1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
6 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
9 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
12 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
15 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
16 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
19 * New Oldmovie effect filter
20 * New VHS effect filter
21 * New Freeze effect filter
24 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
27 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
30 * ios video output: use ios2
31 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
34 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
35 --------------------------------
38 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
39 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
40 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
41 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
42 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
44 3rd party libraries (contrib):
45 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
49 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
50 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
51 * Partial support for Windows Store App
53 * Add an audio fingerprinter
54 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
57 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
58 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
59 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
60 * Support for Ulead DV audio
61 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
62 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
63 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
64 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
65 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
66 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
67 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
68 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
71 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
72 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
75 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
76 remove support for previous OS X releases
77 * Major improvements in DASH support
78 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
79 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
80 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
81 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
82 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
83 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
84 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
85 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
86 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
87 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
90 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
91 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
92 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
93 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
94 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
95 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
96 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
97 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
98 * Support for more MJPEG streams
99 * Add support for liveleak streams
100 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
101 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
102 program to terminate.
103 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
106 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
107 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
108 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
109 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
110 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
111 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
112 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
113 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
114 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
115 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
116 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
119 * New remapping channel filter
120 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
121 * New VSXu visualization plugin
122 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
123 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
126 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
127 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
128 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
129 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
130 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
131 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
132 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
133 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
136 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
137 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
138 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
139 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
140 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
141 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
142 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
145 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
146 * Options support for AVIO output module
147 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
148 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
149 * Livehttp stream encryption support
150 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
151 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
154 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
157 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
158 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
159 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
160 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
161 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
162 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
166 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
169 * Add support for multiple video outputs
170 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
172 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
173 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
174 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
175 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
176 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
177 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
178 VLC's internal volume level
179 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
181 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
182 selection and to manage the list of presets
183 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
184 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
185 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
186 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
187 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
188 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
189 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
190 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
191 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
192 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
194 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
195 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
196 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
197 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
198 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
199 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
200 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
201 3rd party applications
202 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
203 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
204 (system-wide settings)
205 * Add support for the Video Title option
206 * Add support for the Boss Key
207 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
208 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
211 * Partial support for Qt5.0
212 * Menus modifications and improvements
213 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
214 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
215 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
216 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
217 * EPG display fixes and improvements
218 * Add SD pixmap sources
219 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
220 * Display playlist total duration
221 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
223 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
224 * Remove language preference
225 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
230 * Extend sliders, offsets options
231 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
232 * Numerous fixes and improvements
233 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
236 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
237 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
238 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
239 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
240 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
241 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
242 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
243 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
244 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
245 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
248 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
249 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
250 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
251 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
252 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
253 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
255 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
256 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
257 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
258 * Broken crop video filter
260 * OSD parser and menu
261 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
262 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
263 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
264 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
268 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
269 --------------------------------
272 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
273 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
277 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
280 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
283 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
286 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
290 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
293 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
296 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
297 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
298 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
301 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
302 --------------------------------
305 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
308 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
311 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
312 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
313 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
314 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
315 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
316 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
319 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
320 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
321 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
322 * 3rd party codecs updates
325 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
326 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
327 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
328 in the advanced preferences panel
329 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
330 * Fix crash within the video output code
331 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
332 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
333 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
334 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
336 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
339 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
342 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
343 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
346 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
349 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
350 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
351 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
352 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
353 Dutch, Danish, translations
354 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
357 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
358 --------------------------------
361 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
364 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
365 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
366 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
369 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
370 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
371 * Fix koreus lua parser
372 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
373 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
374 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
375 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
378 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
379 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
382 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
385 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
386 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
387 * Fix Time counter UI look
388 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
391 * Fix https streaming
394 * Fix audio and video track selection:
395 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
396 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
399 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
400 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
401 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
402 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
403 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
406 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
407 --------------------------------
410 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
411 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
412 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
413 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
414 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
415 during playback on Mac OS X
418 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
419 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
420 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
423 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
424 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
425 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
426 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
427 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
430 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
431 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
432 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
433 * Support Youtube live streams
436 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
439 * Fix media info dialog update
440 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
441 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
442 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
443 * Fix album art display at start
446 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
447 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
448 * Fix menus display and behavior
449 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
450 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
451 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
452 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
453 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
454 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
455 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
458 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
459 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
460 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
461 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
462 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
463 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
464 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
465 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
466 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
469 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
470 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
471 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
472 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
473 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
476 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
477 --------------------------------
480 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
483 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
484 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
487 * Add GateKeeper support
488 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
489 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
490 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
493 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
496 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
497 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
498 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
499 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
500 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
503 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
504 --------------------------------
507 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
508 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
509 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
510 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
511 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
512 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
513 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
514 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
515 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
516 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
517 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
521 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
522 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
523 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
524 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
525 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
526 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
527 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
528 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
529 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
530 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
531 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
532 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
535 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
536 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
538 * Fix MP3 free format support
541 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
542 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
543 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
544 * Fix for DVB channels file support
545 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
548 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
549 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
551 Audio filters and output:
552 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
553 * Fix DirectSound device selection
554 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
555 * Do not apply volume in file output
556 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
557 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
560 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
561 the persistant media library
562 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
563 to the media library or the temporary playlist
564 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
565 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
566 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
567 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
568 press on the Play/Pause button
569 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
570 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
571 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
572 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
573 * Many Fullscreen fixes
574 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
575 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
576 Synchronization panel
577 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
578 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
579 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
580 * Fix crashes on exit
581 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
583 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
584 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
585 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
586 automatically reset on the first launch.
