1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
45 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
48 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
49 * Wayland shell surface window provider
50 * Wayland shared memory video output
51 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
52 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
53 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
56 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
57 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
60 * Chromecast output module
61 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
64 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
67 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
68 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
72 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
75 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
76 * Port to Yosemite X.10
79 * Batch convert support
82 * Support key accelerators
85 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
86 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
87 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
88 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
89 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
90 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
91 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
92 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
93 identifier (if there is one available)
96 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
97 --------------------------------
100 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
101 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
104 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
105 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
106 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
107 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
110 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
111 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
112 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
113 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
115 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
116 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
119 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
120 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
121 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
122 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
123 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
124 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
125 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
126 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
127 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
128 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
129 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
130 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
131 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
132 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
133 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
134 * New jpeg image decoder
135 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
136 * New SVG image decoder
137 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
138 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
139 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
142 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
143 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
144 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
145 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
146 * New png image encoder using libpng
149 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
150 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
151 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
152 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
153 synchronization and tracks exclusion
154 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
155 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
156 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
157 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
158 * Support Opus in MKV
160 * Basic support for WebVTT
161 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
162 * Support HDPR TS files
163 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
164 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
165 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
166 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
167 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
168 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
169 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
170 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
171 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
172 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
173 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
174 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
177 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
178 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
179 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
180 * New Android native window provider module
181 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
182 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
183 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
186 * New Oldmovie effect filter
187 * New VHS effect filter
188 * New Freeze effect filter
189 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
190 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
191 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
194 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
195 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
196 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
197 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
198 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
199 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
202 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
203 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
205 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
208 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
209 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
210 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
211 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
212 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
213 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
214 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
215 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
216 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
218 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
219 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
220 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
223 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
224 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
227 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
228 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
231 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
232 * Add record button in Qt menus
233 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
234 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
235 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
238 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
239 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
240 * Fixes for advanced preferences
241 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
242 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
243 * Option to increase playlist font size
244 * Improved crash log reporting
247 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
248 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
249 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
252 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
255 * iOS video output: use ios2
256 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
257 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
260 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
261 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
262 * Update of all translations:
263 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
264 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
265 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
266 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
267 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
268 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
269 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
272 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
273 --------------------------------
276 * Fix compilation on OS/2
279 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
281 Mac OS X audio output:
282 * Fix channel ordering
283 * Increase the buffersize
286 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
287 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
288 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
291 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
294 * Correctly support video-on-top
295 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
296 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
299 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
302 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
303 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
306 * Update British English
309 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
310 --------------------------------
313 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
316 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
319 * Fix DVD playback regression
320 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
321 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
324 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
325 --------------------------------
328 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
329 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
332 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
333 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
334 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
337 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
338 by updating codec libraries
339 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
340 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
341 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
344 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
345 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
346 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
347 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
350 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
351 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
354 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
355 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
356 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
357 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
358 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
361 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
362 * Fix record file names
365 * Fix minimal size possible on start
366 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
367 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
368 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
369 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
372 * Fix album art display on Windows
375 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
376 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
377 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
378 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
379 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
380 and Simplified Chinese translations
381 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
384 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
385 --------------------------------
388 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
389 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
390 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
391 audio devices on OS X
392 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
393 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
396 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
397 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
400 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
401 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
404 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
407 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
408 * Improve A-B loop control
409 * Fix album art update when changing media
412 * Add a language option in the interface
413 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
414 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
415 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
416 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
417 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
418 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
419 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
422 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
425 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
426 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
427 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
428 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
431 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
432 --------------------------------
435 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
437 * Fix some subtitles track selection
440 * VP9 support in WebM
441 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
442 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
445 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
446 * Support Speex in ogg files
447 * Fix some .mov playlists support
448 * Support Alac in mkv
449 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
450 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
453 * Fix DVB options parsing
454 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
455 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
458 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
459 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
462 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
463 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
466 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
467 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
468 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
469 * Fix play after drag'n drop
470 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
473 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
474 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
477 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
478 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
481 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
482 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
483 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
484 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
485 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
486 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
487 * Improves interface resizings
490 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
491 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
492 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
493 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
494 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
498 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
499 --------------------------------
502 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
503 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
504 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
505 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
506 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
508 3rd party libraries (contrib):
509 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
512 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
513 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
514 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
515 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
516 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
519 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
520 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
524 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
525 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
526 * Support for Ulead DV audio
527 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
528 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
529 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
530 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
531 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
532 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
533 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
534 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
535 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
536 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
539 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
540 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
541 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
544 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
545 remove support for previous OS X releases
546 * Major improvements in DASH support
547 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
548 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
549 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
550 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
551 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
552 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
553 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
554 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
555 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
556 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
557 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
560 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
561 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
562 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
563 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
564 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
565 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
566 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
567 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
568 * Support for more MJPEG streams
569 * Add support for liveleak streams
570 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
571 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
572 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
575 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
576 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
577 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
