1 Changes between 1.1.0 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.
10 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
11 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
14 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
17 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
20 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
23 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
26 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
29 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
30 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
31 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
32 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
33 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
34 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
37 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
38 -------------------------------
41 * Avformat fps displaying fix
42 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
45 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoqued issues when playback
46 of mono streams, especially on Windows
49 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
50 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
51 * fix console output encoding
53 Interface and extensions:
54 * Youtube and other scripts updates
55 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
58 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
59 --------------------------------
62 * New capabilities for libVLC:
63 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
64 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
65 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
66 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
67 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
68 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
69 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
70 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
71 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
72 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
73 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
74 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
75 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
76 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
77 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
81 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
82 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
83 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
84 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
85 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
88 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
91 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
92 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
93 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
97 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
100 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
101 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
102 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
105 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
106 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
107 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
108 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
111 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
112 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
115 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
116 --------------------------------
117 Important changes for users:
118 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
119 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
121 Important changes for packagers:
122 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
123 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
124 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
125 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
126 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
128 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
130 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
131 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
132 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
133 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
134 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
137 * Support for the sftp protocol
138 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
139 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
140 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
141 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
142 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
145 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
146 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
147 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
149 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
150 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
151 * Invmem module improvements
152 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
153 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
154 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
155 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
156 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
157 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
158 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
159 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
160 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
161 * Support for VP8 codec
164 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
165 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
166 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
167 * Various EGP improvements
168 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
169 * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for Webm format
170 * Metadata and cover art improvements
173 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
174 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
175 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
176 * Podcast images are now displayed
179 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
180 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
181 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
182 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
183 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
184 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
185 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
186 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
187 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
188 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
189 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
192 * New content extensions lua framework
195 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
196 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
197 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
198 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
199 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
200 * NEON assembly audio converter module
201 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
204 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
207 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
208 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
209 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
212 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
213 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
214 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
215 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
216 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
217 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
218 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
221 * New smem module, streaming to memory
222 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
223 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
226 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
228 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
229 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
232 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
233 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
234 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
235 by Andy Matuschak et al.
236 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
237 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
238 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
241 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
242 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
245 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
246 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
247 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
251 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
252 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
253 * Improved Solaris port
256 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
257 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
260 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
261 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
262 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
263 * transrate: broken since too long
264 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
265 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
266 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
267 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
268 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
269 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
270 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
271 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
272 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
273 * cddax: use cdda instead.
