1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
15 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
16 * new VSXu visualization plugin
19 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
22 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
26 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
29 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
30 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
31 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
34 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
37 * portaudio audio output
38 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
41 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
42 --------------------------------
45 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
46 * fix the samba module compilation
47 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
48 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
49 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
50 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
53 * Support for MXPEG files
54 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
55 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
58 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
59 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
60 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
63 * Fix ogm header creation
66 * limit spatializer filter distortions
67 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
70 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
71 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
72 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
73 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
76 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
79 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
80 * allow to hide the sidebar
81 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
82 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
83 * noticebly faster launch time
84 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
85 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
86 * improve track synchronization panel
87 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
88 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
91 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
92 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
93 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
94 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
97 * fix for menus display
98 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
99 * documentation update
102 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
103 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
106 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
107 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
108 * Update Jamendo selections
112 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
113 * fix a crash on VLM close
116 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
117 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
118 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
119 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
122 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
125 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
126 ---------------------------------
129 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
130 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
131 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
132 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
133 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
134 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
135 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
136 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
137 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
138 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
139 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
140 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
141 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
142 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
143 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
144 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
145 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
146 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
147 --http-crl (optional CRL).
148 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
149 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
150 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
151 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
152 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
153 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
154 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
156 Important changes for packagers:
157 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
158 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
159 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
160 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
161 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
162 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
163 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
164 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
165 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
166 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
169 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
170 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
171 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
172 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
173 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
174 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
175 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
178 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
179 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
180 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
181 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
182 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
183 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
184 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
185 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
186 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
187 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
188 * PulseAudio audio input support
189 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
190 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
191 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
192 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
193 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
194 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
195 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
196 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
199 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
200 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
201 are notably concerned.
202 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
203 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
204 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
205 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
206 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
207 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
208 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
209 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
210 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
211 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
212 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
213 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
214 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
215 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
216 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
219 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
220 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
221 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
222 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
223 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
224 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
225 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
226 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
227 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
228 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
229 * Improved support of tracker files
230 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
233 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
234 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
235 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
236 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
237 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
238 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
239 and important cleanups and optimisations
240 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
241 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
242 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
243 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
244 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
245 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
246 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
247 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
248 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
249 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
250 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
251 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
252 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
253 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
254 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
255 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
256 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
257 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
258 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
259 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
260 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
263 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
264 * New video output for iOS platform
265 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
266 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
267 * Various vmem improvements
268 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
269 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
270 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
271 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
272 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
273 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
275 Audio Output and Filters:
276 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
277 * New audio output in memory (amem)
278 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
279 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
280 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
281 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
282 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
283 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
284 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
285 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
288 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
289 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
290 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
291 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
292 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
293 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
294 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
295 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
296 * New anti-flickering filter
297 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
298 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
299 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
300 blackbox and customizable shadow.
301 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
302 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
303 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
306 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
307 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
308 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
309 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
310 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
311 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
312 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
313 * Major rework of VoD support
314 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
315 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
316 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
317 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
318 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
319 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
320 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
321 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
322 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
323 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
326 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
327 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
330 * New capabilities for libVLC:
331 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
332 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
333 list of available audio and video filters
334 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
335 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
336 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
339 * asademux, subsass: use libass
340 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
341 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
343 * upnp: use upnp_intel
344 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
345 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
346 * removal of the noise filter
347 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
348 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
349 removed in Growl's next release, too.
350 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
353 * Update of translations for most languages.
354 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
357 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
358 ----------------------------------
361 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
362 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
365 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
366 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
369 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
370 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
371 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
374 * Camtasia decoding fix.