578 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
579 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
580 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
581 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
582 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
583 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
584 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
585 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
588 * New remapping channel filter
589 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
590 * New VSXu visualization plugin
591 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
592 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
593 * New gain audio filter
596 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
597 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
598 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
599 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
600 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
601 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
602 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
603 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
604 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
607 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
608 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
609 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
610 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
611 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
612 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
613 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
616 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
617 * Options support for AVIO output module
618 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
619 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
620 * Livehttp stream encryption support
621 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
622 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
625 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
628 * configurable password for the HTTP server
629 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
630 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
631 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
632 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
633 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
634 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
635 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
639 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
642 * Add support for multiple video outputs
643 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
645 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
646 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
647 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
648 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
649 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
650 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
651 VLC's internal volume level
652 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
654 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
655 selection and to manage the list of presets
656 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
657 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
658 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
659 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
660 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
661 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
662 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
663 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
664 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
665 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
667 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
668 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
669 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
670 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
671 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
672 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
673 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
674 3rd party applications
675 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
676 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
677 (system-wide settings)
678 * Add support for the Video Title option
679 * Add support for the Boss Key
680 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
681 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
684 * Partial support for Qt5.0
685 * Menus modifications and improvements
686 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
687 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
688 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
689 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
690 * EPG display fixes and improvements
691 * Add SD pixmap sources
692 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
693 * Display playlist total duration
694 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
695 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
696 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
701 * Extend sliders, offsets options
702 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
703 * Numerous fixes and improvements
704 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
707 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
708 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
709 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
710 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
711 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
712 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
713 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
714 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
715 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
716 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
719 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
720 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
721 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
722 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
723 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
724 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
726 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
727 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
728 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
729 * Broken crop video filter
731 * OSD parser and menu
732 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
733 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
734 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
735 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
739 * Update of all translations
742 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
743 --------------------------------
746 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
747 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
750 * Fix modplug security issues
753 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
754 --------------------------------
758 * Fix crash in QTsound
759 * Fix screen mouse file location
760 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
763 * Fix use after free in sgimb
764 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
767 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
770 * Fix interface crashes
771 * Fix autostart playback option
772 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
775 * update Welsh translation
776 * New Kannada translation
779 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
780 --------------------------------
783 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
784 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
788 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
791 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
794 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
797 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
801 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
804 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
807 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
808 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
809 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
812 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
813 --------------------------------
816 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
819 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
822 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
823 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
824 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
825 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
826 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
827 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
830 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
831 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
832 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
833 * 3rd party codecs updates
836 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
837 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
838 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
839 in the advanced preferences panel
840 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
841 * Fix crash within the video output code
842 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
843 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
844 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
845 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
847 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
850 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
853 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
854 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
857 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
860 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
861 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
862 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
863 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
864 Dutch, Danish, translations
865 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
868 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
869 --------------------------------
872 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
875 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
876 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
877 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
880 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
881 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
882 * Fix koreus lua parser
883 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
884 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
885 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
886 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
889 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
890 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
893 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
896 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
897 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
898 * Fix Time counter UI look
899 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
902 * Fix https streaming
905 * Fix audio and video track selection:
906 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
907 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
910 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
911 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
912 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
913 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
914 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
917 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
918 --------------------------------
921 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
922 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
923 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
924 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
925 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
926 during playback on Mac OS X
929 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
930 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
931 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
934 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
935 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
936 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
937 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
938 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
941 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
942 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
943 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
944 * Support Youtube live streams
947 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
950 * Fix media info dialog update
951 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
952 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
953 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
954 * Fix album art display at start
957 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
958 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
959 * Fix menus display and behavior
960 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
961 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
962 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
963 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
964 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
965 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
966 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
969 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
970 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
971 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
972 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
973 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
974 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
975 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
976 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
977 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
980 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
981 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
982 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
983 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
984 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
987 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
988 --------------------------------
991 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
994 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
995 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
998 * Add GateKeeper support
999 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1000 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1001 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1004 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1007 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1008 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1009 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1010 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1011 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1014 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1015 --------------------------------
1018 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1019 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1020 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1021 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1022 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1023 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1024 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1025 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1026 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1027 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1028 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1032 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1033 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1034 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1035 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1036 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1037 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1038 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1039 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1040 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1041 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1042 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1043 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1046 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1047 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1049 * Fix MP3 free format support
1052 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1053 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1054 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1055 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1056 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1059 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1060 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1062 Audio filters and output:
1063 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1064 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1065 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1066 * Do not apply volume in file output
1067 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1068 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1071 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1072 the persistant media library
1073 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1074 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1075 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1076 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1077 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1078 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1079 press on the Play/Pause button
1080 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1081 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1082 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1083 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1084 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1085 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1086 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1087 Synchronization panel
1088 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1089 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1090 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1091 * Fix crashes on exit
1092 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1094 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1095 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1096 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1097 automatically reset on the first launch.
