1 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
22 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
23 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
24 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
27 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
28 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
29 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
30 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
31 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
34 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
35 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
39 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
40 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
41 * Ogg seeking improvements
42 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
45 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
46 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
47 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
48 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
49 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
50 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
51 and important cleanups and optimisations
52 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
55 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
56 * New video output for iOS platform
57 * New video output using EGL
58 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
59 * Various vmem improvements
62 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
63 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
64 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
65 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
66 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
69 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
72 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
75 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
76 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
77 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
78 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
79 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
80 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
81 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
82 * Major rework of VoD support
83 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
84 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
85 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
86 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
87 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
88 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
91 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
94 * New capabilities for libVLC:
95 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
96 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
97 list of available audio and video filters
100 * asademux: use libass only
101 * fake: use the new image demuxers
102 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
104 * upnp: use upnp_intel
107 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
108 ----------------------------------
111 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
115 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
118 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
121 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
122 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
123 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
124 * Taglib thread-safety fix
127 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
131 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
134 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
137 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
138 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
140 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
144 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
145 * Miscellaneous fixes
148 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
149 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
151 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
152 * New Asturian translation
155 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
156 ----------------------------------
159 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
161 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
164 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
167 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
168 * Various fixes for Windows
171 * New Armenian translation
172 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
173 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
176 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
177 --------------------------------
180 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
182 * Fix folders opening from the interface
185 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
186 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
189 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
190 --------------------------------
193 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
194 * fix for podcasts parsing
195 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
198 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
199 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
202 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
203 * fix m3u playlists exports
206 * fix video autoresize behaviour
209 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
212 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
215 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
218 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
221 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
222 --------------------------------
225 * Avformat fps displaying fix
226 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
229 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
230 of mono streams, especially on Windows
233 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
234 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
235 * fix console output encoding
237 Interface and extensions:
238 * Youtube and other scripts updates
239 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
242 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
243 --------------------------------
246 * New capabilities for libVLC:
247 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
248 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
249 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
250 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
251 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
252 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
253 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
254 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
255 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
256 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
257 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
258 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
259 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
260 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
261 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
265 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
266 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
267 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
268 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
269 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
272 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
275 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
276 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
277 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
281 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
284 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
285 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
286 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
289 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
290 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
291 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
292 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
295 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
296 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
299 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
300 --------------------------------
302 Important changes for users:
303 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
304 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
306 Important changes for packagers:
307 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
308 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
309 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
310 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
311 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
313 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
315 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
316 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
317 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
318 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
319 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
322 * Support for the sftp protocol
323 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
324 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
325 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
326 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
327 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
330 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
331 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
332 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
334 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
335 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
336 * Invmem module improvements
337 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
338 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
339 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
340 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
341 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
342 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
343 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
344 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
345 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
346 * Support for VP8 codec
347 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
350 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
351 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
352 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
353 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
354 * Various EGP improvements
355 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
356 * Metadata and cover art improvements
359 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
360 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
361 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
362 * Podcast images are now displayed
365 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
366 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
367 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
368 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
369 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
370 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
371 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
372 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
373 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
374 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
375 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
378 * New content extensions lua framework
381 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
382 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
383 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
384 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
385 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
386 * NEON assembly audio converter module
387 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
390 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
391 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
392 * Service discovery based on libudev
393 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
396 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
397 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
398 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
399 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
400 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
401 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
402 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
405 * New smem module, streaming to memory
406 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
407 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
410 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
412 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
413 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
416 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
419 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
420 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
421 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
422 by Andy Matuschak et al.
423 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
424 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
425 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
428 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
429 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
432 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
433 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
434 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
438 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
439 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
440 * Improved Solaris port
443 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
444 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
447 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
448 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
449 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
450 * transrate: broken since too long
451 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
452 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
453 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
454 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
455 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
456 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
457 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
458 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
459 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
460 * cddax: use cdda instead.
