
865 ---------------------------------
869 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
870 See 'Access:' for more info.
871 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
874 * Instantaneous pausing
875 * Frame-by-Frame playback
876 * Finer speed control
877 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
878 * Timeshift for most medias
879 * RTSP trickplay support
880 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
883 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
884 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
885 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
886 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
887 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
888 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
889 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
890 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
891 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
892 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
895 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
896 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
897 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
898 * Metadata for mod files are supported
899 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
900 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
901 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
904 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
905 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
908 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
909 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
910 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
911 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
912 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
913 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
914 * DVB scanning on linux
915 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
916 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
917 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
918 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
919 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
920 * MTP device access on Unix
921 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
922 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
925 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
926 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
927 Windows and Mac OS X.
930 * Export the playlist in HTML
931 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
932 * Better metadata handling and reading
934 Linux/Windows interface:
935 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
936 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
937 * Recently played items list
938 * Interface toolbar customizations
939 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
942 - Improvements on many dialogs
943 - New dialog for plugins listing
944 - Fixed-size mode for videos
945 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
946 * Better integration in GTK environments
949 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
950 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
951 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
952 * Additional usability improvements
955 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
956 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
957 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
958 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
959 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
962 * New Maemo port with:
963 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
964 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
967 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
970 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
971 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
972 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
973 * Support for latest iSight models
976 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
977 * Surround support for PulseAudio
980 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
981 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
982 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
983 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
984 The old image video output has been removed.
985 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
986 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
989 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
997 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
998 --------------------------------------
1004 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1005 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1006 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1007 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1008 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1009 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1010 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1012 Various fixes to the following modules:
1015 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1016 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1017 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1019 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1024 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1025 ---------------------------------
1028 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1029 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1032 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1033 ---------------------------------
1036 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1039 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1042 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1043 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1044 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1045 main controller window.
1046 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1049 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1054 * Updates of other localizations
1057 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1058 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1059 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1060 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1061 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1064 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1065 ---------------------------------
1068 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1070 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1073 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1074 --------------------------------
1079 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1080 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1083 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1084 --------------------------------
1086 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1087 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1090 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1093 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1094 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1097 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1098 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1101 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1102 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1103 * Various fixed in playlist
1106 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1109 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1112 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1113 ------------------------------------
1115 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1116 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1119 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1120 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1121 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1124 * Stability fix for the video output.
1127 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1128 --------------------------------
1131 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1132 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1133 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1134 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1135 * Fixed update system bugs
1136 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1139 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1140 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1141 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1142 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1143 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1144 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1145 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1146 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1147 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1148 modern Mac OS X versions
1151 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1152 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1154 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1155 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1158 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1159 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1160 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1161 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1162 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1163 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1166 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1167 --------------------------------
1169 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1170 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1171 * Multiple bugfixes.
1174 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1175 --------------------------------
1177 * Multiple bug fixes.
1180 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1181 ---------------------------------
1185 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1186 recent to work correctly
1187 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1188 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1189 edit the ".hosts" file.
1190 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1191 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1192 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1193 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1194 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1195 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1196 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1197 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1198 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1199 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1200 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1201 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1202 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1203 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1204 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1205 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1206 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1207 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1208 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1209 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1210 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1211 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1212 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1213 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1214 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1215 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1216 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1217 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1218 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1219 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1220 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1221 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1222 and postproc modules.
1223 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1224 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1225 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1226 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1228 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1229 filter. For example:
1230 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1231 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1233 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1234 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1240 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1242 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1243 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1246 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1247 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1249 * Shoutcast TV listings
1250 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1252 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1253 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1255 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1258 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1259 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1260 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1261 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1262 * JACK audio input support
1263 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1264 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1265 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1266 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1267 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1268 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1269 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1270 (available as a separate download).
