3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 * Vastly improved playlist support:
30 * Media library support
32 * Shoutcast TV listings
33 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
36 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
37 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
41 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
42 * MKV USF subtitles support
43 * HTML based subtitles support
44 * Flash Screen Video support
47 * Flash Screen Video support
49 Video output and filters:
50 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
51 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
52 * New puzzle video output filter
53 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
54 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
56 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
57 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
58 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
60 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
61 * Add support for a transparency mask in the mosaic_bridge module.
64 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
68 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
70 * Improved user interaction
73 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
74 -----------------------------------------------------------
75 Various bugfixes notably:
76 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
77 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
78 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
81 * further usability improvements
84 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
85 ---------------------------------
88 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
91 * Fullscreen controller improvements
94 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
95 --------------------------------
98 * Shoutcast TV listings support
101 * Support for RTSP authentication
102 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
103 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
104 * ATSC support for DVB input
105 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
106 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
107 * Improved support for Flash Video files
110 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
111 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
112 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
113 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
114 * Matroska WavPack support
115 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
116 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
117 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
120 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
121 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
122 * Improved libcaca support
126 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
127 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
129 * Systray support in skins
131 * Support for Apple Remote control
132 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
133 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
134 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
135 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
137 * Notifications using notification-daemon
140 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
142 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
143 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
144 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
145 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
146 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
148 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
149 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
158 * Updates to the libvlc API
159 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
163 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
164 ---------------------------------
167 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
168 * Support for downloading updates
172 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
173 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
174 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
175 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
177 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
178 * Improved subtitles encoding support
179 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
182 * Cook (Real audio) support
184 Playlist / Services discovery:
185 * XSPF playlist support
187 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
190 * New JACK audio output
194 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
195 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
196 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
197 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
198 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
199 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
202 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
205 * System to inform the user and request information
206 - HTTP authentication
210 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
211 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
212 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
215 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
216 - Improved playlist handling
217 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
219 - Embedded Video output
220 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
221 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
222 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
223 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
224 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
226 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
227 - A bunch of new RPN functions
230 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
233 * Mac-Intel compatibility
234 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
235 * Growl "Now playing" support
238 * Ability to log to syslog
239 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
242 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
244 * A bit more automatic testing
246 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
247 ---------------------------------
250 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
251 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
254 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
255 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
258 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
261 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
262 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
268 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
270 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
271 --------------------------------
274 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
278 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
279 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
280 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
283 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
284 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
285 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
286 * GnomeVFS input module
287 * Support for RTP packet reordering
288 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
291 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
292 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
293 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
296 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
297 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
303 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
304 Mixer and Dolby Surround
307 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
308 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
309 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
312 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
314 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
315 - New extended controls panel
316 - New bookmarks window
317 - Fixed playlist sorting
318 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
320 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
321 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
322 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
323 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
327 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
328 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
330 - Include macro to include other files
334 * Should now work outside IE as well
337 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
340 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
341 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
344 The following languages were added:
349 The following languages were re-added:
352 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
353 --------------------------------
356 * Rewrite of the playlist
358 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
359 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
360 * Preferences improvements:
361 - New organization, designed to improve usability
362 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
364 * Core image manipulation support
365 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
366 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
367 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
368 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
369 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
370 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
371 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
372 now separated by ':' instead of ','
373 * Access filter architecture
374 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
375 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
379 * Support for SOCKS proxy
380 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
381 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
382 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
383 * Better support for Kasenna streams
384 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
385 * Massive Matroska improvements
386 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
388 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
389 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
390 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
391 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
392 * Support for FTP over IPv6
395 * Dirac decoder and encoder
396 * PNG decoder/encoder
397 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
398 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
401 * New Record and Timeshift filters
404 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
405 * Brand new SAP module
406 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
407 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
408 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
409 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
410 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
411 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
415 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
418 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
419 * Image file video output (png)
420 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
421 * Improvements to wall video filter
422 * Support for font color and opacity
428 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
429 - Seeking support in VoD streams
430 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
434 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
435 - Improved preferences
436 - Improvements to the wizard
437 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
439 - Redesigned playlist
440 - Improved preferences
442 - Support for multiple actions
445 - Support for the new playlist system
447 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
450 * Screensaver disabling fix
451 * DirectShow tuner configuration
452 * Support for no-decoration windows
455 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
456 * The OpenGL video output is back
457 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
458 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
459 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
460 is not yet available in the new module
461 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
464 * Support for single-buffered overlay
473 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
476 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
479 The following languages were added:
485 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
486 -----------------------------------------------------
489 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
490 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
493 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
494 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
495 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
498 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
501 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
504 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
507 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
508 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
509 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
513 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
515 * Support of playlist group announcement
517 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
518 -----------------------------------------------------
521 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
522 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
523 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
524 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
525 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
526 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
529 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
530 (Stream your desktop)
531 * Improved DVD support:
532 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
533 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
534 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
535 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
536 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
537 (selection of titles/chapters).