461 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
462 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
463 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
464 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
467 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
468 --------------------------------
471 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
473 Decoders/Packetizers:
474 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
477 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
478 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
479 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
480 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
481 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
484 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
485 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
488 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
489 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
492 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
493 and Walloon translations updated
494 * Sinhala translation started
497 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
498 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
501 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
502 --------------------------------
505 * SubRip extra styles improvements
506 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
509 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
512 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
513 increase performance and fix x264 issues
516 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
517 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
518 Russian, Slovak translation updates
519 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
522 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
523 --------------------------------
526 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
527 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
530 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
531 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
534 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
535 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
538 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
541 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
542 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
545 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
546 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
549 * New Walloon translation
550 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
553 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
554 --------------------------------
557 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
558 regressions in most popular drivers
559 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
562 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
563 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
564 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
567 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
568 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
571 * Update for appletrailers lua script
572 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
573 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
574 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
575 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
578 * New udev module for linux
581 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
584 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
587 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
588 --------------------------------
591 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
592 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
593 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
596 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
597 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
600 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
601 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
604 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
607 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
608 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
609 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
610 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
613 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
614 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
615 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
616 - no support for Goom and SDL
617 - limited text rendering support
618 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
621 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
622 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
623 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
624 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
625 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
626 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
627 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
628 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
629 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
633 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
636 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
639 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
640 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
641 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
642 Arabic and French translation updates
645 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
646 --------------------------------
649 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
650 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
651 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
652 * Fix Dailymotion access script
653 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
654 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
657 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
658 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
661 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
662 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
663 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
666 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
669 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
670 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
673 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
674 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
675 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
676 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
677 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
678 * Fix various crashes
681 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
683 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
686 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
687 ---------------------------------
691 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
692 See 'Access:' for more info.
693 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
696 * Instantaneous pausing
697 * Frame-by-Frame playback
698 * Finer speed control
699 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
700 * Timeshift for most medias
701 * RTSP trickplay support
702 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
705 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
706 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
707 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
708 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
709 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
710 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
711 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
712 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
713 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
714 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
717 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
718 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
719 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
720 * Metadata for mod files are supported
721 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
722 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
723 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
726 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
727 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
730 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
731 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
732 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
733 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
734 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
735 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
736 * DVB scanning on linux
737 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
738 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
739 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
740 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
741 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
742 * MTP device access on Unix
743 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
744 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
747 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
748 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
749 Windows and Mac OS X.
752 * Export the playlist in HTML
753 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
754 * Better metadata handling and reading
756 Linux/Windows interface:
757 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
758 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
759 * Recently played items list
760 * Interface toolbar customizations
761 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
764 - Improvements on many dialogs
765 - New dialog for plugins listing
766 - Fixed-size mode for videos
767 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
768 * Better integration in GTK environments
771 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
772 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
773 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
774 * Additional usability improvements
777 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
778 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
779 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
780 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
781 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
784 * New Maemo port with:
785 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
786 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
789 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
792 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
793 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
794 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
795 * Support for latest iSight models
798 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
799 * Surround support for PulseAudio
802 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
803 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
804 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
805 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
806 The old image video output has been removed.
807 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
808 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
811 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
819 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
820 --------------------------------------
826 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
827 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
828 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
829 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
830 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
831 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
832 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
834 Various fixes to the following modules:
837 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
838 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
841 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
846 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
847 ---------------------------------
850 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
851 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
854 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
855 ---------------------------------
858 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
861 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
864 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
865 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
866 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
867 main controller window.
868 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
871 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
876 * Updates of other localizations
879 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
880 * Lots of small bugfixes.
881 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
882 * Telnet fixes on Windows
883 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
886 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
887 ---------------------------------
890 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
892 Bunch of small bugfixes.
895 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
896 --------------------------------
901 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
902 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
905 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
906 --------------------------------
908 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
909 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
912 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
915 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
916 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
919 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
920 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
923 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
924 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
925 * Various fixed in playlist
928 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
931 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
934 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
935 ------------------------------------
937 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
938 * Fixes several memory leaks.
941 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
942 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
943 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
946 * Stability fix for the video output.
949 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
950 --------------------------------
953 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
954 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
955 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
956 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
957 * Fixed update system bugs
958 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
961 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
962 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
963 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
964 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
965 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
966 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
967 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
968 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
969 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
970 modern Mac OS X versions
973 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
974 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
976 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
977 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
980 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
981 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
982 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
983 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
984 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
985 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
988 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
989 --------------------------------
991 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
992 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
996 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
997 --------------------------------
999 * Multiple bug fixes.
