1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
64 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
67 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
68 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
69 * Ogg seeking improvements
70 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
71 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
72 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
73 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
76 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
77 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
78 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
79 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
80 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
81 and important cleanups and optimisations
82 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
83 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
84 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
85 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
86 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
87 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
88 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
89 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
90 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
91 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
92 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
95 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
96 * New video output for iOS platform
97 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
98 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
99 * Various vmem improvements
100 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
102 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
103 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
104 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
107 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
108 * New audio output in memory (amem)
109 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
110 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
111 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
114 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
115 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
116 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
117 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
118 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
119 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
120 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
121 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
122 * New anti-flickering filter
123 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
124 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
125 blackbox and customizable shadow
128 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
131 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
132 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
133 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
134 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
135 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
136 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
137 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
138 * Major rework of VoD support
139 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
140 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
141 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
142 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
143 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
144 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
145 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
146 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
147 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
150 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
151 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
154 * New capabilities for libVLC:
155 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
156 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
157 list of available audio and video filters
158 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
159 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
162 * asademux: use libass only
163 * subsass: use libass
164 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
165 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
167 * upnp: use upnp_intel
168 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
169 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
170 * removal of the noise filter
171 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
174 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
175 ----------------------------------
178 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
179 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
182 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
183 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
184 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
185 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
186 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
188 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
189 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
190 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
192 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
193 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
196 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
199 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
202 * Fix quitting on Linux
203 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
207 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
210 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
213 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
214 ---------------------------------
216 Windows and Mac OS X:
217 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
220 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
221 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
224 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
227 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
230 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
232 Miscellaneous fixes in:
233 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
235 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
236 * RTP output and XML export
237 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
241 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
242 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
243 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
244 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
247 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
248 --------------------------------
250 Windows and Mac OS X:
251 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
254 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
257 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
258 * Improve Apple Remote handling
259 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
260 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
261 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
262 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
265 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
266 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
270 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
271 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
272 * New Luganda Translation
275 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
276 --------------------------------
279 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
282 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
283 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
284 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
285 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
288 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
290 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
291 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
292 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
293 * mp4 demuxer improvements
294 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
295 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
296 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
297 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
299 Miscellaneous fixes in:
300 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
301 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
302 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
303 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
304 * Configure and build system improvements
305 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
308 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
309 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
310 * New icelandic translation
313 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
314 --------------------------------
317 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
321 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
322 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
323 and stability reasons
326 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
330 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
333 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
334 ----------------------------------
337 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
340 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
341 ---------------------------------
344 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
345 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
346 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
347 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
350 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
353 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
354 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
355 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
356 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
359 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
360 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
361 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
363 Subtitles and renderer:
364 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
365 * Mark more freetype options as safe
366 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
367 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
368 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
371 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
372 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
373 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
374 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
377 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
378 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
381 * KDE device solid actions
383 * Transcode integer overflow
384 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
385 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
388 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
389 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
390 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
393 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
394 ----------------------------------
397 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
401 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
404 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