587 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
588 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
589 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
592 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
593 * Fixes for icecast SD
596 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
597 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
598 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
599 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
600 * Fix tags and file names display
601 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
604 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
605 * Fix for key events and focus loss
608 * Fix display of some buttons
609 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
610 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
613 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
614 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
615 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
618 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
619 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
620 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
621 Thai translations update
622 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
625 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
626 --------------------------------
629 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
630 * fix the samba module compilation
631 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
632 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
633 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
634 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
637 * Support for MXPEG files
638 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
639 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
642 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
643 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
644 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
647 * Fix ogm header creation
650 * limit spatializer filter distortions
651 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
654 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
655 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
656 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
657 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
660 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
663 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
664 * allow to hide the sidebar
665 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
666 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
667 * noticebly faster launch time
668 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
669 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
670 * improve track synchronization panel
671 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
672 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
675 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
676 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
677 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
678 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
681 * fix for menus display
682 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
683 * documentation update
686 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
687 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
690 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
691 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
692 * Update Jamendo selections
696 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
697 * fix a crash on VLM close
700 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
701 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
702 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
703 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
706 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
709 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
710 ---------------------------------
713 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
714 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
715 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
716 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
717 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
718 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
719 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
720 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
721 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
722 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
723 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
724 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
725 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
726 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
727 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
728 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
729 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
730 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
731 --http-crl (optional CRL).
732 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
733 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
734 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
735 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
736 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
737 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
738 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
740 Important changes for packagers:
741 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
742 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
743 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
744 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
745 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
746 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
747 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
748 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
749 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
750 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
753 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
754 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
755 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
756 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
757 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
758 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
759 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
762 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
763 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
764 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
765 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
766 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
767 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
768 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
769 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
770 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
771 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
772 * PulseAudio audio input support
773 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
774 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
775 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
776 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
777 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
778 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
779 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
780 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
783 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
784 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
785 are notably concerned.
786 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
787 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
788 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
789 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
790 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
791 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
792 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
793 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
794 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
795 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
796 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
797 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
798 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
799 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
800 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
803 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
804 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
805 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
806 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
807 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
808 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
809 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
810 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
811 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
812 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
813 * Improved support of tracker files
814 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
817 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
818 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
819 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
820 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
821 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
822 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
823 and important cleanups and optimisations
824 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
825 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
826 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
827 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
828 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
829 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
830 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
831 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
832 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
833 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
834 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
835 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
836 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
837 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
838 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
839 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
840 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
841 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
842 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
843 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
844 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
847 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
848 * New video output for iOS platform
849 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
850 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
851 * Various vmem improvements
852 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
853 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
854 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
855 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
856 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
857 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
859 Audio Output and Filters:
860 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
861 * New audio output in memory (amem)
862 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
863 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
864 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
865 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
866 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
867 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
868 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
869 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
872 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
873 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
874 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
875 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
876 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
877 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
878 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
879 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
880 * New anti-flickering filter
881 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
882 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
883 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
884 blackbox and customizable shadow.
