1 Changes between 1.1.7 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 .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
21 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
22 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
23 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
24 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
25 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
26 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
27 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
30 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
31 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
32 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
33 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
34 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
39 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
42 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
43 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
44 * Ogg seeking improvements
45 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
48 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
49 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
50 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
51 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
52 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
53 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
54 and important cleanups and optimisations
55 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
58 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
59 * New video output for iOS platform
60 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
61 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
62 * Various vmem improvements
65 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
66 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
67 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
68 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
69 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
72 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
75 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
78 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
79 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
80 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
81 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
82 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
83 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
84 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
85 * Major rework of VoD support
86 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
87 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
88 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
89 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
90 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
91 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
92 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
93 Here is an VLM example on how to use it (see Mic input):
94 # VLC media player VLM command batch
95 # http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
98 new ts broadcast enabled
99 setup ts input "file:///<path_to_some_file_to_play>"
100 setup ts output #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
104 new mic broadcast enabled
105 setup mic input "alsa://"
106 setup mic output #transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=127.0.0.1:1234}
114 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
117 * New capabilities for libVLC:
118 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
119 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
120 list of available audio and video filters
123 * asademux: use libass only
124 * fake: use the new image demuxers
125 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
127 * upnp: use upnp_intel
130 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
131 --------------------------------
134 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
138 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
139 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
140 and stability reasons
143 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
147 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
150 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
151 ----------------------------------
154 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
157 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
158 ---------------------------------
161 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
162 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
163 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
164 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
167 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
170 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
171 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
172 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
173 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
176 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
177 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
178 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
180 Subtitles and renderer:
181 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
182 * Mark more freetype options as safe
183 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
184 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
185 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
188 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
189 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
190 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
191 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
194 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
195 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
198 * KDE device solid actions
200 * Transcode integer overflow
201 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
202 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
205 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
206 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
207 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
210 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
211 ----------------------------------
214 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
218 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
221 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
224 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
225 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
226 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
227 * Taglib thread-safety fix
230 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
234 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
237 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
240 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
241 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
243 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
247 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
248 * Miscellaneous fixes
251 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
252 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
254 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
255 * New Asturian translation
258 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
259 ----------------------------------
262 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
264 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
267 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
270 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
271 * Various fixes for Windows
274 * New Armenian translation
275 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
276 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
279 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
280 --------------------------------
283 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
285 * Fix folders opening from the interface
288 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
289 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
292 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
293 --------------------------------
296 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
297 * fix for podcasts parsing
298 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
301 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
302 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
305 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
306 * fix m3u playlists exports
309 * fix video autoresize behaviour
312 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
315 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
318 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
321 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
324 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
325 --------------------------------
328 * Avformat fps displaying fix
329 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
332 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
333 of mono streams, especially on Windows
336 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
337 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
338 * fix console output encoding
340 Interface and extensions:
341 * Youtube and other scripts updates
342 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
345 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
346 --------------------------------
349 * New capabilities for libVLC:
350 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
351 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
352 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
353 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
354 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
355 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
356 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
357 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
358 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
359 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
360 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
361 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
362 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
363 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
364 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
368 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
369 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
370 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
371 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
372 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
375 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
378 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
379 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
380 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
384 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
387 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
388 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
389 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
392 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
393 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
394 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
395 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
398 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
399 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
402 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
403 --------------------------------
405 Important changes for users:
406 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
407 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
409 Important changes for packagers:
410 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
411 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
412 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
413 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
414 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
416 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
418 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
419 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
420 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
421 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
422 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
425 * Support for the sftp protocol
426 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
427 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
428 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
429 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
430 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
433 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
434 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
435 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
437 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
438 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
439 * Invmem module improvements
440 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
441 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
442 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
443 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
444 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
445 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
446 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
447 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
448 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
449 * Support for VP8 codec
450 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
453 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
454 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
455 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
456 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
457 * Various EGP improvements
458 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
459 * Metadata and cover art improvements
462 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
463 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
464 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
465 * Podcast images are now displayed
468 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
469 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
470 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
471 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
472 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
473 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
474 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
475 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
476 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
477 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
478 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
481 * New content extensions lua framework
484 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
485 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
486 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
487 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
488 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
489 * NEON assembly audio converter module
490 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
493 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
494 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
495 * Service discovery based on libudev
496 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
499 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
500 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
501 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
502 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
503 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
504 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
505 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
508 * New smem module, streaming to memory
509 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
510 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
513 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
515 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
516 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
519 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
522 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
523 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
524 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
525 by Andy Matuschak et al.
