1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
18 * Partial support for Windows Store App
20 * Added audio fingerprinter support
21 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
24 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
25 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
26 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
27 * Support for Ulead DV audio
28 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
29 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
30 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
31 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
32 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
33 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
34 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
35 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
38 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
41 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
42 remove support for previous OS X releases
43 * Major improvements in DASH support
44 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
45 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
46 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
47 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
48 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
49 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
50 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
51 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
52 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
53 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
56 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
57 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
58 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
59 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
60 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
61 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
62 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
63 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
64 * Support for more MJPEG streams
65 * Add support for liveleak streams
68 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
69 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
70 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
71 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
72 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
73 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
74 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
75 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
76 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
77 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
78 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
81 * New remapping channel filter
82 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
83 * New VSXu visualization plugin
84 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
87 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
88 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
89 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
90 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
91 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
92 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
93 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
94 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
97 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
98 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
99 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
100 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
101 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
102 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
103 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
106 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
107 * Options support for AVIO output module
108 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
109 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
110 * Livehttp stream encryption support
111 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
112 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
115 * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
118 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
119 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
120 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
121 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
122 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
123 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
127 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
130 * add support for multiple video outputs
131 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
133 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
134 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
135 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
136 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
137 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
138 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
139 VLC's internal volume level
140 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
141 selection and to manage the list of presets
142 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
143 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
144 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
145 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
146 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
147 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
148 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
149 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
150 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
152 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
153 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
154 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
155 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
156 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
157 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
158 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
159 3rd party applications
160 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
161 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
162 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
166 * Partial support for Qt5.0
167 * Menus modifications and improvements
168 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
169 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
170 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
171 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
172 * EPG display fixes and improvements
173 * Add SD pixmap sources
174 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
175 * Display playlist total duration
176 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
178 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
179 * Removed language preference
180 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality. Added new profiles.
183 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
184 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
185 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
186 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
187 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
188 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
189 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
190 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
193 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
194 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
195 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
196 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
197 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
198 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
200 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
201 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
202 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
203 * Broken crop video filter
205 * OSD parser and menu
206 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
207 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
208 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
209 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
212 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
213 --------------------------------
216 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
219 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
220 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
221 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
224 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
225 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
226 * Fix koreus lua parser
227 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
228 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
229 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
230 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
233 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
234 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
237 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
240 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
241 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
242 * Fix Time counter UI look
243 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
246 * Fix https streaming
249 * Fix audio and video track selection:
250 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
251 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
254 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
255 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
256 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
257 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
258 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
261 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
262 --------------------------------
265 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
266 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
267 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
268 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
269 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
270 during playback on Mac OS X
273 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
274 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
275 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
278 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
279 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
280 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
281 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
282 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
285 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
286 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
287 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
288 * Support Youtube live streams
291 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
294 * Fix media info dialog update
295 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
296 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
297 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
298 * Fix album art display at start
301 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
302 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
303 * Fix menus display and behavior
304 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
305 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
306 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
307 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
308 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
309 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
310 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
313 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
314 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
315 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
316 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
317 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
318 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
319 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
320 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
321 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
324 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
325 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
326 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
327 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
328 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
331 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
332 --------------------------------
335 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
338 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
339 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
342 * Add GateKeeper support
343 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
344 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
345 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
348 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
351 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
352 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
353 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
354 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
355 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
358 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
359 --------------------------------
362 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
363 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
364 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
365 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
366 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
367 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
368 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
369 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
370 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
371 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
372 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
376 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
377 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
378 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
379 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
380 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
381 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
382 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
383 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
384 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
385 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
386 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
387 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
390 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
391 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
393 * Fix MP3 free format support
396 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
397 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
398 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
399 * Fix for DVB channels file support
400 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
403 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
404 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
406 Audio filters and output:
407 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
408 * Fix DirectSound device selection
409 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
410 * Do not apply volume in file output
411 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
412 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
415 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
416 the persistant media library
417 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
418 to the media library or the temporary playlist
419 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
420 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
421 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
422 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
423 press on the Play/Pause button
424 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
425 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
426 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
427 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
428 * Many Fullscreen fixes
429 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
430 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
431 Synchronization panel
432 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
433 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
434 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
435 * Fix crashes on exit
436 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
438 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
439 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
440 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
441 automatically reset on the first launch.