1271 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1272 * RTMP input support
1273 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1274 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1275 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1277 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1278 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1281 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1282 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1283 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1284 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1286 * APEv1/2 tags support
1287 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1288 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1290 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1291 * TiVo Series 2 support
1292 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1297 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1298 * Flash Screen Video support
1299 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1300 * DosBox Capture support
1301 * Karl Morton's Video support
1302 * limited atrac3 support
1304 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1305 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1306 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1307 * H.264 PAFF support
1308 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1309 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1310 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1311 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1312 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1315 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1316 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1317 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1318 * AQTitle subtitles support
1319 * MKV USF subtitles support
1320 * HTML-based subtitles support
1321 * MPSub subtitles support
1322 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1323 * MPL2 subtitles support
1324 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1325 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1326 * Realtext subtitle support
1327 * DKS subtitle support
1328 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1329 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1332 * Flash Screen Video support
1333 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1335 Video outputs and filters:
1336 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1337 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1338 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1339 * New puzzle video output filter
1340 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1341 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1343 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1344 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1345 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1346 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1347 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1348 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1349 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1350 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1351 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1352 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1353 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1354 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1355 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1356 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1358 Audio outputs and filters:
1359 * Replay gain support
1360 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1361 new scaletempo audio filter)
1362 * New spatializer audio filter
1363 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1366 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1367 * New RTP payload formats:
1368 * Speex voice audio codec
1369 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1370 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1371 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1372 * DCCP transport for RTP
1373 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1378 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1379 end-user suitable way.
1380 * Improved user interaction
1381 * Improved mouse gestures
1382 * Vastly improved Update checker
1383 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1385 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1386 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1388 * Improved video output features
1389 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1390 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1391 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1392 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1393 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1395 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1396 if libncursesw is available.
1397 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1398 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1399 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1401 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1402 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1403 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1404 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1405 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1406 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1407 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1408 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1411 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1412 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1413 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1416 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1417 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1418 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1419 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1420 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1421 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1424 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1425 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1435 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1436 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1437 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1440 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1441 ----------------------------------
1444 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1447 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1448 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1449 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1450 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1451 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1452 * Updated Polish translation
1455 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1456 ----------------------------------
1459 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1460 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1461 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1464 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1465 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1466 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1467 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1468 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1469 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1470 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1471 to an unexpected application termination
1472 * New Serbian translation
1473 * Updated Romanian translation
1476 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1477 ----------------------------------
1480 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1481 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1482 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1483 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1484 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1485 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1486 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1487 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1490 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1491 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1492 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1493 * Fixed AAC resampling
1494 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1495 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1498 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1499 ----------------------------------
1502 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1503 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1504 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1505 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1506 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1509 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1510 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1511 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1512 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1513 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1516 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1517 ----------------------------------
1520 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1521 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1524 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1525 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1526 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1527 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1529 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1533 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1536 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1539 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1542 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1545 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1546 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1547 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1548 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1549 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1551 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1552 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1553 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1554 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1557 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1560 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1561 ----------------------------------
1564 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1565 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1566 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1568 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1569 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1571 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1572 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1575 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1577 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1578 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1579 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1580 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1581 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1582 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1583 two different movies
1584 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1585 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1586 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1589 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1592 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1593 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1594 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1595 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1598 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1599 ----------------------------------
1601 Various bugfixes, notably:
1602 * Windows Vista compatibility
1603 * Cropping in Direct3D
1604 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1605 * RSS filter string overflow
1607 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1609 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1610 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1613 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1614 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1617 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1620 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1623 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1626 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1627 ----------------------------------
1629 Various bugfixes, notably:
1630 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1631 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1632 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1633 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1634 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1635 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1638 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1639 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1642 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1644 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1645 * Diverse usability improvements