526 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
527 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
528 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
531 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
532 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
535 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
536 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
537 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
541 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
542 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
543 * Improved Solaris port
546 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
547 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
550 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
551 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
552 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
553 * transrate: broken since too long
554 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
555 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
556 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
557 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
558 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
559 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
560 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
561 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
562 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
563 * cddax: use cdda instead.
564 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
565 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
566 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
567 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
570 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
571 --------------------------------
574 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
576 Decoders/Packetizers:
577 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
580 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
581 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
582 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
583 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
584 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
587 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
588 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
591 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
592 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
595 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
596 and Walloon translations updated
597 * Sinhala translation started
600 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
601 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
604 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
605 --------------------------------
608 * SubRip extra styles improvements
609 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
612 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
615 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
616 increase performance and fix x264 issues
619 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
620 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
621 Russian, Slovak translation updates
622 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
625 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
626 --------------------------------
629 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
630 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
633 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
634 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
637 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
638 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
641 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
644 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
645 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
648 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
649 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
652 * New Walloon translation
653 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
656 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
657 --------------------------------
660 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
661 regressions in most popular drivers
662 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
665 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
666 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
667 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
670 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
671 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
674 * Update for appletrailers lua script
675 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
676 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
677 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
678 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
681 * New udev module for linux
684 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
687 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
690 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
691 --------------------------------
694 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
695 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
696 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
699 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
700 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
703 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
704 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
707 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
710 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
711 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
712 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
713 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
716 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
717 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
718 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
719 - no support for Goom and SDL
720 - limited text rendering support
721 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
724 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
725 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
726 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
727 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
728 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
729 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
730 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
731 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
732 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
736 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
739 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
742 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
743 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
744 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
745 Arabic and French translation updates
748 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
749 --------------------------------
752 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
753 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
754 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
755 * Fix Dailymotion access script
756 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
757 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
760 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
761 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
764 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
765 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
766 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
769 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
772 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
773 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
776 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
777 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
778 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
779 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
780 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
781 * Fix various crashes
784 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
786 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
789 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
790 ---------------------------------
794 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
795 See 'Access:' for more info.
796 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
799 * Instantaneous pausing
800 * Frame-by-Frame playback
801 * Finer speed control
802 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
803 * Timeshift for most medias
804 * RTSP trickplay support
805 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
808 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
809 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
810 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
811 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
812 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
813 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
814 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
815 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
816 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
817 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
820 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
821 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
822 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
823 * Metadata for mod files are supported
824 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
825 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
826 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
829 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
830 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
833 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
834 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
835 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
836 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
837 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
838 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
839 * DVB scanning on linux
840 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
841 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
842 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
843 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
844 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
845 * MTP device access on Unix
846 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
847 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
850 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
851 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
852 Windows and Mac OS X.
855 * Export the playlist in HTML
856 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
857 * Better metadata handling and reading
859 Linux/Windows interface:
860 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
861 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
862 * Recently played items list
863 * Interface toolbar customizations
864 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
867 - Improvements on many dialogs
868 - New dialog for plugins listing
869 - Fixed-size mode for videos
870 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
871 * Better integration in GTK environments
874 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
875 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
876 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
877 * Additional usability improvements
880 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
881 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
882 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
883 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
884 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
887 * New Maemo port with:
888 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
889 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
892 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
895 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
896 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
897 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
898 * Support for latest iSight models
901 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
902 * Surround support for PulseAudio
905 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
906 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
907 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
908 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
909 The old image video output has been removed.
910 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
911 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
914 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
922 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
923 --------------------------------------
929 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
930 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
931 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
932 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
933 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
934 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
935 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
937 Various fixes to the following modules:
940 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
941 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
944 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
949 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
950 ---------------------------------
953 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
954 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
957 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
958 ---------------------------------
961 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
964 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
967 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
968 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
969 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
970 main controller window.
971 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
974 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
979 * Updates of other localizations
982 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
983 * Lots of small bugfixes.