442 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
443 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
444 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
447 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
448 * Fixes for icecast SD
451 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
452 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
453 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
454 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
455 * Fix tags and file names display
456 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
459 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
460 * Fix for key events and focus loss
463 * Fix display of some buttons
464 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
465 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
468 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
469 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
470 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
473 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
474 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
475 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
476 Thai translations update
477 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
480 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
481 --------------------------------
484 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
485 * fix the samba module compilation
486 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
487 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
488 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
489 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
492 * Support for MXPEG files
493 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
494 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
497 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
498 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
499 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
502 * Fix ogm header creation
505 * limit spatializer filter distortions
506 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
509 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
510 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
511 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
512 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
515 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
518 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
519 * allow to hide the sidebar
520 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
521 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
522 * noticebly faster launch time
523 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
524 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
525 * improve track synchronization panel
526 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
527 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
530 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
531 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
532 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
533 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
536 * fix for menus display
537 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
538 * documentation update
541 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
542 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
545 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
546 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
547 * Update Jamendo selections
551 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
552 * fix a crash on VLM close
555 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
556 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
557 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
558 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
561 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
564 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
565 ---------------------------------
568 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
569 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
570 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
571 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
572 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
573 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
574 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
575 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
576 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
577 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
578 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
579 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
580 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
581 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
582 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
583 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
584 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
585 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
586 --http-crl (optional CRL).
587 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
588 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
589 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
590 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
591 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
592 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
593 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
595 Important changes for packagers:
596 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
597 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
598 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
599 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
600 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
601 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
602 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
603 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
604 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
605 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
608 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
609 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
610 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
611 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
612 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
613 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
614 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
617 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
618 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
619 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
620 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
621 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
622 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
623 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
624 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
625 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
626 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
627 * PulseAudio audio input support
628 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
629 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
630 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
631 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
632 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
633 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
634 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
635 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
638 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
639 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
640 are notably concerned.
641 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
642 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
643 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
644 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
645 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
646 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
647 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
648 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
649 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
650 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
651 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
652 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
653 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
654 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
655 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
658 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
659 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
660 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
661 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
662 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
663 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
664 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
665 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
666 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
667 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
668 * Improved support of tracker files
669 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
672 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
673 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
674 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
675 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
676 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
677 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
678 and important cleanups and optimisations
679 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
680 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
681 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
682 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
683 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
684 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
685 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
686 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
687 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
688 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
689 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
690 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
691 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
692 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
693 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
694 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
695 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
696 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
697 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
698 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
699 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
702 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
703 * New video output for iOS platform
704 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
705 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
706 * Various vmem improvements
707 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
708 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
709 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
710 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
711 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
712 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
714 Audio Output and Filters:
715 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
716 * New audio output in memory (amem)
717 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
718 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
719 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
720 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
721 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
722 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
723 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
724 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
727 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
728 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
729 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
730 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
731 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
732 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
733 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
734 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
735 * New anti-flickering filter
736 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
737 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
738 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
739 blackbox and customizable shadow.
740 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
741 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
742 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
745 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
746 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
747 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
748 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
749 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
750 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
751 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
752 * Major rework of VoD support
753 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
754 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
755 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
756 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
757 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
758 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
759 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
760 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
761 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
762 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
765 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
766 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
769 * New capabilities for libVLC:
770 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
771 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
772 list of available audio and video filters
773 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
774 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
775 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
778 * asademux, subsass: use libass
779 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
780 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
782 * upnp: use upnp_intel
783 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
784 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
785 * removal of the noise filter
786 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
787 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
788 removed in Growl's next release, too.
789 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
792 * Update of translations for most languages.
793 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
796 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
797 ----------------------------------
800 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
801 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
804 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
805 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
808 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
809 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
810 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
813 * Camtasia decoding fix.
