1 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
12 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
15 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
16 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
17 * DVB-S scanning support
18 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
19 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
20 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
21 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
22 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
23 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
24 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
25 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
28 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
29 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
30 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
31 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
32 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
35 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
36 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
37 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
40 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
41 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
42 * Ogg seeking improvements
43 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
46 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
47 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
48 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
49 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
50 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
51 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
52 and important cleanups and optimisations
53 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
56 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
57 * New video output for iOS platform
58 * New video output using EGL
59 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
60 * Various vmem improvements
63 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
64 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
65 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
66 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
67 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
70 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
73 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
76 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
77 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
78 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
79 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
80 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
81 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
82 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
83 * Major rework of VoD support
84 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
85 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
86 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
87 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
88 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
89 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
92 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
95 * New capabilities for libVLC:
96 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
97 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
98 list of available audio and video filters
101 * asademux: use libass only
102 * fake: use the new image demuxers
103 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
105 * upnp: use upnp_intel
108 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
109 ---------------------------------
112 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
113 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
114 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
115 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
118 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
121 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
122 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
123 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
126 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
127 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
128 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
130 Subtitles and renderer:
131 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
132 * Mark more freetype options as safe
133 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
134 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
135 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi
138 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
139 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
140 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
141 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
144 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
145 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
146 * KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository
149 * KDE device solid actions
151 * Transcode integer overflow
152 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
153 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
156 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
157 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
158 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
161 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
162 ----------------------------------
165 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
169 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
172 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
175 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
176 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
177 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
178 * Taglib thread-safety fix
181 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
185 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
188 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
191 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
192 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
194 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
198 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
199 * Miscellaneous fixes
202 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
203 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
205 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
206 * New Asturian translation
209 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
210 ----------------------------------
213 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
215 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
218 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
221 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
222 * Various fixes for Windows
225 * New Armenian translation
226 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
227 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
230 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
231 --------------------------------
234 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
236 * Fix folders opening from the interface
239 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
240 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
243 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
244 --------------------------------
247 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
248 * fix for podcasts parsing
249 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
252 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
253 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
256 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
257 * fix m3u playlists exports
260 * fix video autoresize behaviour
263 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
266 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
269 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
272 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
275 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
276 --------------------------------
279 * Avformat fps displaying fix
280 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
283 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
284 of mono streams, especially on Windows
287 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
288 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
289 * fix console output encoding
291 Interface and extensions:
292 * Youtube and other scripts updates
293 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
296 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
297 --------------------------------
300 * New capabilities for libVLC:
301 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
302 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
303 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
304 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
305 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
306 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
307 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
308 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
309 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
310 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
311 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
312 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
313 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
314 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
315 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
319 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
320 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
321 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
322 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
323 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
326 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
329 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
330 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
331 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
335 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
338 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
339 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
340 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
343 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
344 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
345 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
346 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
349 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
350 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
353 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
354 --------------------------------
356 Important changes for users:
357 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
358 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
360 Important changes for packagers:
361 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
362 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
363 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
364 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
365 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
367 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
369 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
370 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
371 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
372 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
373 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
376 * Support for the sftp protocol
377 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
378 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
379 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
380 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
381 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
384 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
385 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
386 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
388 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
389 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
390 * Invmem module improvements
391 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
392 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
393 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
394 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
395 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
396 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
397 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
398 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
399 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
400 * Support for VP8 codec
401 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
404 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
405 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
406 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
407 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
408 * Various EGP improvements
409 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
410 * Metadata and cover art improvements
413 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
414 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
415 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
416 * Podcast images are now displayed
419 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
420 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
421 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
422 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
423 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
424 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
425 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
426 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
427 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
428 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
429 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
432 * New content extensions lua framework
435 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
436 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
437 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
438 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
439 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
440 * NEON assembly audio converter module
441 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
444 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
445 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
446 * Service discovery based on libudev
447 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
450 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
451 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
452 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
453 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
454 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
455 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
456 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
459 * New smem module, streaming to memory
460 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
461 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
464 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
466 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
467 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
470 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
473 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
474 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
475 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
476 by Andy Matuschak et al.
