1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
21 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
22 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
23 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
24 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
25 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
26 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
27 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
28 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
31 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
32 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
33 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
34 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
35 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
38 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
39 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
40 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
43 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
44 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
45 * Ogg seeking improvements
46 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
49 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
50 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
51 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
52 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
53 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
54 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
55 and important cleanups and optimisations
56 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
59 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
60 * New video output for iOS platform
61 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
62 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
63 * Various vmem improvements
66 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
67 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
68 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
69 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
70 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
71 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
74 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
77 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
80 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
81 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
82 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
83 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
84 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
85 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
86 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
87 * Major rework of VoD support
88 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
89 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
90 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
91 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
92 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
93 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
94 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
95 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
96 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
99 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
102 * New capabilities for libVLC:
103 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
104 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
105 list of available audio and video filters
108 * asademux: use libass only
109 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
110 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
112 * upnp: use upnp_intel
115 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
116 --------------------------------
118 Windows and Mac OS X:
119 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
122 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
125 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
126 * Improve Apple Remote handling
127 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
128 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
129 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
130 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
133 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
134 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
138 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
139 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
140 * New Luganda Translation
143 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
144 --------------------------------
147 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
150 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
151 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
152 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
153 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
156 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
158 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
159 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
160 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
161 * mp4 demuxer improvements
162 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
163 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
164 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
165 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
167 Miscellaneous fixes in:
168 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
169 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
170 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
171 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
172 * Configure and build system improvements
173 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
176 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
177 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
178 * New icelandic translation
181 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
182 --------------------------------
185 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
189 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
190 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
191 and stability reasons
194 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
198 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
201 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
202 ----------------------------------
205 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
208 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
209 ---------------------------------
212 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
213 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
214 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
215 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
218 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
221 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
222 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
223 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
224 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
227 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
228 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
229 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
231 Subtitles and renderer:
232 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
233 * Mark more freetype options as safe
234 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
235 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
236 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
239 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
240 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
241 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
242 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
245 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
246 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
249 * KDE device solid actions
251 * Transcode integer overflow
252 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
253 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
256 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
257 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
258 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
261 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
262 ----------------------------------
265 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
269 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
272 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
275 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
276 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
277 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
278 * Taglib thread-safety fix
281 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
285 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
288 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
291 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
292 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
294 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
298 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
299 * Miscellaneous fixes
302 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
303 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
305 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
306 * New Asturian translation
309 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
310 ----------------------------------
313 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
315 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
318 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
321 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
322 * Various fixes for Windows
325 * New Armenian translation
326 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
327 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
330 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
331 --------------------------------
334 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
336 * Fix folders opening from the interface
339 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
340 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
343 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
344 --------------------------------
347 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
348 * fix for podcasts parsing
349 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
352 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
353 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
356 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
357 * fix m3u playlists exports
360 * fix video autoresize behaviour
363 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
366 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
369 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
372 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
375 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
376 --------------------------------
379 * Avformat fps displaying fix
380 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
383 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
384 of mono streams, especially on Windows
387 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
388 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
389 * fix console output encoding
391 Interface and extensions:
392 * Youtube and other scripts updates
393 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
396 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
397 --------------------------------
400 * New capabilities for libVLC:
401 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
402 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
403 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
404 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
405 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
406 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
407 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
408 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
409 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
410 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
411 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
412 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
413 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
414 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
415 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
419 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
420 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
421 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
422 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
423 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
426 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
429 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
430 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
431 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
435 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
438 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
439 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
440 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
443 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
444 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
445 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
446 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
449 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
450 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
453 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
454 --------------------------------
456 Important changes for users:
457 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
458 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
460 Important changes for packagers:
461 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
462 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
463 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
464 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
465 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
467 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
469 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
470 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
471 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
472 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
473 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
476 * Support for the sftp protocol
477 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
478 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
479 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
480 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
481 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
484 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
485 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
486 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
488 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
489 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
490 * Invmem module improvements
491 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
492 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
493 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
494 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
495 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
496 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
497 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
498 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
499 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
500 * Support for VP8 codec
501 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
504 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
505 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
506 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
507 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
508 * Various EGP improvements
509 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
510 * Metadata and cover art improvements
513 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
514 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
515 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
516 * Podcast images are now displayed
519 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
520 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
521 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
522 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
523 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
524 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
525 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
526 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
527 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
528 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
529 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
532 * New content extensions lua framework
535 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
536 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
537 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
538 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
539 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
540 * NEON assembly audio converter module
541 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
544 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
545 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
546 * Service discovery based on libudev
547 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
550 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
551 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
552 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
553 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
554 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
555 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
556 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
559 * New smem module, streaming to memory
560 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
561 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
564 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
566 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
567 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
570 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
573 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
574 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
575 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
576 by Andy Matuschak et al.