816 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
817 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
820 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
823 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
824 ----------------------------------
827 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
828 including support for OS X Lion
829 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
830 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
833 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
836 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
837 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
838 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
841 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
844 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
845 ----------------------------------
848 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
849 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
852 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
853 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
854 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
855 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
856 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
858 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
859 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
860 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
862 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
863 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
866 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
869 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
872 * Fix quitting on Linux
873 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
877 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
880 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
883 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
884 ---------------------------------
886 Windows and Mac OS X:
887 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
890 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
891 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
894 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
897 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
900 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
902 Miscellaneous fixes in:
903 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
905 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
906 * RTP output and XML export
907 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
911 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
912 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
913 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
914 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
917 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
918 --------------------------------
920 Windows and Mac OS X:
921 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
924 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
927 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
928 * Improve Apple Remote handling
929 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
930 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
931 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
932 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
935 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
936 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
940 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
941 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
942 * New Luganda Translation
945 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
946 --------------------------------
949 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
952 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
953 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
954 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
955 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
958 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
960 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
961 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
962 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
963 * mp4 demuxer improvements
964 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
965 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
966 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
967 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
969 Miscellaneous fixes in:
970 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
971 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
972 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
973 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
974 * Configure and build system improvements
975 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
978 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
979 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
980 * New icelandic translation
983 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
984 --------------------------------
987 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
991 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
992 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
993 and stability reasons
996 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1000 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1003 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1004 ----------------------------------
1007 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1010 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1011 ---------------------------------
1014 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1015 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1016 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1017 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1020 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1023 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1024 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1025 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1026 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1029 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1030 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1031 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1033 Subtitles and renderer:
1034 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1035 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1036 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1037 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1038 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1041 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1042 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1043 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1044 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1047 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1048 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1050 Miscellaneous fixes:
1051 * KDE device solid actions
1053 * Transcode integer overflow
1054 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1055 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1058 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1059 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1060 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1063 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1064 ----------------------------------
1067 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1071 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1074 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1077 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1078 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1079 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1080 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1083 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1087 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1090 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1093 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1094 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1096 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1100 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1101 * Miscellaneous fixes
1104 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1105 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1106 French and Ukrainian
1107 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1108 * New Asturian translation
1111 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1112 ----------------------------------
1115 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1117 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1120 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1123 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1124 * Various fixes for Windows
1127 * New Armenian translation
1128 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1129 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1132 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1137 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1138 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1141 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1142 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1145 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1146 --------------------------------
1148 Access and demuxers:
1149 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1150 * fix for podcasts parsing
1151 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1154 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1155 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1158 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1159 * fix m3u playlists exports
1162 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1165 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1168 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1171 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1174 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1177 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1178 --------------------------------
1181 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1182 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1185 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1186 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1189 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1190 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1191 * fix console output encoding
1193 Interface and extensions:
1194 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1195 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1198 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1199 --------------------------------
1202 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1203 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1204 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1205 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1206 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1207 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1208 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1209 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1210 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1211 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1212 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1213 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1214 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1215 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1216 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1217 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1221 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1222 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1223 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1224 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1225 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1228 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1231 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1232 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1233 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1237 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1240 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1241 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1242 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1245 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1246 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1247 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1248 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1251 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1252 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1255 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1256 --------------------------------
1258 Important changes for users:
1259 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1260 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1262 Important changes for packagers:
1263 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1264 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1265 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1266 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1267 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1269 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1271 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1272 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1273 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1274 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1275 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1278 * Support for the sftp protocol
1279 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1280 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1281 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1282 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1283 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1286 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1287 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1288 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1290 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1291 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1292 * Invmem module improvements
1293 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1294 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1295 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1296 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1297 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1298 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1299 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1300 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1301 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1302 * Support for VP8 codec
1303 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1306 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1307 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1308 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1309 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1310 * Various EGP improvements
1311 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1312 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1315 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1316 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1317 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1318 * Podcast images are now displayed
1321 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1322 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1323 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1324 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1325 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1326 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1327 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1328 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1329 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1330 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1331 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1334 * New content extensions lua framework
1337 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1338 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1339 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1340 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1341 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1342 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1343 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1346 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1347 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1348 * Service discovery based on libudev
