1 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
12 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
15 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
16 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
17 * DVB-S scanning support
18 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
19 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
20 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
21 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
22 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
23 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
24 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
25 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
28 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
29 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
30 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
31 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
32 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
35 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
36 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
37 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
40 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
41 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
42 * Ogg seeking improvements
43 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
46 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
47 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
48 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
49 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
50 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
51 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
52 and important cleanups and optimisations
53 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
56 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
57 * New video output for iOS platform
58 * New video output using EGL
59 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
60 * Various vmem improvements
63 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
64 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
65 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
66 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
67 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
70 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
73 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
76 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
77 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
78 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
79 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
80 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
81 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
82 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
83 * Major rework of VoD support
84 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
85 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
86 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
87 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
88 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
89 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
92 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
95 * New capabilities for libVLC:
96 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
97 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
98 list of available audio and video filters
101 * asademux: use libass only
102 * fake: use the new image demuxers
103 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
105 * upnp: use upnp_intel
108 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
109 --------------------------------
112 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
116 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
117 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
118 and stability reasons
121 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
125 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
128 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
129 ----------------------------------
132 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
135 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
136 ---------------------------------
139 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
140 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
141 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
142 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
145 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
148 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
149 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
150 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
151 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
154 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
155 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
156 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
158 Subtitles and renderer:
159 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
160 * Mark more freetype options as safe
161 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
162 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
163 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
166 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
167 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
168 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
169 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
172 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
173 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
176 * KDE device solid actions
178 * Transcode integer overflow
179 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
180 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
183 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
184 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
185 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
188 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
189 ----------------------------------
192 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
196 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
199 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
202 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
203 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
204 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
205 * Taglib thread-safety fix
208 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
212 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
215 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
218 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
219 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
221 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
225 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
226 * Miscellaneous fixes
229 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
230 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
232 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
233 * New Asturian translation
236 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
237 ----------------------------------
240 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
242 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
245 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
248 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
249 * Various fixes for Windows
252 * New Armenian translation
253 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
254 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
257 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
258 --------------------------------
261 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
263 * Fix folders opening from the interface
266 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
267 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
270 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
271 --------------------------------
274 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
275 * fix for podcasts parsing
276 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
279 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
280 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
283 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
284 * fix m3u playlists exports
287 * fix video autoresize behaviour
290 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
293 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
296 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
299 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
302 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
303 --------------------------------
306 * Avformat fps displaying fix
307 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
310 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
311 of mono streams, especially on Windows
314 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
315 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
316 * fix console output encoding
318 Interface and extensions:
319 * Youtube and other scripts updates
320 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
323 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
324 --------------------------------
327 * New capabilities for libVLC:
328 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
329 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
330 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
331 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
332 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
333 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
334 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
335 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
336 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
337 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
338 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
339 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
340 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
341 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
342 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
346 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
347 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
348 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
349 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
350 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
353 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
356 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
357 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
358 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
362 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
365 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
366 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
367 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
370 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
371 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
372 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
373 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
376 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
377 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
380 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
381 --------------------------------
383 Important changes for users:
384 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
385 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
387 Important changes for packagers:
388 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
389 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
390 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
391 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
392 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
394 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
396 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
397 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
398 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
399 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
400 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
403 * Support for the sftp protocol
404 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
405 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
406 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
407 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
408 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
411 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
412 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
413 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
415 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
416 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
417 * Invmem module improvements
418 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
419 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
420 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
421 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
422 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
423 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
424 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
425 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
426 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
427 * Support for VP8 codec
428 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
431 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
432 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
433 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
434 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
435 * Various EGP improvements
436 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
437 * Metadata and cover art improvements
440 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
441 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
442 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
443 * Podcast images are now displayed
446 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
447 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
448 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
449 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
450 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
451 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
452 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
453 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
454 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
455 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
456 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
459 * New content extensions lua framework
462 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
463 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
464 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
465 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
466 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
467 * NEON assembly audio converter module
468 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
471 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
472 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
473 * Service discovery based on libudev
474 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
477 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
478 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
479 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
480 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
481 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
482 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
483 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
486 * New smem module, streaming to memory
487 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
488 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
491 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
493 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
494 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
497 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
500 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
501 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
502 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
503 by Andy Matuschak et al.