477 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
478 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
479 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
482 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
483 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
486 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
487 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
488 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
492 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
493 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
494 * Improved Solaris port
497 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
498 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
501 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
502 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
503 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
504 * transrate: broken since too long
505 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
506 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
507 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
508 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
509 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
510 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
511 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
512 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
513 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
514 * cddax: use cdda instead.
515 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
516 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
517 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
518 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
521 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
522 --------------------------------
525 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
527 Decoders/Packetizers:
528 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
531 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
532 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
533 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
534 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
535 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
538 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
539 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
542 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
543 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
546 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
547 and Walloon translations updated
548 * Sinhala translation started
551 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
552 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
555 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
556 --------------------------------
559 * SubRip extra styles improvements
560 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
563 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
566 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
567 increase performance and fix x264 issues
570 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
571 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
572 Russian, Slovak translation updates
573 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
576 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
577 --------------------------------
580 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
581 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
584 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
585 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
588 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
589 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
592 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
595 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
596 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
599 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
600 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
603 * New Walloon translation
604 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
607 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
608 --------------------------------
611 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
612 regressions in most popular drivers
613 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
616 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
617 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
618 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
621 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
622 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
625 * Update for appletrailers lua script
626 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
627 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
628 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
629 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
632 * New udev module for linux
635 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
638 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
641 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
642 --------------------------------
645 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
646 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
647 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
650 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
651 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
654 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
655 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
658 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
661 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
662 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
663 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
664 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
667 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
668 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
669 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
670 - no support for Goom and SDL
671 - limited text rendering support
672 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
675 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
676 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
677 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
678 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
679 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
680 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
681 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
682 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
683 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
687 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
690 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
693 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
694 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
695 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
696 Arabic and French translation updates
699 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
700 --------------------------------
703 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
704 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
705 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
706 * Fix Dailymotion access script
707 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
708 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
711 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
712 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
715 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
716 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
717 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
720 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
723 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
724 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
727 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
728 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
729 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
730 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
731 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
732 * Fix various crashes
735 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
737 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
740 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
741 ---------------------------------
745 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
746 See 'Access:' for more info.
747 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
750 * Instantaneous pausing
751 * Frame-by-Frame playback
752 * Finer speed control
753 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
754 * Timeshift for most medias
755 * RTSP trickplay support
756 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
759 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
760 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
761 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
762 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
763 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
764 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
765 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
766 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
767 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
768 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
771 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
772 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
773 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
774 * Metadata for mod files are supported
775 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
776 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
777 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
780 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
781 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
784 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
785 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
786 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
787 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
788 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
789 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
790 * DVB scanning on linux
791 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
792 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
793 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
794 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
795 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
796 * MTP device access on Unix
797 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
798 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
801 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
802 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
803 Windows and Mac OS X.
806 * Export the playlist in HTML
807 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
808 * Better metadata handling and reading
810 Linux/Windows interface:
811 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
812 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
813 * Recently played items list
814 * Interface toolbar customizations
815 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
818 - Improvements on many dialogs
819 - New dialog for plugins listing
820 - Fixed-size mode for videos
821 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
822 * Better integration in GTK environments
825 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
826 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
827 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
828 * Additional usability improvements
831 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
832 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
833 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
834 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
835 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
838 * New Maemo port with:
839 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
840 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
843 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
846 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
847 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
848 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
849 * Support for latest iSight models
852 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
853 * Surround support for PulseAudio
856 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
857 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
858 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
859 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
860 The old image video output has been removed.
861 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
862 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
865 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
873 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
874 --------------------------------------
880 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
881 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
882 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
883 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
884 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
885 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
886 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
888 Various fixes to the following modules:
891 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
892 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
895 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
900 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
901 ---------------------------------
904 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
905 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
908 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
909 ---------------------------------
912 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
915 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
918 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
919 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
920 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
921 main controller window.
922 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
925 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
930 * Updates of other localizations
933 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
934 * Lots of small bugfixes.
935 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
936 * Telnet fixes on Windows
937 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
940 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
941 ---------------------------------
944 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
946 Bunch of small bugfixes.
949 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
950 --------------------------------
955 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
956 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
959 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
960 --------------------------------
962 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
963 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
966 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
969 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
970 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
973 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
974 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
977 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
978 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
979 * Various fixed in playlist
982 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
985 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
988 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
989 ------------------------------------
991 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
992 * Fixes several memory leaks.