1349 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1352 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1353 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1354 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1355 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1356 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1357 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1358 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1361 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1362 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1363 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1366 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1368 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1369 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1372 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1375 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1376 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1377 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1378 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1379 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1380 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1381 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1384 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1385 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1388 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1389 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1390 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1394 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1395 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1396 * Improved Solaris port
1399 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1400 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1403 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1404 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1405 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1406 * transrate: broken since too long
1407 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1408 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1409 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1410 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1411 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1412 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1413 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1414 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1415 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1416 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1417 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1418 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1419 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1420 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1423 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1424 --------------------------------
1427 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1429 Decoders/Packetizers:
1430 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1433 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1434 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1435 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1436 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1437 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1440 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1441 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1444 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1445 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1448 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1449 and Walloon translations updated
1450 * Sinhala translation started
1453 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1454 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1457 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1458 --------------------------------
1461 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1462 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1465 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1468 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1469 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1472 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1473 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1474 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1475 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1478 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1479 --------------------------------
1482 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1483 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1486 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1487 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1490 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1491 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1494 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1497 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1498 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1501 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1502 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1505 * New Walloon translation
1506 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1509 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1510 --------------------------------
1513 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1514 regressions in most popular drivers
1515 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1518 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1519 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1520 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1523 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1524 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1527 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1528 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1529 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1530 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1531 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1534 * New udev module for linux
1537 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1540 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1543 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1544 --------------------------------
1547 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1548 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1549 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1552 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1553 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1556 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1557 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1560 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1563 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1564 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1565 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1566 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1569 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1570 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1571 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1572 - no support for Goom and SDL
1573 - limited text rendering support
1574 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1577 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1578 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1579 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1580 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1581 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1582 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1583 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1584 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1585 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1589 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1592 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1595 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1596 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1597 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1598 Arabic and French translation updates
1601 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1602 --------------------------------
1605 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1606 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1607 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1608 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1609 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1610 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1613 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1614 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1615 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1618 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1619 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1620 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1623 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1626 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1627 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1630 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1631 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1632 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1633 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1634 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1635 * Fix various crashes
1638 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1640 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1644 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1645 ---------------------------------
1649 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1650 See 'Access:' for more info.
1651 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1654 * Instantaneous pausing
1655 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1656 * Finer speed control
1657 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1658 * Timeshift for most medias
1659 * RTSP trickplay support
1660 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1663 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1664 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1665 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1666 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1667 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1668 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1669 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1670 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1671 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1672 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1675 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1676 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1677 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1678 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1679 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1680 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1681 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1684 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1685 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1688 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1689 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1690 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1691 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1692 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1693 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1694 * DVB scanning on linux
1695 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1696 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1697 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1698 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1699 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1700 * MTP device access on Unix
1701 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1702 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1705 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1706 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1707 Windows and Mac OS X.
1710 * Export the playlist in HTML
1711 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1712 * Better metadata handling and reading
1714 Linux/Windows interface:
1715 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1716 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1717 * Recently played items list
1718 * Interface toolbar customizations
1719 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1720 - More menus actions
1721 - Finer speed slider
1722 - Improvements on many dialogs
1723 - New dialog for plugins listing
1724 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1725 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1726 * Better integration in GTK environments
1729 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1730 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1731 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1732 * Additional usability improvements
1735 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1736 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1737 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1738 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1739 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1742 * New Maemo port with:
1743 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1744 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1747 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1750 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1751 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1752 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1753 * Support for latest iSight models
1756 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1757 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1760 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1761 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1762 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1763 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1764 The old image video output has been removed.
1765 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1766 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1769 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1777 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1778 --------------------------------------
1784 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1785 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1786 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1787 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1788 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1789 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1790 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1792 Various fixes to the following modules:
1795 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1796 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1797 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1799 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1804 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1805 ---------------------------------
1808 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1809 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1812 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1813 ---------------------------------
1816 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1819 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1822 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1823 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1824 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1825 main controller window.
1826 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1829 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1834 * Updates of other localizations
1837 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1838 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1839 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1840 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1841 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1844 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1845 ---------------------------------
1848 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1850 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1853 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1854 --------------------------------
1859 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1860 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1863 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1864 --------------------------------
1866 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1867 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1870 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1873 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1874 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1877 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1878 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1881 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1882 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1883 * Various fixed in playlist
1886 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1889 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1892 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1893 ------------------------------------
1895 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1896 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1899 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1900 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1901 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1904 * Stability fix for the video output.