885 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
886 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
887 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
890 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
891 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
892 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
893 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
894 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
895 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
896 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
897 * Major rework of VoD support
898 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
899 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
900 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
901 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
902 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
903 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
904 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
905 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
906 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
907 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
910 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
911 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
914 * New capabilities for libVLC:
915 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
916 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
917 list of available audio and video filters
918 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
919 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
920 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
923 * asademux, subsass: use libass
924 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
925 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
927 * upnp: use upnp_intel
928 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
929 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
930 * removal of the noise filter
931 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
932 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
933 removed in Growl's next release, too.
934 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
937 * Update of translations for most languages.
938 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
941 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
942 ----------------------------------
945 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
946 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
949 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
950 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
953 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
954 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
955 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
958 * Camtasia decoding fix.
961 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
962 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
965 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
968 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
969 ----------------------------------
972 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
973 including support for OS X Lion
974 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
975 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
978 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
981 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
982 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
983 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
986 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
989 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
990 ----------------------------------
993 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
994 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
997 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
998 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
999 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1000 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1001 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1003 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1004 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1005 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1007 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1008 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1011 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1014 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1017 * Fix quitting on Linux
1018 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1022 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1025 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1028 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1029 ---------------------------------
1031 Windows and Mac OS X:
1032 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1035 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1036 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1039 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1042 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1045 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1047 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1048 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1050 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1051 * RTP output and XML export
1052 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1056 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1057 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1058 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1059 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1062 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1063 --------------------------------
1065 Windows and Mac OS X:
1066 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1069 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1072 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1073 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1074 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1075 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1076 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1077 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1080 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1081 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1085 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1086 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1087 * New Luganda Translation
1090 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1091 --------------------------------
1094 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1097 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1098 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1099 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1100 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1103 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1105 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1106 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1107 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1108 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1109 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1110 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1111 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1112 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1114 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1115 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1116 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1117 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1118 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1119 * Configure and build system improvements
1120 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1123 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1124 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1125 * New icelandic translation
1128 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1133 #234484 and #260719.
1136 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1137 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1138 and stability reasons
1141 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1145 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1148 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1149 ----------------------------------
1152 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1155 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1156 ---------------------------------
1159 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1160 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1161 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1162 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1165 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1168 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1169 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1170 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1171 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1174 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1175 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1176 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1178 Subtitles and renderer:
1179 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1180 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1181 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1182 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1183 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1186 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1187 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1188 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1189 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1192 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1193 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1195 Miscellaneous fixes:
1196 * KDE device solid actions
1198 * Transcode integer overflow
1199 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1200 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1203 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1204 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1205 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1208 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1209 ----------------------------------
1212 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1216 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1219 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1222 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1223 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1224 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1225 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1228 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1232 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1235 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1238 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1239 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1241 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1245 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1246 * Miscellaneous fixes
1249 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1250 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1251 French and Ukrainian
1252 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1253 * New Asturian translation
1256 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1257 ----------------------------------
1260 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1262 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1265 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1268 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1269 * Various fixes for Windows
1272 * New Armenian translation
1273 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1274 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1277 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1278 --------------------------------
1281 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1282 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1283 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1286 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1287 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1290 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1291 --------------------------------
1293 Access and demuxers:
1294 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1295 * fix for podcasts parsing
1296 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1299 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1300 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1303 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1304 * fix m3u playlists exports
1307 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1310 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1313 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1316 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1319 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1322 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1323 --------------------------------
1326 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1327 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1330 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1331 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1334 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1335 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1336 * fix console output encoding
1338 Interface and extensions:
1339 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1340 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1343 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1344 --------------------------------
1347 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1348 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1349 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1350 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1351 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1352 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1353 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1354 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1355 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1356 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1357 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1358 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1359 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1360 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1361 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1362 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1366 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1367 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1368 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1369 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1370 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1373 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1376 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1377 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1378 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1382 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1385 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1386 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1387 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1390 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1391 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1392 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1393 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1396 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1397 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1400 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1401 --------------------------------
1403 Important changes for users:
1404 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1405 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1407 Important changes for packagers:
1408 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1409 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1410 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1411 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1412 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1414 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1416 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1417 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1418 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1419 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1420 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1423 * Support for the sftp protocol
1424 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1425 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1426 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1427 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1428 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1431 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1432 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1433 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1435 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1436 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1437 * Invmem module improvements
1438 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1439 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1440 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1441 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1442 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1443 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1444 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1445 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1446 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1447 * Support for VP8 codec
