1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
64 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
65 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
66 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
67 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
68 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
71 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
72 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
73 * Ogg seeking improvements
74 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
75 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
76 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
77 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
80 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
81 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
82 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
83 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
84 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
85 and important cleanups and optimisations
86 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
87 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
88 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
89 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
90 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
91 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
92 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
93 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
94 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
95 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
96 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
99 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
100 * New video output for iOS platform
101 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
102 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
103 * Various vmem improvements
104 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
106 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
107 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
108 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
111 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
112 * New audio output in memory (amem)
113 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
114 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
115 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
118 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
119 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
120 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
121 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
122 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
123 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
124 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
125 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
126 * New anti-flickering filter
127 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
128 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
129 blackbox and customizable shadow
132 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
135 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
136 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
137 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
138 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
139 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
140 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
141 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
142 * Major rework of VoD support
143 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
144 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
145 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
146 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
147 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
148 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
149 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
150 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
151 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
154 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
155 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
158 * New capabilities for libVLC:
159 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
160 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
161 list of available audio and video filters
162 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
163 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
166 * asademux: use libass only
167 * subsass: use libass
168 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
169 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
171 * upnp: use upnp_intel
172 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
173 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
174 * removal of the noise filter
175 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
178 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
179 ----------------------------------
182 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
183 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
186 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
187 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
188 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
189 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
190 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
192 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
193 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
194 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
196 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
197 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
200 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
203 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
206 * Fix quitting on Linux
207 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
211 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
214 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
217 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
218 ---------------------------------
220 Windows and Mac OS X:
221 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
224 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
225 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
228 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
231 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
234 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
236 Miscellaneous fixes in:
237 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
239 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
240 * RTP output and XML export
241 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
245 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
246 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
247 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
248 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
251 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
252 --------------------------------
254 Windows and Mac OS X:
255 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
258 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
261 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
262 * Improve Apple Remote handling
263 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
264 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
265 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
266 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
269 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
270 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
274 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
275 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
276 * New Luganda Translation
279 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
280 --------------------------------
283 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
286 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
287 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
288 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
289 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
292 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
294 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
295 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
296 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
297 * mp4 demuxer improvements
298 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
299 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
300 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
301 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
303 Miscellaneous fixes in:
304 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
305 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
306 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
307 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
308 * Configure and build system improvements
309 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
312 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
313 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
314 * New icelandic translation
317 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
318 --------------------------------
321 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
325 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
326 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
327 and stability reasons
330 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
334 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
337 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
338 ----------------------------------
341 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
344 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
345 ---------------------------------
348 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
349 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
350 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
351 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
354 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
357 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
358 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
359 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
360 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
363 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
364 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
365 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
367 Subtitles and renderer:
368 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
369 * Mark more freetype options as safe
370 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
371 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
372 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
375 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
376 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
377 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
378 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
381 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
382 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
385 * KDE device solid actions
387 * Transcode integer overflow
388 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
389 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
392 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
393 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
394 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
397 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
398 ----------------------------------
401 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
