1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
19 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
20 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
21 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
22 * Support for Ulead DV audio
23 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
24 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
25 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
26 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
27 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
28 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
29 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
33 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
36 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
37 remove support for previous OS X releases
38 * Major improvements in DASH support
39 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
40 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
41 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
42 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
43 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
44 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
45 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
46 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
47 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
50 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
51 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
52 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
53 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
54 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
55 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
56 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
57 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
58 * Support for more MJPEG streams
59 * Add support for liveleak streams
62 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
63 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
64 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
65 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
66 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
67 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
68 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
69 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
70 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
71 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
74 * New remapping channel filter
75 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
76 * New VSXu visualization plugin
77 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
80 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
81 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
82 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
83 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
84 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
85 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
86 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
89 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
90 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
91 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
92 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
93 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
94 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
95 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
98 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
99 * Options support for AVIO output module
100 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
101 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
102 * Livehttp stream encryption support
105 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
106 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
107 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
108 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
109 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
110 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
114 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
117 * add support for multiple video outputs
118 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
120 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
121 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
122 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
123 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
124 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
125 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
126 VLC's internal volume level
127 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
128 selection and to manage the list of presets
129 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
130 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
131 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
132 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
133 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
134 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
135 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
136 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
137 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
139 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
140 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
141 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
142 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
143 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
144 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
145 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
146 3rd party applications
147 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
148 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
149 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
153 * Partial support for Qt5.0
154 * Menus modifications and improvements
155 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
156 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
160 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
161 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
162 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
163 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
164 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
165 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
166 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
169 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
170 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
171 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
172 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
173 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
174 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
176 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
177 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
178 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
179 * Broken crop video filter
181 * OSD parser and menu
182 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
185 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
186 --------------------------------
189 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
192 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
193 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
194 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
197 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
198 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
199 * Fix koreus lua parser
200 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
201 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
202 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
203 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
206 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
207 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
210 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
213 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
214 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
215 * Fix Time counter UI look
216 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
219 * Fix https streaming
222 * Fix audio and video track selection:
223 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
224 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
227 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
228 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
229 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
230 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
231 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
234 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
235 --------------------------------
238 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
239 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
240 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
241 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
242 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
243 during playback on Mac OS X
246 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
247 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
248 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
251 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
252 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
253 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
254 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
255 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
258 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
259 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
260 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
261 * Support Youtube live streams
264 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
267 * Fix media info dialog update
268 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
269 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
270 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
271 * Fix album art display at start
274 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
275 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
276 * Fix menus display and behavior
277 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
278 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
279 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
280 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
281 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
282 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
283 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
286 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
287 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
288 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
289 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
290 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
291 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
292 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
293 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
294 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
297 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
298 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
299 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
300 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
301 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
304 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
305 --------------------------------
308 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
311 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
312 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
315 * Add GateKeeper support
316 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
317 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
318 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
321 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
324 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
325 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
326 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
327 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
328 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
331 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
332 --------------------------------
335 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
336 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
337 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
338 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
339 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
340 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
341 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
342 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
343 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
344 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
345 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
349 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
350 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
351 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
352 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
353 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
354 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
355 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
356 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
357 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
358 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
359 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
360 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
363 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
364 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
366 * Fix MP3 free format support
369 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
370 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
371 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
372 * Fix for DVB channels file support
373 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
376 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
377 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
379 Audio filters and output:
380 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
381 * Fix DirectSound device selection
382 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
383 * Do not apply volume in file output
384 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
385 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
388 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
389 the persistant media library
390 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
391 to the media library or the temporary playlist
392 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
393 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
394 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
395 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
396 press on the Play/Pause button
397 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
398 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
399 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
400 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
401 * Many Fullscreen fixes
402 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
403 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
404 Synchronization panel
405 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
406 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
407 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
408 * Fix crashes on exit
409 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
411 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
412 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
413 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
414 automatically reset on the first launch.