274 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
275 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
276 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
277 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
280 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
281 --------------------------------
284 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
286 Decoders/Packetizers:
287 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
290 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
291 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
292 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
293 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
294 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
297 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
298 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
301 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
302 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
305 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
306 and Walloon translations updated
307 * Sinhala translation started
310 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
311 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
314 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
315 --------------------------------
318 * SubRip extra styles improvements
319 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
322 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
325 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
326 increase performance and fix x264 issues
329 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
330 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
331 Russian, Slovak translation updates
332 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
335 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
336 --------------------------------
339 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
340 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
343 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
344 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
347 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
348 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
351 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
354 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
355 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
358 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
359 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
362 * New Walloon translation
363 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
366 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
367 --------------------------------
370 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
371 regressions in most popular drivers
372 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
375 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
376 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
377 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
380 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
381 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
384 * Update for appletrailers lua script
385 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
386 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
387 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
388 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
391 * New udev module for linux
394 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
397 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
400 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
401 --------------------------------
404 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
405 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
406 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
409 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
410 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
413 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
414 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
417 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
420 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
421 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
422 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
423 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
426 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
427 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
428 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
429 - no support for Goom and SDL
430 - limited text rendering support
431 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
434 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
435 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
436 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
437 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
438 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
439 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
440 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
441 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
442 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
446 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
449 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
452 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
453 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
454 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
455 Arabic and French translation updates
458 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
459 --------------------------------
462 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
463 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
464 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
465 * Fix Dailymotion access script
466 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
467 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
470 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
471 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
474 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
475 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
476 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
479 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
482 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
483 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
486 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
487 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
488 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
489 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
490 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
491 * Fix various crashes
494 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
496 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
499 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
500 ---------------------------------
504 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
505 See 'Access:' for more info.
506 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
509 * Instantaneous pausing
510 * Frame-by-Frame playback
511 * Finer speed control
512 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
513 * Timeshift for most medias
514 * RTSP trickplay support
515 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
518 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
519 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
520 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
521 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
522 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
523 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
524 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
525 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
526 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
527 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
530 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
531 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
532 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
533 * Metadata for mod files are supported
534 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
535 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
536 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
539 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
540 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
543 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
544 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
545 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
546 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
547 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
548 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
549 * DVB scanning on linux
550 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
551 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
552 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
553 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
554 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
555 * MTP device access on Unix
556 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
557 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
560 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
561 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
562 Windows and Mac OS X.
565 * Export the playlist in HTML
566 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
567 * Better metadata handling and reading
569 Linux/Windows interface:
570 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
571 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
572 * Recently played items list
573 * Interface toolbar customizations
574 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
577 - Improvements on many dialogs
578 - New dialog for plugins listing
579 - Fixed-size mode for videos
580 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
581 * Better integration in GTK environments
584 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
585 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
586 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
587 * Additional usability improvements
590 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
591 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
592 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
593 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
594 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
597 * New Maemo port with:
598 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
599 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
602 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
605 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
606 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
607 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
608 * Support for latest iSight models
611 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
612 * Surround support for PulseAudio
615 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
616 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
617 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
618 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
619 The old image video output has been removed.
620 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
621 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
624 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
632 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
633 --------------------------------------
639 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
640 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
641 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
642 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
643 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
644 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
645 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
647 Various fixes to the following modules:
650 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
651 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
654 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
659 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
660 ---------------------------------
663 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
664 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
667 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
668 ---------------------------------
671 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
674 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
677 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
678 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
679 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
680 main controller window.
681 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
684 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
689 * Updates of other localizations
692 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
693 * Lots of small bugfixes.
694 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
695 * Telnet fixes on Windows
696 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
699 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
700 ---------------------------------
703 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
705 Bunch of small bugfixes.
708 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
709 --------------------------------
714 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
715 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
718 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
719 --------------------------------
721 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
722 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
725 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
728 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
729 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
732 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
733 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
736 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
737 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
738 * Various fixed in playlist
741 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
744 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
747 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
748 ------------------------------------
750 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
751 * Fixes several memory leaks.
754 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
755 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
756 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
759 * Stability fix for the video output.
762 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
763 --------------------------------
766 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
767 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
768 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
769 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
770 * Fixed update system bugs
771 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
774 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
775 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
776 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
777 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
778 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
779 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
780 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
781 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
782 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
783 modern Mac OS X versions
786 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
787 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
789 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
790 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
793 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
794 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
795 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
796 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
797 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
798 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
801 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
802 --------------------------------
804 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
805 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
809 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
810 --------------------------------
812 * Multiple bug fixes.
815 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
816 ---------------------------------
820 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
821 recent to work correctly
822 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
823 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
824 edit the ".hosts" file.
825 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
826 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
827 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
828 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
829 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
830 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
831 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
832 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
833 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
834 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
835 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
836 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
837 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
838 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
839 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
840 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
841 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
842 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
843 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
844 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
845 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
846 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
847 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
848 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
849 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
850 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
851 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
852 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
853 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
854 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
855 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
856 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
857 and postproc modules.
858 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
859 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
860 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
861 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
863 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
865 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
866 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
868 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
869 * Glide video output module has been removed.
875 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
877 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
878 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
881 * Vastly improved playlist support:
882 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
884 * Shoutcast TV listings
885 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
887 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
888 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
890 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
893 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
894 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
895 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
896 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
897 * JACK audio input support
898 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
899 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
900 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
901 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
902 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
903 * Experimental EyeTV access module
904 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
905 (available as a separate download).
