1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
16 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
17 * HTTP Live streaming playback
20 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
21 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
24 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
27 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
28 * Ogg seeking improvements
31 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
32 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
33 * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
34 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
37 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
40 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
43 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
46 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
47 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
48 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
51 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
52 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
53 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
54 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
55 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
56 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
59 * New capabilities for libVLC:
60 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
63 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
64 ----------------------------------
67 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
69 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
72 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
75 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
76 * Various fixes for Windows
79 * New Armenian translation
80 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
81 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
84 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
85 --------------------------------
88 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
90 * Fix folders opening from the interface
93 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
94 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
97 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
98 --------------------------------
101 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
102 * fix for podcasts parsing
103 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
106 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
107 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
110 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
111 * fix m3u playlists exports
114 * fix video autoresize behaviour
117 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
120 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
123 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
126 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
129 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
130 --------------------------------
133 * Avformat fps displaying fix
134 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
137 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
138 of mono streams, especially on Windows
141 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
142 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
143 * fix console output encoding
145 Interface and extensions:
146 * Youtube and other scripts updates
147 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
150 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
151 --------------------------------
154 * New capabilities for libVLC:
155 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
156 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
157 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
158 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
159 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
160 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
161 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
162 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
163 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
164 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
165 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
166 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
167 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
168 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
169 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
173 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
174 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
175 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
176 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
177 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
180 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
183 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
184 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
185 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
189 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
192 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
193 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
194 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
197 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
198 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
199 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
200 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
203 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
204 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
207 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
208 --------------------------------
210 Important changes for users:
211 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
212 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
214 Important changes for packagers:
215 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
216 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
217 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
218 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
219 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
221 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
223 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
224 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
225 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
226 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
227 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
230 * Support for the sftp protocol
231 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
232 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
233 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
234 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
235 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
238 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
239 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
240 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
242 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
243 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
244 * Invmem module improvements
245 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
246 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
247 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
248 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
249 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
250 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
251 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
252 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
253 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
254 * Support for VP8 codec
255 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
258 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
259 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
260 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
261 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
262 * Various EGP improvements
263 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
264 * Metadata and cover art improvements
267 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
268 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
269 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
270 * Podcast images are now displayed
273 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
274 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
275 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
276 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
277 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
278 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
279 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
280 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
281 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
282 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
283 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
286 * New content extensions lua framework
289 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
290 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
291 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
292 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
293 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
294 * NEON assembly audio converter module
295 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
298 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
299 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
300 * Service discovery based on libudev
301 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
304 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
305 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
306 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
307 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
308 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
309 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
310 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
313 * New smem module, streaming to memory
314 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
315 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
318 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
320 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
321 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
324 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
327 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
328 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
329 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
330 by Andy Matuschak et al.
331 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
332 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
333 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
336 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
337 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
340 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
341 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
342 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
346 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
347 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
348 * Improved Solaris port
351 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
352 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
355 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
356 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
357 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
358 * transrate: broken since too long
359 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
360 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
361 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
362 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
363 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
364 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
365 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
366 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
367 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
368 * cddax: use cdda instead.