995 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
996 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
997 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1000 * Stability fix for the video output.
1003 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1004 --------------------------------
1007 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1008 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1009 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1010 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1011 * Fixed update system bugs
1012 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1015 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1016 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1017 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1018 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1019 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1020 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1021 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1022 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1023 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1024 modern Mac OS X versions
1027 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1028 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1030 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1031 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1034 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1035 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1036 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1037 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1038 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1039 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1042 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1043 --------------------------------
1045 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1046 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1047 * Multiple bugfixes.
1050 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1051 --------------------------------
1053 * Multiple bug fixes.
1056 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1057 ---------------------------------
1061 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1062 recent to work correctly
1063 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1064 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1065 edit the ".hosts" file.
1066 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1067 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1068 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1069 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1070 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1071 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1072 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1073 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1074 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1075 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1076 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1077 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1078 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1079 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1080 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1081 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1082 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1083 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1084 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1085 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1086 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1087 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1088 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1089 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1090 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1091 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1092 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1093 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1094 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1095 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1096 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1097 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1098 and postproc modules.
1099 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1100 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1101 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1102 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1104 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1105 filter. For example:
1106 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1107 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1109 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1110 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1116 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1118 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1119 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1122 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1123 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1125 * Shoutcast TV listings
1126 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1128 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1129 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1131 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1134 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1135 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1136 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1137 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1138 * JACK audio input support
1139 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1140 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1141 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1142 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1143 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1144 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1145 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1146 (available as a separate download).
1147 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1148 * RTMP input support
1149 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1150 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1151 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1153 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1154 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1157 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1158 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1159 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1160 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1162 * APEv1/2 tags support
1163 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1164 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1166 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1167 * TiVo Series 2 support
1168 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1173 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1174 * Flash Screen Video support
1175 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1176 * DosBox Capture support
1177 * Karl Morton's Video support
1178 * limited atrac3 support
1180 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1181 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1182 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1183 * H.264 PAFF support
1184 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1185 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1186 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1187 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1188 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1191 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1192 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1193 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1194 * AQTitle subtitles support
1195 * MKV USF subtitles support
1196 * HTML-based subtitles support
1197 * MPSub subtitles support
1198 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1199 * MPL2 subtitles support
1200 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1201 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1202 * Realtext subtitle support
1203 * DKS subtitle support
1204 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1205 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1208 * Flash Screen Video support
1209 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1211 Video outputs and filters:
1212 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1213 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1214 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1215 * New puzzle video output filter
1216 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1217 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1219 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1220 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1221 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1222 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1223 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1224 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1225 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1226 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1227 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1228 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1229 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1230 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1231 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1232 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1234 Audio outputs and filters:
1235 * Replay gain support
1236 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1237 new scaletempo audio filter)
1238 * New spatializer audio filter
1239 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1242 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1243 * New RTP payload formats:
1244 * Speex voice audio codec
1245 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1246 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1247 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1248 * DCCP transport for RTP
1249 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1254 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1255 end-user suitable way.
1256 * Improved user interaction
1257 * Improved mouse gestures
1258 * Vastly improved Update checker
1259 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1261 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1262 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1264 * Improved video output features
1265 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1266 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1267 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1268 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1269 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1271 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1272 if libncursesw is available.
