1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
15 * Digital Cinema Package support
18 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
19 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
20 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
21 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
22 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
23 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
24 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
25 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
26 * New jpeg image decoder
29 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
30 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
31 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
34 * New CAF format module
35 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
36 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
37 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
38 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
40 * Basic support for WebVTT
41 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
42 * Support HDPR TS files
43 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
44 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
47 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
48 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
51 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
52 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
53 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
54 * New Android native window provider module
57 * New Oldmovie effect filter
58 * New VHS effect filter
59 * New Freeze effect filter
60 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
61 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
64 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
67 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
68 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
69 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
70 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
71 * GSM, VP8, Opus RTP packetization
72 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
75 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
78 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
81 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
84 * ios video output: use ios2
85 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
88 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
89 --------------------------------
92 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
94 * Fix some subtitles track selection
98 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
99 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
102 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
103 * Support Speex in ogg files
104 * Fix some .mov playlists support
105 * Support Alac in mkv
106 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
107 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
110 * Fix DVB options parsing
111 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
112 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
115 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
116 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
119 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
120 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
123 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
124 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
125 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
126 * Fix play after drag'n drop
127 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
130 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
131 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
134 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
135 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
138 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
139 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
140 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
141 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
142 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
143 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
144 * Improves interface resizings
147 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
148 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
149 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
150 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
151 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
155 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
156 --------------------------------
159 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
160 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
161 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
162 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
163 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
165 3rd party libraries (contrib):
166 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
169 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
170 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
171 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
172 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
173 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
176 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
177 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
181 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
182 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
183 * Support for Ulead DV audio
184 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
185 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
186 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
187 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
188 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
189 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
190 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
191 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
192 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
193 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
196 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
197 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
198 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
201 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
202 remove support for previous OS X releases
203 * Major improvements in DASH support
204 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
205 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
206 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
207 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
208 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
209 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
210 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
211 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
212 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
213 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
214 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
217 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
218 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
219 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
220 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
221 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
222 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
223 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
224 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
225 * Support for more MJPEG streams
226 * Add support for liveleak streams
227 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
228 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
229 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
232 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
233 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
234 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
235 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
236 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
237 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
238 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
239 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
240 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
241 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
242 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
245 * New remapping channel filter
246 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
247 * New VSXu visualization plugin
248 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
249 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
250 * New gain audio filter
253 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
254 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
255 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
256 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
257 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
258 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
259 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
260 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
261 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
264 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
265 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
266 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
267 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
268 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
269 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
270 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
273 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
274 * Options support for AVIO output module
275 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
276 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
277 * Livehttp stream encryption support
278 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
279 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
282 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
285 * configurable password for the HTTP server
286 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
287 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
288 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
289 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
290 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
291 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
292 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
296 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
299 * Add support for multiple video outputs
300 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
302 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
303 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
304 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
305 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
306 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
307 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
308 VLC's internal volume level
309 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
311 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
312 selection and to manage the list of presets
313 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
314 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
315 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
316 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
317 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
318 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
319 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
320 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
321 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
322 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
324 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
325 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
326 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
327 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
328 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
329 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
330 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
331 3rd party applications
332 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
333 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
334 (system-wide settings)
335 * Add support for the Video Title option
336 * Add support for the Boss Key
337 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
338 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
341 * Partial support for Qt5.0
342 * Menus modifications and improvements
343 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
344 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
345 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
346 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
347 * EPG display fixes and improvements
348 * Add SD pixmap sources
349 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
350 * Display playlist total duration
351 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
352 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
353 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
358 * Extend sliders, offsets options
359 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
360 * Numerous fixes and improvements
361 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
364 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
365 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
366 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
367 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
368 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
369 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
370 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
371 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
372 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
373 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
376 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
377 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
378 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
379 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
380 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
381 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
383 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
384 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
385 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
386 * Broken crop video filter
388 * OSD parser and menu
389 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
390 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
391 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
392 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
396 * Update of all translations
399 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
400 --------------------------------
403 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
404 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
407 * Fix modplug security issues
410 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
411 --------------------------------
415 * Fix crash in QTsound
416 * Fix screen mouse file location
417 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
420 * Fix use after free in sgimb
421 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
424 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
427 * Fix interface crashes
428 * Fix autostart playback option
429 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
432 * update Welsh translation
433 * New Kannada translation
436 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
437 --------------------------------
440 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
441 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
445 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
448 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
451 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
454 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