405 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
408 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
411 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
412 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
413 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
414 * Taglib thread-safety fix
417 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
421 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
424 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
427 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
428 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
430 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
434 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
435 * Miscellaneous fixes
438 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
439 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
441 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
442 * New Asturian translation
445 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
446 ----------------------------------
449 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
451 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
454 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
457 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
458 * Various fixes for Windows
461 * New Armenian translation
462 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
463 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
466 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
467 --------------------------------
470 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
472 * Fix folders opening from the interface
475 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
476 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
479 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
480 --------------------------------
483 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
484 * fix for podcasts parsing
485 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
488 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
489 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
492 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
493 * fix m3u playlists exports
496 * fix video autoresize behaviour
499 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
502 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
505 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
508 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
511 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
512 --------------------------------
515 * Avformat fps displaying fix
516 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
519 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
520 of mono streams, especially on Windows
523 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
524 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
525 * fix console output encoding
527 Interface and extensions:
528 * Youtube and other scripts updates
529 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
532 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
533 --------------------------------
536 * New capabilities for libVLC:
537 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
538 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
539 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
540 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
541 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
542 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
543 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
544 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
545 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
546 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
547 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
548 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
549 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
550 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
551 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
555 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
556 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
557 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
558 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
559 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
562 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
565 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
566 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
567 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
571 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
574 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
575 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
576 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
579 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
580 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
581 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
582 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
585 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
586 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
589 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
590 --------------------------------
592 Important changes for users:
593 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
594 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
596 Important changes for packagers:
597 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
598 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
599 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
600 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
601 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
603 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
605 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
606 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
607 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
608 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
609 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
612 * Support for the sftp protocol
613 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
614 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
615 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
616 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
617 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
620 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
621 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
622 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
624 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
625 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
626 * Invmem module improvements
627 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
628 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
629 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
630 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
631 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
632 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
633 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
634 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
635 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
636 * Support for VP8 codec
637 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
640 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
641 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
642 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
643 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
644 * Various EGP improvements
645 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
646 * Metadata and cover art improvements
649 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
650 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
651 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
652 * Podcast images are now displayed
655 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
656 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
657 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
658 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
659 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
660 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
661 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
662 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
663 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
664 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
665 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
668 * New content extensions lua framework
671 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
672 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
673 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
674 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
675 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
676 * NEON assembly audio converter module
677 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
680 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
681 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
682 * Service discovery based on libudev
683 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
686 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
687 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
688 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
689 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
690 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
691 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
692 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
695 * New smem module, streaming to memory
696 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
697 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
700 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
702 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
703 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
706 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
709 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
710 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
711 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
712 by Andy Matuschak et al.
713 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
714 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
715 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
718 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
719 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
722 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
723 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
724 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
728 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
729 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
730 * Improved Solaris port
733 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
734 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
737 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
738 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
739 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
740 * transrate: broken since too long
741 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
742 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
743 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
744 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
745 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
746 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
747 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
748 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
749 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
750 * cddax: use cdda instead.