1646 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1647 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1648 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1651 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1652 ---------------------------------
1654 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1655 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1658 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1661 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1662 --------------------------------
1665 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1668 * Support for RTSP authentication
1669 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1670 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1671 * ATSC support for DVB input
1672 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1673 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1674 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1677 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1678 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1679 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1680 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1681 * Matroska WavPack support
1682 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1683 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1684 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1687 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1688 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1689 * Improved libcaca support
1693 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1694 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1696 * Systray support in skins
1698 * Support for Apple Remote control
1699 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1700 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1701 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1702 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1704 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1707 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1708 Windows 9x/ME users:
1709 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1710 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1711 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1712 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1713 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1715 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1716 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1725 * Updates to the libvlc API
1726 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1729 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1730 --------------------------------
1733 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1734 * Support for downloading updates
1738 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1739 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1740 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1741 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1743 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1744 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1745 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1748 * Cook (Real audio) support
1750 Playlist / Services discovery:
1751 * XSPF playlist support
1753 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1756 * New JACK audio output
1759 * New video filters:
1760 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1761 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1762 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1763 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1764 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1765 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1768 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1771 * System to inform the user and request information
1772 - HTTP authentication
1776 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1777 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1778 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1781 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1782 - Improved playlist handling
1783 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1785 - Embedded Video output
1786 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1787 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1788 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1789 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1790 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1792 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1793 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1796 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1799 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1800 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1801 * Growl "Now playing" support
1804 * Ability to log to syslog
1805 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1808 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1810 * A bit more automatic testing
1813 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1814 ---------------------------------
1817 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1818 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1821 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1822 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1825 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1828 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1829 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1835 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1838 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1839 --------------------------------
1842 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1846 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1847 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1848 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1851 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1852 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1853 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1854 * GnomeVFS input module
1855 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1856 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1859 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1860 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1861 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1864 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1865 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1871 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1872 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1875 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1876 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1877 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1880 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1882 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1883 - New extended controls panel
1884 - New bookmarks window
1885 - Fixed playlist sorting
1886 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1888 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1889 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1890 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1891 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1895 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1896 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1898 - Include macro to include other files
1902 * Should now work outside IE as well
1905 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1908 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1909 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1912 The following languages were added:
1916 * Simplified Chinese
1917 The following languages were re-added:
1921 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1922 --------------------------------
1925 * Rewrite of the playlist
1927 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1928 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1929 * Preferences improvements:
1930 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1931 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1933 * Core image manipulation support
1934 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1935 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1936 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1937 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1938 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1939 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1940 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1941 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1942 * Access filter architecture
1943 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1944 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1948 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1949 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1950 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1951 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1952 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1953 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1954 * Massive Matroska improvements
1955 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1957 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1958 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1959 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1960 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1961 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1963 Decoders / Encoders:
1964 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1965 * PNG decoder/encoder
1966 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1967 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1970 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1973 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1974 * Brand new SAP module
1975 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1976 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1977 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1978 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1979 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1980 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1984 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1987 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1988 * Image file video output (png)
1989 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1990 * Improvements to wall video filter
1991 * Support for font color and opacity
1997 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1998 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1999 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2003 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2004 - Improved preferences
2005 - Improvements to the wizard
2006 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2008 - Redesigned playlist
2009 - Improved preferences
2011 - Support for multiple actions
2014 - Support for the new playlist system
2016 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2019 * Screensaver disabling fix
2020 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2021 * Support for no-decoration windows
2024 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2025 * The OpenGL video output is back
2026 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2027 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2028 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2029 is not yet available in the new module
2030 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2033 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2042 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2045 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2048 The following languages were added:
2054 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2055 --------------------------------
2058 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2059 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2062 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2063 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2064 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2067 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2070 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2073 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2076 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2077 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2078 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2082 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2084 * Support of playlist group announcement
2087 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2088 --------------------------------
2091 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2092 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2093 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2094 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2095 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2096 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2099 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2100 (Stream your desktop)
2101 * Improved DVD support:
2102 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2103 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2104 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2105 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2106 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2107 (selection of titles/chapters).