504 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
505 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
506 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
509 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
510 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
513 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
514 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
515 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
519 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
520 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
521 * Improved Solaris port
524 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
525 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
528 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
529 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
530 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
531 * transrate: broken since too long
532 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
533 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
534 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
535 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
536 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
537 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
538 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
539 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
540 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
541 * cddax: use cdda instead.
542 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
543 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
544 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
545 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
548 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
549 --------------------------------
552 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
554 Decoders/Packetizers:
555 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
558 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
559 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
560 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
561 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
562 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
565 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
566 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
569 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
570 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
573 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
574 and Walloon translations updated
575 * Sinhala translation started
578 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
579 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
582 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
583 --------------------------------
586 * SubRip extra styles improvements
587 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
590 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
593 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
594 increase performance and fix x264 issues
597 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
598 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
599 Russian, Slovak translation updates
600 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
603 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
604 --------------------------------
607 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
608 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
611 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
612 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
615 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
616 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
619 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
622 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
623 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
626 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
627 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
630 * New Walloon translation
631 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
634 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
635 --------------------------------
638 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
639 regressions in most popular drivers
640 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
643 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
644 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
645 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
648 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
649 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
652 * Update for appletrailers lua script
653 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
654 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
655 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
656 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
659 * New udev module for linux
662 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
665 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
668 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
669 --------------------------------
672 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
673 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
674 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
677 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
678 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
681 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
682 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
685 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
688 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
689 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
690 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
691 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
694 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
695 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
696 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
697 - no support for Goom and SDL
698 - limited text rendering support
699 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
702 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
703 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
704 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
705 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
706 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
707 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
708 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
709 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
710 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
714 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
717 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
720 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
721 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
722 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
723 Arabic and French translation updates
726 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
727 --------------------------------
730 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
731 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
732 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
733 * Fix Dailymotion access script
734 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
735 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
738 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
739 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
742 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
743 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
744 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
747 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
750 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
751 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
754 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
755 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
756 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
757 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
758 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
759 * Fix various crashes
762 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
764 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
767 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
768 ---------------------------------
772 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
773 See 'Access:' for more info.
774 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
777 * Instantaneous pausing
778 * Frame-by-Frame playback
779 * Finer speed control
780 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
781 * Timeshift for most medias
782 * RTSP trickplay support
783 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
786 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
787 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
788 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
789 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
790 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
791 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
792 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
793 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
794 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
795 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
798 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
799 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
800 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
801 * Metadata for mod files are supported
802 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
803 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
804 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
807 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
808 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
811 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
812 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
813 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
814 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
815 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
816 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
817 * DVB scanning on linux
818 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
819 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
820 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
821 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
822 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
823 * MTP device access on Unix
824 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
825 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
828 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
829 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
830 Windows and Mac OS X.
833 * Export the playlist in HTML
834 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
835 * Better metadata handling and reading
837 Linux/Windows interface:
838 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
839 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
840 * Recently played items list
841 * Interface toolbar customizations
842 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
845 - Improvements on many dialogs
846 - New dialog for plugins listing
847 - Fixed-size mode for videos
848 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
849 * Better integration in GTK environments
852 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
853 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
854 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
855 * Additional usability improvements
858 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
859 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
860 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
861 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
862 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
865 * New Maemo port with:
866 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
867 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
870 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
873 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
874 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
875 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
876 * Support for latest iSight models
879 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
880 * Surround support for PulseAudio
883 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
884 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
885 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
886 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
887 The old image video output has been removed.
888 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
889 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
892 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
900 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
901 --------------------------------------
907 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
908 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
909 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
910 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
911 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
912 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
913 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
915 Various fixes to the following modules:
918 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
919 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
922 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
927 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
928 ---------------------------------
931 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
932 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
935 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
936 ---------------------------------
939 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
942 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
945 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
946 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
947 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
948 main controller window.
949 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
952 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
957 * Updates of other localizations
960 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
961 * Lots of small bugfixes.
962 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
963 * Telnet fixes on Windows
964 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
967 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
968 ---------------------------------
971 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
973 Bunch of small bugfixes.
976 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
977 --------------------------------
982 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
983 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
986 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
987 --------------------------------
989 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
990 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
993 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
996 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
997 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1000 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1001 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1004 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1005 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1006 * Various fixed in playlist
1009 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1012 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1015 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1016 ------------------------------------
1018 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1019 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1022 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1023 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1024 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1027 * Stability fix for the video output.