984 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
985 * Telnet fixes on Windows
986 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
989 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
990 ---------------------------------
993 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
995 Bunch of small bugfixes.
998 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
999 --------------------------------
1004 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1005 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1008 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1009 --------------------------------
1011 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1012 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1015 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1018 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1019 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1022 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1023 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1026 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1027 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1028 * Various fixed in playlist
1031 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1034 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1037 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1038 ------------------------------------
1040 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1041 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1044 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1045 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1046 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1049 * Stability fix for the video output.
1052 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1053 --------------------------------
1056 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1057 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1058 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1059 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1060 * Fixed update system bugs
1061 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1064 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1065 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1066 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1067 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1068 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1069 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1070 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1071 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1072 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1073 modern Mac OS X versions
1076 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1077 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1079 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1080 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1083 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1084 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1085 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1086 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1087 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1088 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1091 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1092 --------------------------------
1094 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1095 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1096 * Multiple bugfixes.
1099 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1100 --------------------------------
1102 * Multiple bug fixes.
1105 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1106 ---------------------------------
1110 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1111 recent to work correctly
1112 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1113 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1114 edit the ".hosts" file.
1115 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1116 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1117 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1118 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1119 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1120 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1121 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1122 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1123 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1124 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1125 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1126 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1127 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1128 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1129 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1130 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1131 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1132 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1133 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1134 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1135 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1136 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1137 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1138 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1139 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1140 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1141 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1142 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1143 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1144 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1145 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1146 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1147 and postproc modules.
1148 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1149 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1150 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1151 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1153 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1154 filter. For example:
1155 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1156 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1158 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1159 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1165 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1167 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1168 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1171 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1172 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1174 * Shoutcast TV listings
1175 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1177 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1178 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1180 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1183 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1184 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1185 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1186 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1187 * JACK audio input support
1188 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1189 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1190 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1191 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1192 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1193 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1194 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1195 (available as a separate download).
1196 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1197 * RTMP input support
1198 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1199 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1200 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1202 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1203 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1206 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1207 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1208 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1209 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1211 * APEv1/2 tags support
1212 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1213 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1215 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1216 * TiVo Series 2 support
1217 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1222 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1223 * Flash Screen Video support
1224 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1225 * DosBox Capture support
1226 * Karl Morton's Video support
1227 * limited atrac3 support
1229 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1230 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1231 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1232 * H.264 PAFF support
1233 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1234 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1235 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1236 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1237 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1240 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1241 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1242 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1243 * AQTitle subtitles support
1244 * MKV USF subtitles support
1245 * HTML-based subtitles support
1246 * MPSub subtitles support
1247 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1248 * MPL2 subtitles support
1249 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1250 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1251 * Realtext subtitle support
1252 * DKS subtitle support
1253 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1254 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1257 * Flash Screen Video support
1258 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1260 Video outputs and filters:
1261 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1262 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1263 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1264 * New puzzle video output filter
1265 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1266 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1268 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1269 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1270 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1271 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1272 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1273 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1274 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1275 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1276 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1277 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1278 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1279 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1280 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1281 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1283 Audio outputs and filters:
1284 * Replay gain support
1285 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1286 new scaletempo audio filter)
1287 * New spatializer audio filter
1288 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1291 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1292 * New RTP payload formats:
1293 * Speex voice audio codec
1294 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1295 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1296 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1297 * DCCP transport for RTP
1298 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1303 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1304 end-user suitable way.
1305 * Improved user interaction
1306 * Improved mouse gestures
1307 * Vastly improved Update checker
1308 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1310 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1311 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1313 * Improved video output features
1314 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1315 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1316 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1317 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1318 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1320 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1321 if libncursesw is available.
