1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
18 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
21 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
22 * Ogg seeking improvements
25 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
26 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements
27 * Qt: port to Mac platform
30 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
33 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
36 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
39 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
40 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
43 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
44 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
45 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
46 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
47 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
48 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
51 * New Armenian translation
53 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
54 --------------------------------
57 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
59 * Fix folders opening from the interface
62 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
63 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
66 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
67 --------------------------------
70 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
71 * fix for podcasts parsing
72 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
75 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
76 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
79 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
80 * fix m3u playlists exports
83 * fix video autoresize behaviour
86 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
89 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
92 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
95 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
98 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
99 --------------------------------
102 * Avformat fps displaying fix
103 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
106 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
107 of mono streams, especially on Windows
110 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
111 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
112 * fix console output encoding
114 Interface and extensions:
115 * Youtube and other scripts updates
116 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
119 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
120 --------------------------------
123 * New capabilities for libVLC:
124 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
125 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
126 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
127 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
128 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
129 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
130 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
131 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
132 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
133 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
134 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
135 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
136 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
137 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
138 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
142 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
143 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
144 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
145 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
146 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
149 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
152 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
153 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
154 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
158 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
161 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
162 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
163 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
166 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
167 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
168 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
169 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
172 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
173 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
176 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
177 --------------------------------
179 Important changes for users:
180 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
181 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
183 Important changes for packagers:
184 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
185 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
186 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
187 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
188 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
190 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
192 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
193 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
194 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
195 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
196 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
199 * Support for the sftp protocol
200 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
201 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
202 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
203 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
204 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
207 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
208 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
209 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
211 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
212 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
213 * Invmem module improvements
214 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
215 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
216 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
217 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
218 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
219 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
220 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
221 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
222 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
223 * Support for VP8 codec
224 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
227 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
228 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
229 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
230 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
231 * Various EGP improvements
232 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
233 * Metadata and cover art improvements
236 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
237 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
238 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
239 * Podcast images are now displayed
242 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
243 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
244 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
245 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
246 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
247 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
248 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
249 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
250 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
251 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
252 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
255 * New content extensions lua framework
258 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
259 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
260 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
261 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
262 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
263 * NEON assembly audio converter module
264 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
267 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
268 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
269 * Service discovery based on libudev
270 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
273 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
274 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
275 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
276 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
277 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
278 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
279 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
282 * New smem module, streaming to memory
283 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
284 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
287 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
289 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
290 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
293 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
296 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
297 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
298 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
299 by Andy Matuschak et al.
300 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
301 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
302 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
305 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
306 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
309 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
310 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
311 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
315 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
316 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
317 * Improved Solaris port
320 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
321 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
324 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
325 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
326 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
327 * transrate: broken since too long
328 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
329 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
330 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
331 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
332 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
333 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
334 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
335 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
336 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
337 * cddax: use cdda instead.