2110 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2111 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2112 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2113 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2114 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2115 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2116 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2117 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2118 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2119 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2122 * G.726 audio support
2123 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2124 * MPEG-4 text support
2125 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2126 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2127 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2131 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2132 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2133 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2134 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2135 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2136 * DVB subtitles encoder
2137 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2138 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2140 * Text track muxing for mp4
2141 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2142 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2143 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2144 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2145 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2146 * Improved ASF muxer
2148 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2149 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2150 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2153 * New audio equalizer filter
2154 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2155 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2156 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2157 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2160 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2161 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2162 with support for effects.
2163 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2164 - New filters can be streamed.
2165 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2166 - Centralized scaling and blending
2168 - "time", to display current time
2169 - "marq", to display a marquee
2172 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2173 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2174 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2175 * A few skins2 improvements
2176 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2177 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2178 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2179 * Improved CORBA control module
2182 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2183 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2184 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2187 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2188 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2189 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2192 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2193 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2194 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2195 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2196 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2199 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2202 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2203 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2206 * Server/client network synchronization module
2207 * VBrick streams fully supported
2208 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2212 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2213 --------------------------------
2216 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2217 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2218 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2219 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2222 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2223 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2224 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2225 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2226 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2227 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2228 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2231 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2232 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2233 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2234 * Improved directory access module.
2235 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2236 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2237 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2238 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2239 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2242 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2243 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2244 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2247 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2248 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2249 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2252 * Improved session announcement system.
2253 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2254 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2255 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2256 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2257 * Improved transrater.
2258 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2259 * New configuration system.
2260 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2263 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2264 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2265 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2266 * Supports scheduling.
2267 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2268 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2271 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2272 - Ability to embed video output.
2273 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2274 - Lots of improvements.
2275 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2276 - New design and set of icons.
2277 - Ability to embed video output.
2278 - Support for hotkeys.
2279 - Support for bookmarks.
2281 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2282 - Better hotkeys handling.
2285 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2286 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2287 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2288 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2291 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2292 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2293 * Improved Windows installer.
2299 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2300 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2303 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2304 ---------------------------------
2307 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2308 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2311 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2312 --------------------------------
2315 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2316 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2319 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2320 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2321 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2322 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2325 * Internal improvments
2326 * Improved import/export
2329 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2331 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2332 small and strange formats.
2334 * New MOD audio demux.
2335 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2336 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2337 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2338 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2341 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2342 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2343 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2349 * New opengl video output plugin.
2352 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2353 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2356 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2357 --------------------------------
2360 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2361 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2362 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2363 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2364 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2365 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2366 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2367 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2370 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2375 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2376 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2377 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2378 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2379 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2380 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2381 * Better Icecast support.
2382 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2383 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2386 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2387 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2388 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2389 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2390 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2391 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2392 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2395 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2396 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2397 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2398 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2399 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2400 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2401 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2402 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2403 * Preliminary RTP support.
2404 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2409 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2410 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2412 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2413 - Improvements and help in preferences
2414 - New streaming wizard
2415 - Revised Disc Open menu
2417 - Improvements of the standard pages
2418 - Support for new commands
2419 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2422 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2423 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2426 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2427 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2428 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2429 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2430 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2431 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2432 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2433 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2434 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2437 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2439 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2440 * Support for Panther.
2441 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2442 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2445 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2446 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2447 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2448 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2449 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2450 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2451 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2452 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2455 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2456 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2457 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2460 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2463 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2464 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2465 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2466 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2469 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2470 --------------------------------
2473 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2476 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2477 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2480 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2481 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2484 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2487 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2488 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2491 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2494 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2497 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2498 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2502 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2503 --------------------------------
2506 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2507 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2511 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2512 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2513 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2515 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2516 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2519 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2522 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2525 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2526 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2530 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2531 --------------------------------
2534 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2535 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2539 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2540 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2541 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2542 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2543 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2546 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2547 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2548 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2551 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2552 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2553 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2556 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2557 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2558 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2559 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2560 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2563 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2564 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2565 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2568 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2571 * Improved build system.