415 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
416 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
417 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
420 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
421 * Fixes for icecast SD
424 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
425 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
426 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
427 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
428 * Fix tags and file names display
429 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
432 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
433 * Fix for key events and focus loss
436 * Fix display of some buttons
437 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
438 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
441 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
442 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
443 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
446 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
447 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
448 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
449 Thai translations update
450 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
453 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
454 --------------------------------
457 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
458 * fix the samba module compilation
459 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
460 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
461 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
462 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
465 * Support for MXPEG files
466 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
467 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
470 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
471 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
472 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
475 * Fix ogm header creation
478 * limit spatializer filter distortions
479 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
482 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
483 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
484 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
485 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
488 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
491 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
492 * allow to hide the sidebar
493 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
494 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
495 * noticebly faster launch time
496 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
497 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
498 * improve track synchronization panel
499 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
500 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
503 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
504 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
505 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
506 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
509 * fix for menus display
510 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
511 * documentation update
514 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
515 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
518 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
519 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
520 * Update Jamendo selections
524 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
525 * fix a crash on VLM close
528 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
529 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
530 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
531 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
534 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
537 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
538 ---------------------------------
541 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
542 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
543 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
544 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
545 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
546 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
547 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
548 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
549 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
550 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
551 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
552 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
553 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
554 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
555 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
556 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
557 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
558 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
559 --http-crl (optional CRL).
560 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
561 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
562 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
563 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
564 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
565 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
566 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
568 Important changes for packagers:
569 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
570 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
571 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
572 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
573 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
574 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
575 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
576 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
577 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
578 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
581 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
582 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
583 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
584 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
585 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
586 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
587 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
590 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
591 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
592 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
593 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
594 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
595 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
596 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
597 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
598 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
599 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
600 * PulseAudio audio input support
601 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
602 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
603 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
604 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
605 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
606 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
607 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
608 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
611 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
612 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
613 are notably concerned.
614 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
615 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
616 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
617 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
618 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
619 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
620 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
621 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
622 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
623 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
624 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
625 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
626 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
627 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
628 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
631 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
632 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
633 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
634 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
635 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
636 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
637 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
638 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
639 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
640 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
641 * Improved support of tracker files
642 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
645 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
646 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
647 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
648 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
649 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
650 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
651 and important cleanups and optimisations
652 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
653 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
654 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
655 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
656 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
657 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
658 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
659 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
660 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
661 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
662 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
663 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
664 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
665 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
666 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
667 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
668 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
669 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
670 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
671 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
672 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
675 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
676 * New video output for iOS platform
677 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
678 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
679 * Various vmem improvements
680 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
681 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
682 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
683 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
684 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
685 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
687 Audio Output and Filters:
688 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
689 * New audio output in memory (amem)
690 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
691 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
692 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
693 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
694 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
695 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
696 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
697 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
700 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
701 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
702 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
703 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
704 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
705 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
706 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
707 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
708 * New anti-flickering filter
709 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
710 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
711 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
712 blackbox and customizable shadow.
713 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
714 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
715 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
718 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
719 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
720 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
721 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
722 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
723 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
724 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
725 * Major rework of VoD support
726 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
727 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
728 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
729 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
730 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
731 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
732 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
733 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
734 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
735 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
738 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
739 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
742 * New capabilities for libVLC:
743 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
744 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
745 list of available audio and video filters
746 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
747 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
748 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
751 * asademux, subsass: use libass
752 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
753 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
755 * upnp: use upnp_intel
756 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
757 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
758 * removal of the noise filter
759 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
760 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
761 removed in Growl's next release, too.
762 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
765 * Update of translations for most languages.
766 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
769 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
770 ----------------------------------
773 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
774 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
777 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
778 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
781 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
782 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
783 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
786 * Camtasia decoding fix.
