3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 * Vastly improved playlist support:
30 * Media library support
32 * Shoutcast TV listings
33 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
36 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
37 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
41 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
42 * MKV USF subtitles support
43 * HTML based subtitles support
44 * Flash Screen Video support
47 * Flash Screen Video support
50 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
51 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
52 * New puzzle video output filter
53 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
54 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
55 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
56 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
57 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML tags
60 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
64 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
66 * Improved user interaction
69 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
70 -----------------------------------------------------------
71 Various bugfixes notably:
72 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
73 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
74 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
77 * further usability improvements
80 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
81 ---------------------------------
84 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
87 * Fullscreen controller improvements
90 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
91 --------------------------------
94 * Shoutcast TV listings support
97 * Support for RTSP authentication
98 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
99 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
100 * ATSC support for DVB input
101 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
102 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
103 * Improved support for Flash Video files
106 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
107 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
108 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
109 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
110 * Matroska WavPack support
111 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
112 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
113 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
116 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
117 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
118 * Improved libcaca support
122 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
123 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
125 * Systray support in skins
127 * Support for Apple Remote control
128 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
129 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
130 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
131 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
133 * Notifications using notification-daemon
136 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
138 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
139 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
140 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
141 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
142 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
144 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
145 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
154 * Updates to the libvlc API
155 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
159 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
160 ---------------------------------
163 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
164 * Support for downloading updates
168 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
169 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
170 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
171 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
173 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
174 * Improved subtitles encoding support
175 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
178 * Cook (Real audio) support
180 Playlist / Services discovery:
181 * XSPF playlist support
183 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
186 * New JACK audio output
190 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
191 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
192 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
193 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
194 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
195 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
198 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
201 * System to inform the user and request information
202 - HTTP authentication
206 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
207 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
208 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
211 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
212 - Improved playlist handling
213 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
215 - Embedded Video output
216 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
217 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
218 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
219 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
220 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
222 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
223 - A bunch of new RPN functions
226 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
229 * Mac-Intel compatibility
230 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
231 * Growl "Now playing" support
234 * Ability to log to syslog
235 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
238 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
240 * A bit more automatic testing
242 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
243 ---------------------------------
246 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
247 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
250 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
251 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
254 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
257 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
258 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
264 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
266 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
267 --------------------------------
270 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
274 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
275 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
276 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
279 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
280 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
281 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
282 * GnomeVFS input module
283 * Support for RTP packet reordering
284 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
287 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
288 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
289 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
292 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
293 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
299 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
300 Mixer and Dolby Surround
303 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
304 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
305 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
308 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
310 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
311 - New extended controls panel
312 - New bookmarks window
313 - Fixed playlist sorting
314 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
316 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
317 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
318 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
319 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
323 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
324 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
326 - Include macro to include other files
330 * Should now work outside IE as well
333 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
336 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
337 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
340 The following languages were added:
345 The following languages were re-added:
348 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
349 --------------------------------
352 * Rewrite of the playlist
354 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
355 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
356 * Preferences improvements:
357 - New organization, designed to improve usability
358 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
360 * Core image manipulation support
361 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
362 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
363 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
364 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
365 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
366 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
367 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
368 now separated by ':' instead of ','
369 * Access filter architecture
370 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
371 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
375 * Support for SOCKS proxy
376 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
377 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
378 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
379 * Better support for Kasenna streams
380 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
381 * Massive Matroska improvements
382 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
384 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
385 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
386 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
387 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
388 * Support for FTP over IPv6
391 * Dirac decoder and encoder
392 * PNG decoder/encoder
393 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
394 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
397 * New Record and Timeshift filters
400 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
401 * Brand new SAP module
402 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
403 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
404 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
405 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
406 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
407 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
411 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
414 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
415 * Image file video output (png)
416 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
417 * Improvements to wall video filter
418 * Support for font color and opacity
424 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
425 - Seeking support in VoD streams
426 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
430 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
431 - Improved preferences
432 - Improvements to the wizard
433 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
435 - Redesigned playlist
436 - Improved preferences
438 - Support for multiple actions
441 - Support for the new playlist system
443 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
446 * Screensaver disabling fix
447 * DirectShow tuner configuration
448 * Support for no-decoration windows
451 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
452 * The OpenGL video output is back
453 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
454 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
455 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
456 is not yet available in the new module
457 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
460 * Support for single-buffered overlay
469 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
472 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
475 The following languages were added:
481 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
482 -----------------------------------------------------
485 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
486 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
489 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
490 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
491 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
494 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
497 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
500 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
503 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
504 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
505 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
509 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
511 * Support of playlist group announcement
513 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
514 -----------------------------------------------------
517 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
518 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
519 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
520 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
521 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
522 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
525 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
526 (Stream your desktop)
527 * Improved DVD support:
528 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
529 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
530 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
531 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
532 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
533 (selection of titles/chapters).