2572 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2573 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2574 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2575 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2578 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2579 --------------------------------
2582 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2585 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2586 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2587 * Video 4 Linux support
2588 * CD Digital Audio support
2589 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2592 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2593 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2594 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2595 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2598 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2599 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2600 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2601 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2602 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2603 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2604 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2607 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2608 * New HTTP remote control interface
2611 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2612 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2613 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2614 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2617 * New reset option for the preferences
2618 * You can set your language in the prefences
2619 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2620 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2621 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2622 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2625 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2626 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2627 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2630 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2631 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2632 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2633 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2634 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2635 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2636 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2637 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2638 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2639 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2642 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2643 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2644 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2645 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2646 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2647 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2648 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2651 * Interface localization
2652 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2653 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2654 * New full-featured Preferences window
2657 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2658 --------------------------------
2661 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2662 * support for skins at the interface level
2663 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2664 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2665 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2666 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2667 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2670 * fixed HTTP redirects
2671 * support for opening an entire directory
2672 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2673 * new video4linux access plug-in
2674 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2677 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2678 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2679 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2682 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2683 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2684 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2685 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2686 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2687 * new codec for raw I420 video
2688 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2691 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2692 (although it still misses some important features)
2693 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2696 * new HTTP output support
2697 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2698 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2701 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2704 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2707 * reorderable playlist
2708 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2709 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2710 * support for mono audio output devices
2711 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2712 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2713 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2714 * the messages window remembers more lines
2715 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2716 * http and ogg stream output options
2717 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2720 * new skinnable interface
2721 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2723 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2724 * support for FLAC audio format
2725 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2727 * network tab in the interface
2728 * "apply" handling in preferences
2731 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2732 ---------------------------------
2735 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2736 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2737 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2738 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2740 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2741 * DTS S/PDIF support
2744 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2745 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2746 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2747 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2750 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2751 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2754 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2757 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2760 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2762 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2763 * rc interface is now fully useable
2764 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2767 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2768 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2769 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2770 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2771 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2773 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2774 * support for mouse gestures
2775 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2778 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2779 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2782 * improved ID3 tag detection
2783 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2784 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2785 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2787 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2790 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2791 ---------------------------------
2794 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2795 English was set as the preferred language
2798 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2799 --------------------------------
2802 * new mouse gesture interface
2803 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2807 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2808 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2809 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2812 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2813 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2817 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2820 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2821 without the user consent
2824 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2826 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2827 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2828 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2831 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2832 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2833 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2834 * playlist enhancements
2835 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2836 * new step forward/step backward commands
2837 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2838 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2839 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2842 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2843 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2844 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2847 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2848 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2851 * native video output is working again
2852 * only commandline interface support
2853 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2856 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2857 --------------------------------
2860 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2861 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2862 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2863 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2864 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2865 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2866 and A/52 streams are supported)
2867 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2872 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2873 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2874 * VCD entry points support
2875 * VCD image file support
2878 * support for *.asf format
2879 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2880 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2881 * support for ogg encapsulation
2882 * support for raw DV format
2883 * support for *.wav format
2884 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2887 Stream discovery & playlists:
2888 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2889 * support for .m3u file format
2890 * support for .asx file format
2891 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2894 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2895 (only available with the .avi demux)
2896 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2897 * support for raw PCM data
2898 * support for Cinepak video codec
2899 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2900 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2901 * support for Xvid codec
2902 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2903 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2904 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2906 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2908 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2911 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2914 * new WxWindows interface
2915 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2916 device and the channels configuration
2917 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2918 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2919 format that VLC can play
2920 * new swedish translation
2921 * enhancements of the playlist window
2922 * new messages window to see debug info
2923 * fixed a few crashes
2926 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2927 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2928 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2929 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working