407 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
408 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
409 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
410 * Taglib thread-safety fix
413 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
417 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
420 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
423 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
424 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
426 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
430 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
431 * Miscellaneous fixes
434 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
435 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
437 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
438 * New Asturian translation
441 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
442 ----------------------------------
445 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
447 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
450 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
453 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
454 * Various fixes for Windows
457 * New Armenian translation
458 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
459 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
462 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
463 --------------------------------
466 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
468 * Fix folders opening from the interface
471 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
472 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
475 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
476 --------------------------------
479 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
480 * fix for podcasts parsing
481 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
484 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
485 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
488 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
489 * fix m3u playlists exports
492 * fix video autoresize behaviour
495 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
498 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
501 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
504 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
507 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
508 --------------------------------
511 * Avformat fps displaying fix
512 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
515 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
516 of mono streams, especially on Windows
519 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
520 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
521 * fix console output encoding
523 Interface and extensions:
524 * Youtube and other scripts updates
525 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
528 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
529 --------------------------------
532 * New capabilities for libVLC:
533 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
534 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
535 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
536 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
537 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
538 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
539 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
540 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
541 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
542 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
543 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
544 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
545 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
546 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
547 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
551 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
552 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
553 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
554 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
555 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
558 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
561 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
562 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
563 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
567 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
570 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
571 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
572 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
575 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
576 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
577 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
578 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
581 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
582 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
585 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
586 --------------------------------
588 Important changes for users:
589 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
590 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
592 Important changes for packagers:
593 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
594 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
595 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
596 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
597 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
599 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
601 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
602 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
603 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
604 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
605 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
608 * Support for the sftp protocol
609 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
610 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
611 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
612 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
613 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
616 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
617 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
618 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
620 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
621 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
622 * Invmem module improvements
623 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
624 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
625 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
626 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
627 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
628 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
629 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
630 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
631 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
632 * Support for VP8 codec
633 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
636 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
637 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
638 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
639 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
640 * Various EGP improvements
641 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
642 * Metadata and cover art improvements
645 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
646 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
647 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
648 * Podcast images are now displayed
651 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
652 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
653 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
654 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
655 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
656 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
657 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
658 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
659 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
660 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
661 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
664 * New content extensions lua framework
667 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
668 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
669 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
670 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
671 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
672 * NEON assembly audio converter module
673 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
676 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
677 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
678 * Service discovery based on libudev
679 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
682 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
683 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
684 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
685 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
686 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
687 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
688 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
691 * New smem module, streaming to memory
692 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
693 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
696 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
698 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
699 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
702 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
705 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
706 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
707 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
708 by Andy Matuschak et al.
709 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
710 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
711 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
714 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
715 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
718 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
719 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
720 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
724 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
725 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
726 * Improved Solaris port
729 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
730 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
733 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
734 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
735 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
736 * transrate: broken since too long
737 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
738 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
739 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
740 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
741 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
742 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
743 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
744 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
745 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
746 * cddax: use cdda instead.