536 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
537 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
538 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
539 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
540 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
541 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
542 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
543 * Improved Ogg demuxer
544 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
545 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
548 * G.726 audio support
549 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
550 * MPEG-4 text support
551 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
552 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
553 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
557 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
558 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
559 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
560 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
561 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
562 * DVB subtitles encoder
563 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
564 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
566 * Text track muxing for mp4
567 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
568 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
569 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
570 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
571 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
574 * H.263 RTP streaming support
575 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
576 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
579 * New audio equalizer filter
580 * Very trivial volume normalizer
581 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
582 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
583 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
586 * Roku HD1000 Video output
587 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
588 with support for effects.
589 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
590 - New filters can be streamed.
591 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
592 - Centralized scaling and blending
594 - "time", to display current time
595 - "marq", to display a marquee
598 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
599 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
600 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
601 * A few skins2 improvements
602 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
603 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
604 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
605 * Improved CORBA control module
608 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
609 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
610 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
613 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
614 * Experimental SVG rendering module
615 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
618 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
619 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
620 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
621 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
622 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
625 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
628 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
629 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
632 * Server/client network synchronization module
633 * VBrick streams fully supported
634 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
637 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
638 --------------------------------
641 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
642 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
643 * Improved HTTP daemon.
644 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
647 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
648 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
649 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
650 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
651 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
652 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
653 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
656 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
657 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
658 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
659 * Improved directory access module.
660 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
661 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
662 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
663 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
664 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
667 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
668 * mmsh streaming fixes.
669 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
672 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
673 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
674 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
677 * Improved session announcement system.
678 * Minimize threads usage by default.
679 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
680 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
681 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
682 * Improved transrater.
683 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
684 * New configuration system.
685 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
688 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
689 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
690 * Supports live streams and VoD.
691 * Supports scheduling.
692 * Telnet interface for vlm.
693 * HTTP interface for vlm.
696 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
697 - Ability to embed video output.
698 - Support for bitmap fonts.
699 - Lots of improvements.
700 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
701 - New design and set of icons.
702 - Ability to embed video output.
703 - Support for hotkeys.
704 - Support for bookmarks.
706 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
707 - Better hotkeys handling.
710 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
711 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
712 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
713 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
716 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
717 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
718 * Improved Windows installer.
724 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
725 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
727 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
728 ---------------------------------
731 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
732 * Playing MOD files is working now.
735 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
736 ---------------------------------
739 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
740 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
743 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
744 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
745 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
746 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
749 * Internal improvments
750 * Improved import/export
753 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
755 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
756 small and strange formats.
758 * New MOD audio demux.
759 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
760 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
761 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
762 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
765 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
766 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
767 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
773 * New opengl video output plugin.
776 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
777 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
779 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
780 ---------------------------------
783 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
784 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
785 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
786 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
787 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
788 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
789 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
790 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
793 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
798 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
799 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
800 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
801 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
802 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
803 * Reworked DVB tuning.
804 * Better Icecast support.
805 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
806 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
809 * Support for Theora video encoding.
810 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
811 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
812 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
813 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
814 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
815 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
818 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
819 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
820 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
821 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
822 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
823 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
824 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
825 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
826 * Preliminary RTP support.
827 * Fixes to SAP announces.
832 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
833 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
835 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
836 - Improvements and help in preferences
837 - New streaming wizard
838 - Revised Disc Open menu
840 - Improvements of the standard pages
841 - Support for new commands
842 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
845 * Many fixes to the SAP module
846 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
849 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
850 * Text subtitles autodetection.
851 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
852 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
853 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
854 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
855 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
856 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
857 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
860 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
862 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
863 * Support for Panther.
864 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
865 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
868 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
869 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
870 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
871 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
872 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
873 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
874 * Multimonitor support (untested).