458 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
461 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
464 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
465 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
466 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
469 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
470 --------------------------------
473 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
476 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
479 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
480 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
481 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
482 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
483 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
484 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
487 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
488 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
489 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
490 * 3rd party codecs updates
493 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
494 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
495 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
496 in the advanced preferences panel
497 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
498 * Fix crash within the video output code
499 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
500 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
501 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
502 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
504 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
507 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
510 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
511 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
514 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
517 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
518 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
519 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
520 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
521 Dutch, Danish, translations
522 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
525 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
526 --------------------------------
529 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
532 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
533 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
534 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
537 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
538 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
539 * Fix koreus lua parser
540 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
541 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
542 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
543 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
546 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
547 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
550 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
553 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
554 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
555 * Fix Time counter UI look
556 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
559 * Fix https streaming
562 * Fix audio and video track selection:
563 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
564 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
567 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
568 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
569 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
570 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
571 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
574 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
575 --------------------------------
578 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
579 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
580 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
581 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
582 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
583 during playback on Mac OS X
586 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
587 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
588 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
591 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
592 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
593 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
594 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
595 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
598 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
599 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
600 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
601 * Support Youtube live streams
604 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
607 * Fix media info dialog update
608 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
609 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
610 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
611 * Fix album art display at start
614 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
615 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
616 * Fix menus display and behavior
617 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
618 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
619 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
620 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
621 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
622 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
623 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
626 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
627 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
628 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
629 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
630 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
631 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
632 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
633 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
634 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
637 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
638 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
639 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
640 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
641 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
644 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
645 --------------------------------
648 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
651 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
652 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
655 * Add GateKeeper support
656 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
657 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
658 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
661 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
664 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
665 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
666 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
667 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
668 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
671 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
672 --------------------------------
675 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
676 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
677 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
678 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
679 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
680 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
681 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
682 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
683 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
684 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
685 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
689 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
690 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
691 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
692 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
693 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
694 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
695 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
696 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
697 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
698 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
699 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
700 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
703 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
704 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
706 * Fix MP3 free format support
709 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
710 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
711 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
712 * Fix for DVB channels file support
713 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
716 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
717 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
719 Audio filters and output:
720 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
721 * Fix DirectSound device selection
722 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
723 * Do not apply volume in file output
724 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
725 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
728 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
729 the persistant media library
730 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
731 to the media library or the temporary playlist
732 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
733 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
734 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
735 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
736 press on the Play/Pause button
737 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
738 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
739 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
740 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
741 * Many Fullscreen fixes
742 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
743 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
744 Synchronization panel
745 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
746 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
747 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
748 * Fix crashes on exit
749 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
751 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
752 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
753 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
754 automatically reset on the first launch.
755 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
756 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
757 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
760 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
761 * Fixes for icecast SD
764 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
765 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
766 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
767 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
768 * Fix tags and file names display
769 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
772 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
773 * Fix for key events and focus loss
776 * Fix display of some buttons
777 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
778 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
781 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
782 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
783 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
786 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
787 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
788 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
789 Thai translations update
790 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
793 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
794 --------------------------------
797 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
798 * fix the samba module compilation
799 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
800 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
801 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
802 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
805 * Support for MXPEG files
806 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
807 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
810 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
811 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
812 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
815 * Fix ogm header creation
818 * limit spatializer filter distortions
819 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
822 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
823 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
824 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
825 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
828 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
831 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
832 * allow to hide the sidebar
833 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
834 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
835 * noticebly faster launch time
836 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
837 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
838 * improve track synchronization panel
839 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
840 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
843 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
844 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
845 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
846 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
849 * fix for menus display
850 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
851 * documentation update
854 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
855 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
858 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
859 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
860 * Update Jamendo selections
864 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
865 * fix a crash on VLM close
868 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
869 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
870 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
871 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
874 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
877 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
878 ---------------------------------
881 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
882 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
883 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
884 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
885 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
886 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
887 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
888 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
889 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
890 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
891 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
892 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
893 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
894 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
895 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
896 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
897 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
898 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
899 --http-crl (optional CRL).