747 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
748 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
749 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
750 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
753 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
754 --------------------------------
757 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
759 Decoders/Packetizers:
760 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
763 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
764 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
765 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
766 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
767 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
770 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
771 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
774 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
775 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
778 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
779 and Walloon translations updated
780 * Sinhala translation started
783 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
784 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
787 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
788 --------------------------------
791 * SubRip extra styles improvements
792 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
795 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
798 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
799 increase performance and fix x264 issues
802 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
803 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
804 Russian, Slovak translation updates
805 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
808 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
809 --------------------------------
812 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
813 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
816 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
817 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
820 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
821 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
824 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
827 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
828 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
831 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
832 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
835 * New Walloon translation
836 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
839 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
840 --------------------------------
843 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
844 regressions in most popular drivers
845 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
848 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
849 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
850 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
853 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
854 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
857 * Update for appletrailers lua script
858 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
859 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
860 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
861 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
864 * New udev module for linux
867 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
870 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
873 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
874 --------------------------------
877 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
878 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
879 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
882 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
883 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
886 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
887 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
890 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
893 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
894 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
895 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
896 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
899 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
900 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
901 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
902 - no support for Goom and SDL
903 - limited text rendering support
904 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
907 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
908 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
909 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
910 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
911 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
912 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
913 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
914 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
915 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
919 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
922 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
925 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
926 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
927 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
928 Arabic and French translation updates
931 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
932 --------------------------------
935 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
936 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
937 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
938 * Fix Dailymotion access script
939 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
940 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
943 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
944 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
947 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
948 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
949 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
952 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
955 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
956 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
959 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
960 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
961 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
962 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
963 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
964 * Fix various crashes
967 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
969 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
972 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
973 ---------------------------------
977 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
978 See 'Access:' for more info.
979 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
982 * Instantaneous pausing
983 * Frame-by-Frame playback
984 * Finer speed control
985 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
986 * Timeshift for most medias
987 * RTSP trickplay support
988 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
991 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
992 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
993 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
994 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
995 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
996 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
997 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
998 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
999 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1000 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1003 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1004 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1005 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1006 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1007 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1008 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1009 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1012 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1013 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1016 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1017 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1018 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1019 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1020 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1021 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1022 * DVB scanning on linux
1023 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1024 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1025 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1026 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1027 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1028 * MTP device access on Unix
1029 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1030 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1033 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1034 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1035 Windows and Mac OS X.
1038 * Export the playlist in HTML
1039 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1040 * Better metadata handling and reading
1042 Linux/Windows interface:
1043 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1044 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1045 * Recently played items list
1046 * Interface toolbar customizations
1047 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1048 - More menus actions
1049 - Finer speed slider
1050 - Improvements on many dialogs
1051 - New dialog for plugins listing
1052 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1053 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1054 * Better integration in GTK environments
1057 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1058 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1059 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1060 * Additional usability improvements
1063 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1064 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1065 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1066 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1067 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1070 * New Maemo port with:
1071 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1072 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1075 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1078 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1079 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1080 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1081 * Support for latest iSight models
1084 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1085 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1088 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1089 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1090 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1091 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1092 The old image video output has been removed.
1093 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1094 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1097 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1105 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1106 --------------------------------------
1112 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1113 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1114 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1115 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1116 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1117 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1118 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1120 Various fixes to the following modules:
1123 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1124 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1125 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1127 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1132 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1133 ---------------------------------
1136 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1137 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1140 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1141 ---------------------------------
1144 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1147 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1150 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1151 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1152 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1153 main controller window.
1154 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1157 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1162 * Updates of other localizations
1165 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1166 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1167 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1168 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1169 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1172 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1173 ---------------------------------
1176 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1178 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1181 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1182 --------------------------------
1187 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1188 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1191 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1192 --------------------------------
1194 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1195 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1198 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1201 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1202 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1205 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1206 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1209 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1210 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1211 * Various fixed in playlist
1214 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1217 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1220 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1221 ------------------------------------
1223 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1224 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1227 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1228 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1229 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1232 * Stability fix for the video output.
1235 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1236 --------------------------------
1239 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1240 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1241 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1242 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1243 * Fixed update system bugs
1244 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1247 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1248 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1249 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1250 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1251 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1252 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1253 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1254 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1255 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1256 modern Mac OS X versions
1259 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1260 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1262 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1263 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1266 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1267 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1268 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1269 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1270 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1271 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1274 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1275 --------------------------------
1277 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1278 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1279 * Multiple bugfixes.
1282 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1283 --------------------------------
1285 * Multiple bug fixes.
1288 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1289 ---------------------------------
1293 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1294 recent to work correctly
1295 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1296 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1297 edit the ".hosts" file.
1298 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1299 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1300 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1301 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1302 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1303 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1304 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1305 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1306 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1307 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1308 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1309 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1310 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1311 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1312 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1313 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1314 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1315 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1316 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1317 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1318 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1319 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1320 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1321 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1322 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1323 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1324 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1325 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1326 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1327 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1328 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1329 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1330 and postproc modules.
1331 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1332 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1333 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1334 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1336 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1337 filter. For example:
1338 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1339 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1341 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1342 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1348 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1350 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1351 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1354 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1355 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1357 * Shoutcast TV listings
1358 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1360 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1361 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1363 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1366 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1367 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1368 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1369 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1370 * JACK audio input support
1371 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1372 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1373 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1374 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1375 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1376 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1377 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1378 (available as a separate download).