1448 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1451 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1452 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1453 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1454 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1455 * Various EGP improvements
1456 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1457 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1460 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1461 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1462 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1463 * Podcast images are now displayed
1466 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1467 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1468 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1469 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1470 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1471 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1472 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1473 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1474 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1475 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1476 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1479 * New content extensions lua framework
1482 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1483 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1484 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1485 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1486 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1487 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1488 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1491 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1492 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1493 * Service discovery based on libudev
1494 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1497 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1498 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1499 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1500 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1501 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1502 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1503 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1506 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1507 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1508 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1511 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1513 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1514 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1517 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1520 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1521 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1522 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1523 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1524 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1525 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1526 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1529 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1530 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1533 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1534 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1535 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1539 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1540 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1541 * Improved Solaris port
1544 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1545 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1548 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1549 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1550 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1551 * transrate: broken since too long
1552 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1553 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1554 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1555 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1556 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1557 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1558 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1559 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1560 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1561 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1562 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1563 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1564 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1565 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1568 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1569 --------------------------------
1572 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1574 Decoders/Packetizers:
1575 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1578 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1579 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1580 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1581 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1582 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1585 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1586 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1589 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1590 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1593 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1594 and Walloon translations updated
1595 * Sinhala translation started
1598 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1599 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1602 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1603 --------------------------------
1606 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1607 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1610 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1613 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1614 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1617 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1618 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1619 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1620 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1623 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1624 --------------------------------
1627 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1628 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1631 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1632 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1635 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1636 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1639 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1642 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1643 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1646 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1647 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1650 * New Walloon translation
1651 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1654 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1655 --------------------------------
1658 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1659 regressions in most popular drivers
1660 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1663 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1664 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1665 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1668 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1669 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1672 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1673 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1674 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1675 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1676 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1679 * New udev module for linux
1682 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1685 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1688 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1689 --------------------------------
1692 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1693 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1694 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1697 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1698 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1701 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1702 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1705 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1708 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1709 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1710 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1711 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1714 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1715 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1716 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1717 - no support for Goom and SDL
1718 - limited text rendering support
1719 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1722 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1723 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1724 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1725 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1726 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1727 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1728 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1729 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1730 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1734 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1737 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1740 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1741 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1742 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1743 Arabic and French translation updates
1746 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1747 --------------------------------
1750 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1751 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1752 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1753 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1754 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1755 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1758 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1759 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1760 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1763 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1764 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1765 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1768 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1771 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1772 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1775 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1776 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1777 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1778 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1779 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1780 * Fix various crashes
1783 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1785 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1789 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1790 ---------------------------------
1794 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1795 See 'Access:' for more info.
1796 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1799 * Instantaneous pausing
1800 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1801 * Finer speed control
1802 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1803 * Timeshift for most medias
1804 * RTSP trickplay support
1805 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1808 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1809 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1810 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1811 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1812 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1813 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1814 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1815 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1816 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1817 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1820 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1821 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1822 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1823 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1824 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1825 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1826 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1829 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1830 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1833 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1834 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1835 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1836 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1837 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1838 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1839 * DVB scanning on linux
1840 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1841 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1842 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1843 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1844 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1845 * MTP device access on Unix
1846 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1847 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1850 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1851 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1852 Windows and Mac OS X.
1855 * Export the playlist in HTML
1856 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1857 * Better metadata handling and reading
1859 Linux/Windows interface:
1860 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1861 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1862 * Recently played items list
1863 * Interface toolbar customizations
1864 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1865 - More menus actions
1866 - Finer speed slider
1867 - Improvements on many dialogs
1868 - New dialog for plugins listing
1869 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1870 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1871 * Better integration in GTK environments
1874 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1875 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1876 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1877 * Additional usability improvements
1880 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1881 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1882 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1883 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1884 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1887 * New Maemo port with:
1888 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1889 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1892 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1895 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1896 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1897 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1898 * Support for latest iSight models
1901 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1902 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1905 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1906 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1907 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1908 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1909 The old image video output has been removed.
1910 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1911 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1914 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1922 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1923 --------------------------------------
1929 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1930 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1931 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1932 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1933 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1934 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1935 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1937 Various fixes to the following modules:
1940 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1941 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1942 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1944 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1949 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1950 ---------------------------------
1953 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1954 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1957 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1958 ---------------------------------
1961 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1964 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1967 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1968 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1969 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1970 main controller window.