377 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
378 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
381 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
384 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
385 ----------------------------------
388 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
389 including support for OS X Lion
390 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
391 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
394 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
397 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
398 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
399 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
402 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
405 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
406 ----------------------------------
409 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
410 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
413 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
414 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
415 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
416 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
417 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
419 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
420 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
421 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
423 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
424 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
427 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
430 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
433 * Fix quitting on Linux
434 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
438 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
441 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
444 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
445 ---------------------------------
447 Windows and Mac OS X:
448 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
451 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
452 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
455 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
458 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
461 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
463 Miscellaneous fixes in:
464 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
466 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
467 * RTP output and XML export
468 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
472 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
473 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
474 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
475 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
478 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
479 --------------------------------
481 Windows and Mac OS X:
482 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
485 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
488 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
489 * Improve Apple Remote handling
490 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
491 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
492 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
493 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
496 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
497 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
501 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
502 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
503 * New Luganda Translation
506 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
507 --------------------------------
510 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
513 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
514 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
515 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
516 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
519 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
521 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
522 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
523 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
524 * mp4 demuxer improvements
525 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
526 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
527 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
528 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
530 Miscellaneous fixes in:
531 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
532 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
533 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
534 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
535 * Configure and build system improvements
536 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
539 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
540 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
541 * New icelandic translation
544 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
545 --------------------------------
548 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
552 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
553 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
554 and stability reasons
557 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
561 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
564 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
565 ----------------------------------
568 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
571 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
572 ---------------------------------
575 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
576 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
577 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
578 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
581 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
584 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
585 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
586 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
587 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
590 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
591 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
592 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
594 Subtitles and renderer:
595 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
596 * Mark more freetype options as safe
597 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
598 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
599 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
602 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
603 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
604 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
605 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
608 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
609 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
612 * KDE device solid actions
614 * Transcode integer overflow
615 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
616 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
619 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
620 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
621 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
624 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
625 ----------------------------------
628 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
632 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
635 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
638 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
639 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
640 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
641 * Taglib thread-safety fix
644 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
648 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
651 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
654 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
655 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
657 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
661 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
662 * Miscellaneous fixes
665 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
666 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
668 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
669 * New Asturian translation
672 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
673 ----------------------------------
676 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
678 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
681 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
684 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
685 * Various fixes for Windows
688 * New Armenian translation
689 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
690 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
693 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
694 --------------------------------
697 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
699 * Fix folders opening from the interface
702 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
703 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
706 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
707 --------------------------------
710 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
711 * fix for podcasts parsing
712 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
715 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
716 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
719 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
720 * fix m3u playlists exports
723 * fix video autoresize behaviour
726 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
729 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
732 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
735 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
738 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
739 --------------------------------
742 * Avformat fps displaying fix
743 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
746 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
747 of mono streams, especially on Windows
750 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
751 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
752 * fix console output encoding
754 Interface and extensions:
755 * Youtube and other scripts updates
756 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
759 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
760 --------------------------------
763 * New capabilities for libVLC:
764 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
765 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
766 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
767 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
768 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
769 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
770 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
771 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
772 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
773 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
774 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
775 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
776 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
777 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
778 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
782 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
783 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
784 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
785 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
786 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
789 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
792 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
793 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
794 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
798 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
801 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
802 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
803 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
806 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
807 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
808 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
809 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
812 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
813 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
816 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
817 --------------------------------
819 Important changes for users:
820 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
821 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
823 Important changes for packagers:
824 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
825 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
826 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
827 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
828 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
830 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
832 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
833 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
834 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
835 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
836 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
839 * Support for the sftp protocol
840 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
841 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
842 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
843 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
844 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
847 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
848 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
849 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
851 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
852 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
853 * Invmem module improvements
854 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
855 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
856 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
857 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
858 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
859 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
860 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
861 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
862 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
863 * Support for VP8 codec
864 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
867 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
868 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
869 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
870 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
871 * Various EGP improvements
872 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
873 * Metadata and cover art improvements
876 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
877 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
878 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
879 * Podcast images are now displayed
882 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
883 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
884 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
885 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
886 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
887 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
888 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
889 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
890 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
891 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
892 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
895 * New content extensions lua framework
898 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
899 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
900 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
901 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
902 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
903 * NEON assembly audio converter module
904 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
907 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
908 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
909 * Service discovery based on libudev
910 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
913 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
914 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
915 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
916 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
917 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
918 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
919 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
922 * New smem module, streaming to memory
923 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
924 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
927 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
929 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
930 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
933 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
936 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
937 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
938 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
939 by Andy Matuschak et al.
940 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
941 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
942 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
945 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
946 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
949 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
950 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
951 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
955 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
956 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
957 * Improved Solaris port
960 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
961 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
964 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
965 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
966 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
967 * transrate: broken since too long
968 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
969 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
970 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
971 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
972 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
973 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
974 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
975 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
976 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
977 * cddax: use cdda instead.