751 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
752 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
753 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
754 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
757 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
758 --------------------------------
761 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
763 Decoders/Packetizers:
764 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
767 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
768 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
769 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
770 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
771 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
774 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
775 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
778 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
779 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
782 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
783 and Walloon translations updated
784 * Sinhala translation started
787 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
788 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
791 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
792 --------------------------------
795 * SubRip extra styles improvements
796 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
799 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
802 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
803 increase performance and fix x264 issues
806 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
807 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
808 Russian, Slovak translation updates
809 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
812 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
813 --------------------------------
816 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
817 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
820 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
821 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
824 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
825 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
828 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
831 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
832 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
835 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
836 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
839 * New Walloon translation
840 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
843 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
844 --------------------------------
847 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
848 regressions in most popular drivers
849 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
852 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
853 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
854 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
857 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
858 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
861 * Update for appletrailers lua script
862 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
863 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
864 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
865 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
868 * New udev module for linux
871 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
874 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
877 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
878 --------------------------------
881 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
882 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
883 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
886 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
887 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
890 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
891 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
894 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
897 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
898 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
899 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
900 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
903 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
904 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
905 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
906 - no support for Goom and SDL
907 - limited text rendering support
908 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
911 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
912 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
913 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
914 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
915 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
916 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
917 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
918 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
919 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
923 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
926 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
929 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
930 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
931 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
932 Arabic and French translation updates
935 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
936 --------------------------------
939 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
940 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
941 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
942 * Fix Dailymotion access script
943 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
944 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
947 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
948 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
951 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
952 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
953 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
956 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
959 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
960 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
963 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
964 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
965 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
966 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
967 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
968 * Fix various crashes
971 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
973 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
976 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
977 ---------------------------------
981 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
982 See 'Access:' for more info.
983 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
986 * Instantaneous pausing
987 * Frame-by-Frame playback
988 * Finer speed control
989 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
990 * Timeshift for most medias
991 * RTSP trickplay support
992 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
995 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
996 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
997 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
998 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
999 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1000 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1001 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1002 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1003 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1004 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1007 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1008 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1009 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1010 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1011 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1012 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1013 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1016 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1017 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1020 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1021 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1022 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1023 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1024 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1025 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1026 * DVB scanning on linux
1027 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1028 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1029 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1030 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1031 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1032 * MTP device access on Unix
1033 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1034 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1037 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1038 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1039 Windows and Mac OS X.
1042 * Export the playlist in HTML
1043 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1044 * Better metadata handling and reading
1046 Linux/Windows interface:
1047 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1048 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1049 * Recently played items list
1050 * Interface toolbar customizations
1051 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1052 - More menus actions
1053 - Finer speed slider
1054 - Improvements on many dialogs
1055 - New dialog for plugins listing
1056 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1057 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1058 * Better integration in GTK environments
1061 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1062 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1063 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1064 * Additional usability improvements
1067 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1068 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1069 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1070 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1071 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1074 * New Maemo port with:
1075 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1076 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1079 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1082 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1083 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1084 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1085 * Support for latest iSight models
1088 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1089 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1092 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1093 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1094 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1095 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1096 The old image video output has been removed.
1097 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1098 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1101 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1109 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1110 --------------------------------------
1116 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1117 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1118 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1119 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1120 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1121 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1122 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1124 Various fixes to the following modules:
1127 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1128 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1129 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1131 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1136 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1137 ---------------------------------
1140 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1141 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1144 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1145 ---------------------------------
1148 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1151 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1154 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1155 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1156 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1157 main controller window.
1158 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1161 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1166 * Updates of other localizations
1169 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1170 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1171 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1172 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1173 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1176 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1177 ---------------------------------
1180 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1182 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1185 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1186 --------------------------------
1191 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1192 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1195 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1196 --------------------------------
1198 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1199 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1202 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1205 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1206 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1209 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1210 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1213 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1214 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1215 * Various fixed in playlist
1218 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1221 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1224 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1225 ------------------------------------
1227 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1228 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1231 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1232 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1233 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1236 * Stability fix for the video output.
1239 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1240 --------------------------------
1243 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1244 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1245 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1246 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1247 * Fixed update system bugs
1248 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1251 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1252 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1253 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1254 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1255 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1256 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1257 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1258 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1259 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1260 modern Mac OS X versions
1263 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1264 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1266 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1267 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1270 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1271 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1272 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1273 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1274 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1275 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1278 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1279 --------------------------------
1281 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1282 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1283 * Multiple bugfixes.
1286 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1287 --------------------------------
1289 * Multiple bug fixes.
1292 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1293 ---------------------------------
1297 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1298 recent to work correctly
1299 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1300 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1301 edit the ".hosts" file.
1302 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1303 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1304 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1305 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1306 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1307 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1308 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1309 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1310 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1311 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1312 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1313 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1314 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1315 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1316 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1317 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1318 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1319 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1320 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1321 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1322 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1323 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1324 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1325 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1326 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1327 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1328 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1329 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1330 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1331 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1332 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1333 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1334 and postproc modules.
1335 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1336 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1337 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1338 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1340 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1341 filter. For example:
1342 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1343 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1345 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1346 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1352 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1354 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1355 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1358 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1359 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1361 * Shoutcast TV listings
1362 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1364 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1365 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1367 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1370 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1371 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1372 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1373 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1374 * JACK audio input support
1375 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1376 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1377 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1378 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1379 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1380 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1381 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1382 (available as a separate download).