577 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
578 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
579 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
582 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
583 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
586 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
587 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
588 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
592 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
593 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
594 * Improved Solaris port
597 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
598 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
601 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
602 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
603 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
604 * transrate: broken since too long
605 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
606 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
607 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
608 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
609 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
610 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
611 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
612 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
613 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
614 * cddax: use cdda instead.
615 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
616 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
617 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
618 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
621 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
622 --------------------------------
625 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
627 Decoders/Packetizers:
628 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
631 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
632 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
633 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
634 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
635 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
638 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
639 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
642 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
643 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
646 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
647 and Walloon translations updated
648 * Sinhala translation started
651 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
652 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
655 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
656 --------------------------------
659 * SubRip extra styles improvements
660 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
663 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
666 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
667 increase performance and fix x264 issues
670 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
671 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
672 Russian, Slovak translation updates
673 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
676 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
677 --------------------------------
680 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
681 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
684 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
685 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
688 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
689 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
692 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
695 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
696 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
699 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
700 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
703 * New Walloon translation
704 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
707 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
708 --------------------------------
711 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
712 regressions in most popular drivers
713 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
716 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
717 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
718 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
721 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
722 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
725 * Update for appletrailers lua script
726 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
727 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
728 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
729 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
732 * New udev module for linux
735 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
738 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
741 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
746 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
747 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
750 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
751 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
754 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
755 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
758 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
761 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
762 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
763 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
764 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
767 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
768 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
769 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
770 - no support for Goom and SDL
771 - limited text rendering support
772 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
775 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
776 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
777 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
778 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
779 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
780 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
781 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
782 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
783 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
787 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
790 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
793 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
794 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
795 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
796 Arabic and French translation updates
799 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
800 --------------------------------
803 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
804 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
805 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
806 * Fix Dailymotion access script
807 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
808 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
811 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
812 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
815 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
816 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
817 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
820 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
823 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
824 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
827 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
828 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
829 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
830 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
831 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
832 * Fix various crashes
835 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
837 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
840 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
841 ---------------------------------
845 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
846 See 'Access:' for more info.
847 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
850 * Instantaneous pausing
851 * Frame-by-Frame playback
852 * Finer speed control
853 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
854 * Timeshift for most medias
855 * RTSP trickplay support
856 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
859 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
860 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
861 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
862 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
863 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
864 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
865 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
866 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
867 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
868 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
871 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
872 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
873 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
874 * Metadata for mod files are supported
875 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
876 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
877 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
880 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
881 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
884 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
885 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
886 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
887 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
888 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
889 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
890 * DVB scanning on linux
891 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
892 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
893 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
894 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
895 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
896 * MTP device access on Unix
897 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
898 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
901 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
902 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
903 Windows and Mac OS X.
906 * Export the playlist in HTML
907 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
908 * Better metadata handling and reading
910 Linux/Windows interface:
911 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
912 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
913 * Recently played items list
914 * Interface toolbar customizations
915 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
918 - Improvements on many dialogs
919 - New dialog for plugins listing
920 - Fixed-size mode for videos
921 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
922 * Better integration in GTK environments
925 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
926 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
927 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
928 * Additional usability improvements
931 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
932 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
933 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
934 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
935 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
938 * New Maemo port with:
939 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
940 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
943 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
946 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
947 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
948 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
949 * Support for latest iSight models
952 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
953 * Surround support for PulseAudio
956 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
957 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
958 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
959 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
960 The old image video output has been removed.
961 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
962 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
965 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
973 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
974 --------------------------------------
980 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
981 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
982 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
983 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
984 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
985 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
986 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
988 Various fixes to the following modules:
991 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
992 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
995 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1000 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1001 ---------------------------------
1004 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1005 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1008 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1009 ---------------------------------
1012 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1015 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1018 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1019 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1020 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1021 main controller window.