1098 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1099 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1100 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1103 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1104 * Fixes for icecast SD
1107 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1108 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1109 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1110 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1111 * Fix tags and file names display
1112 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1115 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1116 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1119 * Fix display of some buttons
1120 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1121 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1124 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1125 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1126 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1129 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1130 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1131 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1132 Thai translations update
1133 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1136 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1137 --------------------------------
1140 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1141 * fix the samba module compilation
1142 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1143 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1144 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1145 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1148 * Support for MXPEG files
1149 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1150 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1153 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1154 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1155 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1158 * Fix ogm header creation
1161 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1162 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1165 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1166 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1167 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1168 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1171 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1174 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1175 * allow to hide the sidebar
1176 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1177 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1178 * noticebly faster launch time
1179 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1180 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1181 * improve track synchronization panel
1182 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1183 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1186 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1187 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1188 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1189 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1192 * fix for menus display
1193 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1194 * documentation update
1197 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1198 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1201 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1202 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1203 * Update Jamendo selections
1207 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1208 * fix a crash on VLM close
1211 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1212 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1213 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1214 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1217 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1220 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1221 ---------------------------------
1224 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1225 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1226 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1227 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1228 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1229 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1230 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1231 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1232 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1233 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1234 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1235 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1236 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1237 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1238 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1239 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1240 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1241 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1242 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1243 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1244 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1245 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1246 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1247 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1248 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1249 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1251 Important changes for packagers:
1252 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1253 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1254 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1255 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1256 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1257 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1258 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1259 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1260 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1261 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1264 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1265 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1266 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1267 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1268 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1269 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1270 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1273 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1274 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1275 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1276 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1277 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1278 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1279 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1280 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1281 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1282 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1283 * PulseAudio audio input support
1284 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1285 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1286 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1287 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1288 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1289 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1290 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1291 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1294 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1295 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1296 are notably concerned.
1297 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1298 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1299 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1300 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1301 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1302 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1303 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1304 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1305 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1306 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1307 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1308 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1309 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1310 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1311 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1314 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1315 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1316 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1317 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1318 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1319 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1320 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1321 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1322 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1323 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1324 * Improved support of tracker files
1325 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1328 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1329 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1330 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1331 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1332 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1333 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1334 and important cleanups and optimisations
1335 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1336 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1337 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1338 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1339 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1340 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1341 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1342 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1343 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1344 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1345 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1346 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1347 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1348 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1349 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1350 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1351 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1352 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1353 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1354 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1355 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1358 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1359 * New video output for iOS platform
1360 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1361 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1362 * Various vmem improvements
1363 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1364 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1365 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1366 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1367 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1368 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1370 Audio Output and Filters:
1371 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1372 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1373 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1374 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1375 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1376 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1377 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1378 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1379 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1380 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1383 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1384 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1385 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1386 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1387 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1388 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1389 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1390 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1391 * New anti-flickering filter
1392 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1393 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1394 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1395 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1396 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1397 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1398 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1401 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1402 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1403 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1404 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1405 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1406 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1407 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1408 * Major rework of VoD support
1409 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1410 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1411 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1412 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1413 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1414 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1415 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1416 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1417 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1418 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1421 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1422 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1425 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1426 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1427 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1428 list of available audio and video filters
1429 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1430 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1431 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1434 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1435 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1436 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1437 * id3tag: use taglib
1438 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1439 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1440 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1441 * removal of the noise filter
1442 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1443 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1444 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1445 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1448 * Update of translations for most languages.
1449 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1452 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1453 ----------------------------------
1456 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1457 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1460 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1461 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1464 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1465 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1466 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1469 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1472 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1473 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1476 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1479 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1480 ----------------------------------
1483 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1484 including support for OS X Lion
1485 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1486 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1489 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1492 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1493 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1494 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1497 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1500 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1501 ----------------------------------
1504 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1505 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1508 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1509 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1510 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1511 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1512 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1514 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1515 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1516 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1518 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1519 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1522 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1525 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1528 * Fix quitting on Linux
1529 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1533 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1536 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1539 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1540 ---------------------------------
1542 Windows and Mac OS X:
1543 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1546 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1547 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1550 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1553 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1556 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1558 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1559 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1561 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1562 * RTP output and XML export
1563 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1567 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1568 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1569 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1570 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1573 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1574 --------------------------------
1576 Windows and Mac OS X:
1577 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1580 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1583 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1584 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1585 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1586 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1587 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1588 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1591 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1592 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1596 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1597 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1598 * New Luganda Translation
1601 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1602 --------------------------------
1605 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1608 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1609 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1610 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1611 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1614 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1616 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1617 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1618 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1619 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1620 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1621 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1622 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1623 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1625 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1626 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1627 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1628 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1629 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1630 * Configure and build system improvements
1631 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1634 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1635 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1636 * New icelandic translation
1639 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1640 --------------------------------
1643 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1644 #234484 and #260719.