789 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
790 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
793 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
796 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
797 ----------------------------------
800 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
801 including support for OS X Lion
802 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
803 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
806 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
809 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
810 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
811 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
814 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
817 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
818 ----------------------------------
821 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
822 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
825 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
826 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
827 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
828 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
829 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
831 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
832 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
833 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
835 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
836 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
839 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
842 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
845 * Fix quitting on Linux
846 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
850 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
853 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
856 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
857 ---------------------------------
859 Windows and Mac OS X:
860 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
863 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
864 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
867 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
870 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
873 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
875 Miscellaneous fixes in:
876 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
878 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
879 * RTP output and XML export
880 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
884 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
885 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
886 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
887 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
890 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
891 --------------------------------
893 Windows and Mac OS X:
894 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
897 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
900 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
901 * Improve Apple Remote handling
902 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
903 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
904 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
905 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
908 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
909 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
913 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
914 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
915 * New Luganda Translation
918 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
919 --------------------------------
922 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
925 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
926 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
927 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
928 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
931 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
933 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
934 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
935 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
936 * mp4 demuxer improvements
937 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
938 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
939 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
940 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
942 Miscellaneous fixes in:
943 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
944 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
945 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
946 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
947 * Configure and build system improvements
948 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
951 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
952 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
953 * New icelandic translation
956 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
957 --------------------------------
960 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
964 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
965 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
966 and stability reasons
969 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
973 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
976 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
977 ----------------------------------
980 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
983 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
984 ---------------------------------
987 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
988 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
989 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
990 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
993 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
996 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
997 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
998 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
999 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1002 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1003 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1004 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1006 Subtitles and renderer:
1007 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1008 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1009 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1010 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1011 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1014 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1015 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1016 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1017 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1020 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1021 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1023 Miscellaneous fixes:
1024 * KDE device solid actions
1026 * Transcode integer overflow
1027 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1028 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1031 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1032 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1033 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1036 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1037 ----------------------------------
1040 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1044 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1047 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1050 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1051 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1052 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1053 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1056 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1060 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1063 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1066 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1067 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1069 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1073 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1074 * Miscellaneous fixes
1077 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1078 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1079 French and Ukrainian
1080 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1081 * New Asturian translation
1084 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1085 ----------------------------------
1088 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1090 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1093 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1096 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1097 * Various fixes for Windows
1100 * New Armenian translation
1101 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1102 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1105 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1106 --------------------------------
1109 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1110 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1111 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1114 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1115 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1118 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1119 --------------------------------
1121 Access and demuxers:
1122 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1123 * fix for podcasts parsing
1124 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1127 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1128 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1131 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1132 * fix m3u playlists exports
1135 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1138 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1141 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1144 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1147 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1150 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1151 --------------------------------
1154 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1155 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1158 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1159 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1162 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1163 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1164 * fix console output encoding
1166 Interface and extensions:
1167 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1168 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1171 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1172 --------------------------------
1175 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1176 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1177 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1178 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1179 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1180 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1181 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1182 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1183 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1184 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1185 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1186 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1187 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1188 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1189 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1190 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1194 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1195 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1196 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1197 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1198 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1201 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1204 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1205 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1206 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1210 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1213 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1214 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1215 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1218 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1219 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1220 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1221 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1224 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1225 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1228 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1229 --------------------------------
1231 Important changes for users:
1232 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1233 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1235 Important changes for packagers:
1236 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1237 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1238 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1239 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1240 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1242 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1244 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1245 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1246 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1247 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1248 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1251 * Support for the sftp protocol
1252 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1253 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1254 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1255 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1256 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1259 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1260 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1261 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1263 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1264 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1265 * Invmem module improvements
1266 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1267 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1268 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1269 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1270 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1271 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1272 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1273 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1274 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1275 * Support for VP8 codec
1276 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1279 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1280 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1281 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1282 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1283 * Various EGP improvements
1284 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1285 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1288 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1289 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1290 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1291 * Podcast images are now displayed
1294 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1295 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1296 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1297 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1298 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1299 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1300 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1301 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1302 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1303 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1304 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1307 * New content extensions lua framework
1310 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1311 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1312 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1313 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1314 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1315 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1316 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1319 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1320 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1321 * Service discovery based on libudev
1322 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1325 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1326 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1327 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1328 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1329 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1330 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1331 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1334 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1335 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1336 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1339 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1341 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1342 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1345 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1348 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1349 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1350 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1351 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1352 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1353 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1354 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1357 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1358 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1361 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1362 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1363 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1367 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1368 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1369 * Improved Solaris port