1002 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1003 ---------------------------------
1007 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1008 recent to work correctly
1009 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1010 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1011 edit the ".hosts" file.
1012 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1013 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1014 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1015 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1016 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1017 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1018 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1019 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1020 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1021 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1022 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1023 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1024 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1025 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1026 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1027 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1028 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1029 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1030 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1031 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1032 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1033 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1034 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1035 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1036 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1037 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1038 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1039 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1040 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1041 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1042 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1043 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1044 and postproc modules.
1045 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1046 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1047 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1048 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1050 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1051 filter. For example:
1052 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1053 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1055 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1056 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1062 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1064 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1065 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1068 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1069 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1071 * Shoutcast TV listings
1072 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1074 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1075 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1077 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1080 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1081 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1082 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1083 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1084 * JACK audio input support
1085 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1086 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1087 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1088 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1089 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1090 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1091 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1092 (available as a separate download).
1093 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1094 * RTMP input support
1095 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1096 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1097 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1099 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1100 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1103 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1104 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1105 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1106 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1108 * APEv1/2 tags support
1109 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1110 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1112 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1113 * TiVo Series 2 support
1114 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1119 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1120 * Flash Screen Video support
1121 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1122 * DosBox Capture support
1123 * Karl Morton's Video support
1124 * limited atrac3 support
1126 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1127 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1128 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1129 * H.264 PAFF support
1130 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1131 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1132 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1133 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1134 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1137 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1138 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1139 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1140 * AQTitle subtitles support
1141 * MKV USF subtitles support
1142 * HTML-based subtitles support
1143 * MPSub subtitles support
1144 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1145 * MPL2 subtitles support
1146 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1147 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1148 * Realtext subtitle support
1149 * DKS subtitle support
1150 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1151 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1154 * Flash Screen Video support
1155 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1157 Video outputs and filters:
1158 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1159 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1160 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1161 * New puzzle video output filter
1162 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1163 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1165 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1166 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1167 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1168 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1169 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1170 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1171 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1172 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1173 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1174 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1175 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1176 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1177 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1178 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1180 Audio outputs and filters:
1181 * Replay gain support
1182 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1183 new scaletempo audio filter)
1184 * New spatializer audio filter
1185 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1188 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1189 * New RTP payload formats:
1190 * Speex voice audio codec
1191 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1192 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1193 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1194 * DCCP transport for RTP
1195 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1200 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1201 end-user suitable way.
1202 * Improved user interaction
1203 * Improved mouse gestures
1204 * Vastly improved Update checker
1205 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1207 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1208 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1210 * Improved video output features
1211 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1212 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1213 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1214 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1215 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1217 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1218 if libncursesw is available.
1219 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1220 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1221 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1223 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1224 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1225 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1226 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1227 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1228 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1229 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1230 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1233 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1234 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1235 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1238 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1239 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1240 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1241 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1242 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1243 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1246 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1247 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1257 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1258 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1259 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1262 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1263 ----------------------------------
1266 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1269 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1270 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1271 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1272 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1273 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1274 * Updated Polish translation
1277 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1278 ----------------------------------
1281 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1282 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1283 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1286 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1287 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1288 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1289 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1290 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1291 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1292 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1293 to an unexpected application termination
1294 * New Serbian translation
1295 * Updated Romanian translation
1298 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1299 ----------------------------------
1302 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1303 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1304 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1305 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1306 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1307 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1308 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1309 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1312 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1313 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1314 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1315 * Fixed AAC resampling
1316 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1317 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1320 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1321 ----------------------------------
1324 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1325 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1326 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1327 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1328 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1331 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1332 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1333 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1334 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1335 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1338 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1339 ----------------------------------
1342 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1343 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1346 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1347 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1348 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1349 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1351 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1355 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1358 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1361 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1364 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1367 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1368 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1369 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1370 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1371 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1373 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1374 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1375 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1376 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1379 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1382 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1383 ----------------------------------
1386 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1387 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1388 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1390 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1391 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1393 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1394 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1397 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1399 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1400 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1401 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1402 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1403 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1404 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1405 two different movies