369 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
370 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
371 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
372 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
375 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
376 --------------------------------
379 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
381 Decoders/Packetizers:
382 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
385 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
386 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
387 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
388 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
389 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
392 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
393 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
396 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
397 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
400 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
401 and Walloon translations updated
402 * Sinhala translation started
405 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
406 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
409 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
410 --------------------------------
413 * SubRip extra styles improvements
414 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
417 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
420 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
421 increase performance and fix x264 issues
424 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
425 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
426 Russian, Slovak translation updates
427 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
430 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
431 --------------------------------
434 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
435 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
438 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
439 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
442 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
443 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
446 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
449 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
450 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
453 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
454 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
457 * New Walloon translation
458 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
461 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
462 --------------------------------
465 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
466 regressions in most popular drivers
467 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
470 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
471 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
472 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
475 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
476 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
479 * Update for appletrailers lua script
480 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
481 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
482 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
483 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
486 * New udev module for linux
489 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
492 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
495 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
496 --------------------------------
499 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
500 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
501 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
504 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
505 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
508 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
509 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
512 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
515 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
516 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
517 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
518 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
521 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
522 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
523 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
524 - no support for Goom and SDL
525 - limited text rendering support
526 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
529 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
530 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
531 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
532 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
533 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
534 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
535 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
536 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
537 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
541 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
544 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
547 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
548 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
549 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
550 Arabic and French translation updates
553 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
554 --------------------------------
557 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
558 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
559 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
560 * Fix Dailymotion access script
561 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
562 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
565 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
566 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
569 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
570 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
571 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
574 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
577 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
578 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
581 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
582 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
583 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
584 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
585 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
586 * Fix various crashes
589 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
591 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
594 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
595 ---------------------------------
599 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
600 See 'Access:' for more info.
601 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
604 * Instantaneous pausing
605 * Frame-by-Frame playback
606 * Finer speed control
607 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
608 * Timeshift for most medias
609 * RTSP trickplay support
610 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
613 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
614 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
615 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
616 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
617 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
618 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
619 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
620 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
621 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
622 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
625 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
626 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
627 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
628 * Metadata for mod files are supported
629 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
630 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
631 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
634 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
635 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
638 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
639 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
640 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
641 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
642 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
643 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
644 * DVB scanning on linux
645 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
646 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
647 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
648 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
649 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
650 * MTP device access on Unix
651 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
652 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
655 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
656 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
657 Windows and Mac OS X.
660 * Export the playlist in HTML
661 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
662 * Better metadata handling and reading
664 Linux/Windows interface:
665 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
666 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
667 * Recently played items list
668 * Interface toolbar customizations
669 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
672 - Improvements on many dialogs
673 - New dialog for plugins listing
674 - Fixed-size mode for videos
675 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
676 * Better integration in GTK environments
679 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
680 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
681 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
682 * Additional usability improvements
685 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
686 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
687 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
688 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
689 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
692 * New Maemo port with:
693 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
694 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
697 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
700 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
701 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
702 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
703 * Support for latest iSight models
706 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
707 * Surround support for PulseAudio
710 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
711 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
712 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
713 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
714 The old image video output has been removed.
715 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
716 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
719 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
727 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
728 --------------------------------------
734 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
735 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
736 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
737 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
738 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
739 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
740 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
742 Various fixes to the following modules:
745 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
746 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
749 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
754 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
755 ---------------------------------
758 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
759 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
762 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
763 ---------------------------------
766 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
769 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
772 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
773 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
774 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
775 main controller window.
776 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
779 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
784 * Updates of other localizations
787 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
788 * Lots of small bugfixes.
789 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
790 * Telnet fixes on Windows
791 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
794 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
795 ---------------------------------
798 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
800 Bunch of small bugfixes.
803 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
804 --------------------------------
809 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
810 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
813 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
814 --------------------------------
816 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
817 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
820 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
823 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
824 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
827 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
828 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
831 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
832 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
833 * Various fixed in playlist
836 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
839 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
842 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
843 ------------------------------------
845 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
846 * Fixes several memory leaks.
849 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
850 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
851 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
854 * Stability fix for the video output.
857 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
858 --------------------------------
861 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
862 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
863 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
864 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
865 * Fixed update system bugs
866 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
869 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
870 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
871 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
872 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
873 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
874 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
875 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
876 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
877 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
878 modern Mac OS X versions
881 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
882 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
884 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
885 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
888 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
889 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
890 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
891 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
892 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
893 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
896 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
897 --------------------------------
899 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
900 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
904 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
905 --------------------------------
907 * Multiple bug fixes.
910 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
911 ---------------------------------
915 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
916 recent to work correctly
917 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
918 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
919 edit the ".hosts" file.
920 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
921 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
922 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
923 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
924 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
925 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
926 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
927 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
928 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
929 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
930 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
931 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
932 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
933 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
934 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
935 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
936 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
937 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
938 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
939 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
940 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
941 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
942 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
943 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
944 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
945 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
946 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
947 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
948 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
949 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
950 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
951 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
952 and postproc modules.