906 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
908 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
909 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
910 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
912 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
913 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
916 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
917 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
918 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
919 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
921 * APEv1/2 tags support
922 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
923 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
925 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
926 * TiVo Series 2 support
927 * CD+G karaoke Files support
932 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
933 * Flash Screen Video support
934 * CamStudio Screen Video support
935 * DosBox Capture support
936 * Karl Morton's Video support
937 * limited atrac3 support
939 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
940 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
941 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
943 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
944 * NellyMoser ASAO support
945 * APE (Monkey audio) support
946 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
947 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
950 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
951 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
952 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
953 * AQTitle subtitles support
954 * MKV USF subtitles support
955 * HTML-based subtitles support
956 * MPSub subtitles support
957 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
958 * MPL2 subtitles support
959 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
960 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
961 * Realtext subtitle support
962 * DKS subtitle support
963 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
964 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
967 * Flash Screen Video support
968 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
970 Video outputs and filters:
971 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
972 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
973 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
974 * New puzzle video output filter
975 * Re-written motion detection video filter
976 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
978 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
979 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
980 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
981 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
982 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
983 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
984 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
985 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
986 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
987 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
988 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
989 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
990 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
991 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
993 Audio outputs and filters:
994 * Replay gain support
995 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
996 new scaletempo audio filter)
997 * New spatializer audio filter
998 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1001 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1002 * New RTP payload formats:
1003 * Speex voice audio codec
1004 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1005 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1006 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1007 * DCCP transport for RTP
1008 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1013 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1014 end-user suitable way.
1015 * Improved user interaction
1016 * Improved mouse gestures
1017 * Vastly improved Update checker
1018 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1020 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1021 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1023 * Improved video output features
1024 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1025 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1026 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1027 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1028 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1030 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1031 if libncursesw is available.
1032 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1033 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1034 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1036 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1037 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1038 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1039 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1040 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1041 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1042 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1043 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1046 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1047 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1048 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1051 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1052 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1053 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1054 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1055 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1056 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1059 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1060 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1070 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1071 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1072 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1075 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1076 ----------------------------------
1079 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1082 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1083 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1084 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1085 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1086 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1087 * Updated Polish translation
1090 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1091 ----------------------------------
1094 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1095 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1096 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1099 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1100 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1101 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1102 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1103 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1104 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1105 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1106 to an unexpected application termination
1107 * New Serbian translation
1108 * Updated Romanian translation
1111 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1112 ----------------------------------
1115 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1116 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1117 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1118 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1119 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1120 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1121 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1122 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1125 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1126 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1127 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1128 * Fixed AAC resampling
1129 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1130 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1133 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1134 ----------------------------------
1137 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1138 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1139 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1140 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1141 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1144 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1145 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1146 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1147 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1148 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1151 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1152 ----------------------------------
1155 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1156 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1159 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1160 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1161 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1162 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1164 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1168 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1171 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1174 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1177 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1180 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1181 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1182 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1183 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1184 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1186 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1187 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1188 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1189 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1192 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1195 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1196 ----------------------------------
1199 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1200 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1201 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1203 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1204 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1206 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1207 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1210 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1212 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1213 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1214 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1215 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1216 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1217 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1218 two different movies
1219 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1220 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1221 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1224 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1227 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1228 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1229 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1230 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1233 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1234 ----------------------------------
1236 Various bugfixes, notably:
1237 * Windows Vista compatibility
1238 * Cropping in Direct3D
1239 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1240 * RSS filter string overflow
1242 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1244 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1245 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1248 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1249 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1252 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1255 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1258 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1261 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1262 ----------------------------------
1264 Various bugfixes, notably:
1265 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1266 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1267 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1268 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1269 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1270 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1273 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1274 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1277 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1279 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1280 * Diverse usability improvements
1281 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1282 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1283 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1286 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1287 ---------------------------------