1647 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1648 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1649 and stability reasons
1652 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1656 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1659 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1660 ----------------------------------
1663 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1666 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1667 ---------------------------------
1670 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1671 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1672 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1673 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1676 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1679 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1680 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1681 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1682 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1685 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1686 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1687 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1689 Subtitles and renderer:
1690 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1691 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1692 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1693 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1694 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1697 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1698 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1699 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1700 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1703 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1704 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1706 Miscellaneous fixes:
1707 * KDE device solid actions
1709 * Transcode integer overflow
1710 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1711 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1714 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1715 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1716 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1719 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1720 ----------------------------------
1723 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1727 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1730 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1733 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1734 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1735 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1736 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1739 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1743 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1746 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1749 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1750 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1752 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1756 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1757 * Miscellaneous fixes
1760 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1761 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1762 French and Ukrainian
1763 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1764 * New Asturian translation
1767 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1768 ----------------------------------
1771 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1773 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1776 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1779 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1780 * Various fixes for Windows
1783 * New Armenian translation
1784 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1785 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1788 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1789 --------------------------------
1792 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1793 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1794 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1797 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1798 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1801 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1802 --------------------------------
1804 Access and demuxers:
1805 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1806 * fix for podcasts parsing
1807 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1810 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1811 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1814 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1815 * fix m3u playlists exports
1818 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1821 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1824 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1827 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1830 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1833 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1834 --------------------------------
1837 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1838 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1841 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1842 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1845 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1846 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1847 * fix console output encoding
1849 Interface and extensions:
1850 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1851 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1854 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1855 --------------------------------
1858 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1859 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1860 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1861 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1862 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1863 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1864 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1865 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1866 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1867 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1868 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1869 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1870 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1871 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1872 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1873 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1877 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1878 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1879 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1880 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1881 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1884 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1887 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1888 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1889 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1893 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1896 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1897 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1898 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1901 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1902 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1903 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1904 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1907 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1908 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1911 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1912 --------------------------------
1914 Important changes for users:
1915 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1916 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1918 Important changes for packagers:
1919 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1920 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1921 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1922 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1923 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1925 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1927 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1928 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1929 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1930 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1931 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1934 * Support for the sftp protocol
1935 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1936 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1937 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1938 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1939 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1942 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1943 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1944 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1946 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1947 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1948 * Invmem module improvements
1949 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1950 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1951 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1952 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1953 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1954 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1955 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1956 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1957 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1958 * Support for VP8 codec
1959 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1962 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1963 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1964 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1965 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1966 * Various EGP improvements
1967 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1968 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1971 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1972 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1973 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1974 * Podcast images are now displayed
1977 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1978 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1979 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1980 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1981 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1982 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1983 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1984 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1985 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1986 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1987 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1990 * New content extensions lua framework
1993 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1994 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1995 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1996 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1997 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1998 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1999 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2002 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2003 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2004 * Service discovery based on libudev
2005 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2008 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2009 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2010 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2011 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2012 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2013 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2014 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2017 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2018 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2019 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2022 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2024 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2025 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2028 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2031 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2032 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2033 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2034 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2035 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2036 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2037 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2040 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2041 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2044 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2045 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2046 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2050 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2051 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2052 * Improved Solaris port
2055 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2056 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2059 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2060 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2061 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2062 * transrate: broken since too long
2063 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2064 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2065 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2066 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2067 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2068 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2069 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2070 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2071 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2072 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2073 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2074 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2075 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2076 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2079 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2080 --------------------------------
2083 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2085 Decoders/Packetizers:
2086 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2089 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2090 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2091 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2092 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2093 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2096 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2097 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2100 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2101 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2104 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2105 and Walloon translations updated
2106 * Sinhala translation started
2109 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2110 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2113 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2114 --------------------------------
2117 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2118 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2121 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2124 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2125 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2128 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2129 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2130 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2131 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2134 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2135 --------------------------------
2138 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2139 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2142 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2143 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2146 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2147 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2150 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2153 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2154 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2157 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2158 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2161 * New Walloon translation
2162 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2165 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2166 --------------------------------
2169 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2170 regressions in most popular drivers
2171 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2174 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2175 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2176 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2179 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2180 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2183 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2184 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2185 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2186 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2187 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2190 * New udev module for linux
2193 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2196 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2199 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2200 --------------------------------
2203 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2204 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2205 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2208 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2209 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2212 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2213 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2216 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2219 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2220 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2221 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2222 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2225 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2226 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2227 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2228 - no support for Goom and SDL
2229 - limited text rendering support
2230 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2233 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2234 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2235 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2236 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2237 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2238 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2239 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2240 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2241 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2245 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2248 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2251 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2252 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2253 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2254 Arabic and French translation updates
2257 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2258 --------------------------------
2261 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2262 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2263 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2264 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2265 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2266 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2269 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2270 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2271 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2274 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2275 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2276 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2279 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2282 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2283 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2286 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2287 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2288 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2289 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2290 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2291 * Fix various crashes
2294 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2296 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2300 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2301 ---------------------------------
2305 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2306 See 'Access:' for more info.