1383 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1384 * RTMP input support
1385 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1386 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1387 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1389 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1390 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1393 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1394 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1395 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1396 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1398 * APEv1/2 tags support
1399 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1400 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1402 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1403 * TiVo Series 2 support
1404 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1409 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1410 * Flash Screen Video support
1411 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1412 * DosBox Capture support
1413 * Karl Morton's Video support
1414 * limited atrac3 support
1416 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1417 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1418 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1419 * H.264 PAFF support
1420 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1421 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1422 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1423 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1424 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1427 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1428 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1429 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1430 * AQTitle subtitles support
1431 * MKV USF subtitles support
1432 * HTML-based subtitles support
1433 * MPSub subtitles support
1434 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1435 * MPL2 subtitles support
1436 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1437 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1438 * Realtext subtitle support
1439 * DKS subtitle support
1440 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1441 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1444 * Flash Screen Video support
1445 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1447 Video outputs and filters:
1448 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1449 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1450 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1451 * New puzzle video output filter
1452 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1453 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1455 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1456 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1457 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1458 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1459 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1460 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1461 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1462 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1463 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1464 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1465 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1466 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1467 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1468 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1470 Audio outputs and filters:
1471 * Replay gain support
1472 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1473 new scaletempo audio filter)
1474 * New spatializer audio filter
1475 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1478 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1479 * New RTP payload formats:
1480 * Speex voice audio codec
1481 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1482 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1483 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1484 * DCCP transport for RTP
1485 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1490 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1491 end-user suitable way.
1492 * Improved user interaction
1493 * Improved mouse gestures
1494 * Vastly improved Update checker
1495 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1497 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1498 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1500 * Improved video output features
1501 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1502 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1503 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1504 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1505 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1507 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1508 if libncursesw is available.
1509 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1510 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1511 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1513 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1514 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1515 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1516 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1517 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1518 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1519 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1520 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1523 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1524 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1525 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1528 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1529 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1530 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1531 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1532 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1533 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1536 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1537 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1547 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1548 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1549 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1552 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1553 ----------------------------------
1556 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1559 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1560 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1561 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1562 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1563 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1564 * Updated Polish translation
1567 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1568 ----------------------------------
1571 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1572 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1573 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1576 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1577 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1578 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1579 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1580 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1581 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1582 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1583 to an unexpected application termination
1584 * New Serbian translation
1585 * Updated Romanian translation
1588 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1589 ----------------------------------
1592 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1593 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1594 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1595 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1596 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1597 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1598 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1599 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1602 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1603 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1604 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1605 * Fixed AAC resampling
1606 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1607 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1610 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1611 ----------------------------------
1614 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1615 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1616 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1617 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1618 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1621 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1622 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1623 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1624 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1625 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1628 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1629 ----------------------------------
1632 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1633 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1636 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1637 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1638 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1639 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1641 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1645 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1648 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1651 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1654 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1657 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1658 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1659 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1660 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1661 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1663 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1664 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1665 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1666 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1669 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1672 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1673 ----------------------------------
1676 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1677 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1678 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1680 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1681 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1683 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1684 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1687 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1689 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1690 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1691 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1692 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1693 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1694 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1695 two different movies
1696 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1697 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1698 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1701 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1704 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1705 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1706 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1707 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1710 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1711 ----------------------------------
1713 Various bugfixes, notably:
1714 * Windows Vista compatibility
1715 * Cropping in Direct3D
1716 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1717 * RSS filter string overflow
1719 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1721 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1722 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1725 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1726 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1729 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1732 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1735 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1738 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1739 ----------------------------------
1741 Various bugfixes, notably:
1742 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1743 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1744 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1745 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1746 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1747 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1750 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1751 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1754 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1756 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1757 * Diverse usability improvements