540 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
541 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
542 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
543 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
544 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
545 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
546 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
547 * Improved Ogg demuxer
548 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
549 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
552 * G.726 audio support
553 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
554 * MPEG-4 text support
555 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
556 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
557 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
561 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
562 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
563 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
564 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
565 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
566 * DVB subtitles encoder
567 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
568 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
570 * Text track muxing for mp4
571 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
572 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
573 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
574 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
575 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
578 * H.263 RTP streaming support
579 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
580 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
583 * New audio equalizer filter
584 * Very trivial volume normalizer
585 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
586 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
587 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
590 * Roku HD1000 Video output
591 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
592 with support for effects.
593 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
594 - New filters can be streamed.
595 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
596 - Centralized scaling and blending
598 - "time", to display current time
599 - "marq", to display a marquee
602 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
603 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
604 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
605 * A few skins2 improvements
606 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
607 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
608 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
609 * Improved CORBA control module
612 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
613 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
614 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
617 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
618 * Experimental SVG rendering module
619 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
622 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
623 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
624 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
625 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
626 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
629 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
632 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
633 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
636 * Server/client network synchronization module
637 * VBrick streams fully supported
638 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
641 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
642 --------------------------------
645 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
646 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
647 * Improved HTTP daemon.
648 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
651 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
652 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
653 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
654 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
655 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
656 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
657 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
660 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
661 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
662 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
663 * Improved directory access module.
664 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
665 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
666 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
667 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
668 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
671 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
672 * mmsh streaming fixes.
673 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
676 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
677 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
678 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
681 * Improved session announcement system.
682 * Minimize threads usage by default.
683 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
684 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
685 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
686 * Improved transrater.
687 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
688 * New configuration system.
689 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
692 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
693 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
694 * Supports live streams and VoD.
695 * Supports scheduling.
696 * Telnet interface for vlm.
697 * HTTP interface for vlm.
700 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
701 - Ability to embed video output.
702 - Support for bitmap fonts.
703 - Lots of improvements.
704 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
705 - New design and set of icons.
706 - Ability to embed video output.
707 - Support for hotkeys.
708 - Support for bookmarks.
710 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
711 - Better hotkeys handling.
714 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
715 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
716 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
717 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
720 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
721 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
722 * Improved Windows installer.
728 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
729 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
731 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
732 ---------------------------------
735 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
736 * Playing MOD files is working now.
739 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
740 ---------------------------------
743 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
744 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
747 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
748 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
749 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
750 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
753 * Internal improvments
754 * Improved import/export
757 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
759 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
760 small and strange formats.
762 * New MOD audio demux.
763 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
764 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
765 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
766 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
769 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
770 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
771 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
777 * New opengl video output plugin.
780 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
781 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
783 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
784 ---------------------------------
787 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
788 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
789 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
790 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
791 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
792 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
793 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
794 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
797 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
802 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
803 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
804 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
805 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
806 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
807 * Reworked DVB tuning.
808 * Better Icecast support.
809 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
810 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
813 * Support for Theora video encoding.
814 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
815 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
816 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
817 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
818 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
819 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
822 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
823 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
824 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
825 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
826 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
827 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
828 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
829 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
830 * Preliminary RTP support.
831 * Fixes to SAP announces.
836 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
837 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
839 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
840 - Improvements and help in preferences
841 - New streaming wizard
842 - Revised Disc Open menu
844 - Improvements of the standard pages
845 - Support for new commands
846 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
849 * Many fixes to the SAP module
850 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
853 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
854 * Text subtitles autodetection.
855 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
856 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
857 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
858 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
859 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
860 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
861 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
864 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
866 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
867 * Support for Panther.
868 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
869 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
872 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
873 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
874 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
875 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
876 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
877 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
878 * Multimonitor support (untested).