1289 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1290 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1293 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1296 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1297 --------------------------------
1300 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1303 * Support for RTSP authentication
1304 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1305 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1306 * ATSC support for DVB input
1307 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1308 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1309 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1312 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1313 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1314 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1315 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1316 * Matroska WavPack support
1317 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1318 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1319 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1322 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1323 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1324 * Improved libcaca support
1328 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1329 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1331 * Systray support in skins
1333 * Support for Apple Remote control
1334 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1335 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1336 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1337 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1339 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1342 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1343 Windows 9x/ME users:
1344 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1345 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1346 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1347 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1348 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1350 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1351 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1360 * Updates to the libvlc API
1361 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1364 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1365 --------------------------------
1368 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1369 * Support for downloading updates
1373 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1374 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1375 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1376 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1378 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1379 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1380 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1383 * Cook (Real audio) support
1385 Playlist / Services discovery:
1386 * XSPF playlist support
1388 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1391 * New JACK audio output
1394 * New video filters:
1395 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1396 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1397 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1398 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1399 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1400 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1403 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1406 * System to inform the user and request information
1407 - HTTP authentication
1411 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1412 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1413 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1416 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1417 - Improved playlist handling
1418 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1420 - Embedded Video output
1421 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1422 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1423 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1424 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1425 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1427 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1428 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1431 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1434 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1435 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1436 * Growl "Now playing" support
1439 * Ability to log to syslog
1440 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1443 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1445 * A bit more automatic testing
1448 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1449 ---------------------------------
1452 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1453 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1456 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1457 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1460 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1463 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1464 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1470 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1473 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1474 --------------------------------
1477 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1481 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1482 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1483 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1486 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1487 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1488 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1489 * GnomeVFS input module
1490 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1491 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1494 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1495 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1496 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1499 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1500 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1506 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1507 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1510 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1511 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1512 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1515 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1517 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1518 - New extended controls panel
1519 - New bookmarks window
1520 - Fixed playlist sorting
1521 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1523 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1524 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1525 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1526 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1530 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1531 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1533 - Include macro to include other files
1537 * Should now work outside IE as well
1540 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1543 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1544 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1547 The following languages were added:
1551 * Simplified Chinese
1552 The following languages were re-added:
1556 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1557 --------------------------------
1560 * Rewrite of the playlist
1562 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1563 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1564 * Preferences improvements:
1565 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1566 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1568 * Core image manipulation support
1569 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1570 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1571 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1572 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1573 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1574 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1575 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1576 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1577 * Access filter architecture
1578 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1579 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1583 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1584 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1585 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1586 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1587 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1588 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1589 * Massive Matroska improvements
1590 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1592 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1593 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1594 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1595 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1596 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1598 Decoders / Encoders:
1599 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1600 * PNG decoder/encoder
1601 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1602 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1605 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1608 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1609 * Brand new SAP module
1610 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1611 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1612 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1613 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1614 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1615 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1619 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1622 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1623 * Image file video output (png)
1624 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1625 * Improvements to wall video filter
1626 * Support for font color and opacity
1632 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1633 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1634 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1638 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1639 - Improved preferences
1640 - Improvements to the wizard
1641 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1643 - Redesigned playlist
1644 - Improved preferences
1646 - Support for multiple actions
1649 - Support for the new playlist system
1651 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1654 * Screensaver disabling fix
1655 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1656 * Support for no-decoration windows
1659 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1660 * The OpenGL video output is back
1661 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1662 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1663 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1664 is not yet available in the new module
1665 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1668 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1677 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1680 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1683 The following languages were added:
1689 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1690 --------------------------------
1693 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1694 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1697 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1698 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1699 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1702 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1705 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1708 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1711 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1712 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1713 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1717 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1719 * Support of playlist group announcement
1722 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1723 --------------------------------
1726 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1727 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1728 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1729 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1730 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1731 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1734 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1735 (Stream your desktop)
1736 * Improved DVD support:
1737 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1738 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1739 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1740 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1741 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1742 (selection of titles/chapters).