900 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
901 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
902 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
903 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
904 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
905 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
906 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
908 Important changes for packagers:
909 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
910 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
911 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
912 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
913 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
914 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
915 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
916 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
917 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
918 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
921 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
922 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
923 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
924 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
925 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
926 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
927 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
930 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
931 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
932 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
933 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
934 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
935 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
936 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
937 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
938 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
939 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
940 * PulseAudio audio input support
941 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
942 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
943 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
944 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
945 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
946 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
947 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
948 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
951 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
952 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
953 are notably concerned.
954 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
955 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
956 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
957 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
958 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
959 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
960 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
961 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
962 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
963 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
964 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
965 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
966 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
967 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
968 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
971 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
972 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
973 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
974 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
975 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
976 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
977 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
978 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
979 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
980 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
981 * Improved support of tracker files
982 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
985 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
986 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
987 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
988 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
989 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
990 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
991 and important cleanups and optimisations
992 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
993 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
994 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
995 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
996 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
997 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
998 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
999 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1000 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1001 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1002 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1003 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1004 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1005 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1006 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1007 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1008 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1009 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1010 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1011 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1012 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1015 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1016 * New video output for iOS platform
1017 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1018 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1019 * Various vmem improvements
1020 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1021 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1022 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1023 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1024 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1025 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1027 Audio Output and Filters:
1028 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1029 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1030 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1031 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1032 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1033 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1034 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1035 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1036 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1037 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1040 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1041 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1042 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1043 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1044 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1045 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1046 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1047 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1048 * New anti-flickering filter
1049 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1050 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1051 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1052 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1053 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1054 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1055 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1058 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1059 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1060 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1061 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1062 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1063 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1064 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1065 * Major rework of VoD support
1066 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1067 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1068 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1069 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1070 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1071 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1072 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1073 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1074 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1075 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1078 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1079 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1082 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1083 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1084 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1085 list of available audio and video filters
1086 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1087 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1088 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1091 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1092 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1093 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1094 * id3tag: use taglib
1095 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1096 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1097 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1098 * removal of the noise filter
1099 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1100 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1101 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1102 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1105 * Update of translations for most languages.
1106 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1109 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1110 ----------------------------------
1113 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1114 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1117 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1118 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1121 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1122 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1123 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1126 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1129 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1130 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1133 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1136 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1137 ----------------------------------
1140 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1141 including support for OS X Lion
1142 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1143 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1146 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1149 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1150 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1151 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1154 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1157 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1158 ----------------------------------
1161 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1162 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1165 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1166 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1167 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1168 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1169 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1171 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1172 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1173 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1175 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1176 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1179 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1182 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1185 * Fix quitting on Linux
1186 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1190 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1193 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1196 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1197 ---------------------------------
1199 Windows and Mac OS X:
1200 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1203 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1204 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1207 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1210 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1213 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1215 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1216 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1218 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1219 * RTP output and XML export
1220 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1224 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1225 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1226 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1227 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1230 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1231 --------------------------------
1233 Windows and Mac OS X:
1234 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1237 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1240 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1241 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1242 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1243 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1244 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1245 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1248 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1249 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1253 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1254 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1255 * New Luganda Translation
1258 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1259 --------------------------------
1262 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1265 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1266 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1267 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1268 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1271 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1273 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1274 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1275 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1276 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1277 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1278 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1279 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1280 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1282 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1283 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1284 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1285 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1286 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1287 * Configure and build system improvements
1288 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1291 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1292 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1293 * New icelandic translation
1296 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1297 --------------------------------
1300 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1301 #234484 and #260719.