1406 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1407 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1408 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1411 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1414 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1415 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1416 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1417 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1420 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1421 ----------------------------------
1423 Various bugfixes, notably:
1424 * Windows Vista compatibility
1425 * Cropping in Direct3D
1426 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1427 * RSS filter string overflow
1429 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1431 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1432 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1435 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1436 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1439 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1442 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1445 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1448 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1449 ----------------------------------
1451 Various bugfixes, notably:
1452 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1453 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1454 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1455 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1456 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1457 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1460 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1461 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1464 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1466 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1467 * Diverse usability improvements
1468 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1469 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1470 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1473 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1474 ---------------------------------
1476 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1477 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1480 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1483 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1484 --------------------------------
1487 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1490 * Support for RTSP authentication
1491 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1492 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1493 * ATSC support for DVB input
1494 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1495 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1496 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1499 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1500 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1501 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1502 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1503 * Matroska WavPack support
1504 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1505 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1506 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1509 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1510 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1511 * Improved libcaca support
1515 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1516 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1518 * Systray support in skins
1520 * Support for Apple Remote control
1521 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1522 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1523 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1524 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1526 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1529 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1530 Windows 9x/ME users:
1531 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1532 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1533 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1534 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1535 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1537 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1538 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1547 * Updates to the libvlc API
1548 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1551 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1552 --------------------------------
1555 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1556 * Support for downloading updates
1560 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1561 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1562 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1563 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1565 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1566 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1567 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1570 * Cook (Real audio) support
1572 Playlist / Services discovery:
1573 * XSPF playlist support
1575 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1578 * New JACK audio output
1581 * New video filters:
1582 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1583 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1584 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1585 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1586 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1587 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1590 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1593 * System to inform the user and request information
1594 - HTTP authentication
1598 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1599 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1600 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1603 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1604 - Improved playlist handling
1605 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1607 - Embedded Video output
1608 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1609 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1610 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1611 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1612 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1614 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1615 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1618 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1621 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1622 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1623 * Growl "Now playing" support
1626 * Ability to log to syslog
1627 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1630 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1632 * A bit more automatic testing
1635 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1636 ---------------------------------
1639 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1640 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1643 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1644 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1647 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1650 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1651 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1657 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1660 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1661 --------------------------------
1664 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1668 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1669 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1670 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1673 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1674 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1675 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1676 * GnomeVFS input module
1677 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1678 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1681 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1682 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1683 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1686 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1687 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1693 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1694 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1697 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1698 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1699 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1702 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1704 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1705 - New extended controls panel
1706 - New bookmarks window
1707 - Fixed playlist sorting
1708 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1710 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1711 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1712 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1713 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1717 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1718 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1720 - Include macro to include other files
1724 * Should now work outside IE as well
1727 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1730 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1731 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1734 The following languages were added:
1738 * Simplified Chinese
1739 The following languages were re-added:
1743 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1744 --------------------------------
1747 * Rewrite of the playlist
1749 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1750 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1751 * Preferences improvements:
1752 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1753 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1755 * Core image manipulation support
1756 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1757 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1758 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1759 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1760 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1761 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1762 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1763 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1764 * Access filter architecture
1765 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1766 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1770 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1771 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1772 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1773 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1774 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1775 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1776 * Massive Matroska improvements
1777 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1779 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1780 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1781 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1782 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1783 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1785 Decoders / Encoders:
1786 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1787 * PNG decoder/encoder
1788 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1789 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1792 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1795 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1796 * Brand new SAP module
1797 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1798 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1799 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1800 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1801 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1802 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1806 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1809 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1810 * Image file video output (png)
1811 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1812 * Improvements to wall video filter
1813 * Support for font color and opacity
1819 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1820 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1821 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1825 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1826 - Improved preferences
1827 - Improvements to the wizard
1828 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1830 - Redesigned playlist
1831 - Improved preferences
1833 - Support for multiple actions
1836 - Support for the new playlist system
1838 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1841 * Screensaver disabling fix
1842 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1843 * Support for no-decoration windows
1846 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1847 * The OpenGL video output is back
1848 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1849 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1850 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1851 is not yet available in the new module
1852 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1855 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1864 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1867 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1870 The following languages were added:
1876 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1877 --------------------------------
1880 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1881 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1884 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1885 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1886 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1889 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1892 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1895 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1898 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1899 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1900 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1904 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1906 * Support of playlist group announcement
1909 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1910 --------------------------------
1913 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1914 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1915 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1916 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1917 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1918 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1921 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1922 (Stream your desktop)
1923 * Improved DVD support:
1924 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1925 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1926 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1927 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1928 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1929 (selection of titles/chapters).