1907 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1908 --------------------------------
1911 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1912 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1913 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1914 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1915 * Fixed update system bugs
1916 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1919 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1920 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1921 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1922 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1923 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1924 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1925 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1926 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1927 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1928 modern Mac OS X versions
1931 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1932 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1934 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1935 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1938 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1939 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1940 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1941 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1942 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1943 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1946 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1947 --------------------------------
1949 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1950 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1951 * Multiple bugfixes.
1954 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1955 --------------------------------
1957 * Multiple bug fixes.
1960 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1961 ---------------------------------
1965 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1966 recent to work correctly
1967 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1968 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1969 edit the ".hosts" file.
1970 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1971 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1972 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1973 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1974 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1975 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1976 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1977 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1978 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1979 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1980 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1981 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1982 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1983 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1984 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1985 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1986 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1987 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1988 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1989 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1990 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1991 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1992 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1993 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1994 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1995 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1996 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1997 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1998 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1999 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2000 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2001 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2002 and postproc modules.
2003 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2004 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2005 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2006 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2008 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2009 filter. For example:
2010 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2011 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2013 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2014 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2020 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2022 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2023 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2026 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2027 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2029 * Shoutcast TV listings
2030 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2032 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2033 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2035 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2038 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2039 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2040 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2041 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2042 * JACK audio input support
2043 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2044 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2045 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2046 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2047 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2048 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2049 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2050 (available as a separate download).
2051 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2052 * RTMP input support
2053 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2054 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2055 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2057 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2058 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2061 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2062 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2063 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2064 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2066 * APEv1/2 tags support
2067 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2068 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2070 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2071 * TiVo Series 2 support
2072 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2077 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2078 * Flash Screen Video support
2079 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2080 * DosBox Capture support
2081 * Karl Morton's Video support
2082 * limited atrac3 support
2084 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2085 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2086 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2087 * H.264 PAFF support
2088 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2089 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2090 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2091 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2092 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2095 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2096 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2097 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2098 * AQTitle subtitles support
2099 * MKV USF subtitles support
2100 * HTML-based subtitles support
2101 * MPSub subtitles support
2102 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2103 * MPL2 subtitles support
2104 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2105 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2106 * Realtext subtitle support
2107 * DKS subtitle support
2108 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2109 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2112 * Flash Screen Video support
2113 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2115 Video outputs and filters:
2116 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2117 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2118 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2119 * New puzzle video output filter
2120 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2121 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2123 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2124 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2125 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2126 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2127 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2128 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2129 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2130 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2131 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2132 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2133 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2134 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2135 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2136 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2138 Audio outputs and filters:
2139 * Replay gain support
2140 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2141 new scaletempo audio filter)
2142 * New spatializer audio filter
2143 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2146 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2147 * New RTP payload formats:
2148 * Speex voice audio codec
2149 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2150 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2151 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2152 * DCCP transport for RTP
2153 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2158 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2159 end-user suitable way.
2160 * Improved user interaction
2161 * Improved mouse gestures
2162 * Vastly improved Update checker
2163 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2165 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2166 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2168 * Improved video output features
2169 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2170 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2171 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2172 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2173 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2175 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2176 if libncursesw is available.