1758 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1759 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1760 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1763 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1764 ---------------------------------
1766 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1767 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1770 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1773 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1774 --------------------------------
1777 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1780 * Support for RTSP authentication
1781 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1782 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1783 * ATSC support for DVB input
1784 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1785 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1786 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1789 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1790 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1791 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1792 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1793 * Matroska WavPack support
1794 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1795 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1796 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1799 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1800 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1801 * Improved libcaca support
1805 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1806 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1808 * Systray support in skins
1810 * Support for Apple Remote control
1811 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1812 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1813 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1814 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1816 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1819 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1820 Windows 9x/ME users:
1821 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1822 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1823 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1824 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1825 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1827 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1828 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1837 * Updates to the libvlc API
1838 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1841 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1842 --------------------------------
1845 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1846 * Support for downloading updates
1850 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1851 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1852 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1853 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1855 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1856 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1857 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1860 * Cook (Real audio) support
1862 Playlist / Services discovery:
1863 * XSPF playlist support
1865 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1868 * New JACK audio output
1871 * New video filters:
1872 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1873 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1874 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1875 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1876 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1877 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1880 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1883 * System to inform the user and request information
1884 - HTTP authentication
1888 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1889 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1890 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1893 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1894 - Improved playlist handling
1895 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1897 - Embedded Video output
1898 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1899 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1900 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1901 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1902 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1904 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1905 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1908 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1911 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1912 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1913 * Growl "Now playing" support
1916 * Ability to log to syslog
1917 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1920 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1922 * A bit more automatic testing
1925 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1926 ---------------------------------
1929 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1930 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1933 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1934 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1937 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1940 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1941 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1947 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1950 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1951 --------------------------------
1954 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1958 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1959 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1960 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1963 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1964 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1965 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1966 * GnomeVFS input module
1967 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1968 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1971 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1972 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1973 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1976 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1977 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1983 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1984 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1987 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1988 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1989 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1992 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1994 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1995 - New extended controls panel
1996 - New bookmarks window
1997 - Fixed playlist sorting
1998 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2000 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2001 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2002 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2003 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2007 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2008 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2010 - Include macro to include other files
2014 * Should now work outside IE as well
2017 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2020 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2021 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2024 The following languages were added:
2028 * Simplified Chinese
2029 The following languages were re-added:
2033 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2034 --------------------------------
2037 * Rewrite of the playlist
2039 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2040 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2041 * Preferences improvements:
2042 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2043 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2045 * Core image manipulation support
2046 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2047 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2048 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2049 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2050 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2051 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2052 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2053 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2054 * Access filter architecture
2055 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2056 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2060 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2061 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2062 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2063 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2064 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2065 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2066 * Massive Matroska improvements
2067 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2069 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2070 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2071 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2072 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2073 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2075 Decoders / Encoders:
2076 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2077 * PNG decoder/encoder
2078 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2079 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2082 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2085 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2086 * Brand new SAP module
2087 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2088 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2089 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2090 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2091 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2092 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2096 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2099 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2100 * Image file video output (png)
2101 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2102 * Improvements to wall video filter
2103 * Support for font color and opacity
2109 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2110 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2111 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2115 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2116 - Improved preferences
2117 - Improvements to the wizard
2118 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2120 - Redesigned playlist
2121 - Improved preferences
2123 - Support for multiple actions
2126 - Support for the new playlist system
2128 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2131 * Screensaver disabling fix
2132 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2133 * Support for no-decoration windows
2136 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2137 * The OpenGL video output is back
2138 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2139 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2140 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2141 is not yet available in the new module
2142 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2145 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2154 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2157 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2160 The following languages were added:
2166 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2167 --------------------------------
2170 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2171 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2174 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2175 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2176 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2179 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2182 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2185 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2188 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2189 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2190 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2194 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2196 * Support of playlist group announcement
2199 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2200 --------------------------------
2203 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2204 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2205 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2206 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2207 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2208 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2211 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2212 (Stream your desktop)
2213 * Improved DVD support:
2214 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2215 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2216 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2217 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2218 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2219 (selection of titles/chapters).