978 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
979 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
980 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
981 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
984 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
985 --------------------------------
988 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
990 Decoders/Packetizers:
991 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
994 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
995 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
996 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
997 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
998 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1001 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1002 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1005 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1006 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1009 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1010 and Walloon translations updated
1011 * Sinhala translation started
1014 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1015 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1018 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1019 --------------------------------
1022 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1023 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1026 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1029 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1030 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1033 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1034 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1035 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1036 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1039 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1040 --------------------------------
1043 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1044 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1047 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1048 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1051 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1052 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1055 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1058 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1059 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1062 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1063 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1066 * New Walloon translation
1067 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1070 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1071 --------------------------------
1074 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1075 regressions in most popular drivers
1076 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1079 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1080 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1081 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1084 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1085 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1088 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1089 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1090 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1091 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1092 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1095 * New udev module for linux
1098 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1101 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1104 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1105 --------------------------------
1108 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1109 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1110 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1113 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1114 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1117 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1118 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1121 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1124 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1125 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1126 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1127 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1130 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1131 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1132 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1133 - no support for Goom and SDL
1134 - limited text rendering support
1135 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1138 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1139 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1140 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1141 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1142 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1143 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1144 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1145 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1146 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1150 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1153 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1156 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1157 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1158 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1159 Arabic and French translation updates
1162 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1163 --------------------------------
1166 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1167 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1168 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1169 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1170 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1171 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1174 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1175 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1176 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1179 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1180 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1181 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1184 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1187 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1188 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1191 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1192 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1193 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1194 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1195 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1196 * Fix various crashes
1199 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1201 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1205 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1206 ---------------------------------
1210 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1211 See 'Access:' for more info.
1212 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1215 * Instantaneous pausing
1216 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1217 * Finer speed control
1218 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1219 * Timeshift for most medias
1220 * RTSP trickplay support
1221 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1224 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1225 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1226 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1227 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1228 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1229 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1230 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1231 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1232 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1233 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1236 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1237 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1238 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1239 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1240 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1241 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1242 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1245 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1246 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1249 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1250 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1251 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1252 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1253 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1254 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1255 * DVB scanning on linux
1256 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1257 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1258 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1259 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1260 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1261 * MTP device access on Unix
1262 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1263 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1266 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1267 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1268 Windows and Mac OS X.
1271 * Export the playlist in HTML
1272 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1273 * Better metadata handling and reading
1275 Linux/Windows interface:
1276 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1277 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1278 * Recently played items list
1279 * Interface toolbar customizations
1280 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1281 - More menus actions
1282 - Finer speed slider
1283 - Improvements on many dialogs
1284 - New dialog for plugins listing
1285 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1286 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1287 * Better integration in GTK environments
1290 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1291 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1292 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1293 * Additional usability improvements
1296 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1297 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1298 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1299 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1300 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1303 * New Maemo port with:
1304 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1305 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1308 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1311 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1312 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1313 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1314 * Support for latest iSight models
1317 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1318 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1321 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1322 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1323 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1324 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1325 The old image video output has been removed.
1326 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1327 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1330 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1338 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1339 --------------------------------------
1345 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1346 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1347 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1348 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1349 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1350 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1351 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1353 Various fixes to the following modules:
1356 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1357 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1358 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1360 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1365 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1366 ---------------------------------
1369 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1370 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1373 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1374 ---------------------------------
1377 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1380 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1383 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1384 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1385 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1386 main controller window.
1387 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1390 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1395 * Updates of other localizations
1398 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1399 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1400 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1401 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1402 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1405 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1406 ---------------------------------
1409 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1411 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1414 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1415 --------------------------------
1420 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1421 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1424 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1425 --------------------------------
1427 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1428 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1431 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1434 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1435 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1438 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1439 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1442 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1443 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1444 * Various fixed in playlist
1447 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1450 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1453 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1454 ------------------------------------
1456 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1457 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1460 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1461 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1462 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1465 * Stability fix for the video output.