1322 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1323 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1324 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1326 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1327 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1328 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1329 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1330 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1331 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1332 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1333 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1336 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1337 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1338 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1341 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1342 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1343 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1344 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1345 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1346 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1349 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1350 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1360 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1361 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1362 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1365 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1366 ----------------------------------
1369 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1372 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1373 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1374 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1375 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1376 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1377 * Updated Polish translation
1380 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1381 ----------------------------------
1384 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1385 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1386 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1389 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1390 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1391 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1392 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1393 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1394 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1395 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1396 to an unexpected application termination
1397 * New Serbian translation
1398 * Updated Romanian translation
1401 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1402 ----------------------------------
1405 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1406 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1407 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1408 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1409 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1410 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1411 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1412 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1415 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1416 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1417 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1418 * Fixed AAC resampling
1419 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1420 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1423 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1424 ----------------------------------
1427 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1428 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1429 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1430 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1431 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1434 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1435 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1436 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1437 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1438 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1441 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1442 ----------------------------------
1445 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1446 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1449 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1450 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1451 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1452 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1454 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1458 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1461 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1464 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1467 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1470 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1471 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1472 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1473 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1474 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1476 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1477 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1478 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1479 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1482 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1485 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1486 ----------------------------------
1489 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1490 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1491 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1493 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1494 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1496 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1497 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1500 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1502 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1503 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1504 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1505 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1506 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1507 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1508 two different movies
1509 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1510 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1511 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1514 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1517 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1518 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1519 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1520 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1523 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1524 ----------------------------------
1526 Various bugfixes, notably:
1527 * Windows Vista compatibility
1528 * Cropping in Direct3D
1529 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1530 * RSS filter string overflow
1532 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1534 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1535 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1538 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1539 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1542 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1545 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1548 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1551 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1552 ----------------------------------
1554 Various bugfixes, notably:
1555 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1556 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1557 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1558 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1559 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1560 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1563 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1564 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1567 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1569 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1570 * Diverse usability improvements
1571 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1572 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1573 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1576 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1577 ---------------------------------
1579 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1580 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1583 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1586 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1587 --------------------------------
1590 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1593 * Support for RTSP authentication
1594 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1595 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1596 * ATSC support for DVB input
1597 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1598 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1599 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1602 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1603 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1604 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1605 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1606 * Matroska WavPack support
1607 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1608 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1609 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1612 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1613 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1614 * Improved libcaca support
1618 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1619 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1621 * Systray support in skins
1623 * Support for Apple Remote control
1624 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1625 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1626 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1627 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1629 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1632 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1633 Windows 9x/ME users:
1634 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1635 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1636 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1637 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1638 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1640 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1641 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1650 * Updates to the libvlc API
1651 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1654 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1655 --------------------------------
1658 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1659 * Support for downloading updates
1663 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1664 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1665 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1666 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1668 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1669 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1670 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1673 * Cook (Real audio) support
1675 Playlist / Services discovery:
1676 * XSPF playlist support
1678 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1681 * New JACK audio output
1684 * New video filters:
1685 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1686 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1687 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1688 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1689 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1690 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1693 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1696 * System to inform the user and request information
1697 - HTTP authentication
1701 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1702 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1703 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1706 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1707 - Improved playlist handling
1708 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1710 - Embedded Video output
1711 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1712 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1713 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1714 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1715 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1717 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1718 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1721 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1724 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1725 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1726 * Growl "Now playing" support
1729 * Ability to log to syslog
1730 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1733 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1735 * A bit more automatic testing
1738 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1739 ---------------------------------
1742 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1743 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1746 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1747 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1750 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1753 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1754 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1760 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1763 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1764 --------------------------------
1767 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1771 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1772 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1773 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1776 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1777 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1778 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1779 * GnomeVFS input module
1780 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1781 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1784 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1785 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1786 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1789 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1790 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1796 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1797 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1800 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1801 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1802 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1805 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1807 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1808 - New extended controls panel
1809 - New bookmarks window
1810 - Fixed playlist sorting
1811 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1813 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1814 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1815 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1816 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1820 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1821 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1823 - Include macro to include other files
1827 * Should now work outside IE as well
1830 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1833 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1834 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1837 The following languages were added:
1841 * Simplified Chinese
1842 The following languages were re-added:
1846 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1847 --------------------------------
1850 * Rewrite of the playlist
1852 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1853 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1854 * Preferences improvements:
1855 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1856 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1858 * Core image manipulation support
1859 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1860 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1861 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1862 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1863 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1864 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1865 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1866 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1867 * Access filter architecture
1868 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1869 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1873 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1874 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1875 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1876 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1877 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1878 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1879 * Massive Matroska improvements
1880 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1882 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1883 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1884 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1885 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1886 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1888 Decoders / Encoders:
1889 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1890 * PNG decoder/encoder
1891 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1892 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1895 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1898 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1899 * Brand new SAP module
1900 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1901 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1902 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1903 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1904 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1905 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1909 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1912 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1913 * Image file video output (png)
1914 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1915 * Improvements to wall video filter
1916 * Support for font color and opacity
1922 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1923 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1924 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1928 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1929 - Improved preferences
1930 - Improvements to the wizard
1931 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1933 - Redesigned playlist
1934 - Improved preferences
1936 - Support for multiple actions
1939 - Support for the new playlist system
1941 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1944 * Screensaver disabling fix
1945 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1946 * Support for no-decoration windows
1949 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1950 * The OpenGL video output is back
1951 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1952 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1953 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1954 is not yet available in the new module
1955 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1958 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1967 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1970 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1973 The following languages were added:
1979 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1980 --------------------------------
1983 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1984 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1987 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1988 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1989 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1992 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1995 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1998 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2001 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2002 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2003 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2007 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2009 * Support of playlist group announcement
2012 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2013 --------------------------------
2016 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2017 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2018 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2019 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2020 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2021 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2024 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2025 (Stream your desktop)
2026 * Improved DVD support:
2027 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2028 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2029 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2030 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2031 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2032 (selection of titles/chapters).