338 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
339 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
340 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
341 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
344 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
345 --------------------------------
348 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
350 Decoders/Packetizers:
351 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
354 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
355 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
356 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
357 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
358 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
361 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
362 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
365 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
366 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
369 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
370 and Walloon translations updated
371 * Sinhala translation started
374 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
375 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
378 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
379 --------------------------------
382 * SubRip extra styles improvements
383 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
386 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
389 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
390 increase performance and fix x264 issues
393 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
394 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
395 Russian, Slovak translation updates
396 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
399 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
400 --------------------------------
403 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
404 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
407 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
408 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
411 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
412 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
415 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
418 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
419 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
422 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
423 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
426 * New Walloon translation
427 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
430 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
431 --------------------------------
434 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
435 regressions in most popular drivers
436 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
439 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
440 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
441 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
444 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
445 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
448 * Update for appletrailers lua script
449 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
450 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
451 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
452 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
455 * New udev module for linux
458 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
461 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
464 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
465 --------------------------------
468 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
469 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
470 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
473 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
474 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
477 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
478 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
481 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
484 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
485 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
486 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
487 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
490 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
491 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
492 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
493 - no support for Goom and SDL
494 - limited text rendering support
495 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
498 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
499 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
500 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
501 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
502 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
503 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
504 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
505 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
506 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
510 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
513 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
516 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
517 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
518 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
519 Arabic and French translation updates
522 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
523 --------------------------------
526 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
527 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
528 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
529 * Fix Dailymotion access script
530 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
531 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
534 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
535 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
538 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
539 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
540 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
543 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
546 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
547 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
550 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
551 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
552 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
553 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
554 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
555 * Fix various crashes
558 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
560 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
563 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
564 ---------------------------------
568 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
569 See 'Access:' for more info.
570 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
573 * Instantaneous pausing
574 * Frame-by-Frame playback
575 * Finer speed control
576 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
577 * Timeshift for most medias
578 * RTSP trickplay support
579 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
582 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
583 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
584 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
585 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
586 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
587 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
588 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
589 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
590 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
591 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
594 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
595 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
596 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
597 * Metadata for mod files are supported
598 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
599 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
600 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
603 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
604 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
607 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
608 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
609 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
610 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
611 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
612 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
613 * DVB scanning on linux
614 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
615 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
616 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
617 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
618 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
619 * MTP device access on Unix
620 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
621 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
624 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
625 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
626 Windows and Mac OS X.
629 * Export the playlist in HTML
630 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
631 * Better metadata handling and reading
633 Linux/Windows interface:
634 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
635 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
636 * Recently played items list
637 * Interface toolbar customizations
638 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
641 - Improvements on many dialogs
642 - New dialog for plugins listing
643 - Fixed-size mode for videos
644 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
645 * Better integration in GTK environments
648 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
649 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
650 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
651 * Additional usability improvements
654 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
655 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
656 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
657 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
658 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
661 * New Maemo port with:
662 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
663 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
666 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
669 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
670 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
671 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
672 * Support for latest iSight models
675 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
676 * Surround support for PulseAudio
679 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
680 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
681 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
682 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
683 The old image video output has been removed.
684 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
685 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
688 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
696 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
697 --------------------------------------
703 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
704 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
705 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
706 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
707 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
708 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
709 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
711 Various fixes to the following modules:
714 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
715 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
718 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
723 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
724 ---------------------------------
727 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
728 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
731 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
732 ---------------------------------
735 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
738 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
741 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
742 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
743 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
744 main controller window.
745 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
748 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
753 * Updates of other localizations
756 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
757 * Lots of small bugfixes.
758 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
759 * Telnet fixes on Windows
760 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
763 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
764 ---------------------------------
767 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
769 Bunch of small bugfixes.
772 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
773 --------------------------------
778 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
779 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
782 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
783 --------------------------------
785 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
786 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
789 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
792 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
793 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
796 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
797 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
800 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
801 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
802 * Various fixed in playlist
805 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
808 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
811 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
812 ------------------------------------
814 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
815 * Fixes several memory leaks.
818 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
819 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
820 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
823 * Stability fix for the video output.
826 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
827 --------------------------------
830 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
831 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
832 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
833 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
834 * Fixed update system bugs
835 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
838 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
839 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
840 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
841 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
842 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
843 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
844 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
845 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
846 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
847 modern Mac OS X versions
850 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
851 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
853 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
854 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
857 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
858 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
859 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
860 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
861 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
862 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
865 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
866 --------------------------------
868 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
869 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
873 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
874 --------------------------------
876 * Multiple bug fixes.
879 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
880 ---------------------------------
884 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
885 recent to work correctly
886 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
887 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
888 edit the ".hosts" file.
889 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
890 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
891 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
892 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
893 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
894 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
895 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
896 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
897 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
898 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
899 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
900 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
901 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
902 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
903 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
904 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
905 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
906 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
907 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
908 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
909 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
910 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
911 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
912 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
913 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
914 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
915 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
916 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
917 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
918 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
919 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
920 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
921 and postproc modules.
922 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
923 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
924 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
925 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
927 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
929 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
930 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
932 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
933 * Glide video output module has been removed.