1468 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1469 --------------------------------
1472 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1473 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1474 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1475 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1476 * Fixed update system bugs
1477 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1480 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1481 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1482 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1483 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1484 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1485 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1486 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1487 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1488 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1489 modern Mac OS X versions
1492 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1493 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1495 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1496 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1499 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1500 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1501 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1502 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1503 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1504 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1507 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1508 --------------------------------
1510 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1511 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1512 * Multiple bugfixes.
1515 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1516 --------------------------------
1518 * Multiple bug fixes.
1521 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1522 ---------------------------------
1526 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1527 recent to work correctly
1528 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1529 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1530 edit the ".hosts" file.
1531 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1532 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1533 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1534 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1535 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1536 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1537 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1538 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1539 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1540 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1541 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1542 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1543 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1544 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1545 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1546 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1547 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1548 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1549 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1550 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1551 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1552 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1553 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1554 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1555 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1556 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1557 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1558 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1559 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1560 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1561 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1562 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1563 and postproc modules.
1564 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1565 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1566 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1567 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1569 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1570 filter. For example:
1571 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1572 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1574 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1575 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1581 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1583 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1584 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1587 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1588 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1590 * Shoutcast TV listings
1591 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1593 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1594 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1596 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1599 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1600 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1601 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1602 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1603 * JACK audio input support
1604 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1605 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1606 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1607 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1608 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1609 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1610 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1611 (available as a separate download).
1612 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1613 * RTMP input support
1614 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1615 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1616 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1618 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1619 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1622 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1623 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1624 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1625 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1627 * APEv1/2 tags support
1628 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1629 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1631 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1632 * TiVo Series 2 support
1633 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1638 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1639 * Flash Screen Video support
1640 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1641 * DosBox Capture support
1642 * Karl Morton's Video support
1643 * limited atrac3 support
1645 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1646 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1647 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1648 * H.264 PAFF support
1649 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1650 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1651 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1652 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1653 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1656 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1657 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1658 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1659 * AQTitle subtitles support
1660 * MKV USF subtitles support
1661 * HTML-based subtitles support
1662 * MPSub subtitles support
1663 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1664 * MPL2 subtitles support
1665 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1666 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1667 * Realtext subtitle support
1668 * DKS subtitle support
1669 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1670 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1673 * Flash Screen Video support
1674 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1676 Video outputs and filters:
1677 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1678 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1679 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1680 * New puzzle video output filter
1681 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1682 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1684 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1685 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1686 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1687 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1688 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1689 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1690 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1691 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1692 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1693 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1694 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1695 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1696 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1697 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1699 Audio outputs and filters:
1700 * Replay gain support
1701 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1702 new scaletempo audio filter)
1703 * New spatializer audio filter
1704 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1707 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1708 * New RTP payload formats:
1709 * Speex voice audio codec
1710 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1711 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1712 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1713 * DCCP transport for RTP
1714 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1719 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1720 end-user suitable way.
1721 * Improved user interaction
1722 * Improved mouse gestures
1723 * Vastly improved Update checker
1724 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1726 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1727 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1729 * Improved video output features
1730 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1731 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1732 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1733 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1734 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1736 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1737 if libncursesw is available.