2035 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2036 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2037 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2038 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2039 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2040 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2041 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2042 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2043 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2044 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2047 * G.726 audio support
2048 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2049 * MPEG-4 text support
2050 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2051 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2052 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2056 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2057 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2058 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2059 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2060 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2061 * DVB subtitles encoder
2062 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2063 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2065 * Text track muxing for mp4
2066 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2067 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2068 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2069 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2070 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2071 * Improved ASF muxer
2073 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2074 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2075 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2078 * New audio equalizer filter
2079 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2080 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2081 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2082 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2085 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2086 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2087 with support for effects.
2088 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2089 - New filters can be streamed.
2090 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2091 - Centralized scaling and blending
2093 - "time", to display current time
2094 - "marq", to display a marquee
2097 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2098 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2099 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2100 * A few skins2 improvements
2101 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2102 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2103 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2104 * Improved CORBA control module
2107 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2108 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2109 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2112 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2113 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2114 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2117 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2118 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2119 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2120 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2121 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2124 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2127 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2128 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2131 * Server/client network synchronization module
2132 * VBrick streams fully supported
2133 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2137 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2138 --------------------------------
2141 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2142 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2143 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2144 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2147 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2148 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2149 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2150 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2151 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2152 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2153 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2156 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2157 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2158 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2159 * Improved directory access module.
2160 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2161 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2162 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2163 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2164 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2167 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2168 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2169 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2172 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2173 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2174 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2177 * Improved session announcement system.
2178 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2179 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2180 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2181 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2182 * Improved transrater.
2183 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2184 * New configuration system.
2185 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2188 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2189 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2190 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2191 * Supports scheduling.
2192 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2193 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2196 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2197 - Ability to embed video output.
2198 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2199 - Lots of improvements.
2200 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2201 - New design and set of icons.
2202 - Ability to embed video output.
2203 - Support for hotkeys.
2204 - Support for bookmarks.
2206 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2207 - Better hotkeys handling.
2210 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2211 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2212 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2213 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2216 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2217 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2218 * Improved Windows installer.
2224 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2225 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2228 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2229 ---------------------------------
2232 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2233 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2236 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2237 --------------------------------
2240 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2241 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2244 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2245 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2246 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2247 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2250 * Internal improvments
2251 * Improved import/export
2254 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2256 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2257 small and strange formats.
2259 * New MOD audio demux.
2260 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2261 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2262 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2263 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2266 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2267 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2268 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2274 * New opengl video output plugin.
2277 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2278 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2281 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2282 --------------------------------
2285 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2286 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2287 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2288 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2289 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2290 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2291 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2292 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2295 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2300 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2301 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2302 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2303 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2304 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2305 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2306 * Better Icecast support.
2307 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2308 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2311 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2312 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2313 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2314 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2315 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2316 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2317 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2320 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2321 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2322 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2323 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2324 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2325 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2326 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2327 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2328 * Preliminary RTP support.
2329 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2334 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2335 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2337 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2338 - Improvements and help in preferences
2339 - New streaming wizard
2340 - Revised Disc Open menu
2342 - Improvements of the standard pages
2343 - Support for new commands
2344 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2347 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2348 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2351 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2352 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2353 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2354 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2355 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2356 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2357 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2358 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2359 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2362 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2364 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2365 * Support for Panther.