1372 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1373 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1376 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1377 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1378 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1379 * transrate: broken since too long
1380 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1381 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1382 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1383 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1384 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1385 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1386 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1387 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1388 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1389 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1390 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1391 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1392 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1393 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1396 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1397 --------------------------------
1400 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1402 Decoders/Packetizers:
1403 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1406 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1407 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1408 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1409 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1410 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1413 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1414 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1417 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1418 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1421 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1422 and Walloon translations updated
1423 * Sinhala translation started
1426 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1427 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1430 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1431 --------------------------------
1434 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1435 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1438 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1441 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1442 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1445 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1446 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1447 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1448 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1451 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1452 --------------------------------
1455 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1456 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1459 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1460 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1463 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1464 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1467 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1470 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1471 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1474 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1475 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1478 * New Walloon translation
1479 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1482 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1483 --------------------------------
1486 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1487 regressions in most popular drivers
1488 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1491 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1492 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1493 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1496 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1497 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1500 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1501 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1502 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1503 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1504 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1507 * New udev module for linux
1510 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1513 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1516 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1517 --------------------------------
1520 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1521 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1522 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1525 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1526 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1529 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1530 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1533 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1536 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1537 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1538 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1539 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1542 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1543 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1544 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1545 - no support for Goom and SDL
1546 - limited text rendering support
1547 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1550 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1551 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1552 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1553 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1554 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1555 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1556 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1557 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1558 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1562 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1565 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1568 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1569 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1570 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1571 Arabic and French translation updates
1574 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1575 --------------------------------
1578 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1579 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1580 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1581 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1582 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1583 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1586 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1587 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1588 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1591 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1592 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1593 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1596 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1599 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1600 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1603 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1604 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1605 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1606 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1607 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1608 * Fix various crashes
1611 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1613 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1617 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1618 ---------------------------------
1622 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1623 See 'Access:' for more info.
1624 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1627 * Instantaneous pausing
1628 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1629 * Finer speed control
1630 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1631 * Timeshift for most medias
1632 * RTSP trickplay support
1633 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1636 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1637 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1638 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1639 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1640 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1641 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1642 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1643 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1644 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1645 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1648 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1649 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1650 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1651 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1652 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1653 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1654 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1657 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1658 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1661 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1662 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1663 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1664 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1665 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1666 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1667 * DVB scanning on linux
1668 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1669 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1670 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1671 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1672 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1673 * MTP device access on Unix
1674 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1675 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1678 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1679 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1680 Windows and Mac OS X.
1683 * Export the playlist in HTML
1684 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1685 * Better metadata handling and reading
1687 Linux/Windows interface:
1688 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1689 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1690 * Recently played items list
1691 * Interface toolbar customizations
1692 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1693 - More menus actions
1694 - Finer speed slider
1695 - Improvements on many dialogs
1696 - New dialog for plugins listing
1697 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1698 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1699 * Better integration in GTK environments
1702 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1703 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1704 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1705 * Additional usability improvements
1708 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1709 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1710 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1711 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1712 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1715 * New Maemo port with:
1716 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1717 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1720 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1723 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1724 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1725 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1726 * Support for latest iSight models
1729 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1730 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1733 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1734 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1735 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1736 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1737 The old image video output has been removed.
1738 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1739 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1742 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1750 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1751 --------------------------------------
1757 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1758 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1759 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1760 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1761 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1762 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1763 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1765 Various fixes to the following modules:
1768 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1769 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1770 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1772 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1777 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1778 ---------------------------------
1781 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1782 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1785 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1786 ---------------------------------
1789 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1792 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1795 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1796 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1797 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1798 main controller window.
1799 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1802 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1807 * Updates of other localizations
1810 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1811 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1812 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1813 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1814 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1817 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1818 ---------------------------------
1821 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1823 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1826 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1827 --------------------------------
1832 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1833 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1836 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1837 --------------------------------
1839 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1840 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1843 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1846 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1847 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1850 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1851 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1854 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1855 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1856 * Various fixed in playlist
1859 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1862 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1865 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1866 ------------------------------------
1868 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1869 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1872 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1873 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1874 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1877 * Stability fix for the video output.
1880 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1881 --------------------------------
1884 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1885 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1886 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1887 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1888 * Fixed update system bugs
1889 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1892 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1893 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1894 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1895 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1896 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1897 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1898 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1899 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1900 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1901 modern Mac OS X versions
1904 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1905 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1907 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1908 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1911 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1912 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1913 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1914 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1915 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1916 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1919 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1920 --------------------------------
1922 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1923 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1924 * Multiple bugfixes.