953 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
954 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
955 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
956 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
958 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
960 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
961 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
963 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
964 * Glide video output module has been removed.
970 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
972 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
973 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
976 * Vastly improved playlist support:
977 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
979 * Shoutcast TV listings
980 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
982 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
983 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
985 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
988 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
989 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
990 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
991 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
992 * JACK audio input support
993 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
994 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
995 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
996 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
997 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
998 * Experimental EyeTV access module
999 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1000 (available as a separate download).
1001 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1002 * RTMP input support
1003 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1004 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1005 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1007 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1008 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1011 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1012 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1013 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1014 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1016 * APEv1/2 tags support
1017 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1018 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1020 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1021 * TiVo Series 2 support
1022 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1027 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1028 * Flash Screen Video support
1029 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1030 * DosBox Capture support
1031 * Karl Morton's Video support
1032 * limited atrac3 support
1034 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1035 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1036 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1037 * H.264 PAFF support
1038 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1039 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1040 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1041 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1042 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1045 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1046 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1047 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1048 * AQTitle subtitles support
1049 * MKV USF subtitles support
1050 * HTML-based subtitles support
1051 * MPSub subtitles support
1052 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1053 * MPL2 subtitles support
1054 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1055 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1056 * Realtext subtitle support
1057 * DKS subtitle support
1058 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1059 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1062 * Flash Screen Video support
1063 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1065 Video outputs and filters:
1066 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1067 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1068 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1069 * New puzzle video output filter
1070 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1071 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1073 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1074 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1075 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1076 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1077 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1078 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1079 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1080 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1081 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1082 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1083 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1084 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1085 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1086 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1088 Audio outputs and filters:
1089 * Replay gain support
1090 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1091 new scaletempo audio filter)
1092 * New spatializer audio filter
1093 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1096 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1097 * New RTP payload formats:
1098 * Speex voice audio codec
1099 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1100 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1101 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1102 * DCCP transport for RTP
1103 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1108 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1109 end-user suitable way.
1110 * Improved user interaction
1111 * Improved mouse gestures
1112 * Vastly improved Update checker
1113 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1115 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1116 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1118 * Improved video output features
1119 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1120 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1121 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1122 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1123 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1125 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1126 if libncursesw is available.
1127 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1128 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1129 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1131 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1132 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1133 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1134 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1135 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1136 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1137 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1138 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1141 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1142 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1143 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1146 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1147 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1148 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1149 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1150 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1151 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1154 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1155 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1165 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1166 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1167 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1170 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1171 ----------------------------------
1174 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1177 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1178 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1179 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1180 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1181 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1182 * Updated Polish translation
1185 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1186 ----------------------------------
1189 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1190 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1191 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1194 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1195 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1196 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1197 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1198 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1199 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1200 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1201 to an unexpected application termination
1202 * New Serbian translation
1203 * Updated Romanian translation
1206 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1207 ----------------------------------
1210 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1211 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1212 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1213 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1214 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1215 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1216 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1217 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1220 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1221 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1222 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1223 * Fixed AAC resampling
1224 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1225 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1228 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1229 ----------------------------------
1232 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1233 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1234 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1235 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1236 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1239 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1240 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1241 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1242 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1243 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1246 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1247 ----------------------------------
1250 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1251 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1254 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1255 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1256 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1257 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1259 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1263 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1266 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1269 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1272 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1275 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1276 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1277 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1278 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1279 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1281 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1282 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1283 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1284 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1287 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1290 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1291 ----------------------------------
1294 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1295 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1296 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1298 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1299 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1301 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1302 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1305 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1307 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1308 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1309 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1310 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1311 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1312 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1313 two different movies
1314 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1315 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1316 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1319 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1322 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1323 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1324 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1325 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1328 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1329 ----------------------------------
1331 Various bugfixes, notably:
1332 * Windows Vista compatibility
1333 * Cropping in Direct3D
1334 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1335 * RSS filter string overflow
1337 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1339 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1340 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1343 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1344 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1347 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1350 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1353 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1356 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1357 ----------------------------------