2222 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2223 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2224 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2225 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2226 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2227 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2228 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2229 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2230 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2231 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2234 * G.726 audio support
2235 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2236 * MPEG-4 text support
2237 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2238 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2239 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2243 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2244 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2245 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2246 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2247 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2248 * DVB subtitles encoder
2249 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2250 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2252 * Text track muxing for mp4
2253 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2254 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2255 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2256 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2257 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2258 * Improved ASF muxer
2260 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2261 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2262 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2265 * New audio equalizer filter
2266 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2267 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2268 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2269 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2272 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2273 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2274 with support for effects.
2275 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2276 - New filters can be streamed.
2277 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2278 - Centralized scaling and blending
2280 - "time", to display current time
2281 - "marq", to display a marquee
2284 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2285 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2286 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2287 * A few skins2 improvements
2288 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2289 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2290 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2291 * Improved CORBA control module
2294 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2295 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2296 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2299 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2300 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2301 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2304 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2305 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2306 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2307 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2308 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2311 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2314 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2315 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2318 * Server/client network synchronization module
2319 * VBrick streams fully supported
2320 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2324 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2329 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2330 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2331 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2334 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2335 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2336 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2337 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2338 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2339 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2340 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2343 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2344 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2345 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2346 * Improved directory access module.
2347 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2348 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2349 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2350 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2351 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2354 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2355 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2356 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2359 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2360 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2361 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2364 * Improved session announcement system.
2365 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2366 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2367 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2368 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2369 * Improved transrater.
2370 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2371 * New configuration system.
2372 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2375 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2376 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2377 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2378 * Supports scheduling.
2379 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2380 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2383 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2384 - Ability to embed video output.
2385 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2386 - Lots of improvements.
2387 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2388 - New design and set of icons.
2389 - Ability to embed video output.
2390 - Support for hotkeys.
2391 - Support for bookmarks.
2393 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2394 - Better hotkeys handling.
2397 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2398 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2399 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2400 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2403 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2404 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2405 * Improved Windows installer.
2411 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2412 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2415 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2416 ---------------------------------
2419 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2420 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2423 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2424 --------------------------------
2427 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2428 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2431 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2432 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2433 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2434 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2437 * Internal improvments
2438 * Improved import/export
2441 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2443 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2444 small and strange formats.
2446 * New MOD audio demux.
2447 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2448 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2449 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2450 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2453 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2454 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2455 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2461 * New opengl video output plugin.
2464 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2465 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2468 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2469 --------------------------------
2472 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2473 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2474 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2475 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2476 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2477 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2478 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2479 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2482 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2487 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2488 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2489 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2490 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2491 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2492 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2493 * Better Icecast support.
2494 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2495 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2498 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2499 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2500 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2501 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2502 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2503 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2504 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2507 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2508 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2509 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2510 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2511 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2512 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2513 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2514 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2515 * Preliminary RTP support.
2516 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2521 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2522 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2524 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2525 - Improvements and help in preferences
2526 - New streaming wizard
2527 - Revised Disc Open menu
2529 - Improvements of the standard pages
2530 - Support for new commands
2531 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2534 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2535 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2538 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2539 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2540 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2541 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2542 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2543 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2544 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2545 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2546 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2549 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2551 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2552 * Support for Panther.
2553 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2554 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2557 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2558 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2559 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2560 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2561 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2562 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2563 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2564 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2567 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2568 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2569 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2572 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2575 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2576 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2577 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2578 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2581 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2582 --------------------------------
2585 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2588 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2589 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2592 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2593 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2596 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2599 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2600 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2603 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2606 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2609 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2610 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2614 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2615 --------------------------------
2618 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2619 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2623 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2624 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2625 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2627 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2628 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2631 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2634 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2637 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2638 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2642 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2643 --------------------------------
2646 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2647 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2651 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2652 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2653 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2654 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2655 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2658 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2659 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2660 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2663 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2664 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2665 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2668 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2669 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2670 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2671 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2672 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2675 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2676 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2677 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2680 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2683 * Improved build system.