1927 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1928 --------------------------------
1930 * Multiple bug fixes.
1933 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1934 ---------------------------------
1938 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1939 recent to work correctly
1940 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1941 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1942 edit the ".hosts" file.
1943 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1944 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1945 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1946 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1947 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1948 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1949 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1950 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1951 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1952 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1953 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1954 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1955 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1956 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1957 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1958 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1959 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1960 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1961 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1962 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1963 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1964 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1965 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1966 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1967 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1968 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1969 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1970 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1971 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1972 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1973 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1974 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1975 and postproc modules.
1976 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1977 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1978 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1979 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1981 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1982 filter. For example:
1983 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1984 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1986 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1987 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1993 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1995 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1996 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1999 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2000 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2002 * Shoutcast TV listings
2003 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2005 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2006 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2008 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2011 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2012 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2013 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2014 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2015 * JACK audio input support
2016 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2017 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2018 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2019 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2020 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2021 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2022 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2023 (available as a separate download).
2024 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2025 * RTMP input support
2026 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2027 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2028 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2030 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2031 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2034 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2035 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2036 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2037 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2039 * APEv1/2 tags support
2040 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2041 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2043 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2044 * TiVo Series 2 support
2045 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2050 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2051 * Flash Screen Video support
2052 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2053 * DosBox Capture support
2054 * Karl Morton's Video support
2055 * limited atrac3 support
2057 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2058 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2059 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2060 * H.264 PAFF support
2061 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2062 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2063 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2064 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2065 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2068 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2069 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2070 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2071 * AQTitle subtitles support
2072 * MKV USF subtitles support
2073 * HTML-based subtitles support
2074 * MPSub subtitles support
2075 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2076 * MPL2 subtitles support
2077 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2078 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2079 * Realtext subtitle support
2080 * DKS subtitle support
2081 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2082 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2085 * Flash Screen Video support
2086 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2088 Video outputs and filters:
2089 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2090 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2091 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2092 * New puzzle video output filter
2093 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2094 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2096 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2097 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2098 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2099 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2100 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2101 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2102 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2103 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2104 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2105 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2106 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2107 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2108 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2109 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2111 Audio outputs and filters:
2112 * Replay gain support
2113 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2114 new scaletempo audio filter)
2115 * New spatializer audio filter
2116 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2119 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2120 * New RTP payload formats:
2121 * Speex voice audio codec
2122 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2123 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2124 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2125 * DCCP transport for RTP
2126 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2131 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2132 end-user suitable way.
2133 * Improved user interaction
2134 * Improved mouse gestures
2135 * Vastly improved Update checker
2136 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2138 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2139 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2141 * Improved video output features
2142 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2143 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2144 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2145 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2146 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2148 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2149 if libncursesw is available.
2150 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2151 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2152 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2154 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2155 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2156 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2157 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2158 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2159 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2160 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2161 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2164 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2165 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2166 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2169 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2170 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2171 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2172 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2173 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2174 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2177 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2178 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2188 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2189 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2190 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2193 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2194 ----------------------------------
2197 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2200 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2201 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2202 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2203 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2204 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2205 * Updated Polish translation
2208 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2209 ----------------------------------
2212 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2213 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2214 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2217 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2218 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2219 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2220 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2221 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2222 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2223 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2224 to an unexpected application termination
2225 * New Serbian translation
2226 * Updated Romanian translation
2229 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2230 ----------------------------------
2233 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2234 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2235 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2236 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2237 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2238 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2239 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2240 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2243 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2244 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2245 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2246 * Fixed AAC resampling
2247 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2248 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2251 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2252 ----------------------------------
2255 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2256 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2257 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2258 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2259 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2262 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2263 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2264 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2265 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2266 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2269 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2270 ----------------------------------
2273 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2274 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2277 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2278 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2279 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2280 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2282 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2286 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2289 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2292 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2295 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2298 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2299 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2300 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2301 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2302 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2304 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2305 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2306 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2307 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2310 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2313 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2314 ----------------------------------
2317 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2318 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2319 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2321 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2322 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2324 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2325 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2328 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2330 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2331 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2332 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2333 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2334 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2335 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2336 two different movies