1738 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1739 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1740 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1742 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1743 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1744 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1745 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1746 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1747 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1748 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1749 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1752 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1753 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1754 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1757 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1758 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1759 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1760 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1761 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1762 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1765 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1766 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1776 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1777 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1778 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1781 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1782 ----------------------------------
1785 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1788 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1789 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1790 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1791 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1792 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1793 * Updated Polish translation
1796 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1797 ----------------------------------
1800 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1801 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1802 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1805 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1806 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1807 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1808 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1809 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1810 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1811 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1812 to an unexpected application termination
1813 * New Serbian translation
1814 * Updated Romanian translation
1817 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1818 ----------------------------------
1821 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1822 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1823 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1824 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1825 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1826 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1827 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1828 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1831 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1832 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1833 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1834 * Fixed AAC resampling
1835 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1836 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1839 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1840 ----------------------------------
1843 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1844 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1845 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1846 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1847 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1850 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1851 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1852 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1853 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1854 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1857 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1858 ----------------------------------
1861 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1862 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1865 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1866 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1867 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1868 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1870 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1874 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1877 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1880 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1883 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1886 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1887 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1888 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1889 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1890 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1892 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1893 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1894 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1895 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1898 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1901 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1902 ----------------------------------
1905 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1906 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1907 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1909 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1910 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1912 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1913 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1916 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1918 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1919 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1920 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1921 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1922 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1923 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1924 two different movies
1925 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1926 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1927 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1930 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1933 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1934 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1935 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1936 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1939 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1940 ----------------------------------
1942 Various bugfixes, notably:
1943 * Windows Vista compatibility
1944 * Cropping in Direct3D
1945 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1946 * RSS filter string overflow
1948 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1950 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1951 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1954 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1955 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1958 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1961 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1964 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1967 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1968 ----------------------------------
1970 Various bugfixes, notably:
1971 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1972 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1973 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1974 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1975 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1976 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1979 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1980 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1983 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1985 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1986 * Diverse usability improvements
1987 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1988 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1989 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1992 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1993 ---------------------------------
1995 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1996 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1999 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2002 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2003 --------------------------------
2006 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2009 * Support for RTSP authentication
2010 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2011 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2012 * ATSC support for DVB input
2013 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2014 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2015 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2018 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2019 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2020 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2021 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2022 * Matroska WavPack support
2023 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2024 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2025 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2028 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2029 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2030 * Improved libcaca support
2034 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2035 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2037 * Systray support in skins
2039 * Support for Apple Remote control
2040 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2041 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2042 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2043 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2045 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2048 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2049 Windows 9x/ME users:
2050 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2051 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2052 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2053 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2054 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2056 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2057 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2066 * Updates to the libvlc API
2067 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2070 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2071 --------------------------------
2074 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2075 * Support for downloading updates
2079 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2080 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2081 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2082 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2084 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2085 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2086 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2089 * Cook (Real audio) support
2091 Playlist / Services discovery:
2092 * XSPF playlist support
2094 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2097 * New JACK audio output
2100 * New video filters:
2101 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2102 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2103 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2104 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2105 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2106 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2109 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2112 * System to inform the user and request information
2113 - HTTP authentication
2117 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2118 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2119 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2122 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2123 - Improved playlist handling
2124 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2126 - Embedded Video output
2127 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2128 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2129 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2130 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2131 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2133 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2134 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2137 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2140 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2141 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2142 * Growl "Now playing" support
2145 * Ability to log to syslog
2146 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2149 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2151 * A bit more automatic testing
2154 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2155 ---------------------------------
2158 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2159 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2162 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2163 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2166 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2169 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2170 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2176 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2179 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2180 --------------------------------
2183 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2187 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2188 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2189 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2192 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2193 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2194 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2195 * GnomeVFS input module
2196 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2197 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2200 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2201 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2202 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2205 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2206 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2212 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2213 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2216 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2217 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2218 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2221 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2223 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2224 - New extended controls panel
2225 - New bookmarks window
2226 - Fixed playlist sorting
2227 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2229 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2230 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2231 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2232 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2236 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2237 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2239 - Include macro to include other files
2243 * Should now work outside IE as well
2246 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2249 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2250 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2253 The following languages were added:
2257 * Simplified Chinese
2258 The following languages were re-added:
2262 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2263 --------------------------------
2266 * Rewrite of the playlist
2268 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2269 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2270 * Preferences improvements:
2271 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2272 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2274 * Core image manipulation support
2275 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2276 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2277 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2278 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2279 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2280 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2281 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2282 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2283 * Access filter architecture
2284 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2285 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2289 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2290 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2291 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2292 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2293 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2294 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2295 * Massive Matroska improvements
2296 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2298 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2299 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2300 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2301 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2302 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2304 Decoders / Encoders:
2305 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2306 * PNG decoder/encoder
2307 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2308 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2311 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2314 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2315 * Brand new SAP module
2316 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2317 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2318 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2319 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2320 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2321 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2325 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2328 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2329 * Image file video output (png)
2330 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2331 * Improvements to wall video filter
2332 * Support for font color and opacity
2338 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2339 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2340 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2344 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2345 - Improved preferences
2346 - Improvements to the wizard
2347 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2349 - Redesigned playlist
2350 - Improved preferences
2352 - Support for multiple actions
2355 - Support for the new playlist system
2357 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2360 * Screensaver disabling fix
2361 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2362 * Support for no-decoration windows
2365 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2366 * The OpenGL video output is back
2367 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2368 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2369 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2370 is not yet available in the new module
2371 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2374 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2383 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2386 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2389 The following languages were added:
2395 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2396 --------------------------------
2399 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2400 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2403 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2404 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2405 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2408 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2411 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2414 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2417 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2418 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2419 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2423 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2425 * Support of playlist group announcement
2428 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2429 --------------------------------
2432 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2433 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2434 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2435 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2436 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2437 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2440 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2441 (Stream your desktop)
2442 * Improved DVD support:
2443 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2444 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2445 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2446 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2447 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2448 (selection of titles/chapters).