1030 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1031 --------------------------------
1034 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1035 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1036 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1037 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1038 * Fixed update system bugs
1039 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1042 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1043 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1044 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1045 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1046 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1047 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1048 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1049 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1050 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1051 modern Mac OS X versions
1054 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1055 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1057 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1058 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1061 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1062 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1063 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1064 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1065 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1066 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1069 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1070 --------------------------------
1072 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1073 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1074 * Multiple bugfixes.
1077 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1078 --------------------------------
1080 * Multiple bug fixes.
1083 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1084 ---------------------------------
1088 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1089 recent to work correctly
1090 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1091 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1092 edit the ".hosts" file.
1093 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1094 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1095 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1096 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1097 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1098 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1099 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1100 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1101 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1102 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1103 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1104 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1105 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1106 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1107 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1108 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1109 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1110 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1111 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1112 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1113 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1114 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1115 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1116 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1117 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1118 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1119 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1120 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1121 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1122 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1123 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1124 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1125 and postproc modules.
1126 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1127 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1128 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1129 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1131 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1132 filter. For example:
1133 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1134 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1136 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1137 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1143 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1145 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1146 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1149 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1150 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1152 * Shoutcast TV listings
1153 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1155 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1156 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1158 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1161 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1162 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1163 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1164 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1165 * JACK audio input support
1166 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1167 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1168 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1169 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1170 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1171 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1172 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1173 (available as a separate download).
1174 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1175 * RTMP input support
1176 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1177 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1178 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1180 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1181 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1184 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1185 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1186 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1187 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1189 * APEv1/2 tags support
1190 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1191 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1193 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1194 * TiVo Series 2 support
1195 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1200 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1201 * Flash Screen Video support
1202 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1203 * DosBox Capture support
1204 * Karl Morton's Video support
1205 * limited atrac3 support
1207 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1208 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1209 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1210 * H.264 PAFF support
1211 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1212 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1213 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1214 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1215 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1218 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1219 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1220 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1221 * AQTitle subtitles support
1222 * MKV USF subtitles support
1223 * HTML-based subtitles support
1224 * MPSub subtitles support
1225 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1226 * MPL2 subtitles support
1227 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1228 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1229 * Realtext subtitle support
1230 * DKS subtitle support
1231 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1232 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1235 * Flash Screen Video support
1236 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1238 Video outputs and filters:
1239 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1240 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1241 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1242 * New puzzle video output filter
1243 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1244 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1246 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1247 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1248 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1249 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1250 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1251 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1252 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1253 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1254 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1255 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1256 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1257 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1258 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1259 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1261 Audio outputs and filters:
1262 * Replay gain support
1263 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1264 new scaletempo audio filter)
1265 * New spatializer audio filter
1266 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1269 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1270 * New RTP payload formats:
1271 * Speex voice audio codec
1272 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1273 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1274 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1275 * DCCP transport for RTP
1276 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1281 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1282 end-user suitable way.
1283 * Improved user interaction
1284 * Improved mouse gestures
1285 * Vastly improved Update checker
1286 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1288 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1289 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1291 * Improved video output features
1292 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1293 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1294 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1295 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1296 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1298 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1299 if libncursesw is available.