1359 Various bugfixes, notably:
1360 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1361 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1362 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1363 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1364 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1365 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1368 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1369 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1372 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1374 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1375 * Diverse usability improvements
1376 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1377 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1378 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1381 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1382 ---------------------------------
1384 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1385 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1388 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1391 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1392 --------------------------------
1395 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1398 * Support for RTSP authentication
1399 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1400 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1401 * ATSC support for DVB input
1402 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1403 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1404 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1407 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1408 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1409 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1410 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1411 * Matroska WavPack support
1412 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1413 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1414 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1417 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1418 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1419 * Improved libcaca support
1423 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1424 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1426 * Systray support in skins
1428 * Support for Apple Remote control
1429 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1430 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1431 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1432 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1434 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1437 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1438 Windows 9x/ME users:
1439 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1440 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1441 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1442 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1443 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1445 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1446 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1455 * Updates to the libvlc API
1456 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1459 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1460 --------------------------------
1463 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1464 * Support for downloading updates
1468 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1469 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1470 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1471 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1473 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1474 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1475 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1478 * Cook (Real audio) support
1480 Playlist / Services discovery:
1481 * XSPF playlist support
1483 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1486 * New JACK audio output
1489 * New video filters:
1490 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1491 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1492 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1493 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1494 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1495 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1498 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1501 * System to inform the user and request information
1502 - HTTP authentication
1506 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1507 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1508 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1511 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1512 - Improved playlist handling
1513 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1515 - Embedded Video output
1516 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1517 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1518 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1519 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1520 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1522 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1523 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1526 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1529 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1530 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1531 * Growl "Now playing" support
1534 * Ability to log to syslog
1535 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1538 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1540 * A bit more automatic testing
1543 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1544 ---------------------------------
1547 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1548 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1551 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1552 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1555 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1558 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1559 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1565 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1568 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1569 --------------------------------
1572 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1576 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1577 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1578 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1581 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1582 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1583 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1584 * GnomeVFS input module
1585 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1586 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1589 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1590 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1591 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1594 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1595 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1601 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1602 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1605 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1606 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1607 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1610 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1612 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1613 - New extended controls panel
1614 - New bookmarks window
1615 - Fixed playlist sorting
1616 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1618 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1619 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1620 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1621 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1625 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1626 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1628 - Include macro to include other files
1632 * Should now work outside IE as well
1635 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1638 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1639 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1642 The following languages were added:
1646 * Simplified Chinese
1647 The following languages were re-added:
1651 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1652 --------------------------------
1655 * Rewrite of the playlist
1657 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1658 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1659 * Preferences improvements:
1660 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1661 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1663 * Core image manipulation support
1664 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1665 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1666 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1667 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1668 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1669 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1670 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1671 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1672 * Access filter architecture
1673 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1674 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1678 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1679 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1680 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1681 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1682 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1683 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1684 * Massive Matroska improvements
1685 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1687 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1688 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1689 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1690 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1691 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1693 Decoders / Encoders:
1694 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1695 * PNG decoder/encoder
1696 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1697 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1700 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1703 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1704 * Brand new SAP module
1705 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1706 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1707 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1708 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1709 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1710 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1714 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1717 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1718 * Image file video output (png)
1719 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1720 * Improvements to wall video filter
1721 * Support for font color and opacity
1727 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1728 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1729 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1733 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1734 - Improved preferences
1735 - Improvements to the wizard
1736 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1738 - Redesigned playlist
1739 - Improved preferences
1741 - Support for multiple actions
1744 - Support for the new playlist system
1746 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1749 * Screensaver disabling fix
1750 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1751 * Support for no-decoration windows
1754 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1755 * The OpenGL video output is back
1756 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1757 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1758 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1759 is not yet available in the new module
1760 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1763 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1772 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1775 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1778 The following languages were added:
1784 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1785 --------------------------------
1788 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1789 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1792 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1793 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1794 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1797 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1800 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1803 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1806 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1807 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1808 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1812 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1814 * Support of playlist group announcement
1817 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1818 --------------------------------
1821 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1822 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1823 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1824 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1825 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1826 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1829 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1830 (Stream your desktop)
1831 * Improved DVD support:
1832 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1833 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1834 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1835 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1836 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1837 (selection of titles/chapters).