1379 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1380 * RTMP input support
1381 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1382 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1383 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1385 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1386 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1389 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1390 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1391 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1392 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1394 * APEv1/2 tags support
1395 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1396 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1398 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1399 * TiVo Series 2 support
1400 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1405 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1406 * Flash Screen Video support
1407 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1408 * DosBox Capture support
1409 * Karl Morton's Video support
1410 * limited atrac3 support
1412 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1413 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1414 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1415 * H.264 PAFF support
1416 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1417 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1418 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1419 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1420 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1423 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1424 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1425 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1426 * AQTitle subtitles support
1427 * MKV USF subtitles support
1428 * HTML-based subtitles support
1429 * MPSub subtitles support
1430 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1431 * MPL2 subtitles support
1432 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1433 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1434 * Realtext subtitle support
1435 * DKS subtitle support
1436 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1437 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1440 * Flash Screen Video support
1441 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1443 Video outputs and filters:
1444 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1445 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1446 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1447 * New puzzle video output filter
1448 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1449 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1451 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1452 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1453 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1454 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1455 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1456 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1457 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1458 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1459 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1460 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1461 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1462 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1463 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1464 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1466 Audio outputs and filters:
1467 * Replay gain support
1468 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1469 new scaletempo audio filter)
1470 * New spatializer audio filter
1471 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1474 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1475 * New RTP payload formats:
1476 * Speex voice audio codec
1477 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1478 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1479 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1480 * DCCP transport for RTP
1481 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1486 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1487 end-user suitable way.
1488 * Improved user interaction
1489 * Improved mouse gestures
1490 * Vastly improved Update checker
1491 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1493 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1494 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1496 * Improved video output features
1497 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1498 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1499 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1500 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1501 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1503 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1504 if libncursesw is available.
1505 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1506 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1507 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1509 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1510 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1511 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1512 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1513 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1514 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1515 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1516 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1519 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1520 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1521 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1524 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1525 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1526 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1527 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1528 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1529 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1532 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1533 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1543 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1544 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1545 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1548 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1549 ----------------------------------
1552 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1555 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1556 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1557 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1558 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1559 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1560 * Updated Polish translation
1563 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1564 ----------------------------------
1567 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1568 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1569 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1572 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1573 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1574 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1575 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1576 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1577 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1578 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1579 to an unexpected application termination
1580 * New Serbian translation
1581 * Updated Romanian translation
1584 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1585 ----------------------------------
1588 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1589 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1590 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1591 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1592 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1593 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1594 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1595 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1598 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1599 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1600 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1601 * Fixed AAC resampling
1602 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1603 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1606 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1607 ----------------------------------
1610 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1611 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1612 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1613 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1614 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1617 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1618 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1619 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1620 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1621 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1624 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1625 ----------------------------------
1628 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1629 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1632 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1633 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1634 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1635 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1637 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1641 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1644 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1647 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1650 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1653 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1654 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1655 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1656 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1657 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1659 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1660 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1661 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1662 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1665 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1668 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1669 ----------------------------------
1672 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1673 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1674 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1676 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1677 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1679 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1680 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1683 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1685 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1686 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1687 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1688 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1689 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1690 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1691 two different movies
1692 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1693 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1694 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1697 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1700 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1701 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1702 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1703 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1706 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1707 ----------------------------------
1709 Various bugfixes, notably:
1710 * Windows Vista compatibility
1711 * Cropping in Direct3D
1712 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1713 * RSS filter string overflow
1715 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1717 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1718 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1721 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1722 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1725 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1728 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1731 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1734 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1735 ----------------------------------
1737 Various bugfixes, notably:
1738 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1739 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1740 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1741 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1742 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1743 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1746 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1747 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1750 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1752 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1753 * Diverse usability improvements