939 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
941 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
942 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
945 * Vastly improved playlist support:
946 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
948 * Shoutcast TV listings
949 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
951 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
952 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
954 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
957 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
958 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
959 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
960 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
961 * JACK audio input support
962 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
963 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
964 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
965 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
966 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
967 * Experimental EyeTV access module
968 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
969 (available as a separate download).
970 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
972 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
973 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
974 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
976 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
977 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
980 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
981 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
982 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
983 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
985 * APEv1/2 tags support
986 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
987 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
989 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
990 * TiVo Series 2 support
991 * CD+G karaoke Files support
996 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
997 * Flash Screen Video support
998 * CamStudio Screen Video support
999 * DosBox Capture support
1000 * Karl Morton's Video support
1001 * limited atrac3 support
1003 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1004 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1005 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1006 * H.264 PAFF support
1007 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1008 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1009 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1010 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1011 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1014 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1015 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1016 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1017 * AQTitle subtitles support
1018 * MKV USF subtitles support
1019 * HTML-based subtitles support
1020 * MPSub subtitles support
1021 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1022 * MPL2 subtitles support
1023 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1024 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1025 * Realtext subtitle support
1026 * DKS subtitle support
1027 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1028 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1031 * Flash Screen Video support
1032 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1034 Video outputs and filters:
1035 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1036 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1037 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1038 * New puzzle video output filter
1039 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1040 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1042 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1043 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1044 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1045 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1046 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1047 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1048 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1049 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1050 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1051 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1052 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1053 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1054 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1055 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1057 Audio outputs and filters:
1058 * Replay gain support
1059 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1060 new scaletempo audio filter)
1061 * New spatializer audio filter
1062 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1065 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1066 * New RTP payload formats:
1067 * Speex voice audio codec
1068 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1069 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1070 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1071 * DCCP transport for RTP
1072 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1077 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1078 end-user suitable way.
1079 * Improved user interaction
1080 * Improved mouse gestures
1081 * Vastly improved Update checker
1082 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1084 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1085 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1087 * Improved video output features
1088 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1089 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1090 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1091 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1092 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1094 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1095 if libncursesw is available.
1096 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1097 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1098 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1100 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1101 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1102 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1103 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1104 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1105 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1106 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1107 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1110 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1111 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1112 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1115 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1116 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1117 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1118 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1119 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1120 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1123 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1124 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1134 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1135 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1136 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1139 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1140 ----------------------------------
1143 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1146 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1147 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1148 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1149 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1150 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1151 * Updated Polish translation
1154 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1155 ----------------------------------
1158 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1159 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1160 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1163 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1164 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1165 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1166 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1167 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1168 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1169 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1170 to an unexpected application termination
1171 * New Serbian translation
1172 * Updated Romanian translation
1175 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1176 ----------------------------------
1179 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1180 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1181 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1182 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1183 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1184 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1185 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1186 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1189 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1190 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1191 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1192 * Fixed AAC resampling
1193 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1194 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1197 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1198 ----------------------------------
1201 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1202 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1203 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1204 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1205 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1208 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1209 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1210 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1211 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1212 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1215 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1216 ----------------------------------
1219 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1220 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1223 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1224 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1225 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1226 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1228 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1232 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1235 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1238 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1241 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1244 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1245 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1246 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1247 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1248 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1250 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1251 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1252 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1253 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1256 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1259 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1260 ----------------------------------
1263 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1264 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1265 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1267 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1268 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1270 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1271 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1274 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1276 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1277 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1278 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1279 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1280 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1281 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1282 two different movies
1283 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1284 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1285 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1288 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1291 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1292 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1293 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1294 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1297 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1298 ----------------------------------
1300 Various bugfixes, notably:
1301 * Windows Vista compatibility
1302 * Cropping in Direct3D
1303 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1304 * RSS filter string overflow
1306 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1308 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1309 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1312 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1313 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1316 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1319 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1322 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1325 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1326 ----------------------------------
1328 Various bugfixes, notably:
1329 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1330 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1331 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1332 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1333 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1334 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1337 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1338 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1341 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1343 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1344 * Diverse usability improvements
1345 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1346 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1347 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1350 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1351 ---------------------------------
1353 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1354 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1357 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1360 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1361 --------------------------------
1364 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1367 * Support for RTSP authentication
1368 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1369 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1370 * ATSC support for DVB input
1371 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1372 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1373 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1376 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1377 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1378 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1379 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1380 * Matroska WavPack support
1381 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1382 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1383 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1386 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1387 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1388 * Improved libcaca support
1392 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1393 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1395 * Systray support in skins
1397 * Support for Apple Remote control
1398 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1399 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1400 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1401 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1403 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1406 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1407 Windows 9x/ME users:
1408 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1409 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1410 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1411 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1412 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1414 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1415 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1424 * Updates to the libvlc API
1425 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1428 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1429 --------------------------------
1432 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1433 * Support for downloading updates
1437 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1438 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1439 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1440 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1442 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1443 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1444 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1447 * Cook (Real audio) support
1449 Playlist / Services discovery:
1450 * XSPF playlist support
1452 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1455 * New JACK audio output
1458 * New video filters:
1459 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1460 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1461 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1462 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1463 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1464 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1467 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1470 * System to inform the user and request information
1471 - HTTP authentication
1475 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1476 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1477 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1480 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1481 - Improved playlist handling
1482 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1484 - Embedded Video output
1485 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1486 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1487 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1488 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1489 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1491 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1492 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1495 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1498 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1499 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1500 * Growl "Now playing" support
1503 * Ability to log to syslog
1504 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1507 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1509 * A bit more automatic testing
1512 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1513 ---------------------------------
1516 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1517 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1520 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1521 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1524 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1527 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1528 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1534 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1537 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1538 --------------------------------
1541 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1545 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1546 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1547 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1550 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1551 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1552 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1553 * GnomeVFS input module
1554 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1555 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1558 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1559 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1560 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1563 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1564 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1570 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1571 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1574 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1575 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1576 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1579 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1581 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1582 - New extended controls panel
1583 - New bookmarks window
1584 - Fixed playlist sorting
1585 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1587 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1588 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1589 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1590 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1594 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1595 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1597 - Include macro to include other files
1601 * Should now work outside IE as well
1604 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1607 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1608 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1611 The following languages were added:
1615 * Simplified Chinese
1616 The following languages were re-added:
1620 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1621 --------------------------------
1624 * Rewrite of the playlist
1626 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1627 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1628 * Preferences improvements:
1629 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1630 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1632 * Core image manipulation support
1633 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1634 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1635 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1636 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1637 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1638 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1639 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1640 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1641 * Access filter architecture
1642 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1643 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1647 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1648 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1649 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1650 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1651 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1652 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1653 * Massive Matroska improvements
1654 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1656 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1657 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1658 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1659 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1660 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1662 Decoders / Encoders:
1663 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1664 * PNG decoder/encoder
1665 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1666 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1669 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1672 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1673 * Brand new SAP module
1674 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1675 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1676 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1677 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1678 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1679 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1683 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1686 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1687 * Image file video output (png)
1688 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1689 * Improvements to wall video filter
1690 * Support for font color and opacity
1696 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1697 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1698 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1702 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1703 - Improved preferences
1704 - Improvements to the wizard
1705 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1707 - Redesigned playlist
1708 - Improved preferences
1710 - Support for multiple actions
1713 - Support for the new playlist system
1715 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1718 * Screensaver disabling fix
1719 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1720 * Support for no-decoration windows
1723 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1724 * The OpenGL video output is back
1725 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1726 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1727 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1728 is not yet available in the new module
1729 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1732 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1741 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1744 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1747 The following languages were added:
1753 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1754 --------------------------------
1757 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1758 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1761 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1762 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1763 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1766 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1769 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1772 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1775 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1776 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1777 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1781 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1783 * Support of playlist group announcement
1786 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1787 --------------------------------
1790 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1791 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1792 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1793 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1794 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1795 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1798 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1799 (Stream your desktop)
1800 * Improved DVD support:
1801 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1802 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1803 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1804 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1805 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1806 (selection of titles/chapters).