2177 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2178 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2179 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2181 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2182 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2183 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2184 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2185 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2186 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2187 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2188 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2191 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2192 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2193 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2196 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2197 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2198 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2199 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2200 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2201 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2204 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2205 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2215 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2216 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2217 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2220 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2221 ----------------------------------
2224 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2227 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2228 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2229 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2230 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2231 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2232 * Updated Polish translation
2235 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2236 ----------------------------------
2239 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2240 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2241 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2244 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2245 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2246 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2247 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2248 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2249 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2250 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2251 to an unexpected application termination
2252 * New Serbian translation
2253 * Updated Romanian translation
2256 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2257 ----------------------------------
2260 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2261 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2262 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2263 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2264 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2265 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2266 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2267 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2270 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2271 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2272 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2273 * Fixed AAC resampling
2274 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2275 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2278 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2279 ----------------------------------
2282 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2283 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2284 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2285 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2286 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2289 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2290 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2291 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2292 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2293 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2296 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2297 ----------------------------------
2300 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2301 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2304 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2305 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2306 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2307 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2309 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2313 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2316 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2319 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2322 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2325 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2326 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2327 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2328 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2329 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2331 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2332 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2333 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2334 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2337 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2340 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2341 ----------------------------------
2344 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2345 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2346 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2348 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2349 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2351 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2352 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2355 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2357 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2358 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2359 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2360 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2361 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2362 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2363 two different movies
2364 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2365 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2366 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2369 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2372 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2373 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2374 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2375 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2378 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2379 ----------------------------------
2381 Various bugfixes, notably:
2382 * Windows Vista compatibility
2383 * Cropping in Direct3D
2384 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2385 * RSS filter string overflow
2387 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2389 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2390 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2393 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2394 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2397 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2400 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2403 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2406 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2407 ----------------------------------
2409 Various bugfixes, notably:
2410 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2411 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2412 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2413 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2414 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2415 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2418 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2419 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2422 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2424 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2425 * Diverse usability improvements
2426 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2427 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2428 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2431 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2432 ---------------------------------
2434 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2435 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2438 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2441 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2442 --------------------------------
2445 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2448 * Support for RTSP authentication
2449 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2450 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2451 * ATSC support for DVB input
2452 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2453 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2454 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2457 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2458 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2459 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2460 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2461 * Matroska WavPack support
2462 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2463 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2464 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2467 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2468 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2469 * Improved libcaca support
2473 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2474 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2476 * Systray support in skins
2478 * Support for Apple Remote control
2479 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2480 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2481 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2482 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2484 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2487 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2488 Windows 9x/ME users:
2489 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2490 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2491 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2492 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2493 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2495 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2496 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2505 * Updates to the libvlc API
2506 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2509 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2510 --------------------------------
2513 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2514 * Support for downloading updates
2518 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2519 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2520 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2521 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2523 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2524 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2525 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2528 * Cook (Real audio) support
2530 Playlist / Services discovery:
2531 * XSPF playlist support
2533 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2536 * New JACK audio output
2539 * New video filters:
2540 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2541 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2542 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2543 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2544 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2545 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2548 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2551 * System to inform the user and request information
2552 - HTTP authentication
2556 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2557 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2558 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2561 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2562 - Improved playlist handling
2563 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2565 - Embedded Video output
2566 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2567 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2568 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2569 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2570 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2572 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2573 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2576 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2579 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2580 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2581 * Growl "Now playing" support
2584 * Ability to log to syslog
2585 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2588 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2590 * A bit more automatic testing
2593 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2594 ---------------------------------
2597 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2598 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2601 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2602 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2605 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2608 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2609 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2615 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2618 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2619 --------------------------------
2622 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2626 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2627 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2628 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2631 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2632 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2633 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2634 * GnomeVFS input module
2635 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2636 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2639 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2640 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2641 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2644 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2645 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2651 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2652 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2655 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2656 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2657 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2660 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2662 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2663 - New extended controls panel
2664 - New bookmarks window
2665 - Fixed playlist sorting
2666 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2668 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2669 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2670 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2671 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2675 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2676 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2678 - Include macro to include other files
2682 * Should now work outside IE as well
2685 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2688 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2689 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2692 The following languages were added:
2696 * Simplified Chinese
2697 The following languages were re-added:
2701 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2702 --------------------------------
2705 * Rewrite of the playlist
2707 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2708 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2709 * Preferences improvements:
2710 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2711 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2713 * Core image manipulation support
2714 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2715 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2716 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2717 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2718 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2719 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2720 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2721 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2722 * Access filter architecture
2723 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2724 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2728 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2729 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2730 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2731 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2732 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2733 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2734 * Massive Matroska improvements
2735 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2737 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2738 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2739 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2740 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2741 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2743 Decoders / Encoders:
2744 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2745 * PNG decoder/encoder
2746 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2747 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2750 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2753 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2754 * Brand new SAP module
2755 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2756 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2757 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2758 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2759 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2760 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2764 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2767 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2768 * Image file video output (png)
2769 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2770 * Improvements to wall video filter
2771 * Support for font color and opacity
2777 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2778 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2779 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2783 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2784 - Improved preferences
2785 - Improvements to the wizard
2786 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2788 - Redesigned playlist
2789 - Improved preferences
2791 - Support for multiple actions
2794 - Support for the new playlist system
2796 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2799 * Screensaver disabling fix
2800 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2801 * Support for no-decoration windows
2804 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2805 * The OpenGL video output is back
2806 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2807 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2808 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2809 is not yet available in the new module
2810 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2813 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2822 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2825 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2828 The following languages were added:
2834 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2835 --------------------------------
2838 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2839 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2842 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2843 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2844 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2847 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2850 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2853 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2856 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2857 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2858 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2862 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2864 * Support of playlist group announcement
2867 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2868 --------------------------------
2871 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2872 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2873 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2874 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2875 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2876 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2879 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2880 (Stream your desktop)
2881 * Improved DVD support:
2882 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2883 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2884 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2885 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2886 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2887 (selection of titles/chapters).