2451 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2452 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2453 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2454 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2455 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2456 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2457 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2458 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2459 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2460 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2463 * G.726 audio support
2464 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2465 * MPEG-4 text support
2466 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2467 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2468 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2472 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2473 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2474 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2475 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2476 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2477 * DVB subtitles encoder
2478 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2479 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2481 * Text track muxing for mp4
2482 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2483 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2484 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2485 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2486 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2487 * Improved ASF muxer
2489 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2490 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2491 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2494 * New audio equalizer filter
2495 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2496 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2497 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2498 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2501 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2502 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2503 with support for effects.
2504 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2505 - New filters can be streamed.
2506 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2507 - Centralized scaling and blending
2509 - "time", to display current time
2510 - "marq", to display a marquee
2513 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2514 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2515 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2516 * A few skins2 improvements
2517 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2518 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2519 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2520 * Improved CORBA control module
2523 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2524 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2525 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2528 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2529 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2530 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2533 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2534 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2535 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2536 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2537 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2540 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2543 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2544 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2547 * Server/client network synchronization module
2548 * VBrick streams fully supported
2549 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2553 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2554 --------------------------------
2557 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2558 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2559 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2560 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2563 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2564 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2565 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2566 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2567 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2568 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2569 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2572 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2573 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2574 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2575 * Improved directory access module.
2576 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2577 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2578 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2579 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2580 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2583 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2584 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2585 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2588 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2589 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2590 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2593 * Improved session announcement system.
2594 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2595 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2596 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2597 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2598 * Improved transrater.
2599 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2600 * New configuration system.
2601 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2604 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2605 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2606 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2607 * Supports scheduling.
2608 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2609 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2612 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2613 - Ability to embed video output.
2614 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2615 - Lots of improvements.
2616 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2617 - New design and set of icons.
2618 - Ability to embed video output.
2619 - Support for hotkeys.
2620 - Support for bookmarks.
2622 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2623 - Better hotkeys handling.
2626 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2627 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2628 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2629 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2632 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2633 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2634 * Improved Windows installer.
2640 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2641 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2644 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2645 ---------------------------------
2648 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2649 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2652 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2653 --------------------------------
2656 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2657 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2660 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2661 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2662 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2663 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2666 * Internal improvments
2667 * Improved import/export
2670 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2672 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2673 small and strange formats.
2675 * New MOD audio demux.
2676 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2677 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2678 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2679 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2682 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2683 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2684 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2690 * New opengl video output plugin.
2693 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2694 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2697 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2698 --------------------------------
2701 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2702 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2703 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2704 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2705 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2706 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2707 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2708 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2711 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2716 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2717 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2718 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2719 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2720 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2721 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2722 * Better Icecast support.
2723 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2724 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2727 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2728 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2729 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2730 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2731 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2732 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2733 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2736 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2737 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2738 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2739 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2740 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2741 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2742 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2743 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2744 * Preliminary RTP support.
2745 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2750 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2751 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2753 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2754 - Improvements and help in preferences
2755 - New streaming wizard
2756 - Revised Disc Open menu
2758 - Improvements of the standard pages
2759 - Support for new commands
2760 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2763 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2764 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2767 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2768 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2769 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2770 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2771 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2772 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2773 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2774 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2775 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2778 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2780 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2781 * Support for Panther.