1754 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1755 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1756 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1759 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1760 ---------------------------------
1762 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1763 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1766 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1769 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1770 --------------------------------
1773 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1776 * Support for RTSP authentication
1777 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1778 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1779 * ATSC support for DVB input
1780 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1781 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1782 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1785 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1786 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1787 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1788 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1789 * Matroska WavPack support
1790 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1791 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1792 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1795 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1796 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1797 * Improved libcaca support
1801 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1802 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1804 * Systray support in skins
1806 * Support for Apple Remote control
1807 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1808 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1809 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1810 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1812 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1815 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1816 Windows 9x/ME users:
1817 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1818 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1819 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1820 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1821 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1823 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1824 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1833 * Updates to the libvlc API
1834 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1837 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1838 --------------------------------
1841 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1842 * Support for downloading updates
1846 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1847 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1848 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1849 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1851 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1852 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1853 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1856 * Cook (Real audio) support
1858 Playlist / Services discovery:
1859 * XSPF playlist support
1861 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1864 * New JACK audio output
1867 * New video filters:
1868 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1869 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1870 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1871 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1872 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1873 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1876 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1879 * System to inform the user and request information
1880 - HTTP authentication
1884 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1885 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1886 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1889 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1890 - Improved playlist handling
1891 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1893 - Embedded Video output
1894 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1895 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1896 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1897 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1898 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1900 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1901 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1904 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1907 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1908 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1909 * Growl "Now playing" support
1912 * Ability to log to syslog
1913 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1916 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1918 * A bit more automatic testing
1921 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1922 ---------------------------------
1925 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1926 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1929 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1930 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1933 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1936 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1937 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1943 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1946 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1947 --------------------------------
1950 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1954 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1955 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1956 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1959 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1960 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1961 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1962 * GnomeVFS input module
1963 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1964 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1967 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1968 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1969 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1972 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1973 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1979 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1980 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1983 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1984 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1985 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1988 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1990 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1991 - New extended controls panel
1992 - New bookmarks window
1993 - Fixed playlist sorting
1994 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1996 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1997 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1998 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1999 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2003 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2004 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2006 - Include macro to include other files
2010 * Should now work outside IE as well
2013 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2016 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2017 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2020 The following languages were added:
2024 * Simplified Chinese
2025 The following languages were re-added:
2029 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2030 --------------------------------
2033 * Rewrite of the playlist
2035 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2036 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2037 * Preferences improvements:
2038 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2039 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2041 * Core image manipulation support
2042 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2043 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2044 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2045 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2046 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2047 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2048 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2049 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2050 * Access filter architecture
2051 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2052 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2056 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2057 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2058 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2059 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2060 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2061 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2062 * Massive Matroska improvements
2063 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2065 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2066 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2067 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2068 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2069 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2071 Decoders / Encoders:
2072 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2073 * PNG decoder/encoder
2074 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2075 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2078 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2081 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2082 * Brand new SAP module
2083 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2084 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2085 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2086 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2087 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2088 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2092 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2095 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2096 * Image file video output (png)
2097 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2098 * Improvements to wall video filter
2099 * Support for font color and opacity
2105 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2106 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2107 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2111 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2112 - Improved preferences
2113 - Improvements to the wizard
2114 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2116 - Redesigned playlist
2117 - Improved preferences
2119 - Support for multiple actions
2122 - Support for the new playlist system
2124 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2127 * Screensaver disabling fix
2128 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2129 * Support for no-decoration windows
2132 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2133 * The OpenGL video output is back
2134 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2135 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2136 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2137 is not yet available in the new module
2138 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2141 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2150 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2153 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2156 The following languages were added:
2162 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2163 --------------------------------
2166 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2167 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2170 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2171 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2172 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2175 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2178 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2181 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2184 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2185 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2186 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2190 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2192 * Support of playlist group announcement
2195 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2196 --------------------------------
2199 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2200 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2201 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2202 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2203 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2204 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2207 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2208 (Stream your desktop)
2209 * Improved DVD support:
2210 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2211 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2212 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2213 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2214 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2215 (selection of titles/chapters).