1273 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1274 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1275 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1277 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1278 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1279 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1280 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1281 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1282 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1283 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1284 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1287 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1288 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1289 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1292 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1293 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1294 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1295 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1296 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1297 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1300 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1301 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1311 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1312 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1313 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1316 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1317 ----------------------------------
1320 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1323 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1324 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1325 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1326 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1327 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1328 * Updated Polish translation
1331 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1332 ----------------------------------
1335 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1336 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1337 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1340 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1341 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1342 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1343 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1344 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1345 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1346 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1347 to an unexpected application termination
1348 * New Serbian translation
1349 * Updated Romanian translation
1352 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1353 ----------------------------------
1356 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1357 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1358 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1359 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1360 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1361 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1362 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1363 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1366 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1367 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1368 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1369 * Fixed AAC resampling
1370 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1371 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1374 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1375 ----------------------------------
1378 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1379 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1380 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1381 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1382 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1385 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1386 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1387 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1388 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1389 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1392 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1393 ----------------------------------
1396 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1397 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1400 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1401 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1402 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1403 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1405 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1409 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1412 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1415 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1418 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1421 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1422 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1423 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1424 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1425 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1427 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1428 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1429 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1430 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1433 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1436 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1437 ----------------------------------
1440 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1441 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1442 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1444 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1445 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1447 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1448 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1451 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1453 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1454 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1455 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1456 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1457 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1458 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1459 two different movies
1460 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1461 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1462 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1465 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1468 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1469 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1470 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1471 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1474 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1475 ----------------------------------
1477 Various bugfixes, notably:
1478 * Windows Vista compatibility
1479 * Cropping in Direct3D
1480 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1481 * RSS filter string overflow
1483 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1485 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1486 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1489 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1490 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1493 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1496 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1499 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1502 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1503 ----------------------------------
1505 Various bugfixes, notably:
1506 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1507 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1508 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1509 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1510 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1511 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1514 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1515 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1518 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1520 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1521 * Diverse usability improvements
1522 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1523 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1524 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1527 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1528 ---------------------------------
1530 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1531 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1534 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1537 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1538 --------------------------------
1541 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1544 * Support for RTSP authentication
1545 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1546 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1547 * ATSC support for DVB input
1548 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1549 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1550 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1553 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1554 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1555 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1556 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1557 * Matroska WavPack support
1558 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1559 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1560 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1563 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1564 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1565 * Improved libcaca support
1569 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1570 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1572 * Systray support in skins
1574 * Support for Apple Remote control
1575 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1576 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1577 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1578 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1580 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1583 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1584 Windows 9x/ME users:
1585 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1586 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1587 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1588 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1589 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1591 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1592 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1601 * Updates to the libvlc API
1602 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1605 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1606 --------------------------------
1609 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1610 * Support for downloading updates
1614 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1615 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1616 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1617 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1619 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1620 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1621 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1624 * Cook (Real audio) support
1626 Playlist / Services discovery:
1627 * XSPF playlist support
1629 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1632 * New JACK audio output
1635 * New video filters:
1636 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1637 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1638 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1639 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1640 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1641 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1644 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1647 * System to inform the user and request information
1648 - HTTP authentication
1652 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1653 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1654 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1657 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1658 - Improved playlist handling
1659 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1661 - Embedded Video output
1662 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1663 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1664 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1665 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1666 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1668 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1669 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1672 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1675 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1676 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1677 * Growl "Now playing" support
1680 * Ability to log to syslog
1681 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1684 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1686 * A bit more automatic testing
1689 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1690 ---------------------------------
1693 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1694 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1697 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1698 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1701 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1704 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1705 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1711 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1714 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1715 --------------------------------
1718 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1722 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1723 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1724 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1727 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1728 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1729 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1730 * GnomeVFS input module
1731 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1732 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1735 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1736 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1737 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1740 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1741 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1747 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1748 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1751 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1752 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1753 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1756 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1758 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1759 - New extended controls panel
1760 - New bookmarks window
1761 - Fixed playlist sorting
1762 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1764 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1765 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1766 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1767 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1771 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1772 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1774 - Include macro to include other files
1778 * Should now work outside IE as well
1781 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1784 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1785 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1788 The following languages were added:
1792 * Simplified Chinese
1793 The following languages were re-added:
1797 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1798 --------------------------------
1801 * Rewrite of the playlist
1803 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1804 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1805 * Preferences improvements:
1806 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1807 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1809 * Core image manipulation support
1810 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1811 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1812 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1813 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1814 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1815 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1816 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1817 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1818 * Access filter architecture
1819 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1820 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1824 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1825 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1826 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1827 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1828 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1829 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1830 * Massive Matroska improvements
1831 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1833 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1834 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1835 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1836 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1837 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1839 Decoders / Encoders:
1840 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1841 * PNG decoder/encoder
1842 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1843 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1846 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1849 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1850 * Brand new SAP module
1851 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1852 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1853 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1854 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1855 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1856 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1860 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1863 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1864 * Image file video output (png)
1865 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1866 * Improvements to wall video filter
1867 * Support for font color and opacity
1873 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1874 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1875 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1879 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1880 - Improved preferences
1881 - Improvements to the wizard
1882 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1884 - Redesigned playlist
1885 - Improved preferences
1887 - Support for multiple actions
1890 - Support for the new playlist system
1892 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1895 * Screensaver disabling fix
1896 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1897 * Support for no-decoration windows
1900 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1901 * The OpenGL video output is back
1902 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1903 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1904 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1905 is not yet available in the new module
1906 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1909 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1918 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1921 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1924 The following languages were added:
1930 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1931 --------------------------------
1934 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1935 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1938 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1939 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1940 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1943 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1946 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1949 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1952 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1953 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1954 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1958 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1960 * Support of playlist group announcement
1963 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1964 --------------------------------
1967 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1968 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1969 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1970 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1971 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1972 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1975 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1976 (Stream your desktop)
1977 * Improved DVD support:
1978 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1979 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1980 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1981 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1982 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1983 (selection of titles/chapters).