1304 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1305 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1306 and stability reasons
1309 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1313 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1316 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1317 ----------------------------------
1320 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1323 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1324 ---------------------------------
1327 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1328 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1329 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1330 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1333 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1336 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1337 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1338 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1339 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1342 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1343 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1344 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1346 Subtitles and renderer:
1347 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1348 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1349 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1350 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1351 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1354 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1355 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1356 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1357 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1360 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1361 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1363 Miscellaneous fixes:
1364 * KDE device solid actions
1366 * Transcode integer overflow
1367 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1368 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1371 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1372 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1373 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1376 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1377 ----------------------------------
1380 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1384 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1387 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1390 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1391 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1392 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1393 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1396 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1400 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1403 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1406 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1407 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1409 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1413 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1414 * Miscellaneous fixes
1417 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1418 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1419 French and Ukrainian
1420 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1421 * New Asturian translation
1424 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1425 ----------------------------------
1428 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1430 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1433 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1436 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1437 * Various fixes for Windows
1440 * New Armenian translation
1441 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1442 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1445 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1446 --------------------------------
1449 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1450 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1451 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1454 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1455 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1458 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1459 --------------------------------
1461 Access and demuxers:
1462 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1463 * fix for podcasts parsing
1464 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1467 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1468 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1471 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1472 * fix m3u playlists exports
1475 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1478 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1481 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1484 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1487 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1490 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1491 --------------------------------
1494 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1495 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1498 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1499 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1502 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1503 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1504 * fix console output encoding
1506 Interface and extensions:
1507 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1508 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1511 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1512 --------------------------------
1515 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1516 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1517 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1518 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1519 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1520 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1521 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1522 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1523 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1524 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1525 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1526 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1527 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1528 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1529 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1530 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1534 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1535 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1536 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1537 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1538 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1541 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1544 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1545 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1546 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1550 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1553 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1554 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1555 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1558 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1559 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1560 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1561 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1564 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1565 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1568 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1569 --------------------------------
1571 Important changes for users:
1572 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1573 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1575 Important changes for packagers:
1576 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1577 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1578 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1579 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1580 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1582 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1584 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1585 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1586 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1587 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1588 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1591 * Support for the sftp protocol
1592 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1593 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1594 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1595 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1596 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1599 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1600 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1601 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1603 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1604 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1605 * Invmem module improvements
1606 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1607 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1608 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1609 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1610 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1611 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1612 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1613 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1614 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1615 * Support for VP8 codec
1616 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1619 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1620 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1621 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1622 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1623 * Various EGP improvements
1624 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1625 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1628 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1629 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1630 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1631 * Podcast images are now displayed
1634 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1635 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1636 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1637 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1638 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1639 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1640 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1641 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1642 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1643 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1644 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1647 * New content extensions lua framework
1650 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1651 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1652 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1653 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1654 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1655 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1656 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1659 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1660 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1661 * Service discovery based on libudev
1662 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1665 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1666 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1667 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1668 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1669 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1670 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1671 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1674 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1675 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1676 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1679 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1681 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1682 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1685 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1688 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1689 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1690 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1691 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1692 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1693 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1694 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1697 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1698 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1701 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1702 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1703 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1707 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1708 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1709 * Improved Solaris port
1712 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1713 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1716 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1717 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1718 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1719 * transrate: broken since too long
1720 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1721 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1722 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1723 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1724 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1725 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1726 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1727 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1728 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1729 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1730 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1731 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1732 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1733 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1736 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1737 --------------------------------
1740 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1742 Decoders/Packetizers:
1743 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1746 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1747 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1748 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1749 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1750 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1753 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1754 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1757 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1758 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1761 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1762 and Walloon translations updated
1763 * Sinhala translation started
1766 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1767 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1770 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1771 --------------------------------
1774 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1775 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1778 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1781 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1782 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1785 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1786 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1787 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1788 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1791 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1792 --------------------------------
1795 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1796 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1799 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1800 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1803 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1804 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1807 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1810 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1811 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1814 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1815 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1818 * New Walloon translation
1819 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1822 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1823 --------------------------------
1826 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1827 regressions in most popular drivers
1828 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1831 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1832 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1833 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1836 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1837 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1840 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1841 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1842 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1843 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1844 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1847 * New udev module for linux
1850 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1853 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1856 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1857 --------------------------------
1860 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1861 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1862 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1865 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1866 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1869 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1870 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1873 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1876 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1877 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1878 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1879 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1882 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1883 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1884 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1885 - no support for Goom and SDL
1886 - limited text rendering support
1887 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1890 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1891 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1892 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1893 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1894 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1895 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1896 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1897 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1898 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1902 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1905 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1908 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1909 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1910 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1911 Arabic and French translation updates
1914 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1915 --------------------------------
1918 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1919 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1920 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1921 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1922 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1923 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1926 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1927 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1928 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1931 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1932 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1933 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1936 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1939 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1940 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1943 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1944 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1945 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1946 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1947 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1948 * Fix various crashes
1951 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1953 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1957 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1958 ---------------------------------
1962 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1963 See 'Access:' for more info.