1971 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1974 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1979 * Updates of other localizations
1982 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1983 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1984 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1985 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1986 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1989 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1990 ---------------------------------
1993 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1995 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1998 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1999 --------------------------------
2004 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2005 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2008 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2009 --------------------------------
2011 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2012 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2015 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2018 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2019 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2022 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2023 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2026 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2027 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2028 * Various fixed in playlist
2031 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2034 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2037 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2038 ------------------------------------
2040 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2041 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2044 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2045 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2046 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2049 * Stability fix for the video output.
2052 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2053 --------------------------------
2056 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2057 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2058 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2059 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2060 * Fixed update system bugs
2061 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2064 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2065 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2066 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2067 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2068 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2069 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2070 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2071 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2072 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2073 modern Mac OS X versions
2076 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2077 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2079 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2080 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2083 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2084 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2085 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2086 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2087 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2088 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2091 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2092 --------------------------------
2094 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2095 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2096 * Multiple bugfixes.
2099 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2100 --------------------------------
2102 * Multiple bug fixes.
2105 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2106 ---------------------------------
2110 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2111 recent to work correctly
2112 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2113 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2114 edit the ".hosts" file.
2115 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2116 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2117 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2118 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2119 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2120 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2121 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2122 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2123 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2124 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2125 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2126 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2127 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2128 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2129 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2130 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2131 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2132 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2133 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2134 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2135 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2136 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2137 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2138 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2139 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2140 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2141 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2142 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2143 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2144 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2145 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2146 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2147 and postproc modules.
2148 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2149 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2150 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2151 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2153 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2154 filter. For example:
2155 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2156 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2158 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2159 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2165 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2167 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2168 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2171 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2172 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2174 * Shoutcast TV listings
2175 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2177 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2178 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2180 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2183 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2184 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2185 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2186 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2187 * JACK audio input support
2188 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2189 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2190 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2191 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2192 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2193 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2194 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2195 (available as a separate download).
2196 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2197 * RTMP input support
2198 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2199 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2200 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2202 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2203 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2206 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2207 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2208 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2209 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2211 * APEv1/2 tags support
2212 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2213 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2215 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2216 * TiVo Series 2 support
2217 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2222 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2223 * Flash Screen Video support
2224 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2225 * DosBox Capture support
2226 * Karl Morton's Video support
2227 * limited atrac3 support
2229 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2230 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2231 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2232 * H.264 PAFF support
2233 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2234 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2235 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2236 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2237 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2240 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2241 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2242 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2243 * AQTitle subtitles support
2244 * MKV USF subtitles support
2245 * HTML-based subtitles support
2246 * MPSub subtitles support
2247 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2248 * MPL2 subtitles support
2249 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2250 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2251 * Realtext subtitle support
2252 * DKS subtitle support
2253 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2254 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2257 * Flash Screen Video support
2258 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2260 Video outputs and filters:
2261 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2262 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2263 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2264 * New puzzle video output filter
2265 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2266 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2268 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2269 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2270 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2271 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2272 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2273 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2274 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2275 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2276 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2277 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2278 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2279 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2280 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2281 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2283 Audio outputs and filters:
2284 * Replay gain support
2285 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2286 new scaletempo audio filter)
2287 * New spatializer audio filter
2288 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2291 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2292 * New RTP payload formats:
2293 * Speex voice audio codec
2294 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2295 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2296 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2297 * DCCP transport for RTP
2298 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2303 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2304 end-user suitable way.
2305 * Improved user interaction
2306 * Improved mouse gestures
2307 * Vastly improved Update checker
2308 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2310 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2311 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2313 * Improved video output features
2314 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2315 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2316 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2317 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2318 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2320 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2321 if libncursesw is available.