2307 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2310 * Instantaneous pausing
2311 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2312 * Finer speed control
2313 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2314 * Timeshift for most medias
2315 * RTSP trickplay support
2316 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2319 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2320 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2321 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2322 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2323 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2324 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2325 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2326 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2327 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2328 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2331 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2332 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2333 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2334 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2335 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2336 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2337 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2340 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2341 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2344 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2345 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2346 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2347 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2348 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2349 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2350 * DVB scanning on linux
2351 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2352 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2353 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2354 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2355 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2356 * MTP device access on Unix
2357 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2358 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2361 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2362 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2363 Windows and Mac OS X.
2366 * Export the playlist in HTML
2367 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2368 * Better metadata handling and reading
2370 Linux/Windows interface:
2371 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2372 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2373 * Recently played items list
2374 * Interface toolbar customizations
2375 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2376 - More menus actions
2377 - Finer speed slider
2378 - Improvements on many dialogs
2379 - New dialog for plugins listing
2380 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2381 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2382 * Better integration in GTK environments
2385 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2386 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2387 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2388 * Additional usability improvements
2391 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2392 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2393 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2394 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2395 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2398 * New Maemo port with:
2399 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2400 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2403 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2406 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2407 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2408 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2409 * Support for latest iSight models
2412 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2413 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2416 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2417 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2418 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2419 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2420 The old image video output has been removed.
2421 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2422 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2425 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2433 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2434 --------------------------------------
2440 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2441 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2442 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2443 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2444 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2445 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2446 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2448 Various fixes to the following modules:
2451 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2452 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2453 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2455 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2460 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2461 ---------------------------------
2464 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2465 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2468 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2469 ---------------------------------
2472 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2475 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2478 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2479 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2480 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2481 main controller window.
2482 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2485 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2490 * Updates of other localizations
2493 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2494 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2495 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2496 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2497 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2500 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2501 ---------------------------------
2504 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2506 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2509 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2510 --------------------------------
2515 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2516 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2519 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2520 --------------------------------
2522 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2523 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2526 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2529 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2530 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2533 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2534 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2537 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2538 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2539 * Various fixed in playlist
2542 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2545 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2548 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2549 ------------------------------------
2551 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2552 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2555 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2556 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2557 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2560 * Stability fix for the video output.
2563 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2564 --------------------------------
2567 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2568 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2569 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2570 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2571 * Fixed update system bugs
2572 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2575 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2576 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2577 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2578 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2579 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2580 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2581 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2582 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2583 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2584 modern Mac OS X versions
2587 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2588 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2590 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2591 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2594 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2595 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2596 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2597 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2598 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2599 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2602 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2603 --------------------------------
2605 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2606 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2607 * Multiple bugfixes.
2610 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2611 --------------------------------
2613 * Multiple bug fixes.
2616 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2617 ---------------------------------
2621 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2622 recent to work correctly
2623 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2624 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2625 edit the ".hosts" file.
2626 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2627 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2628 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2629 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2630 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2631 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2632 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2633 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2634 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2635 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2636 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2637 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2638 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2639 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2640 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2641 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2642 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2643 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2644 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2645 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2646 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2647 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2648 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2649 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2650 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2651 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2652 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2653 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2654 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2655 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2656 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2657 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2658 and postproc modules.
2659 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2660 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2661 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2662 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2664 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2665 filter. For example:
2666 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2667 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2669 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2670 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2676 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2678 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2679 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2682 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2683 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2685 * Shoutcast TV listings
2686 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2688 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2689 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2691 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2694 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2695 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2696 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2697 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2698 * JACK audio input support
2699 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2700 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2701 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2702 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2703 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2704 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2705 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2706 (available as a separate download).
2707 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2708 * RTMP input support
2709 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2710 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2711 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2713 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2714 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2717 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2718 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2719 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2720 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2722 * APEv1/2 tags support
2723 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2724 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2726 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2727 * TiVo Series 2 support
2728 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2733 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2734 * Flash Screen Video support
2735 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2736 * DosBox Capture support
2737 * Karl Morton's Video support
2738 * limited atrac3 support
2740 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2741 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2742 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2743 * H.264 PAFF support
2744 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2745 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2746 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2747 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2748 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2751 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2752 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2753 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2754 * AQTitle subtitles support
2755 * MKV USF subtitles support
2756 * HTML-based subtitles support
2757 * MPSub subtitles support
2758 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2759 * MPL2 subtitles support
2760 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2761 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2762 * Realtext subtitle support
2763 * DKS subtitle support
2764 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2765 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2768 * Flash Screen Video support
2769 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2771 Video outputs and filters:
2772 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2773 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2774 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2775 * New puzzle video output filter
2776 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2777 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2779 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2780 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2781 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2782 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2783 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2784 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2785 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2786 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2787 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2788 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2789 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2790 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2791 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2792 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2794 Audio outputs and filters:
2795 * Replay gain support
2796 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2797 new scaletempo audio filter)
2798 * New spatializer audio filter
2799 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2802 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2803 * New RTP payload formats:
2804 * Speex voice audio codec
2805 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2806 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2807 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2808 * DCCP transport for RTP
2809 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2814 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2815 end-user suitable way.