1300 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1301 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1302 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1304 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1305 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1306 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1307 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1308 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1309 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1310 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1311 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1314 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1315 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1316 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1319 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1320 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1321 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1322 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1323 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1324 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1327 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1328 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1338 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1339 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1340 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1343 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1344 ----------------------------------
1347 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1350 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1351 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1352 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1353 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1354 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1355 * Updated Polish translation
1358 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1359 ----------------------------------
1362 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1363 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1364 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1367 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1368 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1369 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1370 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1371 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1372 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1373 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1374 to an unexpected application termination
1375 * New Serbian translation
1376 * Updated Romanian translation
1379 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1380 ----------------------------------
1383 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1384 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1385 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1386 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1387 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1388 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1389 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1390 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1393 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1394 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1395 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1396 * Fixed AAC resampling
1397 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1398 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1401 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1402 ----------------------------------
1405 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1406 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1407 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1408 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1409 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1412 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1413 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1414 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1415 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1416 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1419 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1420 ----------------------------------
1423 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1424 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1427 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1428 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1429 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1430 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1432 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1436 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1439 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1442 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1445 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1448 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1449 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1450 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1451 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1452 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1454 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1455 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1456 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1457 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1460 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1463 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1464 ----------------------------------
1467 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1468 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1469 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1471 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1472 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1474 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1475 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1478 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1480 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1481 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1482 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1483 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1484 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1485 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1486 two different movies
1487 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1488 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1489 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1492 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1495 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1496 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1497 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1498 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1501 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1502 ----------------------------------
1504 Various bugfixes, notably:
1505 * Windows Vista compatibility
1506 * Cropping in Direct3D
1507 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1508 * RSS filter string overflow
1510 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1512 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1513 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1516 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1517 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1520 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1523 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1526 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1529 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1530 ----------------------------------
1532 Various bugfixes, notably:
1533 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1534 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1535 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1536 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1537 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1538 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1541 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1542 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1545 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1547 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1548 * Diverse usability improvements
1549 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1550 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1551 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1554 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1555 ---------------------------------
1557 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1558 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1561 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1564 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1565 --------------------------------
1568 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1571 * Support for RTSP authentication
1572 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1573 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1574 * ATSC support for DVB input
1575 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1576 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1577 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1580 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1581 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1582 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1583 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1584 * Matroska WavPack support
1585 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1586 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1587 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1590 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1591 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1592 * Improved libcaca support
1596 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1597 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1599 * Systray support in skins
1601 * Support for Apple Remote control
1602 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1603 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1604 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1605 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1607 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1610 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1611 Windows 9x/ME users:
1612 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1613 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1614 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1615 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1616 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1618 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1619 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1628 * Updates to the libvlc API
1629 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1632 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1633 --------------------------------
1636 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1637 * Support for downloading updates
1641 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1642 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1643 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1644 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1646 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1647 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1648 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1651 * Cook (Real audio) support
1653 Playlist / Services discovery:
1654 * XSPF playlist support
1656 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1659 * New JACK audio output
1662 * New video filters:
1663 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1664 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1665 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1666 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1667 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1668 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1671 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1674 * System to inform the user and request information
1675 - HTTP authentication
1679 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1680 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1681 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1684 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1685 - Improved playlist handling
1686 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1688 - Embedded Video output
1689 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1690 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1691 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1692 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1693 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1695 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1696 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1699 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1702 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1703 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1704 * Growl "Now playing" support
1707 * Ability to log to syslog
1708 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1711 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1713 * A bit more automatic testing
1716 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1717 ---------------------------------
1720 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1721 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1724 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1725 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1728 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1731 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1732 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1738 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1741 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1742 --------------------------------
1745 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1749 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1750 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1751 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1754 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1755 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1756 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1757 * GnomeVFS input module
1758 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1759 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1762 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1763 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1764 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1767 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1768 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1774 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1775 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1778 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1779 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1780 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1783 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1785 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1786 - New extended controls panel
1787 - New bookmarks window
1788 - Fixed playlist sorting
1789 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1791 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1792 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1793 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1794 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1798 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1799 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1801 - Include macro to include other files
1805 * Should now work outside IE as well
1808 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1811 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1812 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1815 The following languages were added:
1819 * Simplified Chinese
1820 The following languages were re-added:
1824 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1825 --------------------------------
1828 * Rewrite of the playlist
1830 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1831 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1832 * Preferences improvements:
1833 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1834 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1836 * Core image manipulation support
1837 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1838 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1839 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1840 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1841 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1842 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1843 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1844 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1845 * Access filter architecture
1846 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1847 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1851 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1852 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1853 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1854 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1855 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1856 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1857 * Massive Matroska improvements
1858 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1860 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1861 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1862 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1863 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1864 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1866 Decoders / Encoders:
1867 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1868 * PNG decoder/encoder
1869 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1870 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1873 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1876 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1877 * Brand new SAP module
1878 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1879 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1880 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1881 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1882 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1883 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1887 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1890 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1891 * Image file video output (png)
1892 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1893 * Improvements to wall video filter
1894 * Support for font color and opacity
1900 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1901 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1902 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1906 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1907 - Improved preferences
1908 - Improvements to the wizard
1909 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1911 - Redesigned playlist
1912 - Improved preferences
1914 - Support for multiple actions
1917 - Support for the new playlist system
1919 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1922 * Screensaver disabling fix
1923 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1924 * Support for no-decoration windows
1927 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1928 * The OpenGL video output is back
1929 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1930 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1931 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1932 is not yet available in the new module
1933 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1936 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1945 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1948 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1951 The following languages were added:
1957 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1958 --------------------------------
1961 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1962 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1965 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1966 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1967 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1970 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1973 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1976 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1979 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1980 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1981 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1985 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1987 * Support of playlist group announcement
1990 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1991 --------------------------------
1994 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1995 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1996 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1997 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1998 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1999 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2002 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2003 (Stream your desktop)
2004 * Improved DVD support:
2005 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2006 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2007 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2008 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2009 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2010 (selection of titles/chapters).