2684 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2685 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2686 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2687 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2690 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2691 --------------------------------
2694 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2697 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2698 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2699 * Video 4 Linux support
2700 * CD Digital Audio support
2701 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2704 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2705 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2706 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2707 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2710 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2711 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2712 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2713 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2714 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2715 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2716 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2719 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2720 * New HTTP remote control interface
2723 * 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.
2724 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2725 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2726 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2729 * New reset option for the preferences
2730 * You can set your language in the prefences
2731 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2732 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2733 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2734 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2737 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2738 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2739 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2742 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2743 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2744 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2745 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2746 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2747 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2748 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2749 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2750 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2751 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2754 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2755 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2756 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2757 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2758 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2759 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2760 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2763 * Interface localization
2764 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2765 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2766 * New full-featured Preferences window
2769 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2770 --------------------------------
2773 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2774 * support for skins at the interface level
2775 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2776 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2777 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2778 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2779 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2782 * fixed HTTP redirects
2783 * support for opening an entire directory
2784 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2785 * new video4linux access plug-in
2786 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2789 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2790 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2791 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2794 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2795 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2796 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2797 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2798 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2799 * new codec for raw I420 video
2800 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2803 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2804 (although it still misses some important features)
2805 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2808 * new HTTP output support
2809 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2810 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2813 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2816 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2819 * reorderable playlist
2820 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2821 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2822 * support for mono audio output devices
2823 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2824 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2825 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2826 * the messages window remembers more lines
2827 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2828 * http and ogg stream output options
2829 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2832 * new skinnable interface
2833 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2835 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2836 * support for FLAC audio format
2837 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2839 * network tab in the interface
2840 * "apply" handling in preferences
2843 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2844 ---------------------------------
2847 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2848 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2849 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2850 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2852 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2853 * DTS S/PDIF support
2856 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2857 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2858 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2859 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2862 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2863 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2866 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2869 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2872 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2874 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2875 * rc interface is now fully useable
2876 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2879 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2880 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2881 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2882 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2883 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2885 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2886 * support for mouse gestures
2887 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2890 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2891 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2894 * improved ID3 tag detection
2895 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2896 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2897 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2899 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2902 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2903 ---------------------------------
2906 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2907 English was set as the preferred language
2910 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2911 --------------------------------
2914 * new mouse gesture interface
2915 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2919 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2920 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2921 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2924 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2925 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2929 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2932 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2933 without the user consent
2936 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2938 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2939 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2940 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2943 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2944 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2945 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2946 * playlist enhancements
2947 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2948 * new step forward/step backward commands
2949 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2950 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2951 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2954 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2955 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2956 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2959 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2960 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2963 * native video output is working again
2964 * only commandline interface support
2965 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2968 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2969 --------------------------------
2972 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2973 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2974 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2975 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2976 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2977 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2978 and A/52 streams are supported)
2979 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2984 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2985 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2986 * VCD entry points support
2987 * VCD image file support
2990 * support for *.asf format
2991 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2992 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2993 * support for ogg encapsulation
2994 * support for raw DV format
2995 * support for *.wav format
2996 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2999 Stream discovery & playlists:
3000 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3001 * support for .m3u file format
3002 * support for .asx file format
3003 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3006 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3007 (only available with the .avi demux)
3008 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3009 * support for raw PCM data
3010 * support for Cinepak video codec
3011 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3012 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3013 * support for Xvid codec
3014 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3015 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3016 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3018 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3020 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3023 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3026 * new WxWindows interface
3027 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3028 device and the channels configuration
3029 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3030 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3031 format that VLC can play
3032 * new swedish translation
3033 * enhancements of the playlist window
3034 * new messages window to see debug info
3035 * fixed a few crashes
3038 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3039 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3040 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3041 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working