2816 * Improved user interaction
2817 * Improved mouse gestures
2818 * Vastly improved Update checker
2819 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2821 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2822 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2824 * Improved video output features
2825 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2826 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2827 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2828 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2829 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2831 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2832 if libncursesw is available.
2833 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2834 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2835 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2837 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2838 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2839 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2840 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2841 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2842 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2843 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2844 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2847 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2848 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2849 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2852 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2853 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2854 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2855 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2856 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2857 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2860 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2861 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2871 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2872 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2873 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2876 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2877 ----------------------------------
2880 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2883 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2884 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2885 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2886 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2887 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2888 * Updated Polish translation
2891 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2892 ----------------------------------
2895 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2896 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2897 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2900 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2901 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2902 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2903 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2904 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2905 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2906 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2907 to an unexpected application termination
2908 * New Serbian translation
2909 * Updated Romanian translation
2912 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2913 ----------------------------------
2916 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2917 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2918 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2919 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2920 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2921 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2922 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2923 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2926 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2927 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2928 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2929 * Fixed AAC resampling
2930 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2931 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2934 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2935 ----------------------------------
2938 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2939 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2940 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2941 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2942 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2945 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2946 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2947 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2948 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2949 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2952 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2953 ----------------------------------
2956 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2957 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2960 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2961 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2962 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2963 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2965 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2969 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2972 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2975 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2978 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2981 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2982 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2983 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2984 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2985 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2987 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2988 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2989 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2990 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2993 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2996 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2997 ----------------------------------
3000 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3001 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3002 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3004 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3005 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3007 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3008 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3011 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3013 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3014 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3015 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3016 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3017 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3018 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3019 two different movies
3020 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3021 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3022 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3025 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3028 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3029 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3030 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3031 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3034 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3035 ----------------------------------
3037 Various bugfixes, notably:
3038 * Windows Vista compatibility
3039 * Cropping in Direct3D
3040 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3041 * RSS filter string overflow
3043 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3045 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3046 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3049 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3050 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3053 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3056 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3059 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3062 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3063 ----------------------------------
3065 Various bugfixes, notably:
3066 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3067 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3068 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3069 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3070 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3071 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3074 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3075 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3078 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3080 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3081 * Diverse usability improvements
3082 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3083 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3084 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3087 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3088 ---------------------------------
3090 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3091 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3094 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3097 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3098 --------------------------------
3101 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3104 * Support for RTSP authentication
3105 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3106 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3107 * ATSC support for DVB input
3108 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3109 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3110 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3113 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3114 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3115 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3116 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3117 * Matroska WavPack support
3118 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3119 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3120 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3123 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3124 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3125 * Improved libcaca support
3129 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3130 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3132 * Systray support in skins
3134 * Support for Apple Remote control
3135 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3136 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3137 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3138 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3140 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3143 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3144 Windows 9x/ME users:
3145 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3146 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3147 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3148 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3149 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3151 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3152 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3161 * Updates to the libvlc API
3162 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3165 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3166 --------------------------------
3169 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3170 * Support for downloading updates
3174 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3175 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3176 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3177 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3179 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3180 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3181 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3184 * Cook (Real audio) support
3186 Playlist / Services discovery:
3187 * XSPF playlist support
3189 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3192 * New JACK audio output
3195 * New video filters:
3196 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3197 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3198 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3199 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3200 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3201 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3204 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3207 * System to inform the user and request information
3208 - HTTP authentication
3212 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3213 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3214 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3217 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3218 - Improved playlist handling
3219 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3221 - Embedded Video output
3222 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3223 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3224 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3225 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3226 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3228 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3229 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3232 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3235 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3236 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3237 * Growl "Now playing" support
3240 * Ability to log to syslog
3241 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3244 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3246 * A bit more automatic testing
3249 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3250 ---------------------------------
3253 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3254 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3257 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3258 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3261 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3264 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3265 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3271 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3274 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3275 --------------------------------
3278 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3282 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3283 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3284 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3287 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3288 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3289 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3290 * GnomeVFS input module
3291 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3292 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3295 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3296 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3297 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3300 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3301 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3307 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3308 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3311 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3312 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3313 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3316 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3318 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3319 - New extended controls panel
3320 - New bookmarks window
3321 - Fixed playlist sorting
3322 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3324 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3325 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3326 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3327 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3331 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3332 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3334 - Include macro to include other files
3338 * Should now work outside IE as well