1745 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1746 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1747 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1748 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1749 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1750 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1751 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1752 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1753 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1754 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1757 * G.726 audio support
1758 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1759 * MPEG-4 text support
1760 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1761 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1762 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1766 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1767 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1768 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1769 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1770 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1771 * DVB subtitles encoder
1772 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1773 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1775 * Text track muxing for mp4
1776 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1777 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1778 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1779 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1780 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1781 * Improved ASF muxer
1783 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1784 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1785 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1788 * New audio equalizer filter
1789 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1790 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1791 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1792 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1795 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1796 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1797 with support for effects.
1798 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1799 - New filters can be streamed.
1800 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1801 - Centralized scaling and blending
1803 - "time", to display current time
1804 - "marq", to display a marquee
1807 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1808 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1809 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1810 * A few skins2 improvements
1811 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1812 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1813 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1814 * Improved CORBA control module
1817 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1818 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1819 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1822 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1823 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1824 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1827 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1828 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1829 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1830 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1831 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1834 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1837 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1838 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1841 * Server/client network synchronization module
1842 * VBrick streams fully supported
1843 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1847 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1848 --------------------------------
1851 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1852 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1853 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1854 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1857 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1858 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1859 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1860 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1861 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1862 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1863 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1866 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1867 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1868 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1869 * Improved directory access module.
1870 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1871 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1872 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1873 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1874 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1877 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1878 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1879 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1882 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1883 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1884 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1887 * Improved session announcement system.
1888 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1889 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1890 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1891 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1892 * Improved transrater.
1893 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1894 * New configuration system.
1895 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1898 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1899 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1900 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1901 * Supports scheduling.
1902 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1903 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1906 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1907 - Ability to embed video output.
1908 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1909 - Lots of improvements.
1910 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1911 - New design and set of icons.
1912 - Ability to embed video output.
1913 - Support for hotkeys.
1914 - Support for bookmarks.
1916 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1917 - Better hotkeys handling.
1920 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1921 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1922 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1923 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1926 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1927 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1928 * Improved Windows installer.
1934 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1935 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1938 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1939 ---------------------------------
1942 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1943 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1946 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1947 --------------------------------
1950 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1951 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1954 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1955 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1956 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1957 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1960 * Internal improvments
1961 * Improved import/export
1964 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1966 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1967 small and strange formats.
1969 * New MOD audio demux.
1970 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1971 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1972 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1973 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1976 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1977 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1978 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1984 * New opengl video output plugin.
1987 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1988 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1991 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1992 --------------------------------
1995 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1996 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1997 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1998 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1999 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2000 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2001 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2002 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2005 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2010 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2011 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2012 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2013 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2014 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2015 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2016 * Better Icecast support.
2017 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2018 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2021 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2022 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2023 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2024 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2025 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2026 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2027 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2030 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2031 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2032 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2033 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2034 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2035 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2036 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2037 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2038 * Preliminary RTP support.
2039 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2044 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2045 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2047 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2048 - Improvements and help in preferences
2049 - New streaming wizard
2050 - Revised Disc Open menu
2052 - Improvements of the standard pages
2053 - Support for new commands
2054 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2057 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2058 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2061 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2062 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2063 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2064 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2065 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2066 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2067 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2068 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2069 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2072 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2074 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2075 * Support for Panther.
2076 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2077 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2080 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2081 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2082 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2083 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2084 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2085 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2086 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2087 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2090 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2091 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2092 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2095 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2098 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2099 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2100 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2101 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2104 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2105 --------------------------------
2108 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2111 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2112 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2115 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2116 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2119 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2122 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2123 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2126 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2129 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2132 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2133 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2137 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2138 --------------------------------
2141 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2142 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2146 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2147 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2148 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2150 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2151 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2154 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2157 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2160 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2161 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2165 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2166 --------------------------------
2169 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2170 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2174 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2175 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2176 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2177 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2178 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2181 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2182 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2183 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2186 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2187 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2188 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2191 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2192 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2193 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2194 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2195 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2198 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2199 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2200 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2203 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2206 * Improved build system.