1932 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1933 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1934 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1935 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1936 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1937 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1938 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1939 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1940 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1941 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1944 * G.726 audio support
1945 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1946 * MPEG-4 text support
1947 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1948 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1949 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1953 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1954 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1955 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1956 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1957 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1958 * DVB subtitles encoder
1959 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1960 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1962 * Text track muxing for mp4
1963 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1964 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1965 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1966 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1967 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1968 * Improved ASF muxer
1970 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1971 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1972 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1975 * New audio equalizer filter
1976 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1977 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1978 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1979 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1982 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1983 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1984 with support for effects.
1985 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1986 - New filters can be streamed.
1987 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1988 - Centralized scaling and blending
1990 - "time", to display current time
1991 - "marq", to display a marquee
1994 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1995 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1996 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1997 * A few skins2 improvements
1998 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1999 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2000 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2001 * Improved CORBA control module
2004 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2005 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2006 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2009 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2010 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2011 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2014 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2015 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2016 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2017 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2018 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2021 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2024 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2025 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2028 * Server/client network synchronization module
2029 * VBrick streams fully supported
2030 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2034 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2035 --------------------------------
2038 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2039 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2040 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2041 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2044 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2045 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2046 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2047 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2048 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2049 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2050 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2053 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2054 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2055 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2056 * Improved directory access module.
2057 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2058 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2059 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2060 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2061 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2064 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2065 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2066 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2069 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2070 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2071 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2074 * Improved session announcement system.
2075 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2076 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2077 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2078 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2079 * Improved transrater.
2080 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2081 * New configuration system.
2082 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2085 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2086 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2087 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2088 * Supports scheduling.
2089 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2090 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2093 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2094 - Ability to embed video output.
2095 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2096 - Lots of improvements.
2097 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2098 - New design and set of icons.
2099 - Ability to embed video output.
2100 - Support for hotkeys.
2101 - Support for bookmarks.
2103 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2104 - Better hotkeys handling.
2107 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2108 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2109 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2110 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2113 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2114 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2115 * Improved Windows installer.
2121 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2122 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2125 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2126 ---------------------------------
2129 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2130 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2133 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2134 --------------------------------
2137 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2138 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2141 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2142 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2143 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2144 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2147 * Internal improvments
2148 * Improved import/export
2151 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2153 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2154 small and strange formats.
2156 * New MOD audio demux.
2157 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2158 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2159 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2160 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2163 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2164 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2165 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2171 * New opengl video output plugin.
2174 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2175 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2178 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2183 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2184 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2185 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2186 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2187 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2188 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2189 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2192 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2197 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2198 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2199 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2200 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2201 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2202 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2203 * Better Icecast support.
2204 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2205 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2208 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2209 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2210 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2211 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2212 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2213 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2214 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2217 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2218 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2219 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2220 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2221 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2222 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2223 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2224 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2225 * Preliminary RTP support.
2226 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2231 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2232 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2234 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2235 - Improvements and help in preferences
2236 - New streaming wizard
2237 - Revised Disc Open menu
2239 - Improvements of the standard pages
2240 - Support for new commands
2241 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2244 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2245 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2248 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2249 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2250 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2251 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2252 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2253 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2254 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2255 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2256 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2259 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2261 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2262 * Support for Panther.