1964 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1967 * Instantaneous pausing
1968 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1969 * Finer speed control
1970 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1971 * Timeshift for most medias
1972 * RTSP trickplay support
1973 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1976 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1977 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1978 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1979 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1980 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1981 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1982 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1983 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1984 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1985 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1988 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1989 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1990 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1991 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1992 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1993 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1994 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1997 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1998 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2001 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2002 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2003 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2004 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2005 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2006 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2007 * DVB scanning on linux
2008 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2009 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2010 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2011 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2012 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2013 * MTP device access on Unix
2014 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2015 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2018 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2019 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2020 Windows and Mac OS X.
2023 * Export the playlist in HTML
2024 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2025 * Better metadata handling and reading
2027 Linux/Windows interface:
2028 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2029 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2030 * Recently played items list
2031 * Interface toolbar customizations
2032 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2033 - More menus actions
2034 - Finer speed slider
2035 - Improvements on many dialogs
2036 - New dialog for plugins listing
2037 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2038 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2039 * Better integration in GTK environments
2042 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2043 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2044 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2045 * Additional usability improvements
2048 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2049 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2050 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2051 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2052 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2055 * New Maemo port with:
2056 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2057 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2060 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2063 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2064 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2065 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2066 * Support for latest iSight models
2069 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2070 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2073 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2074 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2075 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2076 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2077 The old image video output has been removed.
2078 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2079 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2082 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2090 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2091 --------------------------------------
2097 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2098 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2099 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2100 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2101 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2102 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2103 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2105 Various fixes to the following modules:
2108 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2109 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2110 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2112 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2117 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2118 ---------------------------------
2121 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2122 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2125 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2126 ---------------------------------
2129 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2132 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2135 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2136 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2137 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2138 main controller window.
2139 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2142 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2147 * Updates of other localizations
2150 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2151 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2152 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2153 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2154 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2157 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2158 ---------------------------------
2161 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2163 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2166 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2167 --------------------------------
2172 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2173 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2176 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2177 --------------------------------
2179 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2180 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2183 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2186 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2187 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2190 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2191 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2194 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2195 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2196 * Various fixed in playlist
2199 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2202 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2205 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2206 ------------------------------------
2208 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2209 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2212 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2213 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2214 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2217 * Stability fix for the video output.
2220 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2221 --------------------------------
2224 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2225 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2226 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2227 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2228 * Fixed update system bugs
2229 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2232 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2233 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2234 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2235 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2236 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2237 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2238 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2239 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2240 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2241 modern Mac OS X versions
2244 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2245 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2247 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2248 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2251 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2252 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2253 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2254 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2255 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2256 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2259 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2260 --------------------------------
2262 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2263 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2264 * Multiple bugfixes.
2267 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2268 --------------------------------
2270 * Multiple bug fixes.
2273 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2274 ---------------------------------
2278 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2279 recent to work correctly
2280 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2281 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2282 edit the ".hosts" file.
2283 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2284 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2285 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2286 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2287 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2288 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2289 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2290 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2291 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2292 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2293 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2294 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2295 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2296 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2297 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2298 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2299 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2300 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2301 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2302 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2303 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2304 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2305 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2306 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2307 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2308 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2309 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2310 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2311 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2312 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2313 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2314 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2315 and postproc modules.
2316 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2317 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2318 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2319 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2321 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2322 filter. For example:
2323 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2324 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2326 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2327 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2333 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2335 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2336 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2339 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2340 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2342 * Shoutcast TV listings
2343 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2345 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2346 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2348 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2351 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2352 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2353 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2354 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2355 * JACK audio input support
2356 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2357 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2358 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2359 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2360 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2361 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2362 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2363 (available as a separate download).