1986 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1987 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1988 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1989 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1990 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1991 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1992 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1993 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1994 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1995 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1998 * G.726 audio support
1999 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2000 * MPEG-4 text support
2001 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2002 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2003 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2007 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2008 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2009 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2010 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2011 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2012 * DVB subtitles encoder
2013 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2014 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2016 * Text track muxing for mp4
2017 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2018 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2019 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2020 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2021 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2022 * Improved ASF muxer
2024 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2025 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2026 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2029 * New audio equalizer filter
2030 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2031 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2032 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2033 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2036 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2037 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2038 with support for effects.
2039 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2040 - New filters can be streamed.
2041 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2042 - Centralized scaling and blending
2044 - "time", to display current time
2045 - "marq", to display a marquee
2048 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2049 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2050 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2051 * A few skins2 improvements
2052 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2053 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2054 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2055 * Improved CORBA control module
2058 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2059 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2060 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2063 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2064 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2065 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2068 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2069 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2070 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2071 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2072 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2075 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2078 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2079 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2082 * Server/client network synchronization module
2083 * VBrick streams fully supported
2084 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2088 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2089 --------------------------------
2092 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2093 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2094 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2095 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2098 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2099 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2100 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2101 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2102 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2103 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2104 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2107 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2108 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2109 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2110 * Improved directory access module.
2111 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2112 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2113 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2114 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2115 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2118 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2119 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2120 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2123 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2124 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2125 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2128 * Improved session announcement system.
2129 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2130 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2131 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2132 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2133 * Improved transrater.
2134 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2135 * New configuration system.
2136 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2139 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2140 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2141 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2142 * Supports scheduling.
2143 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2144 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2147 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2148 - Ability to embed video output.
2149 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2150 - Lots of improvements.
2151 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2152 - New design and set of icons.
2153 - Ability to embed video output.
2154 - Support for hotkeys.
2155 - Support for bookmarks.
2157 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2158 - Better hotkeys handling.
2161 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2162 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2163 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2164 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2167 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2168 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2169 * Improved Windows installer.
2175 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2176 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2179 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2180 ---------------------------------
2183 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2184 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2187 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2188 --------------------------------
2191 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2192 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2195 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2196 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2197 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2198 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2201 * Internal improvments
2202 * Improved import/export
2205 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2207 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2208 small and strange formats.
2210 * New MOD audio demux.
2211 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2212 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2213 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2214 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2217 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2218 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2219 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2225 * New opengl video output plugin.
2228 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2229 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2232 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2233 --------------------------------
2236 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2237 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2238 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2239 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2240 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2241 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2242 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2243 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2246 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2251 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2252 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2253 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2254 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2255 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2256 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2257 * Better Icecast support.
2258 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2259 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2262 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2263 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2264 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2265 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2266 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2267 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2268 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2271 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2272 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2273 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2274 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2275 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2276 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2277 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2278 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2279 * Preliminary RTP support.
2280 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2285 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2286 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2288 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2289 - Improvements and help in preferences
2290 - New streaming wizard
2291 - Revised Disc Open menu
2293 - Improvements of the standard pages
2294 - Support for new commands
2295 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2298 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2299 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2302 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2303 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2304 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2305 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2306 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2307 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2308 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2309 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2310 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2313 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2315 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2316 * Support for Panther.