879 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
882 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
883 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
884 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
887 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
890 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
891 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
892 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
893 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
895 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
896 ---------------------------------
899 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
902 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
903 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
906 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
907 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
910 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
913 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
914 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
917 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
920 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
923 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
924 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
927 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
928 ---------------------------------
931 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
932 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
936 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
937 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
938 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
940 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
941 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
944 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
947 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
950 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
951 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
954 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
955 ---------------------------------
958 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
959 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
963 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
964 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
965 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
966 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
967 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
970 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
971 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
972 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
975 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
976 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
977 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
980 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
981 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
982 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
983 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
984 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
987 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
988 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
989 * A new CORBA control plugin.
992 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
995 * Improved build system.
996 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
997 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
998 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
999 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1002 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1003 ---------------------------------
1006 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1009 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1010 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1011 * Video 4 Linux support
1012 * CD Digital Audio support
1013 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1016 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1017 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1018 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1019 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1022 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1023 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1024 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1025 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1026 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1027 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1028 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1031 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1032 * New HTTP remote control interface
1035 * 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.
1036 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1037 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1038 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1041 * New reset option for the preferences
1042 * You can set your language in the prefences
1043 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1044 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1045 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1046 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1049 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1050 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1051 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1054 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1055 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1056 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1057 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1058 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1059 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1060 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1061 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1062 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1063 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1066 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1067 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1068 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1069 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1070 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1071 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1072 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1075 * Interface localization
1076 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1077 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1078 * New full-featured Preferences window
1080 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1081 ---------------------------------
1084 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1085 * support for skins at the interface level
1086 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1087 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1088 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1089 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1090 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1093 * fixed HTTP redirects
1094 * support for opening an entire directory
1095 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1096 * new video4linux access plug-in
1097 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1100 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1101 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1102 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1105 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1106 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1107 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1108 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1109 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1110 * new codec for raw I420 video
1111 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1114 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1115 (although it still misses some important features)
1116 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1119 * new HTTP output support
1120 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1121 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1124 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1127 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1130 * reorderable playlist
1131 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1132 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1133 * support for mono audio output devices
1134 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1135 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1136 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1137 * the messages window remembers more lines
1138 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1139 * http and ogg stream output options
1140 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1143 * new skinnable interface
1144 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1146 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1147 * support for FLAC audio format
1148 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1150 * network tab in the interface
1151 * "apply" handling in preferences
1154 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1155 ---------------------------------
1158 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1159 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1160 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1161 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1163 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1164 * DTS S/PDIF support
1167 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1168 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1169 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1170 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1173 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1174 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1177 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1180 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1183 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1185 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1186 * rc interface is now fully useable
1187 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1190 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1191 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1192 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1193 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1194 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1196 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1197 * support for mouse gestures
1198 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1201 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1202 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1205 * improved ID3 tag detection
1206 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1207 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1208 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1210 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1213 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1214 ---------------------------------
1217 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1218 English was set as the preferred language
1221 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1222 --------------------------------
1225 * new mouse gesture interface
1226 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1230 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1231 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1232 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1235 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1236 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1240 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1243 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1244 without the user consent
1247 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1249 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1250 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1251 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1254 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1255 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1256 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1257 * playlist enhancements
1258 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1259 * new step forward/step backward commands
1260 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1261 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1262 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1265 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1266 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1267 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1270 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1271 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1274 * native video output is working again
1275 * only commandline interface support
1276 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1279 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1280 --------------------------------
1283 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1284 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1285 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1286 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1287 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1288 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1289 and A/52 streams are supported)
1290 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1295 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1296 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1297 * VCD entry points support
1298 * VCD image file support
1301 * support for *.asf format
1302 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1303 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1304 * support for ogg encapsulation
1305 * support for raw DV format
1306 * support for *.wav format
1307 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1310 Stream discovery & playlists:
1311 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1312 * support for .m3u file format
1313 * support for .asx file format
1314 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1317 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1318 (only available with the .avi demux)
1319 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1320 * support for raw PCM data
1321 * support for Cinepak video codec
1322 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1323 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1324 * support for Xvid codec
1325 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1326 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1327 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1329 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1331 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1334 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1337 * new WxWindows interface
1338 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1339 device and the channels configuration
1340 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1341 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1342 format that VLC can play
1343 * new swedish translation
1344 * enhancements of the playlist window
1345 * new messages window to see debug info
1346 * fixed a few crashes
1349 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1350 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1351 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1352 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working