1022 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1025 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1030 * Updates of other localizations
1033 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1034 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1035 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1036 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1037 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1040 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1041 ---------------------------------
1044 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1046 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1049 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1050 --------------------------------
1055 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1056 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1059 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1060 --------------------------------
1062 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1063 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1066 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1069 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1070 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1073 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1074 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1077 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1078 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1079 * Various fixed in playlist
1082 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1085 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1088 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1089 ------------------------------------
1091 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1092 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1095 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1096 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1097 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1100 * Stability fix for the video output.
1103 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1104 --------------------------------
1107 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1108 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1109 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1110 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1111 * Fixed update system bugs
1112 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1115 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1116 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1117 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1118 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1119 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1120 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1121 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1122 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1123 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1124 modern Mac OS X versions
1127 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1128 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1130 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1131 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1134 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1135 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1136 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1137 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1138 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1139 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1142 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1143 --------------------------------
1145 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1146 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1147 * Multiple bugfixes.
1150 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1151 --------------------------------
1153 * Multiple bug fixes.
1156 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1157 ---------------------------------
1161 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1162 recent to work correctly
1163 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1164 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1165 edit the ".hosts" file.
1166 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1167 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1168 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1169 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1170 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1171 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1172 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1173 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1174 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1175 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1176 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1177 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1178 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1179 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1180 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1181 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1182 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1183 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1184 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1185 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1186 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1187 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1188 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1189 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1190 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1191 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1192 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1193 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1194 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1195 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1196 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1197 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1198 and postproc modules.
1199 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1200 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1201 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1202 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1204 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1205 filter. For example:
1206 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1207 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1209 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1210 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1216 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1218 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1219 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1222 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1223 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1225 * Shoutcast TV listings
1226 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1228 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1229 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1231 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1234 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1235 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1236 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1237 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1238 * JACK audio input support
1239 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1240 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1241 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1242 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1243 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1244 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1245 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1246 (available as a separate download).
1247 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1248 * RTMP input support
1249 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1250 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1251 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1253 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1254 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1257 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1258 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1259 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1260 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1262 * APEv1/2 tags support
1263 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1264 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1266 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1267 * TiVo Series 2 support
1268 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1273 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1274 * Flash Screen Video support
1275 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1276 * DosBox Capture support
1277 * Karl Morton's Video support
1278 * limited atrac3 support
1280 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1281 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1282 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1283 * H.264 PAFF support
1284 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1285 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1286 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1287 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1288 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1291 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1292 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1293 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1294 * AQTitle subtitles support
1295 * MKV USF subtitles support
1296 * HTML-based subtitles support
1297 * MPSub subtitles support
1298 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1299 * MPL2 subtitles support
1300 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1301 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1302 * Realtext subtitle support
1303 * DKS subtitle support
1304 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1305 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1308 * Flash Screen Video support
1309 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1311 Video outputs and filters:
1312 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1313 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1314 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1315 * New puzzle video output filter
1316 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1317 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1319 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1320 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1321 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1322 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1323 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1324 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1325 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1326 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1327 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1328 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1329 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1330 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1331 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1332 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1334 Audio outputs and filters:
1335 * Replay gain support
1336 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1337 new scaletempo audio filter)
1338 * New spatializer audio filter
1339 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1342 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1343 * New RTP payload formats:
1344 * Speex voice audio codec
1345 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1346 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1347 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1348 * DCCP transport for RTP
1349 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1354 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1355 end-user suitable way.
1356 * Improved user interaction
1357 * Improved mouse gestures
1358 * Vastly improved Update checker
1359 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1361 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1362 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1364 * Improved video output features
1365 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1366 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1367 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1368 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1369 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1371 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1372 if libncursesw is available.