2322 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2323 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2324 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2326 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2327 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2328 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2329 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2330 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2331 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2332 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2333 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2336 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2337 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2338 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2341 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2342 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2343 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2344 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2345 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2346 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2349 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2350 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2360 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2361 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2362 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2365 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2366 ----------------------------------
2369 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2372 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2373 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2374 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2375 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2376 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2377 * Updated Polish translation
2380 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2381 ----------------------------------
2384 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2385 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2386 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2389 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2390 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2391 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2392 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2393 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2394 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2395 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2396 to an unexpected application termination
2397 * New Serbian translation
2398 * Updated Romanian translation
2401 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2402 ----------------------------------
2405 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2406 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2407 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2408 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2409 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2410 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2411 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2412 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2415 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2416 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2417 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2418 * Fixed AAC resampling
2419 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2420 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2423 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2424 ----------------------------------
2427 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2428 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2429 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2430 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2431 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2434 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2435 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2436 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2437 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2438 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2441 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2442 ----------------------------------
2445 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2446 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2449 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2450 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2451 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2452 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2454 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2458 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2461 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2464 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2467 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2470 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2471 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2472 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2473 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2474 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2476 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2477 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2478 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2479 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2482 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2485 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2486 ----------------------------------
2489 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2490 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2491 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2493 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2494 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2496 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2497 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2500 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2502 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2503 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2504 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2505 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2506 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2507 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2508 two different movies
2509 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2510 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2511 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2514 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2517 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2518 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2519 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2520 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2523 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2524 ----------------------------------
2526 Various bugfixes, notably:
2527 * Windows Vista compatibility
2528 * Cropping in Direct3D
2529 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2530 * RSS filter string overflow
2532 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2534 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2535 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2538 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2539 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2542 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2545 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2548 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2551 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2552 ----------------------------------
2554 Various bugfixes, notably:
2555 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2556 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2557 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2558 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2559 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2560 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2563 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2564 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2567 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2569 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2570 * Diverse usability improvements
2571 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2572 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2573 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2576 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2577 ---------------------------------
2579 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2580 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2583 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2586 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2587 --------------------------------
2590 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2593 * Support for RTSP authentication
2594 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2595 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2596 * ATSC support for DVB input
2597 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2598 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2599 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2602 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2603 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2604 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2605 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2606 * Matroska WavPack support
2607 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2608 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2609 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2612 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2613 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2614 * Improved libcaca support
2618 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2619 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2621 * Systray support in skins
2623 * Support for Apple Remote control
2624 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2625 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2626 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2627 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2629 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2632 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2633 Windows 9x/ME users:
2634 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2635 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2636 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2637 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2638 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2640 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2641 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2650 * Updates to the libvlc API
2651 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2654 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2655 --------------------------------
2658 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2659 * Support for downloading updates
2663 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2664 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2665 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2666 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2668 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2669 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2670 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2673 * Cook (Real audio) support
2675 Playlist / Services discovery:
2676 * XSPF playlist support
2678 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2681 * New JACK audio output
2684 * New video filters:
2685 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2686 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2687 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2688 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2689 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2690 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2693 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2696 * System to inform the user and request information
2697 - HTTP authentication
2701 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2702 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2703 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2706 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2707 - Improved playlist handling
2708 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2710 - Embedded Video output
2711 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2712 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2713 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2714 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2715 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2717 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2718 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2721 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2724 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2725 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2726 * Growl "Now playing" support
2729 * Ability to log to syslog
2730 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2733 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2735 * A bit more automatic testing
2738 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2739 ---------------------------------
2742 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2743 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2746 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2747 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2750 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2753 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2754 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2760 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2763 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2764 --------------------------------
2767 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2771 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2772 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2773 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2776 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2777 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2778 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2779 * GnomeVFS input module
2780 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2781 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2784 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2785 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2786 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2789 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2790 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2796 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2797 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2800 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2801 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2802 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2805 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2807 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2808 - New extended controls panel
2809 - New bookmarks window
2810 - Fixed playlist sorting
2811 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2813 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2814 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2815 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2816 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2820 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2821 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2823 - Include macro to include other files
2827 * Should now work outside IE as well
2830 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2833 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2834 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2837 The following languages were added:
2841 * Simplified Chinese
2842 The following languages were re-added:
2846 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2847 --------------------------------
2850 * Rewrite of the playlist
2852 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2853 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2854 * Preferences improvements:
2855 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2856 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2858 * Core image manipulation support
2859 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2860 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2861 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2862 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2863 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2864 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2865 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2866 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2867 * Access filter architecture
2868 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2869 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2873 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2874 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2875 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2876 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2877 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2878 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2879 * Massive Matroska improvements
2880 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2882 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2883 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2884 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2885 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2886 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2888 Decoders / Encoders:
2889 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2890 * PNG decoder/encoder
2891 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2892 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2895 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2898 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2899 * Brand new SAP module
2900 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2901 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2902 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2903 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2904 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2905 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2909 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2912 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2913 * Image file video output (png)
2914 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2915 * Improvements to wall video filter
2916 * Support for font color and opacity
2922 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2923 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2924 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2928 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2929 - Improved preferences
2930 - Improvements to the wizard
2931 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2933 - Redesigned playlist
2934 - Improved preferences
2936 - Support for multiple actions
2939 - Support for the new playlist system
2941 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2944 * Screensaver disabling fix
2945 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2946 * Support for no-decoration windows
2949 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2950 * The OpenGL video output is back
2951 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2952 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2953 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2954 is not yet available in the new module
2955 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2958 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2967 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2970 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2973 The following languages were added:
2979 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2980 --------------------------------
2983 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2984 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2987 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2988 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2989 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2992 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2995 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2998 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3001 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3002 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3003 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3007 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3009 * Support of playlist group announcement
3012 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3013 --------------------------------
3016 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3017 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3018 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3019 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3020 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3021 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3024 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3025 (Stream your desktop)
3026 * Improved DVD support:
3027 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3028 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3029 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3030 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3031 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3032 (selection of titles/chapters).