2207 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2208 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2209 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2210 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2213 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2214 --------------------------------
2217 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2220 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2221 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2222 * Video 4 Linux support
2223 * CD Digital Audio support
2224 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2227 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2228 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2229 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2230 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2233 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2234 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2235 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2236 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2237 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2238 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2239 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2242 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2243 * New HTTP remote control interface
2246 * 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.
2247 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2248 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2249 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2252 * New reset option for the preferences
2253 * You can set your language in the prefences
2254 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2255 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2256 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2257 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2260 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2261 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2262 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2265 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2266 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2267 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2268 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2269 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2270 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2271 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2272 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2273 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2274 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2277 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2278 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2279 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2280 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2281 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2282 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2283 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2286 * Interface localization
2287 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2288 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2289 * New full-featured Preferences window
2292 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2293 --------------------------------
2296 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2297 * support for skins at the interface level
2298 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2299 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2300 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2301 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2302 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2305 * fixed HTTP redirects
2306 * support for opening an entire directory
2307 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2308 * new video4linux access plug-in
2309 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2312 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2313 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2314 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2317 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2318 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2319 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2320 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2321 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2322 * new codec for raw I420 video
2323 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2326 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2327 (although it still misses some important features)
2328 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2331 * new HTTP output support
2332 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2333 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2336 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2339 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2342 * reorderable playlist
2343 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2344 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2345 * support for mono audio output devices
2346 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2347 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2348 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2349 * the messages window remembers more lines
2350 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2351 * http and ogg stream output options
2352 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2355 * new skinnable interface
2356 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2358 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2359 * support for FLAC audio format
2360 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2362 * network tab in the interface
2363 * "apply" handling in preferences
2366 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2367 ---------------------------------
2370 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2371 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2372 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2373 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2375 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2376 * DTS S/PDIF support
2379 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2380 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2381 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2382 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2385 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2386 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2389 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2392 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2395 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2397 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2398 * rc interface is now fully useable
2399 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2402 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2403 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2404 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2405 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2406 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2408 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2409 * support for mouse gestures
2410 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2413 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2414 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2417 * improved ID3 tag detection
2418 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2419 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2420 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2422 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2425 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2426 ---------------------------------
2429 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2430 English was set as the preferred language
2433 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2434 --------------------------------
2437 * new mouse gesture interface
2438 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2442 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2443 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2444 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2447 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2448 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2452 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2455 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2456 without the user consent
2459 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2461 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2462 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2463 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2466 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2467 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2468 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2469 * playlist enhancements
2470 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2471 * new step forward/step backward commands
2472 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2473 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2474 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2477 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2478 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2479 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2482 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2483 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2486 * native video output is working again
2487 * only commandline interface support
2488 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2491 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2492 --------------------------------
2495 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2496 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2497 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2498 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2499 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2500 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2501 and A/52 streams are supported)
2502 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2507 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2508 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2509 * VCD entry points support
2510 * VCD image file support
2513 * support for *.asf format
2514 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2515 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2516 * support for ogg encapsulation
2517 * support for raw DV format
2518 * support for *.wav format
2519 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2522 Stream discovery & playlists:
2523 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2524 * support for .m3u file format
2525 * support for .asx file format
2526 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2529 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2530 (only available with the .avi demux)
2531 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2532 * support for raw PCM data
2533 * support for Cinepak video codec
2534 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2535 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2536 * support for Xvid codec
2537 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2538 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2539 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2541 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2543 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2546 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2549 * new WxWindows interface
2550 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2551 device and the channels configuration
2552 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2553 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2554 format that VLC can play
2555 * new swedish translation
2556 * enhancements of the playlist window
2557 * new messages window to see debug info
2558 * fixed a few crashes
2561 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2562 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2563 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2564 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working