1809 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1810 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1811 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1812 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1813 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1814 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1815 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1816 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1817 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1818 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1821 * G.726 audio support
1822 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1823 * MPEG-4 text support
1824 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1825 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1826 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1830 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1831 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1832 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1833 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1834 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1835 * DVB subtitles encoder
1836 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1837 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1839 * Text track muxing for mp4
1840 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1841 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1842 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1843 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1844 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1845 * Improved ASF muxer
1847 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1848 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1849 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1852 * New audio equalizer filter
1853 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1854 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1855 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1856 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1859 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1860 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1861 with support for effects.
1862 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1863 - New filters can be streamed.
1864 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1865 - Centralized scaling and blending
1867 - "time", to display current time
1868 - "marq", to display a marquee
1871 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1872 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1873 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1874 * A few skins2 improvements
1875 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1876 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1877 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1878 * Improved CORBA control module
1881 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1882 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1883 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1886 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1887 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1888 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1891 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1892 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1893 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1894 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1895 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1898 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1901 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1902 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1905 * Server/client network synchronization module
1906 * VBrick streams fully supported
1907 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1911 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1912 --------------------------------
1915 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1916 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1917 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1918 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1921 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1922 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1923 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1924 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1925 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1926 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1927 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1930 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1931 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1932 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1933 * Improved directory access module.
1934 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1935 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1936 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1937 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1938 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1941 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1942 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1943 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1946 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1947 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1948 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1951 * Improved session announcement system.
1952 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1953 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1954 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1955 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1956 * Improved transrater.
1957 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1958 * New configuration system.
1959 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1962 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1963 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1964 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1965 * Supports scheduling.
1966 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1967 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1970 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1971 - Ability to embed video output.
1972 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1973 - Lots of improvements.
1974 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1975 - New design and set of icons.
1976 - Ability to embed video output.
1977 - Support for hotkeys.
1978 - Support for bookmarks.
1980 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1981 - Better hotkeys handling.
1984 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1985 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1986 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1987 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1990 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1991 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1992 * Improved Windows installer.
1998 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1999 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2002 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2003 ---------------------------------
2006 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2007 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2010 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2011 --------------------------------
2014 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2015 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2018 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2019 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2020 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2021 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2024 * Internal improvments
2025 * Improved import/export
2028 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2030 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2031 small and strange formats.
2033 * New MOD audio demux.
2034 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2035 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2036 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2037 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2040 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2041 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2042 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2048 * New opengl video output plugin.
2051 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2052 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2055 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2056 --------------------------------
2059 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2060 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2061 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2062 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2063 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2064 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2065 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2066 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2069 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2074 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2075 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2076 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2077 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2078 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2079 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2080 * Better Icecast support.
2081 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2082 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2085 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2086 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2087 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2088 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2089 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2090 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2091 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2094 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2095 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2096 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2097 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2098 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2099 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2100 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2101 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2102 * Preliminary RTP support.
2103 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2108 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2109 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2111 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2112 - Improvements and help in preferences
2113 - New streaming wizard
2114 - Revised Disc Open menu
2116 - Improvements of the standard pages
2117 - Support for new commands
2118 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2121 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2122 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2125 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2126 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2127 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2128 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2129 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2130 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2131 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2132 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2133 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2136 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2138 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2139 * Support for Panther.
2140 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2141 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2144 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2145 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2146 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2147 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2148 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2149 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2150 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2151 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2154 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2155 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2156 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2159 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2162 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2163 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2164 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2165 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2168 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2169 --------------------------------
2172 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2175 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2176 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2179 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2180 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2183 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2186 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2187 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2190 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2193 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2196 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2197 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2201 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2202 --------------------------------
2205 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2206 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2210 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2211 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2212 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2214 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2215 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2218 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2221 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2224 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2225 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2229 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2230 --------------------------------
2233 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2234 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2238 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2239 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2240 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2241 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2242 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2245 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2246 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2247 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2250 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2251 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2252 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2255 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2256 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2257 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2258 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2259 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2262 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2263 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2264 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2267 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2270 * Improved build system.