1373 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1374 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1375 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1377 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1378 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1379 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1380 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1381 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1382 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1383 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1384 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1387 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1388 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1389 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1392 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1393 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1394 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1395 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1396 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1397 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1400 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1401 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1411 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1412 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1413 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1416 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1417 ----------------------------------
1420 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1423 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1424 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1425 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1426 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1427 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1428 * Updated Polish translation
1431 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1432 ----------------------------------
1435 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1436 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1437 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1440 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1441 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1442 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1443 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1444 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1445 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1446 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1447 to an unexpected application termination
1448 * New Serbian translation
1449 * Updated Romanian translation
1452 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1453 ----------------------------------
1456 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1457 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1458 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1459 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1460 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1461 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1462 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1463 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1466 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1467 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1468 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1469 * Fixed AAC resampling
1470 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1471 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1474 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1475 ----------------------------------
1478 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1479 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1480 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1481 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1482 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1485 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1486 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1487 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1488 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1489 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1492 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1493 ----------------------------------
1496 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1497 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1500 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1501 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1502 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1503 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1505 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1509 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1512 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1515 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1518 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1521 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1522 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1523 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1524 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1525 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1527 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1528 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1529 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1530 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1533 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1536 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1537 ----------------------------------
1540 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1541 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1542 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1544 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1545 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1547 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1548 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1551 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1553 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1554 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1555 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1556 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1557 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1558 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1559 two different movies
1560 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1561 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1562 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1565 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1568 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1569 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1570 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1571 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1574 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1575 ----------------------------------
1577 Various bugfixes, notably:
1578 * Windows Vista compatibility
1579 * Cropping in Direct3D
1580 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1581 * RSS filter string overflow
1583 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1585 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1586 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1589 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1590 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1593 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1596 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1599 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1602 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1603 ----------------------------------
1605 Various bugfixes, notably:
1606 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1607 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1608 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1609 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1610 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1611 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1614 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1615 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1618 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1620 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1621 * Diverse usability improvements
1622 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1623 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1624 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1627 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1628 ---------------------------------
1630 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1631 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1634 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1637 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1644 * Support for RTSP authentication
1645 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1646 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1647 * ATSC support for DVB input
1648 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1649 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1650 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1653 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1654 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1655 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1656 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1657 * Matroska WavPack support
1658 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1659 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1660 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1663 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1664 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1665 * Improved libcaca support
1669 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1670 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1672 * Systray support in skins
1674 * Support for Apple Remote control
1675 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1676 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1677 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1678 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1680 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1683 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1684 Windows 9x/ME users:
1685 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1686 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1687 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1688 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1689 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1691 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1692 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1701 * Updates to the libvlc API
1702 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1705 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1706 --------------------------------
1709 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1710 * Support for downloading updates
1714 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1715 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1716 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1717 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1719 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1720 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1721 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1724 * Cook (Real audio) support
1726 Playlist / Services discovery:
1727 * XSPF playlist support
1729 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1732 * New JACK audio output
1735 * New video filters:
1736 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1737 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1738 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1739 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1740 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1741 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1744 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1747 * System to inform the user and request information
1748 - HTTP authentication
1752 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1753 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1754 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1757 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1758 - Improved playlist handling
1759 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1761 - Embedded Video output
1762 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1763 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1764 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1765 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1766 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1768 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1769 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1772 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1775 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1776 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1777 * Growl "Now playing" support
1780 * Ability to log to syslog
1781 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1784 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1786 * A bit more automatic testing
1789 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1790 ---------------------------------
1793 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1794 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1797 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1798 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1801 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1804 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1805 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1811 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1814 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1815 --------------------------------
1818 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1822 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1823 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1824 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1827 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1828 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1829 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1830 * GnomeVFS input module
1831 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1832 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1835 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1836 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1837 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1840 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1841 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1847 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1848 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1851 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1852 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1853 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1856 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1858 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1859 - New extended controls panel
1860 - New bookmarks window
1861 - Fixed playlist sorting
1862 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1864 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1865 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1866 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1867 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1871 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1872 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1874 - Include macro to include other files
1878 * Should now work outside IE as well
1881 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1884 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1885 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1888 The following languages were added:
1892 * Simplified Chinese
1893 The following languages were re-added:
1897 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1898 --------------------------------
1901 * Rewrite of the playlist
1903 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1904 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1905 * Preferences improvements:
1906 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1907 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1909 * Core image manipulation support
1910 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1911 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1912 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1913 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1914 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1915 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1916 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1917 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1918 * Access filter architecture
1919 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1920 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1924 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1925 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1926 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1927 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1928 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1929 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1930 * Massive Matroska improvements
1931 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1933 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1934 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1935 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1936 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1937 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1939 Decoders / Encoders:
1940 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1941 * PNG decoder/encoder
1942 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1943 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1946 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1949 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1950 * Brand new SAP module
1951 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1952 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1953 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1954 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1955 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1956 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1960 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1963 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1964 * Image file video output (png)
1965 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1966 * Improvements to wall video filter
1967 * Support for font color and opacity
1973 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1974 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1975 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1979 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1980 - Improved preferences
1981 - Improvements to the wizard
1982 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1984 - Redesigned playlist
1985 - Improved preferences
1987 - Support for multiple actions
1990 - Support for the new playlist system
1992 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1995 * Screensaver disabling fix
1996 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1997 * Support for no-decoration windows
2000 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2001 * The OpenGL video output is back
2002 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2003 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2004 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2005 is not yet available in the new module
2006 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2009 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2018 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2021 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2024 The following languages were added:
2030 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2031 --------------------------------
2034 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2035 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2038 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2039 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2040 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2043 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2046 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2049 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2052 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2053 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2054 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2058 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2060 * Support of playlist group announcement
2063 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2064 --------------------------------
2067 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2068 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2069 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2070 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2071 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2072 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2075 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2076 (Stream your desktop)
2077 * Improved DVD support:
2078 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2079 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2080 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2081 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2082 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2083 (selection of titles/chapters).