3035 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3036 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3037 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3038 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3039 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3040 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3041 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3042 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3043 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3044 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3047 * G.726 audio support
3048 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3049 * MPEG-4 text support
3050 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3051 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3052 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3056 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3057 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3058 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3059 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3060 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3061 * DVB subtitles encoder
3062 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3063 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3065 * Text track muxing for mp4
3066 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3067 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3068 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3069 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3070 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3071 * Improved ASF muxer
3073 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3074 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3075 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3078 * New audio equalizer filter
3079 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3080 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3081 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3082 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3085 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3086 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3087 with support for effects.
3088 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3089 - New filters can be streamed.
3090 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3091 - Centralized scaling and blending
3093 - "time", to display current time
3094 - "marq", to display a marquee
3097 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3098 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3099 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3100 * A few skins2 improvements
3101 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3102 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3103 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3104 * Improved CORBA control module
3107 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3108 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3109 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3112 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3113 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3114 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3117 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3118 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3119 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3120 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3121 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3124 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3127 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3128 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3131 * Server/client network synchronization module
3132 * VBrick streams fully supported
3133 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3137 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3138 --------------------------------
3141 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3142 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3143 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3144 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3147 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3148 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3149 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3150 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3151 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3152 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3153 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3156 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3157 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3158 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3159 * Improved directory access module.
3160 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3161 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3162 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3163 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3164 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3167 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3168 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3169 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3172 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3173 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3174 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3177 * Improved session announcement system.
3178 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3179 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3180 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3181 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3182 * Improved transrater.
3183 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3184 * New configuration system.
3185 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3188 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3189 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3190 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3191 * Supports scheduling.
3192 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3193 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3196 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3197 - Ability to embed video output.
3198 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3199 - Lots of improvements.
3200 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3201 - New design and set of icons.
3202 - Ability to embed video output.
3203 - Support for hotkeys.
3204 - Support for bookmarks.
3206 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3207 - Better hotkeys handling.
3210 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3211 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3212 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3213 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3216 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3217 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3218 * Improved Windows installer.
3224 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3225 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3228 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3229 ---------------------------------
3232 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3233 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3236 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3237 --------------------------------
3240 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3241 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3244 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3245 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3246 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3247 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3250 * Internal improvments
3251 * Improved import/export
3254 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3256 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3257 small and strange formats.
3259 * New MOD audio demux.
3260 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3261 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3262 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3263 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3266 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3267 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3268 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3274 * New opengl video output plugin.
3277 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3278 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3281 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3282 --------------------------------
3285 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3286 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3287 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3288 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3289 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3290 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3291 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3292 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3295 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3300 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3301 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3302 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3303 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3304 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3305 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3306 * Better Icecast support.
3307 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3308 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3311 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3312 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3313 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3314 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3315 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3316 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3317 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3320 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3321 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3322 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3323 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3324 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3325 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3326 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3327 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3328 * Preliminary RTP support.
3329 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3334 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3335 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3337 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3338 - Improvements and help in preferences
3339 - New streaming wizard
3340 - Revised Disc Open menu
3342 - Improvements of the standard pages
3343 - Support for new commands
3344 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3347 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3348 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3351 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3352 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3353 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3354 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3355 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3356 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3357 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3358 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3359 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3362 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3364 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3365 * Support for Panther.