2366 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2367 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2370 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2371 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2372 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2373 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2374 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2375 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2376 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2377 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2380 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2381 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2382 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2385 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2388 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2389 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2390 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2391 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2394 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2395 --------------------------------
2398 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2401 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2402 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2405 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2406 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2409 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2412 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2413 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2416 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2419 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2422 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2423 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2427 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2428 --------------------------------
2431 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2432 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2436 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2437 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2438 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2440 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2441 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2444 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2447 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2450 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2451 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2455 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2456 --------------------------------
2459 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2460 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2464 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2465 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2466 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2467 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2468 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2471 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2472 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2473 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2476 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2477 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2478 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2481 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2482 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2483 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2484 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2485 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2488 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2489 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2490 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2493 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2496 * Improved build system.
2497 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2498 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2499 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2500 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2503 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2504 --------------------------------
2507 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2510 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2511 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2512 * Video 4 Linux support
2513 * CD Digital Audio support
2514 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2517 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2518 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2519 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2520 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2523 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2524 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2525 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2526 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2527 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2528 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2529 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2532 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2533 * New HTTP remote control interface
2536 * 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.
2537 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2538 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2539 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2542 * New reset option for the preferences
2543 * You can set your language in the prefences
2544 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2545 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2546 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2547 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2550 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2551 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2552 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2555 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2556 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2557 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2558 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2559 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2560 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2561 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2562 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2563 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2564 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2567 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2568 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2569 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2570 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2571 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2572 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2573 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2576 * Interface localization
2577 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2578 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2579 * New full-featured Preferences window
2582 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2583 --------------------------------
2586 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2587 * support for skins at the interface level
2588 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2589 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2590 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2591 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2592 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2595 * fixed HTTP redirects
2596 * support for opening an entire directory
2597 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2598 * new video4linux access plug-in
2599 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2602 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2603 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2604 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2607 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2608 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2609 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2610 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2611 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2612 * new codec for raw I420 video
2613 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2616 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2617 (although it still misses some important features)
2618 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2621 * new HTTP output support
2622 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2623 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2626 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2629 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2632 * reorderable playlist
2633 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2634 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2635 * support for mono audio output devices
2636 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2637 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2638 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2639 * the messages window remembers more lines
2640 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2641 * http and ogg stream output options
2642 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2645 * new skinnable interface
2646 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2648 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2649 * support for FLAC audio format
2650 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2652 * network tab in the interface
2653 * "apply" handling in preferences
2656 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2657 ---------------------------------
2660 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2661 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2662 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2663 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2665 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2666 * DTS S/PDIF support
2669 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2670 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2671 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2672 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2675 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2676 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2679 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2682 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2685 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2687 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2688 * rc interface is now fully useable
2689 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2692 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2693 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2694 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2695 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2696 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2698 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2699 * support for mouse gestures
2700 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2703 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2704 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2707 * improved ID3 tag detection
2708 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2709 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2710 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2712 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2715 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2716 ---------------------------------
2719 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2720 English was set as the preferred language
2723 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2724 --------------------------------
2727 * new mouse gesture interface
2728 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2732 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2733 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2734 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2737 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2738 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2742 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2745 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2746 without the user consent
2749 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2751 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2752 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2753 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2756 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2757 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2758 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2759 * playlist enhancements
2760 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2761 * new step forward/step backward commands
2762 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2763 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2764 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2767 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2768 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2769 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2772 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2773 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2776 * native video output is working again
2777 * only commandline interface support
2778 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2781 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2782 --------------------------------
2785 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2786 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2787 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2788 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2789 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2790 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2791 and A/52 streams are supported)
2792 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2797 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2798 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2799 * VCD entry points support
2800 * VCD image file support
2803 * support for *.asf format
2804 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2805 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2806 * support for ogg encapsulation
2807 * support for raw DV format
2808 * support for *.wav format
2809 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2812 Stream discovery & playlists:
2813 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2814 * support for .m3u file format
2815 * support for .asx file format
2816 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2819 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2820 (only available with the .avi demux)
2821 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2822 * support for raw PCM data
2823 * support for Cinepak video codec
2824 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2825 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2826 * support for Xvid codec
2827 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2828 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2829 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2831 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2833 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2836 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2839 * new WxWindows interface
2840 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2841 device and the channels configuration
2842 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2843 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2844 format that VLC can play
2845 * new swedish translation
2846 * enhancements of the playlist window
2847 * new messages window to see debug info
2848 * fixed a few crashes
2851 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2852 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2853 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2854 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working