2337 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2338 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2339 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2342 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2345 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2346 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2347 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2348 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2351 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2352 ----------------------------------
2354 Various bugfixes, notably:
2355 * Windows Vista compatibility
2356 * Cropping in Direct3D
2357 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2358 * RSS filter string overflow
2360 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2362 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2363 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2366 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2367 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2370 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2373 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2376 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2379 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2380 ----------------------------------
2382 Various bugfixes, notably:
2383 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2384 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2385 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2386 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2387 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2388 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2391 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2392 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2395 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2397 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2398 * Diverse usability improvements
2399 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2400 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2401 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2404 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2405 ---------------------------------
2407 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2408 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2411 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2414 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2415 --------------------------------
2418 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2421 * Support for RTSP authentication
2422 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2423 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2424 * ATSC support for DVB input
2425 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2426 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2427 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2430 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2431 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2432 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2433 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2434 * Matroska WavPack support
2435 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2436 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2437 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2440 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2441 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2442 * Improved libcaca support
2446 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2447 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2449 * Systray support in skins
2451 * Support for Apple Remote control
2452 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2453 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2454 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2455 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2457 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2460 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2461 Windows 9x/ME users:
2462 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2463 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2464 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2465 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2466 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2468 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2469 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2478 * Updates to the libvlc API
2479 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2482 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2483 --------------------------------
2486 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2487 * Support for downloading updates
2491 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2492 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2493 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2494 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2496 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2497 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2498 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2501 * Cook (Real audio) support
2503 Playlist / Services discovery:
2504 * XSPF playlist support
2506 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2509 * New JACK audio output
2512 * New video filters:
2513 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2514 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2515 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2516 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2517 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2518 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2521 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2524 * System to inform the user and request information
2525 - HTTP authentication
2529 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2530 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2531 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2534 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2535 - Improved playlist handling
2536 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2538 - Embedded Video output
2539 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2540 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2541 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2542 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2543 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2545 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2546 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2549 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2552 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2553 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2554 * Growl "Now playing" support
2557 * Ability to log to syslog
2558 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2561 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2563 * A bit more automatic testing
2566 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2567 ---------------------------------
2570 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2571 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2574 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2575 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2578 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2581 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2582 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2588 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2591 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2592 --------------------------------
2595 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2599 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2600 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2601 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2604 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2605 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2606 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2607 * GnomeVFS input module
2608 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2609 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2612 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2613 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2614 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2617 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2618 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2624 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2625 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2628 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2629 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2630 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2633 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2635 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2636 - New extended controls panel
2637 - New bookmarks window
2638 - Fixed playlist sorting
2639 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2641 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2642 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2643 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2644 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2648 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2649 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2651 - Include macro to include other files
2655 * Should now work outside IE as well
2658 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2661 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2662 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2665 The following languages were added:
2669 * Simplified Chinese
2670 The following languages were re-added:
2674 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2675 --------------------------------
2678 * Rewrite of the playlist
2680 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2681 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2682 * Preferences improvements:
2683 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2684 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2686 * Core image manipulation support
2687 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2688 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2689 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2690 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2691 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2692 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2693 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2694 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2695 * Access filter architecture
2696 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2697 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2701 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2702 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2703 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2704 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2705 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2706 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2707 * Massive Matroska improvements
2708 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2710 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2711 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2712 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2713 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2714 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2716 Decoders / Encoders:
2717 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2718 * PNG decoder/encoder
2719 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2720 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2723 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2726 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2727 * Brand new SAP module
2728 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2729 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2730 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2731 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2732 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2733 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2737 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2740 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2741 * Image file video output (png)
2742 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2743 * Improvements to wall video filter
2744 * Support for font color and opacity
2750 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2751 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2752 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2756 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2757 - Improved preferences
2758 - Improvements to the wizard
2759 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2761 - Redesigned playlist
2762 - Improved preferences
2764 - Support for multiple actions
2767 - Support for the new playlist system
2769 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2772 * Screensaver disabling fix
2773 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2774 * Support for no-decoration windows
2777 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2778 * The OpenGL video output is back
2779 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2780 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2781 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2782 is not yet available in the new module
2783 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2786 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2795 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2798 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2801 The following languages were added:
2807 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2808 --------------------------------
2811 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2812 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2815 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2816 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2817 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2820 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2823 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2826 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2829 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2830 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2831 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2835 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2837 * Support of playlist group announcement
2840 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2841 --------------------------------
2844 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2845 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2846 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2847 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2848 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2849 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2852 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2853 (Stream your desktop)
2854 * Improved DVD support:
2855 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2856 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2857 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2858 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2859 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2860 (selection of titles/chapters).