3366 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3367 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3370 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3371 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3372 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3373 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3374 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3375 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3376 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3377 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3380 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3381 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3382 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3385 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3388 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3389 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3390 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3391 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3394 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3395 --------------------------------
3398 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3401 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3402 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3405 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3406 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3409 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3412 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3413 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3416 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3419 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3422 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3423 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3427 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3428 --------------------------------
3431 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3432 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3436 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3437 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3438 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3440 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3441 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3444 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3447 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3450 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3451 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3455 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3456 --------------------------------
3459 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3460 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3464 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3465 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3466 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3467 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3468 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3471 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3472 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3473 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3476 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3477 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3478 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3481 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3482 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3483 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3484 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3485 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3488 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3489 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3490 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3493 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3496 * Improved build system.
3497 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3498 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3499 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3500 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3503 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3504 --------------------------------
3507 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3510 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3511 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3512 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3513 * Video 4 Linux support
3514 * CD Digital Audio support
3515 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3518 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3519 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3520 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3521 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3524 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3525 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3526 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3527 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3528 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3529 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3530 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3533 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3534 * New HTTP remote control interface
3537 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3538 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3539 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3540 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3541 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3544 * New reset option for the preferences
3545 * You can set your language in the prefences
3546 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3547 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3548 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3549 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3552 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3553 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3554 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3557 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3558 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3559 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3560 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3561 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3562 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3563 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3564 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3565 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3566 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3569 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3570 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3571 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3572 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3573 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3574 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3575 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3578 * Interface localization
3579 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3580 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3581 * New full-featured Preferences window
3584 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3585 --------------------------------
3588 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3589 * support for skins at the interface level
3590 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3591 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3592 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3593 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3594 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3597 * fixed HTTP redirects
3598 * support for opening an entire directory
3599 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3600 * new video4linux access plug-in
3601 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3604 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3605 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3606 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3609 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3610 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3611 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3612 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3613 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3614 * new codec for raw I420 video
3615 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3618 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3619 (although it still misses some important features)
3620 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3623 * new HTTP output support
3624 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3625 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3628 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3631 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3634 * reorderable playlist
3635 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3636 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3637 * support for mono audio output devices
3638 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3639 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3640 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3641 * the messages window remembers more lines
3642 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3643 * http and ogg stream output options
3644 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3647 * new skinnable interface
3648 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3650 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3651 * support for FLAC audio format
3652 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3654 * network tab in the interface
3655 * "apply" handling in preferences
3658 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3659 ---------------------------------
3662 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3663 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3664 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3665 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3667 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3668 * DTS S/PDIF support
3671 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3672 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3673 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3674 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3677 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3678 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3681 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3684 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3687 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3689 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3690 * rc interface is now fully useable
3691 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3694 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3695 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3696 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3697 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3698 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3700 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3701 * support for mouse gestures
3702 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3705 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3706 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3709 * improved ID3 tag detection
3710 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3711 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3712 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3714 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3717 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3718 ---------------------------------
3721 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3722 English was set as the preferred language
3725 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3726 --------------------------------
3729 * new mouse gesture interface
3730 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3734 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3735 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3736 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3739 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3740 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3744 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3747 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3748 without the user consent
3751 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3753 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3754 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3755 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3758 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3759 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3760 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3761 * playlist enhancements
3762 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3763 * new step forward/step backward commands
3764 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3765 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3766 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3769 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3770 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3771 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3774 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3775 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3778 * native video output is working again
3779 * only commandline interface support
3780 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3783 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3784 --------------------------------
3787 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3788 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3789 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3790 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3791 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3792 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3793 and A/52 streams are supported)
3794 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3799 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3800 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3801 * VCD entry points support
3802 * VCD image file support
3805 * support for *.asf format
3806 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3807 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3808 * support for ogg encapsulation
3809 * support for raw DV format
3810 * support for *.wav format
3811 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3814 Stream discovery & playlists:
3815 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3816 * support for .m3u file format
3817 * support for .asx file format
3818 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3821 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3822 (only available with the .avi demux)
3823 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3824 * support for raw PCM data
3825 * support for Cinepak video codec
3826 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3827 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3828 * support for Xvid codec
3829 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3830 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3831 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3833 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3835 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3838 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3841 * new WxWindows interface
3842 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3843 device and the channels configuration
3844 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3845 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3846 format that VLC can play
3847 * new swedish translation
3848 * enhancements of the playlist window
3849 * new messages window to see debug info
3850 * fixed a few crashes
3853 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3854 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3855 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3856 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working