2086 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2087 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2088 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2089 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2090 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2091 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2092 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2093 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2094 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2095 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2098 * G.726 audio support
2099 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2100 * MPEG-4 text support
2101 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2102 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2103 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2107 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2108 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2109 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2110 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2111 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2112 * DVB subtitles encoder
2113 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2114 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2116 * Text track muxing for mp4
2117 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2118 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2119 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2120 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2121 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2122 * Improved ASF muxer
2124 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2125 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2126 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2129 * New audio equalizer filter
2130 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2131 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2132 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2133 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2136 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2137 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2138 with support for effects.
2139 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2140 - New filters can be streamed.
2141 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2142 - Centralized scaling and blending
2144 - "time", to display current time
2145 - "marq", to display a marquee
2148 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2149 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2150 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2151 * A few skins2 improvements
2152 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2153 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2154 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2155 * Improved CORBA control module
2158 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2159 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2160 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2163 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2164 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2165 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2168 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2169 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2170 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2171 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2172 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2175 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2178 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2179 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2182 * Server/client network synchronization module
2183 * VBrick streams fully supported
2184 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2188 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2189 --------------------------------
2192 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2193 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2194 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2195 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2198 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2199 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2200 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2201 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2202 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2203 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2204 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2207 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2208 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2209 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2210 * Improved directory access module.
2211 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2212 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2213 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2214 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2215 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2218 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2219 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2220 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2223 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2224 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2225 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2228 * Improved session announcement system.
2229 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2230 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2231 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2232 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2233 * Improved transrater.
2234 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2235 * New configuration system.
2236 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2239 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2240 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2241 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2242 * Supports scheduling.
2243 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2244 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2247 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2248 - Ability to embed video output.
2249 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2250 - Lots of improvements.
2251 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2252 - New design and set of icons.
2253 - Ability to embed video output.
2254 - Support for hotkeys.
2255 - Support for bookmarks.
2257 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2258 - Better hotkeys handling.
2261 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2262 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2263 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2264 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2267 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2268 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2269 * Improved Windows installer.
2275 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2276 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2279 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2280 ---------------------------------
2283 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2284 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2287 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2288 --------------------------------
2291 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2292 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2295 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2296 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2297 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2298 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2301 * Internal improvments
2302 * Improved import/export
2305 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2307 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2308 small and strange formats.
2310 * New MOD audio demux.
2311 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2312 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2313 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2314 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2317 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2318 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2319 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2325 * New opengl video output plugin.
2328 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2329 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2332 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2333 --------------------------------
2336 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2337 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2338 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2339 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2340 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2341 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2342 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2343 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2346 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2351 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2352 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2353 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2354 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2355 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2356 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2357 * Better Icecast support.
2358 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2359 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2362 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2363 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2364 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2365 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2366 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2367 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2368 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2371 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2372 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2373 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2374 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2375 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2376 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2377 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2378 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2379 * Preliminary RTP support.
2380 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2385 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2386 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2388 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2389 - Improvements and help in preferences
2390 - New streaming wizard
2391 - Revised Disc Open menu
2393 - Improvements of the standard pages
2394 - Support for new commands
2395 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2398 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2399 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2402 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2403 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2404 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2405 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2406 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2407 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2408 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2409 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2410 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2413 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2415 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2416 * Support for Panther.