2890 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2891 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2892 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2893 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2894 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2895 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2896 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2897 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2898 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2899 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2902 * G.726 audio support
2903 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2904 * MPEG-4 text support
2905 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2906 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2907 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2911 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2912 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2913 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2914 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2915 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2916 * DVB subtitles encoder
2917 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2918 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2920 * Text track muxing for mp4
2921 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2922 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2923 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2924 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2925 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2926 * Improved ASF muxer
2928 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2929 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2930 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2933 * New audio equalizer filter
2934 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2935 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2936 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2937 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2940 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2941 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2942 with support for effects.
2943 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2944 - New filters can be streamed.
2945 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2946 - Centralized scaling and blending
2948 - "time", to display current time
2949 - "marq", to display a marquee
2952 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2953 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2954 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2955 * A few skins2 improvements
2956 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2957 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2958 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2959 * Improved CORBA control module
2962 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2963 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2964 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2967 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2968 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2969 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2972 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2973 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2974 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2975 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2976 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2979 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2982 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2983 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2986 * Server/client network synchronization module
2987 * VBrick streams fully supported
2988 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2992 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2993 --------------------------------
2996 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2997 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2998 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2999 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3002 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3003 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3004 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3005 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3006 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3007 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3008 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3011 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3012 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3013 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3014 * Improved directory access module.
3015 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3016 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3017 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3018 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3019 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3022 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3023 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3024 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3027 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3028 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3029 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3032 * Improved session announcement system.
3033 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3034 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3035 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3036 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3037 * Improved transrater.
3038 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3039 * New configuration system.
3040 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3043 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3044 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3045 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3046 * Supports scheduling.
3047 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3048 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3051 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3052 - Ability to embed video output.
3053 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3054 - Lots of improvements.
3055 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3056 - New design and set of icons.
3057 - Ability to embed video output.
3058 - Support for hotkeys.
3059 - Support for bookmarks.
3061 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3062 - Better hotkeys handling.
3065 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3066 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3067 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3068 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3071 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3072 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3073 * Improved Windows installer.
3079 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3080 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3083 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3084 ---------------------------------
3087 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3088 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3091 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3092 --------------------------------
3095 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3096 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3099 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3100 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3101 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3102 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3105 * Internal improvments
3106 * Improved import/export
3109 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3111 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3112 small and strange formats.
3114 * New MOD audio demux.
3115 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3116 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3117 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3118 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3121 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3122 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3123 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3129 * New opengl video output plugin.
3132 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3133 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3136 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3137 --------------------------------
3140 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3141 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3142 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3143 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3144 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3145 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3146 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3147 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3150 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3155 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3156 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3157 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3158 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3159 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3160 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3161 * Better Icecast support.
3162 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3163 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3166 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3167 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3168 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3169 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3170 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3171 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3172 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3175 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3176 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3177 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3178 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3179 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3180 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3181 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3182 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3183 * Preliminary RTP support.
3184 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3189 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3190 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3192 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3193 - Improvements and help in preferences
3194 - New streaming wizard
3195 - Revised Disc Open menu
3197 - Improvements of the standard pages
3198 - Support for new commands
3199 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3202 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3203 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3206 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3207 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3208 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3209 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3210 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3211 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3212 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3213 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3214 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3217 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3219 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3220 * Support for Panther.