3341 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3344 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3345 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3348 The following languages were added:
3352 * Simplified Chinese
3353 The following languages were re-added:
3357 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3358 --------------------------------
3361 * Rewrite of the playlist
3363 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3364 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3365 * Preferences improvements:
3366 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3367 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3369 * Core image manipulation support
3370 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3371 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3372 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3373 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3374 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3375 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3376 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3377 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3378 * Access filter architecture
3379 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3380 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3384 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3385 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3386 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3387 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3388 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3389 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3390 * Massive Matroska improvements
3391 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3393 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3394 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3395 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3396 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3397 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3399 Decoders / Encoders:
3400 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3401 * PNG decoder/encoder
3402 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3403 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3406 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3409 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3410 * Brand new SAP module
3411 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3412 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3413 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3414 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3415 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3416 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3420 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3423 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3424 * Image file video output (png)
3425 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3426 * Improvements to wall video filter
3427 * Support for font color and opacity
3433 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3434 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3435 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3439 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3440 - Improved preferences
3441 - Improvements to the wizard
3442 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3444 - Redesigned playlist
3445 - Improved preferences
3447 - Support for multiple actions
3450 - Support for the new playlist system
3452 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3455 * Screensaver disabling fix
3456 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3457 * Support for no-decoration windows
3460 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3461 * The OpenGL video output is back
3462 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3463 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3464 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3465 is not yet available in the new module
3466 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3469 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3478 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3481 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3484 The following languages were added:
3490 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3491 --------------------------------
3494 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3495 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3498 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3499 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3500 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3503 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3506 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3509 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3512 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3513 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3514 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3518 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3520 * Support of playlist group announcement
3523 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3524 --------------------------------
3527 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3528 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3529 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3530 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3531 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3532 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3535 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3536 (Stream your desktop)
3537 * Improved DVD support:
3538 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3539 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3540 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3541 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3542 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3543 (selection of titles/chapters).
3546 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3547 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3548 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3549 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3550 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3551 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3552 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3553 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3554 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3555 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3558 * G.726 audio support
3559 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3560 * MPEG-4 text support
3561 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3562 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3563 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3567 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3568 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3569 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3570 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3571 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3572 * DVB subtitles encoder
3573 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3574 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3576 * Text track muxing for mp4
3577 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3578 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3579 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3580 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3581 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3582 * Improved ASF muxer
3584 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3585 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3586 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3589 * New audio equalizer filter
3590 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3591 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3592 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3593 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3596 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3597 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3598 with support for effects.
3599 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3600 - New filters can be streamed.
3601 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3602 - Centralized scaling and blending
3604 - "time", to display current time
3605 - "marq", to display a marquee
3608 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3609 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3610 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3611 * A few skins2 improvements
3612 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3613 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3614 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3615 * Improved CORBA control module
3618 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3619 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3620 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3623 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3624 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3625 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3628 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3629 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3630 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3631 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3632 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3635 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3638 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3639 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3642 * Server/client network synchronization module
3643 * VBrick streams fully supported
3644 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3648 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3649 --------------------------------
3652 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3653 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3654 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3655 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3658 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3659 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3660 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3661 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3662 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3663 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3664 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3667 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3668 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3669 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3670 * Improved directory access module.
3671 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3672 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3673 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3674 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3675 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3678 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3679 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3680 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3683 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3684 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3685 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3688 * Improved session announcement system.
3689 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3690 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3691 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3692 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3693 * Improved transrater.
3694 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3695 * New configuration system.
3696 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3699 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3700 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3701 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3702 * Supports scheduling.
3703 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3704 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3707 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3708 - Ability to embed video output.
3709 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3710 - Lots of improvements.
3711 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3712 - New design and set of icons.
3713 - Ability to embed video output.
3714 - Support for hotkeys.
3715 - Support for bookmarks.
3717 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3718 - Better hotkeys handling.
3721 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3722 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3723 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3724 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3727 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3728 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3729 * Improved Windows installer.
3735 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3736 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3739 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3740 ---------------------------------
3743 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3744 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3747 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3748 --------------------------------
3751 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3752 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3755 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3756 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3757 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3758 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3761 * Internal improvments
3762 * Improved import/export
3765 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3767 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3768 small and strange formats.
3770 * New MOD audio demux.
3771 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3772 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3773 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3774 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3777 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3778 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3779 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3785 * New opengl video output plugin.
3788 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3789 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3792 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3793 --------------------------------
3796 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3797 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3798 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3799 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3800 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3801 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3802 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3803 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3806 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3811 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3812 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3813 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3814 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3815 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3816 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3817 * Better Icecast support.
3818 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3819 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3822 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3823 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3824 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3825 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3826 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3827 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3828 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3831 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3832 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3833 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3834 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3835 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3836 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3837 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3838 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3839 * Preliminary RTP support.