2417 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2418 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2421 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2422 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2423 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2424 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2425 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2426 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2427 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2428 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2431 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2432 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2433 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2436 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2439 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2440 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2441 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2442 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2445 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2446 --------------------------------
2449 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2452 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2453 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2456 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2457 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2460 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2463 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2464 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2467 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2470 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2473 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2474 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2478 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2479 --------------------------------
2482 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2483 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2487 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2488 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2489 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2491 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2492 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2495 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2498 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2501 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2502 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2506 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2507 --------------------------------
2510 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2511 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2515 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2516 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2517 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2518 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2519 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2522 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2523 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2524 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2527 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2528 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2529 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2532 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2533 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2534 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2535 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2536 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2539 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2540 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2541 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2544 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2547 * Improved build system.
2548 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2549 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2550 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2551 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2554 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2555 --------------------------------
2558 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2561 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2562 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2563 * Video 4 Linux support
2564 * CD Digital Audio support
2565 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2568 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2569 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2570 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2571 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2574 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2575 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2576 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2577 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2578 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2579 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2580 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2583 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2584 * New HTTP remote control interface
2587 * 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.
2588 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2589 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2590 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2593 * New reset option for the preferences
2594 * You can set your language in the prefences
2595 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2596 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2597 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2598 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2601 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2602 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2603 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2606 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2607 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2608 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2609 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2610 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2611 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2612 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2613 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2614 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2615 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2618 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2619 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2620 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2621 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2622 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2623 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2624 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2627 * Interface localization
2628 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2629 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2630 * New full-featured Preferences window
2633 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2634 --------------------------------
2637 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2638 * support for skins at the interface level
2639 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2640 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2641 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2642 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2643 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2646 * fixed HTTP redirects
2647 * support for opening an entire directory
2648 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2649 * new video4linux access plug-in
2650 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2653 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2654 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2655 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2658 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2659 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2660 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2661 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2662 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2663 * new codec for raw I420 video
2664 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2667 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2668 (although it still misses some important features)
2669 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2672 * new HTTP output support
2673 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2674 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2677 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2680 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2683 * reorderable playlist
2684 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2685 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2686 * support for mono audio output devices
2687 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2688 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2689 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2690 * the messages window remembers more lines
2691 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2692 * http and ogg stream output options
2693 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2696 * new skinnable interface
2697 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2699 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2700 * support for FLAC audio format
2701 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2703 * network tab in the interface
2704 * "apply" handling in preferences
2707 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2708 ---------------------------------
2711 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2712 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2713 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2714 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2716 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2717 * DTS S/PDIF support
2720 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2721 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2722 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2723 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2726 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2727 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2730 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2733 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2736 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2738 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2739 * rc interface is now fully useable
2740 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2743 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2744 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2745 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2746 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2747 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2749 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2750 * support for mouse gestures
2751 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2754 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2755 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2758 * improved ID3 tag detection
2759 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2760 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2761 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2763 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2766 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2767 ---------------------------------
2770 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2771 English was set as the preferred language
2774 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2775 --------------------------------
2778 * new mouse gesture interface
2779 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2783 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2784 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2785 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2788 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2789 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2793 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2796 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2797 without the user consent
2800 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2802 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2803 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2804 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2807 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2808 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2809 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2810 * playlist enhancements
2811 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2812 * new step forward/step backward commands
2813 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2814 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2815 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2818 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2819 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2820 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2823 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2824 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2827 * native video output is working again
2828 * only commandline interface support
2829 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2832 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2833 --------------------------------
2836 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2837 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2838 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2839 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2840 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2841 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2842 and A/52 streams are supported)
2843 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2848 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2849 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2850 * VCD entry points support
2851 * VCD image file support
2854 * support for *.asf format
2855 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2856 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2857 * support for ogg encapsulation
2858 * support for raw DV format
2859 * support for *.wav format
2860 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2863 Stream discovery & playlists:
2864 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2865 * support for .m3u file format
2866 * support for .asx file format
2867 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2870 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2871 (only available with the .avi demux)
2872 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2873 * support for raw PCM data
2874 * support for Cinepak video codec
2875 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2876 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2877 * support for Xvid codec
2878 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2879 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2880 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2882 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2884 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2887 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2890 * new WxWindows interface
2891 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2892 device and the channels configuration
2893 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2894 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2895 format that VLC can play
2896 * new swedish translation
2897 * enhancements of the playlist window
2898 * new messages window to see debug info
2899 * fixed a few crashes
2902 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2903 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2904 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2905 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working