2317 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2318 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2321 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2322 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2323 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2324 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2325 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2326 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2327 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2328 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2331 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2332 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2333 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2336 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2339 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2340 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2341 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2342 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2345 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2346 --------------------------------
2349 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2352 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2353 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2356 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2357 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2360 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2363 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2364 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2367 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2370 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2373 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2374 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2378 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2379 --------------------------------
2382 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2383 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2387 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2388 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2389 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2391 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2392 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2395 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2398 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2401 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2402 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2406 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2407 --------------------------------
2410 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2411 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2415 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2416 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2417 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2418 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2419 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2422 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2423 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2424 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2427 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2428 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2429 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2432 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2433 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2434 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2435 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2436 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2439 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2440 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2441 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2444 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2447 * Improved build system.
2448 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2449 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2450 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2451 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2454 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2455 --------------------------------
2458 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2461 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2462 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2463 * Video 4 Linux support
2464 * CD Digital Audio support
2465 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2468 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2469 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2470 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2471 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2474 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2475 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2476 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2477 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2478 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2479 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2480 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2483 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2484 * New HTTP remote control interface
2487 * 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.
2488 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2489 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2490 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2493 * New reset option for the preferences
2494 * You can set your language in the prefences
2495 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2496 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2497 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2498 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2501 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2502 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2503 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2506 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2507 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2508 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2509 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2510 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2511 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2512 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2513 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2514 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2515 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2518 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2519 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2520 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2521 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2522 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2523 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2524 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2527 * Interface localization
2528 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2529 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2530 * New full-featured Preferences window
2533 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2534 --------------------------------
2537 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2538 * support for skins at the interface level
2539 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2540 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2541 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2542 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2543 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2546 * fixed HTTP redirects
2547 * support for opening an entire directory
2548 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2549 * new video4linux access plug-in
2550 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2553 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2554 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2555 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2558 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2559 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2560 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2561 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2562 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2563 * new codec for raw I420 video
2564 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2567 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2568 (although it still misses some important features)
2569 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2572 * new HTTP output support
2573 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2574 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2577 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2580 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2583 * reorderable playlist
2584 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2585 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2586 * support for mono audio output devices
2587 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2588 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2589 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2590 * the messages window remembers more lines
2591 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2592 * http and ogg stream output options
2593 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2596 * new skinnable interface
2597 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2599 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2600 * support for FLAC audio format
2601 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2603 * network tab in the interface
2604 * "apply" handling in preferences
2607 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2608 ---------------------------------
2611 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2612 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2613 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2614 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2616 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2617 * DTS S/PDIF support
2620 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2621 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2622 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2623 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2626 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2627 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2630 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2633 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2636 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2638 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2639 * rc interface is now fully useable
2640 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2643 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2644 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2645 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2646 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2647 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2649 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2650 * support for mouse gestures
2651 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2654 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2655 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2658 * improved ID3 tag detection
2659 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2660 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2661 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2663 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2666 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2667 ---------------------------------
2670 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2671 English was set as the preferred language
2674 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2675 --------------------------------
2678 * new mouse gesture interface
2679 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2683 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2684 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2685 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2688 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2689 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2693 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2696 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2697 without the user consent
2700 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2702 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2703 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2704 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2707 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2708 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2709 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2710 * playlist enhancements
2711 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2712 * new step forward/step backward commands
2713 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2714 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2715 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2718 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2719 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2720 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2723 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2724 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2727 * native video output is working again
2728 * only commandline interface support
2729 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2732 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2733 --------------------------------
2736 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2737 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2738 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2739 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2740 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2741 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2742 and A/52 streams are supported)
2743 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2748 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2749 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2750 * VCD entry points support
2751 * VCD image file support
2754 * support for *.asf format
2755 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2756 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2757 * support for ogg encapsulation
2758 * support for raw DV format
2759 * support for *.wav format
2760 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2763 Stream discovery & playlists:
2764 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2765 * support for .m3u file format
2766 * support for .asx file format
2767 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2770 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2771 (only available with the .avi demux)
2772 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2773 * support for raw PCM data
2774 * support for Cinepak video codec
2775 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2776 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2777 * support for Xvid codec
2778 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2779 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2780 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2782 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2784 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2787 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2790 * new WxWindows interface
2791 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2792 device and the channels configuration
2793 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2794 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2795 format that VLC can play
2796 * new swedish translation
2797 * enhancements of the playlist window
2798 * new messages window to see debug info
2799 * fixed a few crashes
2802 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2803 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2804 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2805 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working