3221 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3222 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3225 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3226 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3227 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3228 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3229 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3230 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3231 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3232 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3235 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3236 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3237 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3240 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3243 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3244 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3245 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3246 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3249 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3250 --------------------------------
3253 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3256 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3257 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3260 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3261 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3264 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3267 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3268 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3271 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3274 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3277 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3278 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3282 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3283 --------------------------------
3286 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3287 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3291 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3292 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3293 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3295 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3296 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3299 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3302 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3305 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3306 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3310 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3311 --------------------------------
3314 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3315 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3319 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3320 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3321 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3322 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3323 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3326 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3327 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3328 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3331 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3332 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3333 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3336 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3337 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3338 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3339 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3340 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3343 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3344 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3345 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3348 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3351 * Improved build system.
3352 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3353 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3354 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3355 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3358 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3359 --------------------------------
3362 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3365 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3366 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3367 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3368 * Video 4 Linux support
3369 * CD Digital Audio support
3370 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3373 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3374 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3375 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3376 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3379 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3380 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3381 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3382 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3383 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3384 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3385 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3388 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3389 * New HTTP remote control interface
3392 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3393 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3394 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3395 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3396 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3399 * New reset option for the preferences
3400 * You can set your language in the prefences
3401 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3402 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3403 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3404 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3407 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3408 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3409 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3412 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3413 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3414 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3415 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3416 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3417 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3418 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3419 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3420 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3421 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3424 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3425 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3426 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3427 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3428 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3429 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3430 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3433 * Interface localization
3434 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3435 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3436 * New full-featured Preferences window
3439 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3440 --------------------------------
3443 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3444 * support for skins at the interface level
3445 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3446 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3447 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3448 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3449 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3452 * fixed HTTP redirects
3453 * support for opening an entire directory
3454 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3455 * new video4linux access plug-in
3456 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3459 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3460 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3461 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3464 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3465 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3466 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3467 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3468 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3469 * new codec for raw I420 video
3470 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3473 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3474 (although it still misses some important features)
3475 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3478 * new HTTP output support
3479 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3480 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3483 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3486 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3489 * reorderable playlist
3490 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3491 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3492 * support for mono audio output devices
3493 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3494 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3495 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3496 * the messages window remembers more lines
3497 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3498 * http and ogg stream output options
3499 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3502 * new skinnable interface
3503 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3505 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3506 * support for FLAC audio format
3507 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3509 * network tab in the interface
3510 * "apply" handling in preferences
3513 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3514 ---------------------------------
3517 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3518 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3519 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3520 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3522 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3523 * DTS S/PDIF support
3526 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3527 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3528 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3529 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3532 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3533 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3536 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3539 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3542 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3544 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3545 * rc interface is now fully useable
3546 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3549 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3550 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3551 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3552 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3553 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3555 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3556 * support for mouse gestures
3557 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3560 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3561 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3564 * improved ID3 tag detection
3565 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3566 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3567 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3569 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3572 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3573 ---------------------------------
3576 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3577 English was set as the preferred language
3580 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3581 --------------------------------
3584 * new mouse gesture interface
3585 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3589 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3590 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3591 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3594 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3595 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3599 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3602 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3603 without the user consent
3606 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3608 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3609 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3610 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3613 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3614 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3615 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3616 * playlist enhancements
3617 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3618 * new step forward/step backward commands
3619 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3620 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3621 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3624 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3625 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3626 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3629 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3630 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3633 * native video output is working again
3634 * only commandline interface support
3635 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3638 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3639 --------------------------------
3642 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3643 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3644 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3645 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3646 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3647 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3648 and A/52 streams are supported)
3649 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3654 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3655 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3656 * VCD entry points support
3657 * VCD image file support
3660 * support for *.asf format
3661 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3662 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3663 * support for ogg encapsulation
3664 * support for raw DV format
3665 * support for *.wav format
3666 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3669 Stream discovery & playlists:
3670 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3671 * support for .m3u file format
3672 * support for .asx file format
3673 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3676 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3677 (only available with the .avi demux)
3678 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3679 * support for raw PCM data
3680 * support for Cinepak video codec
3681 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3682 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3683 * support for Xvid codec
3684 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3685 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3686 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3688 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3690 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3693 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3696 * new WxWindows interface
3697 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3698 device and the channels configuration
3699 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3700 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3701 format that VLC can play
3702 * new swedish translation
3703 * enhancements of the playlist window
3704 * new messages window to see debug info
3705 * fixed a few crashes
3708 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3709 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3710 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3711 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working