1840 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1841 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1842 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1843 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1844 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1845 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1846 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1847 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1848 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1849 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1852 * G.726 audio support
1853 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1854 * MPEG-4 text support
1855 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1856 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1857 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1861 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1862 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1863 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1864 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1865 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1866 * DVB subtitles encoder
1867 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1868 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1870 * Text track muxing for mp4
1871 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1872 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1873 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1874 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1875 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1876 * Improved ASF muxer
1878 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1879 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1880 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1883 * New audio equalizer filter
1884 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1885 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1886 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1887 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1890 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1891 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1892 with support for effects.
1893 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1894 - New filters can be streamed.
1895 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1896 - Centralized scaling and blending
1898 - "time", to display current time
1899 - "marq", to display a marquee
1902 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1903 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1904 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1905 * A few skins2 improvements
1906 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1907 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1908 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1909 * Improved CORBA control module
1912 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1913 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1914 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1917 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1918 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1919 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1922 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1923 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1924 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1925 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1926 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1929 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1932 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1933 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1936 * Server/client network synchronization module
1937 * VBrick streams fully supported
1938 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1942 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1943 --------------------------------
1946 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1947 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1948 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1949 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1952 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1953 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1954 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1955 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1956 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1957 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1958 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1961 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1962 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1963 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1964 * Improved directory access module.
1965 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1966 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1967 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1968 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1969 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1972 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1973 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1974 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1977 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1978 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1979 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1982 * Improved session announcement system.
1983 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1984 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1985 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1986 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1987 * Improved transrater.
1988 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1989 * New configuration system.
1990 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1993 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1994 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1995 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1996 * Supports scheduling.
1997 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1998 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2001 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2002 - Ability to embed video output.
2003 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2004 - Lots of improvements.
2005 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2006 - New design and set of icons.
2007 - Ability to embed video output.
2008 - Support for hotkeys.
2009 - Support for bookmarks.
2011 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2012 - Better hotkeys handling.
2015 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2016 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2017 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2018 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2021 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2022 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2023 * Improved Windows installer.
2029 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2030 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2033 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2034 ---------------------------------
2037 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2038 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2041 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2042 --------------------------------
2045 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2046 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2049 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2050 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2051 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2052 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2055 * Internal improvments
2056 * Improved import/export
2059 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2061 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2062 small and strange formats.
2064 * New MOD audio demux.
2065 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2066 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2067 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2068 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2071 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2072 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2073 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2079 * New opengl video output plugin.
2082 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2083 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2086 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2087 --------------------------------
2090 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2091 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2092 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2093 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2094 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2095 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2096 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2097 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2100 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2105 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2106 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2107 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2108 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2109 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2110 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2111 * Better Icecast support.
2112 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2113 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2116 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2117 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2118 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2119 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2120 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2121 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2122 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2125 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2126 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2127 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2128 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2129 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2130 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2131 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2132 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2133 * Preliminary RTP support.
2134 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2139 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2140 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2142 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2143 - Improvements and help in preferences
2144 - New streaming wizard
2145 - Revised Disc Open menu
2147 - Improvements of the standard pages
2148 - Support for new commands
2149 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2152 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2153 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2156 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2157 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2158 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2159 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2160 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2161 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2162 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2163 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2164 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2167 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2169 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2170 * Support for Panther.
2171 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2172 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2175 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2176 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2177 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2178 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2179 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2180 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2181 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2182 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2185 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2186 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2187 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2190 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2193 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2194 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2195 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2196 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2199 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2200 --------------------------------
2203 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2206 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2207 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2210 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2211 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2214 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2217 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2218 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2221 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2224 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2227 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2228 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2232 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2233 --------------------------------
2236 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2237 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2241 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2242 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2243 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2245 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2246 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2249 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2252 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2255 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2256 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2260 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2261 --------------------------------
2264 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2265 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2269 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2270 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2271 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2272 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2273 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2276 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2277 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2278 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2281 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2282 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2283 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2286 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2287 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2288 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2289 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2290 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2293 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2294 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2295 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2298 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2301 * Improved build system.