2218 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2219 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2220 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2221 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2222 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2223 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2224 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2225 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2226 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2227 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2230 * G.726 audio support
2231 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2232 * MPEG-4 text support
2233 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2234 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2235 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2239 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2240 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2241 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2242 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2243 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2244 * DVB subtitles encoder
2245 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2246 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2248 * Text track muxing for mp4
2249 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2250 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2251 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2252 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2253 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2254 * Improved ASF muxer
2256 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2257 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2258 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2261 * New audio equalizer filter
2262 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2263 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2264 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2265 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2268 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2269 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2270 with support for effects.
2271 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2272 - New filters can be streamed.
2273 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2274 - Centralized scaling and blending
2276 - "time", to display current time
2277 - "marq", to display a marquee
2280 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2281 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2282 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2283 * A few skins2 improvements
2284 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2285 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2286 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2287 * Improved CORBA control module
2290 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2291 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2292 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2295 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2296 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2297 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2300 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2301 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2302 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2303 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2304 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2307 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2310 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2311 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2314 * Server/client network synchronization module
2315 * VBrick streams fully supported
2316 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2320 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2321 --------------------------------
2324 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2325 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2326 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2327 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2330 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2331 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2332 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2333 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2334 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2335 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2336 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2339 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2340 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2341 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2342 * Improved directory access module.
2343 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2344 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2345 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2346 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2347 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2350 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2351 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2352 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2355 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2356 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2357 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2360 * Improved session announcement system.
2361 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2362 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2363 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2364 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2365 * Improved transrater.
2366 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2367 * New configuration system.
2368 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2371 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2372 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2373 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2374 * Supports scheduling.
2375 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2376 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2379 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2380 - Ability to embed video output.
2381 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2382 - Lots of improvements.
2383 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2384 - New design and set of icons.
2385 - Ability to embed video output.
2386 - Support for hotkeys.
2387 - Support for bookmarks.
2389 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2390 - Better hotkeys handling.
2393 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2394 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2395 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2396 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2399 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2400 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2401 * Improved Windows installer.
2407 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2408 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2411 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2412 ---------------------------------
2415 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2416 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2419 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2420 --------------------------------
2423 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2424 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2427 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2428 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2429 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2430 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2433 * Internal improvments
2434 * Improved import/export
2437 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2439 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2440 small and strange formats.
2442 * New MOD audio demux.
2443 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2444 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2445 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2446 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2449 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2450 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2451 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2457 * New opengl video output plugin.
2460 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2461 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2464 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2465 --------------------------------
2468 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2469 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2470 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2471 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2472 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2473 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2474 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2475 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2478 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2483 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2484 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2485 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2486 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2487 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2488 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2489 * Better Icecast support.
2490 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2491 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2494 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2495 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2496 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2497 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2498 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2499 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2500 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2503 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2504 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2505 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2506 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2507 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2508 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2509 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2510 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2511 * Preliminary RTP support.
2512 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2517 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2518 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2520 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2521 - Improvements and help in preferences
2522 - New streaming wizard
2523 - Revised Disc Open menu
2525 - Improvements of the standard pages
2526 - Support for new commands
2527 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2530 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2531 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2534 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2535 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2536 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2537 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2538 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2539 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2540 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2541 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2542 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2545 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2547 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2548 * Support for Panther.
2549 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2550 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2553 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2554 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2555 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2556 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2557 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2558 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2559 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2560 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2563 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2564 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2565 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2568 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2571 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2572 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2573 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2574 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2577 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2578 --------------------------------
2581 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2584 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2585 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2588 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2589 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2592 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2595 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2596 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2599 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2602 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2605 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2606 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2610 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2611 --------------------------------
2614 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2615 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2619 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2620 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2621 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2623 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2624 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2627 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2630 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2633 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2634 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2638 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2639 --------------------------------
2642 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2643 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2647 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2648 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2649 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2650 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2651 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2654 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2655 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2656 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2659 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2660 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2661 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2664 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2665 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2666 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2667 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2668 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2671 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2672 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2673 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2676 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2679 * Improved build system.