2863 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2864 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2865 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2866 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2867 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2868 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2869 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2870 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2871 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2872 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2875 * G.726 audio support
2876 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2877 * MPEG-4 text support
2878 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2879 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2880 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2884 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2885 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2886 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2887 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2888 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2889 * DVB subtitles encoder
2890 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2891 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2893 * Text track muxing for mp4
2894 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2895 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2896 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2897 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2898 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2899 * Improved ASF muxer
2901 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2902 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2903 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2906 * New audio equalizer filter
2907 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2908 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2909 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2910 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2913 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2914 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2915 with support for effects.
2916 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2917 - New filters can be streamed.
2918 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2919 - Centralized scaling and blending
2921 - "time", to display current time
2922 - "marq", to display a marquee
2925 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2926 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2927 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2928 * A few skins2 improvements
2929 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2930 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2931 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2932 * Improved CORBA control module
2935 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2936 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2937 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2940 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2941 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2942 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2945 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2946 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2947 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2948 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2949 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2952 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2955 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2956 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2959 * Server/client network synchronization module
2960 * VBrick streams fully supported
2961 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2965 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2966 --------------------------------
2969 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2970 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2971 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2972 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2975 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2976 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2977 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2978 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2979 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2980 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2981 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2984 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2985 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2986 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2987 * Improved directory access module.
2988 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2989 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2990 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2991 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2992 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2995 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2996 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2997 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3000 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3001 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3002 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3005 * Improved session announcement system.
3006 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3007 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3008 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3009 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3010 * Improved transrater.
3011 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3012 * New configuration system.
3013 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3016 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3017 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3018 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3019 * Supports scheduling.
3020 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3021 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3024 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3025 - Ability to embed video output.
3026 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3027 - Lots of improvements.
3028 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3029 - New design and set of icons.
3030 - Ability to embed video output.
3031 - Support for hotkeys.
3032 - Support for bookmarks.
3034 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3035 - Better hotkeys handling.
3038 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3039 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3040 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3041 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3044 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3045 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3046 * Improved Windows installer.
3052 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3053 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3056 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3057 ---------------------------------
3060 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3061 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3064 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3065 --------------------------------
3068 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3069 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3072 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3073 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3074 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3075 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3078 * Internal improvments
3079 * Improved import/export
3082 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3084 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3085 small and strange formats.
3087 * New MOD audio demux.
3088 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3089 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3090 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3091 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3094 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3095 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3096 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3102 * New opengl video output plugin.
3105 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3106 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3109 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3110 --------------------------------
3113 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3114 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3115 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3116 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3117 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3118 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3119 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3120 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3123 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3128 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3129 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3130 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3131 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3132 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3133 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3134 * Better Icecast support.
3135 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3136 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3139 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3140 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3141 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3142 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3143 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3144 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3145 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3148 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3149 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3150 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3151 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3152 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3153 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3154 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3155 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3156 * Preliminary RTP support.
3157 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3162 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3163 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3165 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3166 - Improvements and help in preferences
3167 - New streaming wizard
3168 - Revised Disc Open menu
3170 - Improvements of the standard pages
3171 - Support for new commands
3172 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3175 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3176 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3179 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3180 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3181 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3182 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3183 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3184 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3185 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3186 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3187 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3190 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3192 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3193 * Support for Panther.