3840 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3845 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3846 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3848 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3849 - Improvements and help in preferences
3850 - New streaming wizard
3851 - Revised Disc Open menu
3853 - Improvements of the standard pages
3854 - Support for new commands
3855 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3858 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3859 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3862 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3863 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3864 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3865 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3866 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3867 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3868 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3869 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3870 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3873 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3875 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3876 * Support for Panther.
3877 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3878 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3881 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3882 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3883 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3884 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3885 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3886 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3887 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3888 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3891 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3892 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3893 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3896 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3899 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3900 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3901 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3902 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3905 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3906 --------------------------------
3909 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3912 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3913 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3916 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3917 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3920 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3923 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3924 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3927 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3930 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3933 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3934 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3938 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3939 --------------------------------
3942 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3943 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3947 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3948 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3949 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3951 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3952 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3955 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3958 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3961 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3962 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3966 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3967 --------------------------------
3970 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3971 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3975 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3976 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3977 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3978 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3979 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3982 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3983 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3984 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3987 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3988 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3989 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3992 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3993 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3994 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3995 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3996 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3999 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4000 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4001 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4004 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4007 * Improved build system.
4008 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4009 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4010 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4011 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4014 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4015 --------------------------------
4018 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4021 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4022 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4023 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4024 * Video 4 Linux support
4025 * CD Digital Audio support
4026 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4029 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4030 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4031 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4032 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4035 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4036 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4037 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4038 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4039 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4040 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4041 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4044 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4045 * New HTTP remote control interface
4048 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4049 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4050 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4051 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4052 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4055 * New reset option for the preferences
4056 * You can set your language in the prefences
4057 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4058 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4059 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4060 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4063 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4064 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4065 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4068 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4069 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4070 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4071 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4072 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4073 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4074 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4075 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4076 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4077 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4080 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4081 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4082 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4083 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4084 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4085 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4086 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4089 * Interface localization
4090 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4091 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4092 * New full-featured Preferences window
4095 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4096 --------------------------------
4099 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4100 * support for skins at the interface level
4101 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4102 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4103 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4104 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4105 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4108 * fixed HTTP redirects
4109 * support for opening an entire directory
4110 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4111 * new video4linux access plug-in
4112 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4115 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4116 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4117 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4120 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4121 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4122 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4123 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4124 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4125 * new codec for raw I420 video
4126 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4129 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4130 (although it still misses some important features)
4131 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4134 * new HTTP output support
4135 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4136 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4139 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4142 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4145 * reorderable playlist
4146 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4147 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4148 * support for mono audio output devices
4149 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4150 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4151 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4152 * the messages window remembers more lines
4153 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4154 * http and ogg stream output options
4155 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4158 * new skinnable interface
4159 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4161 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4162 * support for FLAC audio format
4163 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4165 * network tab in the interface
4166 * "apply" handling in preferences
4169 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4170 ---------------------------------
4173 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4174 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4175 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4176 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4178 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4179 * DTS S/PDIF support
4182 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4183 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4184 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4185 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4188 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4189 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4192 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4195 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4198 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4200 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4201 * rc interface is now fully useable
4202 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4205 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4206 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4207 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4208 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4209 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4211 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4212 * support for mouse gestures
4213 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4216 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4217 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4220 * improved ID3 tag detection
4221 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4222 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4223 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4225 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4228 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4229 ---------------------------------
4232 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4233 English was set as the preferred language
4236 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4237 --------------------------------
4240 * new mouse gesture interface
4241 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4245 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4246 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4247 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4250 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4251 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4255 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4258 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4259 without the user consent
4262 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4264 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4265 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4266 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4269 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4270 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4271 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4272 * playlist enhancements
4273 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4274 * new step forward/step backward commands
4275 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4276 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4277 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4280 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4281 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4282 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4285 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4286 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4289 * native video output is working again
4290 * only commandline interface support
4291 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4294 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4295 --------------------------------
4298 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4299 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4300 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4301 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4302 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4303 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4304 and A/52 streams are supported)
4305 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4310 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4311 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4312 * VCD entry points support
4313 * VCD image file support
4316 * support for *.asf format
4317 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4318 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4319 * support for ogg encapsulation
4320 * support for raw DV format
4321 * support for *.wav format
4322 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4325 Stream discovery & playlists:
4326 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4327 * support for .m3u file format
4328 * support for .asx file format
4329 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4332 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4333 (only available with the .avi demux)
4334 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4335 * support for raw PCM data
4336 * support for Cinepak video codec
4337 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4338 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4339 * support for Xvid codec
4340 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4341 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4342 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4344 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4346 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4349 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4352 * new WxWindows interface
4353 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4354 device and the channels configuration
4355 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4356 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4357 format that VLC can play
4358 * new swedish translation
4359 * enhancements of the playlist window
4360 * new messages window to see debug info
4361 * fixed a few crashes
4364 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4365 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4366 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4367 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working