2782 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2783 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2786 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2787 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2788 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2789 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2790 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2791 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2792 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2793 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2796 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2797 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2798 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2801 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2804 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2805 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2806 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2807 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2810 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2811 --------------------------------
2814 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2817 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2818 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2821 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2822 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2825 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2828 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2829 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2832 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2835 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2838 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2839 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2843 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2844 --------------------------------
2847 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2848 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2852 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2853 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2854 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2856 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2857 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2860 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2863 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2866 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2867 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2871 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2872 --------------------------------
2875 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2876 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2880 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2881 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2882 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2883 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2884 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2887 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2888 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2889 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2892 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2893 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2894 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2897 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2898 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2899 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2900 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2901 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2904 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2905 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2906 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2909 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2912 * Improved build system.
2913 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2914 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2915 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2916 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2919 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2920 --------------------------------
2923 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2926 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2927 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2928 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2929 * Video 4 Linux support
2930 * CD Digital Audio support
2931 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2934 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2935 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2936 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2937 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2940 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2941 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2942 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2943 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2944 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2945 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2946 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2949 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2950 * New HTTP remote control interface
2953 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2954 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2955 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2956 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2957 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2960 * New reset option for the preferences
2961 * You can set your language in the prefences
2962 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2963 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2964 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2965 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2968 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2969 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2970 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2973 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2974 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2975 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2976 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2977 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2978 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2979 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2980 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2981 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2982 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2985 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2986 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2987 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2988 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2989 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2990 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2991 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2994 * Interface localization
2995 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2996 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2997 * New full-featured Preferences window
3000 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3001 --------------------------------
3004 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3005 * support for skins at the interface level
3006 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3007 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3008 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3009 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3010 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3013 * fixed HTTP redirects
3014 * support for opening an entire directory
3015 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3016 * new video4linux access plug-in
3017 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3020 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3021 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3022 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3025 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3026 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3027 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3028 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3029 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3030 * new codec for raw I420 video
3031 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3034 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3035 (although it still misses some important features)
3036 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3039 * new HTTP output support
3040 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3041 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3044 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3047 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3050 * reorderable playlist
3051 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3052 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3053 * support for mono audio output devices
3054 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3055 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3056 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3057 * the messages window remembers more lines
3058 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3059 * http and ogg stream output options
3060 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3063 * new skinnable interface
3064 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3066 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3067 * support for FLAC audio format
3068 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3070 * network tab in the interface
3071 * "apply" handling in preferences
3074 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3075 ---------------------------------
3078 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3079 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3080 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3081 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3083 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3084 * DTS S/PDIF support
3087 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3088 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3089 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3090 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3093 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3094 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3097 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3100 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3103 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3105 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3106 * rc interface is now fully useable
3107 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3110 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3111 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3112 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3113 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3114 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3116 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3117 * support for mouse gestures
3118 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3121 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3122 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3125 * improved ID3 tag detection
3126 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3127 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3128 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3130 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3133 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3134 ---------------------------------
3137 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3138 English was set as the preferred language
3141 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3142 --------------------------------
3145 * new mouse gesture interface
3146 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3150 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3151 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3152 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3155 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3156 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3160 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3163 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3164 without the user consent
3167 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3169 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3170 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3171 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3174 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3175 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3176 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3177 * playlist enhancements
3178 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3179 * new step forward/step backward commands
3180 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3181 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3182 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3185 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3186 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3187 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3190 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3191 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3194 * native video output is working again
3195 * only commandline interface support
3196 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3199 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3200 --------------------------------
3203 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3204 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3205 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3206 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3207 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3208 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3209 and A/52 streams are supported)
3210 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3215 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3216 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3217 * VCD entry points support
3218 * VCD image file support
3221 * support for *.asf format
3222 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3223 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3224 * support for ogg encapsulation
3225 * support for raw DV format
3226 * support for *.wav format
3227 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3230 Stream discovery & playlists:
3231 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3232 * support for .m3u file format
3233 * support for .asx file format
3234 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3237 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3238 (only available with the .avi demux)
3239 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3240 * support for raw PCM data
3241 * support for Cinepak video codec
3242 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3243 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3244 * support for Xvid codec
3245 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3246 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3247 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3249 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3251 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3254 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3257 * new WxWindows interface
3258 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3259 device and the channels configuration
3260 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3261 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3262 format that VLC can play
3263 * new swedish translation
3264 * enhancements of the playlist window
3265 * new messages window to see debug info
3266 * fixed a few crashes
3269 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3270 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3271 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3272 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working