875 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
878 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
879 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
880 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
883 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
886 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
887 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
888 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
889 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
891 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
892 ---------------------------------
895 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
898 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
899 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
902 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
903 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
906 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
909 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
910 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
913 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
916 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
919 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
920 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
923 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
924 ---------------------------------
927 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
928 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
932 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
933 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
934 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
936 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
937 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
940 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
943 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
946 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
947 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
950 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
951 ---------------------------------
954 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
955 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
959 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
960 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
961 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
962 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
963 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
966 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
967 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
968 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
971 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
972 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
973 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
976 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
977 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
978 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
979 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
980 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
983 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
984 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
985 * A new CORBA control plugin.
988 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
991 * Improved build system.
992 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
993 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
994 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
995 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
998 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
999 ---------------------------------
1002 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1005 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1006 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1007 * Video 4 Linux support
1008 * CD Digital Audio support
1009 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1012 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1013 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1014 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1015 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1018 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1019 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1020 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1021 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1022 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1023 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1024 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1027 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1028 * New HTTP remote control interface
1031 * 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.
1032 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1033 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1034 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1037 * New reset option for the preferences
1038 * You can set your language in the prefences
1039 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1040 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1041 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1042 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1045 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1046 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1047 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1050 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1051 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1052 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1053 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1054 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1055 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1056 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1057 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1058 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1059 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1062 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1063 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1064 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1065 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1066 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1067 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1068 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1071 * Interface localization
1072 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1073 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1074 * New full-featured Preferences window
1076 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1077 ---------------------------------
1080 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1081 * support for skins at the interface level
1082 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1083 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1084 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1085 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1086 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1089 * fixed HTTP redirects
1090 * support for opening an entire directory
1091 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1092 * new video4linux access plug-in
1093 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1096 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1097 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1098 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1101 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1102 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1103 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1104 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1105 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1106 * new codec for raw I420 video
1107 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1110 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1111 (although it still misses some important features)
1112 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1115 * new HTTP output support
1116 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1117 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1120 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1123 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1126 * reorderable playlist
1127 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1128 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1129 * support for mono audio output devices
1130 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1131 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1132 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1133 * the messages window remembers more lines
1134 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1135 * http and ogg stream output options
1136 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1139 * new skinnable interface
1140 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1142 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1143 * support for FLAC audio format
1144 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1146 * network tab in the interface
1147 * "apply" handling in preferences
1150 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1151 ---------------------------------
1154 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1155 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1156 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1157 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1159 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1160 * DTS S/PDIF support
1163 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1164 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1165 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1166 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1169 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1170 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1173 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1176 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1179 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1181 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1182 * rc interface is now fully useable
1183 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1186 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1187 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1188 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1189 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1190 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1192 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1193 * support for mouse gestures
1194 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1197 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1198 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1201 * improved ID3 tag detection
1202 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1203 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1204 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1206 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1209 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1210 ---------------------------------
1213 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1214 English was set as the preferred language
1217 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1218 --------------------------------
1221 * new mouse gesture interface
1222 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1226 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1227 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1228 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1231 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1232 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1236 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1239 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1240 without the user consent
1243 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1245 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1246 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1247 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1250 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1251 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1252 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1253 * playlist enhancements
1254 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1255 * new step forward/step backward commands
1256 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1257 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1258 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1261 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1262 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1263 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1266 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1267 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1270 * native video output is working again
1271 * only commandline interface support
1272 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1275 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1276 --------------------------------
1279 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1280 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1281 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1282 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1283 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1284 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1285 and A/52 streams are supported)
1286 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1291 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1292 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1293 * VCD entry points support
1294 * VCD image file support
1297 * support for *.asf format
1298 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1299 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1300 * support for ogg encapsulation
1301 * support for raw DV format
1302 * support for *.wav format
1303 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1306 Stream discovery & playlists:
1307 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1308 * support for .m3u file format
1309 * support for .asx file format
1310 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1313 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1314 (only available with the .avi demux)
1315 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1316 * support for raw PCM data
1317 * support for Cinepak video codec
1318 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1319 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1320 * support for Xvid codec
1321 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1322 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1323 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1325 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1327 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1330 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1333 * new WxWindows interface
1334 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1335 device and the channels configuration
1336 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1337 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1338 format that VLC can play
1339 * new swedish translation
1340 * enhancements of the playlist window
1341 * new messages window to see debug info
1342 * fixed a few crashes
1345 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1346 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1347 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1348 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working