2302 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2303 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2304 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2305 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2308 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2309 --------------------------------
2312 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2315 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2316 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2317 * Video 4 Linux support
2318 * CD Digital Audio support
2319 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2322 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2323 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2324 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2325 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2328 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2329 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2330 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2331 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2332 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2333 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2334 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2337 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2338 * New HTTP remote control interface
2341 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2342 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2343 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2344 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2347 * New reset option for the preferences
2348 * You can set your language in the prefences
2349 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2350 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2351 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2352 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2355 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2356 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2357 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2360 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2361 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2362 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2363 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2364 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2365 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2366 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2367 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2368 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2369 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2372 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2373 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2374 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2375 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2376 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2377 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2378 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2381 * Interface localization
2382 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2383 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2384 * New full-featured Preferences window
2387 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2388 --------------------------------
2391 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2392 * support for skins at the interface level
2393 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2394 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2395 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2396 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2397 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2400 * fixed HTTP redirects
2401 * support for opening an entire directory
2402 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2403 * new video4linux access plug-in
2404 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2407 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2408 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2409 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2412 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2413 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2414 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2415 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2416 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2417 * new codec for raw I420 video
2418 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2421 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2422 (although it still misses some important features)
2423 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2426 * new HTTP output support
2427 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2428 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2431 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2434 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2437 * reorderable playlist
2438 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2439 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2440 * support for mono audio output devices
2441 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2442 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2443 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2444 * the messages window remembers more lines
2445 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2446 * http and ogg stream output options
2447 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2450 * new skinnable interface
2451 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2453 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2454 * support for FLAC audio format
2455 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2457 * network tab in the interface
2458 * "apply" handling in preferences
2461 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2462 ---------------------------------
2465 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2466 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2467 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2468 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2470 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2471 * DTS S/PDIF support
2474 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2475 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2476 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2477 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2480 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2481 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2484 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2487 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2490 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2492 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2493 * rc interface is now fully useable
2494 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2497 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2498 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2499 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2500 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2501 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2503 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2504 * support for mouse gestures
2505 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2508 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2509 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2512 * improved ID3 tag detection
2513 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2514 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2515 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2517 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2520 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2521 ---------------------------------
2524 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2525 English was set as the preferred language
2528 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2529 --------------------------------
2532 * new mouse gesture interface
2533 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2537 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2538 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2539 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2542 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2543 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2547 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2550 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2551 without the user consent
2554 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2556 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2557 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2558 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2561 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2562 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2563 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2564 * playlist enhancements
2565 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2566 * new step forward/step backward commands
2567 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2568 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2569 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2572 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2573 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2574 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2577 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2578 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2581 * native video output is working again
2582 * only commandline interface support
2583 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2586 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2587 --------------------------------
2590 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2591 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2592 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2593 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2594 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2595 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2596 and A/52 streams are supported)
2597 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2602 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2603 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2604 * VCD entry points support
2605 * VCD image file support
2608 * support for *.asf format
2609 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2610 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2611 * support for ogg encapsulation
2612 * support for raw DV format
2613 * support for *.wav format
2614 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2617 Stream discovery & playlists:
2618 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2619 * support for .m3u file format
2620 * support for .asx file format
2621 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2624 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2625 (only available with the .avi demux)
2626 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2627 * support for raw PCM data
2628 * support for Cinepak video codec
2629 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2630 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2631 * support for Xvid codec
2632 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2633 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2634 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2636 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2638 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2641 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2644 * new WxWindows interface
2645 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2646 device and the channels configuration
2647 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2648 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2649 format that VLC can play
2650 * new swedish translation
2651 * enhancements of the playlist window
2652 * new messages window to see debug info
2653 * fixed a few crashes
2656 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2657 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2658 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2659 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working