2263 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2264 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2267 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2268 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2269 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2270 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2271 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2272 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2273 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2274 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2277 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2278 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2279 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2282 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2285 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2286 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2287 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2288 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2291 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2292 --------------------------------
2295 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2298 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2299 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2302 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2303 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2306 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2309 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2310 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2313 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2316 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2319 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2320 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2324 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2329 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2333 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2334 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2335 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2337 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2338 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2341 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2344 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2347 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2348 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2352 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2353 --------------------------------
2356 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2357 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2361 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2362 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2363 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2364 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2365 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2368 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2369 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2370 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2373 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2374 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2375 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2378 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2379 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2380 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2381 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2382 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2385 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2386 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2387 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2390 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2393 * Improved build system.
2394 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2395 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2396 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2397 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2400 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2401 --------------------------------
2404 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2407 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2408 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2409 * Video 4 Linux support
2410 * CD Digital Audio support
2411 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2414 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2415 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2416 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2417 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2420 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2421 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2422 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2423 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2424 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2425 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2426 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2429 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2430 * New HTTP remote control interface
2433 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2434 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2435 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2436 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2439 * New reset option for the preferences
2440 * You can set your language in the prefences
2441 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2442 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2443 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2444 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2447 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2448 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2449 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2452 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2453 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2454 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2455 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2456 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2457 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2458 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2459 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2460 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2461 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2464 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2465 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2466 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2467 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2468 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2469 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2470 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2473 * Interface localization
2474 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2475 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2476 * New full-featured Preferences window
2479 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2480 --------------------------------
2483 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2484 * support for skins at the interface level
2485 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2486 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2487 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2488 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2489 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2492 * fixed HTTP redirects
2493 * support for opening an entire directory
2494 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2495 * new video4linux access plug-in
2496 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2499 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2500 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2501 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2504 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2505 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2506 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2507 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2508 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2509 * new codec for raw I420 video
2510 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2513 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2514 (although it still misses some important features)
2515 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2518 * new HTTP output support
2519 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2520 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2523 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2526 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2529 * reorderable playlist
2530 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2531 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2532 * support for mono audio output devices
2533 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2534 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2535 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2536 * the messages window remembers more lines
2537 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2538 * http and ogg stream output options
2539 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2542 * new skinnable interface
2543 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2545 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2546 * support for FLAC audio format
2547 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2549 * network tab in the interface
2550 * "apply" handling in preferences
2553 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2554 ---------------------------------
2557 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2558 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2559 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2560 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2562 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2563 * DTS S/PDIF support
2566 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2567 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2568 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2569 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2572 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2573 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2576 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2579 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2582 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2584 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2585 * rc interface is now fully useable
2586 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2589 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2590 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2591 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2592 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2593 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2595 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2596 * support for mouse gestures
2597 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2600 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2601 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2604 * improved ID3 tag detection
2605 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2606 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2607 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2609 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2612 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2613 ---------------------------------
2616 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2617 English was set as the preferred language
2620 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2621 --------------------------------
2624 * new mouse gesture interface
2625 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2629 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2630 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2631 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2634 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2635 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2639 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2642 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2643 without the user consent
2646 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2648 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2649 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2650 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2653 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2654 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2655 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2656 * playlist enhancements
2657 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2658 * new step forward/step backward commands
2659 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2660 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2661 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2664 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2665 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2666 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2669 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2670 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2673 * native video output is working again
2674 * only commandline interface support
2675 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2678 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2679 --------------------------------
2682 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2683 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2684 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2685 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2686 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2687 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2688 and A/52 streams are supported)
2689 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2694 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2695 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2696 * VCD entry points support
2697 * VCD image file support
2700 * support for *.asf format
2701 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2702 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2703 * support for ogg encapsulation
2704 * support for raw DV format
2705 * support for *.wav format
2706 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2709 Stream discovery & playlists:
2710 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2711 * support for .m3u file format
2712 * support for .asx file format
2713 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2716 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2717 (only available with the .avi demux)
2718 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2719 * support for raw PCM data
2720 * support for Cinepak video codec
2721 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2722 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2723 * support for Xvid codec
2724 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2725 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2726 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2728 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2730 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2733 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2736 * new WxWindows interface
2737 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2738 device and the channels configuration
2739 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2740 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2741 format that VLC can play
2742 * new swedish translation
2743 * enhancements of the playlist window
2744 * new messages window to see debug info
2745 * fixed a few crashes
2748 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2749 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2750 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2751 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working