2013 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2014 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2015 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2016 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2017 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2018 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2019 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2020 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2021 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2022 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2025 * G.726 audio support
2026 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2027 * MPEG-4 text support
2028 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2029 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2030 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2034 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2035 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2036 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2037 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2038 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2039 * DVB subtitles encoder
2040 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2041 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2043 * Text track muxing for mp4
2044 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2045 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2046 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2047 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2048 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2049 * Improved ASF muxer
2051 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2052 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2053 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2056 * New audio equalizer filter
2057 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2058 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2059 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2060 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2063 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2064 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2065 with support for effects.
2066 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2067 - New filters can be streamed.
2068 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2069 - Centralized scaling and blending
2071 - "time", to display current time
2072 - "marq", to display a marquee
2075 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2076 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2077 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2078 * A few skins2 improvements
2079 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2080 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2081 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2082 * Improved CORBA control module
2085 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2086 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2087 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2090 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2091 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2092 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2095 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2096 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2097 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2098 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2099 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2102 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2105 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2106 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2109 * Server/client network synchronization module
2110 * VBrick streams fully supported
2111 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2115 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2116 --------------------------------
2119 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2120 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2121 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2122 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2125 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2126 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2127 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2128 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2129 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2130 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2131 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2134 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2135 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2136 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2137 * Improved directory access module.
2138 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2139 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2140 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2141 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2142 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2145 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2146 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2147 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2150 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2151 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2152 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2155 * Improved session announcement system.
2156 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2157 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2158 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2159 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2160 * Improved transrater.
2161 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2162 * New configuration system.
2163 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2166 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2167 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2168 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2169 * Supports scheduling.
2170 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2171 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2174 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2175 - Ability to embed video output.
2176 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2177 - Lots of improvements.
2178 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2179 - New design and set of icons.
2180 - Ability to embed video output.
2181 - Support for hotkeys.
2182 - Support for bookmarks.
2184 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2185 - Better hotkeys handling.
2188 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2189 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2190 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2191 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2194 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2195 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2196 * Improved Windows installer.
2202 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2203 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2206 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2207 ---------------------------------
2210 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2211 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2214 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2215 --------------------------------
2218 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2219 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2222 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2223 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2224 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2225 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2228 * Internal improvments
2229 * Improved import/export
2232 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2234 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2235 small and strange formats.
2237 * New MOD audio demux.
2238 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2239 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2240 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2241 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2244 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2245 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2246 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2252 * New opengl video output plugin.
2255 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2256 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2259 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2260 --------------------------------
2263 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2264 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2265 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2266 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2267 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2268 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2269 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2270 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2273 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2278 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2279 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2280 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2281 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2282 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2283 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2284 * Better Icecast support.
2285 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2286 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2289 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2290 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2291 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2292 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2293 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2294 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2295 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2298 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2299 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2300 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2301 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2302 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2303 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2304 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2305 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2306 * Preliminary RTP support.
2307 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2312 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2313 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2315 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2316 - Improvements and help in preferences
2317 - New streaming wizard
2318 - Revised Disc Open menu
2320 - Improvements of the standard pages
2321 - Support for new commands
2322 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2325 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2326 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2329 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2330 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2331 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2332 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2333 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2334 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2335 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2336 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2337 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2340 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2342 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2343 * Support for Panther.