2680 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2681 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2682 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2683 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2686 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2687 --------------------------------
2690 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2693 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2694 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2695 * Video 4 Linux support
2696 * CD Digital Audio support
2697 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2700 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2701 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2702 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2703 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2706 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2707 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2708 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2709 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2710 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2711 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2712 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2715 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2716 * New HTTP remote control interface
2719 * 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.
2720 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2721 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2722 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2725 * New reset option for the preferences
2726 * You can set your language in the prefences
2727 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2728 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2729 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2730 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2733 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2734 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2735 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2738 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2739 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2740 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2741 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2742 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2743 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2744 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2745 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2746 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2747 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2750 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2751 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2752 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2753 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2754 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2755 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2756 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2759 * Interface localization
2760 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2761 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2762 * New full-featured Preferences window
2765 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2766 --------------------------------
2769 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2770 * support for skins at the interface level
2771 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2772 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2773 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2774 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2775 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2778 * fixed HTTP redirects
2779 * support for opening an entire directory
2780 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2781 * new video4linux access plug-in
2782 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2785 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2786 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2787 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2790 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2791 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2792 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2793 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2794 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2795 * new codec for raw I420 video
2796 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2799 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2800 (although it still misses some important features)
2801 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2804 * new HTTP output support
2805 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2806 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2809 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2812 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2815 * reorderable playlist
2816 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2817 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2818 * support for mono audio output devices
2819 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2820 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2821 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2822 * the messages window remembers more lines
2823 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2824 * http and ogg stream output options
2825 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2828 * new skinnable interface
2829 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2831 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2832 * support for FLAC audio format
2833 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2835 * network tab in the interface
2836 * "apply" handling in preferences
2839 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2840 ---------------------------------
2843 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2844 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2845 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2846 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2848 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2849 * DTS S/PDIF support
2852 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2853 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2854 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2855 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2858 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2859 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2862 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2865 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2868 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2870 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2871 * rc interface is now fully useable
2872 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2875 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2876 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2877 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2878 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2879 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2881 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2882 * support for mouse gestures
2883 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2886 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2887 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2890 * improved ID3 tag detection
2891 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2892 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2893 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2895 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2898 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2899 ---------------------------------
2902 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2903 English was set as the preferred language
2906 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2907 --------------------------------
2910 * new mouse gesture interface
2911 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2915 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2916 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2917 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2920 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2921 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2925 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2928 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2929 without the user consent
2932 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2934 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2935 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2936 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2939 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2940 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2941 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2942 * playlist enhancements
2943 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2944 * new step forward/step backward commands
2945 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2946 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2947 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2950 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2951 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2952 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2955 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2956 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2959 * native video output is working again
2960 * only commandline interface support
2961 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2964 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2965 --------------------------------
2968 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2969 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2970 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2971 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2972 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2973 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2974 and A/52 streams are supported)
2975 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2980 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2981 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2982 * VCD entry points support
2983 * VCD image file support
2986 * support for *.asf format
2987 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2988 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2989 * support for ogg encapsulation
2990 * support for raw DV format
2991 * support for *.wav format
2992 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2995 Stream discovery & playlists:
2996 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2997 * support for .m3u file format
2998 * support for .asx file format
2999 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3002 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3003 (only available with the .avi demux)
3004 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3005 * support for raw PCM data
3006 * support for Cinepak video codec
3007 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3008 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3009 * support for Xvid codec
3010 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3011 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3012 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3014 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3016 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3019 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3022 * new WxWindows interface
3023 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3024 device and the channels configuration
3025 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3026 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3027 format that VLC can play
3028 * new swedish translation
3029 * enhancements of the playlist window
3030 * new messages window to see debug info
3031 * fixed a few crashes
3034 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3035 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3036 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3037 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working