3194 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3195 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3198 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3199 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3200 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3201 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3202 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3203 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3204 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3205 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3208 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3209 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3210 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3213 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3216 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3217 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3218 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3219 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3222 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3223 --------------------------------
3226 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3229 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3230 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3233 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3234 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3237 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3240 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3241 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3244 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3247 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3250 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3251 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3255 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3256 --------------------------------
3259 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3260 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3264 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3265 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3266 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3268 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3269 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3272 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3275 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3278 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3279 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3283 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3284 --------------------------------
3287 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3288 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3292 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3293 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3294 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3295 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3296 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3299 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3300 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3301 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3304 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3305 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3306 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3309 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3310 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3311 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3312 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3313 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3316 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3317 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3318 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3321 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3324 * Improved build system.
3325 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3326 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3327 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3328 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3331 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3332 --------------------------------
3335 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3338 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3339 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3340 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3341 * Video 4 Linux support
3342 * CD Digital Audio support
3343 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3346 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3347 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3348 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3349 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3352 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3353 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3354 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3355 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3356 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3357 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3358 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3361 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3362 * New HTTP remote control interface
3365 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3366 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3367 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3368 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3369 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3372 * New reset option for the preferences
3373 * You can set your language in the prefences
3374 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3375 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3376 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3377 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3380 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3381 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3382 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3385 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3386 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3387 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3388 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3389 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3390 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3391 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3392 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3393 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3394 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3397 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3398 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3399 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3400 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3401 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3402 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3403 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3406 * Interface localization
3407 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3408 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3409 * New full-featured Preferences window
3412 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3413 --------------------------------
3416 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3417 * support for skins at the interface level
3418 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3419 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3420 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3421 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3422 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3425 * fixed HTTP redirects
3426 * support for opening an entire directory
3427 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3428 * new video4linux access plug-in
3429 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3432 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3433 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3434 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3437 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3438 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3439 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3440 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3441 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3442 * new codec for raw I420 video
3443 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3446 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3447 (although it still misses some important features)
3448 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3451 * new HTTP output support
3452 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3453 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3456 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3459 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3462 * reorderable playlist
3463 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3464 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3465 * support for mono audio output devices
3466 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3467 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3468 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3469 * the messages window remembers more lines
3470 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3471 * http and ogg stream output options
3472 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3475 * new skinnable interface
3476 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3478 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3479 * support for FLAC audio format
3480 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3482 * network tab in the interface
3483 * "apply" handling in preferences
3486 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3487 ---------------------------------
3490 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3491 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3492 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3493 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3495 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3496 * DTS S/PDIF support
3499 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3500 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3501 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3502 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3505 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3506 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3509 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3512 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3515 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3517 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3518 * rc interface is now fully useable
3519 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3522 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3523 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3524 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3525 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3526 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3528 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3529 * support for mouse gestures
3530 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3533 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3534 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3537 * improved ID3 tag detection
3538 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3539 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3540 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3542 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3545 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3546 ---------------------------------
3549 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3550 English was set as the preferred language
3553 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3554 --------------------------------
3557 * new mouse gesture interface
3558 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3562 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3563 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3564 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3567 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3568 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3572 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3575 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3576 without the user consent
3579 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3581 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3582 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3583 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3586 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3587 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3588 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3589 * playlist enhancements
3590 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3591 * new step forward/step backward commands
3592 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3593 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3594 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3597 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3598 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3599 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3602 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3603 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3606 * native video output is working again
3607 * only commandline interface support
3608 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3611 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3612 --------------------------------
3615 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3616 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3617 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3618 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3619 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3620 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3621 and A/52 streams are supported)
3622 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3627 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3628 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3629 * VCD entry points support
3630 * VCD image file support
3633 * support for *.asf format
3634 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3635 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3636 * support for ogg encapsulation
3637 * support for raw DV format
3638 * support for *.wav format
3639 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3642 Stream discovery & playlists:
3643 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3644 * support for .m3u file format
3645 * support for .asx file format
3646 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3649 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3650 (only available with the .avi demux)
3651 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3652 * support for raw PCM data
3653 * support for Cinepak video codec
3654 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3655 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3656 * support for Xvid codec
3657 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3658 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3659 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3661 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3663 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3666 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3669 * new WxWindows interface
3670 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3671 device and the channels configuration
3672 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3673 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3674 format that VLC can play
3675 * new swedish translation
3676 * enhancements of the playlist window
3677 * new messages window to see debug info
3678 * fixed a few crashes
3681 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3682 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3683 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3684 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working