2344 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2345 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2348 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2349 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2350 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2351 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2352 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2353 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2354 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2355 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2358 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2359 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2360 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2363 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2366 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2367 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2368 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2369 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2372 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2373 --------------------------------
2376 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2379 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2380 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2383 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2384 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2387 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2390 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2391 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2394 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2397 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2400 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2401 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2405 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2406 --------------------------------
2409 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2410 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2414 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2415 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2416 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2418 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2419 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2422 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2425 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2428 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2429 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2433 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2434 --------------------------------
2437 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2438 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2442 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2443 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2444 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2445 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2446 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2449 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2450 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2451 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2454 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2455 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2456 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2459 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2460 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2461 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2462 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2463 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2466 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2467 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2468 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2471 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2474 * Improved build system.
2475 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2476 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2477 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2478 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2481 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2482 --------------------------------
2485 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2488 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2489 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2490 * Video 4 Linux support
2491 * CD Digital Audio support
2492 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2495 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2496 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2497 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2498 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2501 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2502 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2503 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2504 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2505 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2506 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2507 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2510 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2511 * New HTTP remote control interface
2514 * 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.
2515 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2516 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2517 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2520 * New reset option for the preferences
2521 * You can set your language in the prefences
2522 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2523 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2524 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2525 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2528 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2529 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2530 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2533 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2534 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2535 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2536 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2537 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2538 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2539 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2540 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2541 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2542 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2545 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2546 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2547 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2548 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2549 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2550 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2551 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2554 * Interface localization
2555 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2556 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2557 * New full-featured Preferences window
2560 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2561 --------------------------------
2564 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2565 * support for skins at the interface level
2566 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2567 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2568 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2569 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2570 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2573 * fixed HTTP redirects
2574 * support for opening an entire directory
2575 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2576 * new video4linux access plug-in
2577 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2580 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2581 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2582 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2585 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2586 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2587 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2588 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2589 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2590 * new codec for raw I420 video
2591 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2594 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2595 (although it still misses some important features)
2596 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2599 * new HTTP output support
2600 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2601 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2604 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2607 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2610 * reorderable playlist
2611 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2612 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2613 * support for mono audio output devices
2614 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2615 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2616 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2617 * the messages window remembers more lines
2618 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2619 * http and ogg stream output options
2620 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2623 * new skinnable interface
2624 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2626 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2627 * support for FLAC audio format
2628 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2630 * network tab in the interface
2631 * "apply" handling in preferences
2634 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2635 ---------------------------------
2638 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2639 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2640 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2641 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2643 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2644 * DTS S/PDIF support
2647 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2648 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2649 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2650 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2653 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2654 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2657 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2660 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2663 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2665 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2666 * rc interface is now fully useable
2667 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2670 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2671 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2672 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2673 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2674 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2676 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2677 * support for mouse gestures
2678 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2681 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2682 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2685 * improved ID3 tag detection
2686 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2687 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2688 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2690 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2693 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2694 ---------------------------------
2697 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2698 English was set as the preferred language
2701 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2702 --------------------------------
2705 * new mouse gesture interface
2706 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2710 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2711 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2712 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2715 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2716 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2720 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2723 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2724 without the user consent
2727 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2729 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2730 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2731 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2734 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2735 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2736 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2737 * playlist enhancements
2738 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2739 * new step forward/step backward commands
2740 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2741 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2742 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2745 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2746 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2747 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2750 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2751 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2754 * native video output is working again
2755 * only commandline interface support
2756 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2759 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2760 --------------------------------
2763 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2764 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2765 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2766 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2767 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2768 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2769 and A/52 streams are supported)
2770 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2775 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2776 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2777 * VCD entry points support
2778 * VCD image file support
2781 * support for *.asf format
2782 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2783 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2784 * support for ogg encapsulation
2785 * support for raw DV format
2786 * support for *.wav format
2787 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2790 Stream discovery & playlists:
2791 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2792 * support for .m3u file format
2793 * support for .asx file format
2794 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2797 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2798 (only available with the .avi demux)
2799 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2800 * support for raw PCM data
2801 * support for Cinepak video codec
2802 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2803 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2804 * support for Xvid codec
2805 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2806 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2807 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2809 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2811 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2814 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2817 * new WxWindows interface
2818 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2819 device and the channels configuration
2820 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2821 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2822 format that VLC can play
2823 * new swedish translation
2824 * enhancements of the playlist window
2825 * new messages window to see debug info
2826 * fixed a few crashes
2829 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2830 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2831 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2832 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working