2271 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2272 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2273 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2274 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2277 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2278 --------------------------------
2281 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2284 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2285 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2286 * Video 4 Linux support
2287 * CD Digital Audio support
2288 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2291 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2292 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2293 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2294 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2297 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2298 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2299 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2300 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2301 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2302 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2303 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2306 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2307 * New HTTP remote control interface
2310 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2311 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2312 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2313 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2316 * New reset option for the preferences
2317 * You can set your language in the prefences
2318 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2319 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2320 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2321 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2324 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2325 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2326 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2329 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2330 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2331 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2332 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2333 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2334 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2335 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2336 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2337 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2338 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2341 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2342 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2343 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2344 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2345 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2346 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2347 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2350 * Interface localization
2351 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2352 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2353 * New full-featured Preferences window
2356 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2357 --------------------------------
2360 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2361 * support for skins at the interface level
2362 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2363 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2364 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2365 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2366 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2369 * fixed HTTP redirects
2370 * support for opening an entire directory
2371 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2372 * new video4linux access plug-in
2373 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2376 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2377 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2378 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2381 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2382 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2383 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2384 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2385 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2386 * new codec for raw I420 video
2387 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2390 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2391 (although it still misses some important features)
2392 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2395 * new HTTP output support
2396 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2397 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2400 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2403 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2406 * reorderable playlist
2407 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2408 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2409 * support for mono audio output devices
2410 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2411 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2412 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2413 * the messages window remembers more lines
2414 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2415 * http and ogg stream output options
2416 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2419 * new skinnable interface
2420 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2422 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2423 * support for FLAC audio format
2424 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2426 * network tab in the interface
2427 * "apply" handling in preferences
2430 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2431 ---------------------------------
2434 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2435 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2436 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2437 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2439 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2440 * DTS S/PDIF support
2443 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2444 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2445 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2446 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2449 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2450 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2453 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2456 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2459 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2461 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2462 * rc interface is now fully useable
2463 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2466 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2467 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2468 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2469 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2470 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2472 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2473 * support for mouse gestures
2474 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2477 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2478 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2481 * improved ID3 tag detection
2482 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2483 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2484 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2486 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2489 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2490 ---------------------------------
2493 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2494 English was set as the preferred language
2497 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2498 --------------------------------
2501 * new mouse gesture interface
2502 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2506 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2507 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2508 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2511 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2512 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2516 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2519 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2520 without the user consent
2523 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2525 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2526 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2527 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2530 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2531 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2532 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2533 * playlist enhancements
2534 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2535 * new step forward/step backward commands
2536 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2537 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2538 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2541 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2542 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2543 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2546 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2547 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2550 * native video output is working again
2551 * only commandline interface support
2552 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2555 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2556 --------------------------------
2559 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2560 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2561 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2562 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2563 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2564 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2565 and A/52 streams are supported)
2566 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2571 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2572 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2573 * VCD entry points support
2574 * VCD image file support
2577 * support for *.asf format
2578 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2579 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2580 * support for ogg encapsulation
2581 * support for raw DV format
2582 * support for *.wav format
2583 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2586 Stream discovery & playlists:
2587 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2588 * support for .m3u file format
2589 * support for .asx file format
2590 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2593 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2594 (only available with the .avi demux)
2595 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2596 * support for raw PCM data
2597 * support for Cinepak video codec
2598 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2599 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2600 * support for Xvid codec
2601 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2602 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2603 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2605 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2607 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2610 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2613 * new WxWindows interface
2614 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2615 device and the channels configuration
2616 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2617 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2618 format that VLC can play
2619 * new swedish translation
2620 * enhancements of the playlist window
2621 * new messages window to see debug info
2622 * fixed a few crashes
2625 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2626 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2627 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2628 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working