2364 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2365 * RTMP input support
2366 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2367 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2368 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2370 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2371 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2374 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2375 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2376 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2377 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2379 * APEv1/2 tags support
2380 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2381 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2383 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2384 * TiVo Series 2 support
2385 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2390 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2391 * Flash Screen Video support
2392 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2393 * DosBox Capture support
2394 * Karl Morton's Video support
2395 * limited atrac3 support
2397 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2398 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2399 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2400 * H.264 PAFF support
2401 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2402 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2403 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2404 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2405 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2408 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2409 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2410 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2411 * AQTitle subtitles support
2412 * MKV USF subtitles support
2413 * HTML-based subtitles support
2414 * MPSub subtitles support
2415 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2416 * MPL2 subtitles support
2417 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2418 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2419 * Realtext subtitle support
2420 * DKS subtitle support
2421 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2422 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2425 * Flash Screen Video support
2426 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2428 Video outputs and filters:
2429 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2430 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2431 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2432 * New puzzle video output filter
2433 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2434 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2436 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2437 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2438 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2439 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2440 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2441 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2442 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2443 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2444 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2445 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2446 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2447 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2448 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2449 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2451 Audio outputs and filters:
2452 * Replay gain support
2453 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2454 new scaletempo audio filter)
2455 * New spatializer audio filter
2456 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2459 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2460 * New RTP payload formats:
2461 * Speex voice audio codec
2462 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2463 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2464 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2465 * DCCP transport for RTP
2466 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2471 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2472 end-user suitable way.
2473 * Improved user interaction
2474 * Improved mouse gestures
2475 * Vastly improved Update checker
2476 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2478 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2479 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2481 * Improved video output features
2482 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2483 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2484 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2485 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2486 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2488 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2489 if libncursesw is available.
2490 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2491 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2492 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2494 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2495 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2496 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2497 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2498 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2499 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2500 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2501 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2504 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2505 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2506 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2509 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2510 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2511 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2512 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2513 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2514 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2517 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2518 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2528 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2529 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2530 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2533 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2534 ----------------------------------
2537 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2540 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2541 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2542 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2543 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2544 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2545 * Updated Polish translation
2548 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2549 ----------------------------------
2552 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2553 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2554 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2557 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2558 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2559 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2560 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2561 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2562 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2563 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2564 to an unexpected application termination
2565 * New Serbian translation
2566 * Updated Romanian translation
2569 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2570 ----------------------------------
2573 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2574 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2575 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2576 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2577 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2578 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2579 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2580 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2583 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2584 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2585 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2586 * Fixed AAC resampling
2587 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2588 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2591 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2592 ----------------------------------
2595 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2596 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2597 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2598 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2599 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2602 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2603 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2604 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2605 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2606 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2609 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2610 ----------------------------------
2613 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2614 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2617 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2618 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2619 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2620 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2622 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2626 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2629 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2632 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2635 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2638 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2639 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2640 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2641 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2642 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2644 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2645 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2646 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2647 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2650 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2653 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2654 ----------------------------------
2657 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2658 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2659 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2661 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2662 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2664 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2665 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2668 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2670 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2671 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2672 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2673 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2674 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2675 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2676 two different movies
2677 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2678 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2679 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2682 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2685 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2686 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2687 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2688 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2691 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2692 ----------------------------------
2694 Various bugfixes, notably:
2695 * Windows Vista compatibility
2696 * Cropping in Direct3D
2697 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2698 * RSS filter string overflow
2700 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2702 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2703 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2706 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2707 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2710 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2713 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2716 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2719 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2720 ----------------------------------
2722 Various bugfixes, notably:
2723 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2724 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2725 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2726 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2727 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2728 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2731 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2732 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2735 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2737 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2738 * Diverse usability improvements
2739 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2740 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2741 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2744 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2745 ---------------------------------
2747 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2748 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2751 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2754 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2755 --------------------------------
2758 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2761 * Support for RTSP authentication
2762 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2763 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2764 * ATSC support for DVB input
2765 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2766 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2767 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2770 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2771 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2772 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2773 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2774 * Matroska WavPack support
2775 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2776 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2777 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2780 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2781 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2782 * Improved libcaca support
2786 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2787 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2789 * Systray support in skins
2791 * Support for Apple Remote control
2792 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2793 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2794 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2795 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2797 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2800 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2801 Windows 9x/ME users:
2802 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2803 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2804 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2805 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2806 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2808 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2809 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2818 * Updates to the libvlc API
2819 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2822 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2823 --------------------------------
2826 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2827 * Support for downloading updates
2831 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2832 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2833 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2834 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2836 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2837 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2838 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2841 * Cook (Real audio) support
2843 Playlist / Services discovery:
2844 * XSPF playlist support
2846 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2849 * New JACK audio output
2852 * New video filters:
2853 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2854 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2855 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2856 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2857 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2858 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2861 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2864 * System to inform the user and request information
2865 - HTTP authentication
2869 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2870 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2871 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2874 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2875 - Improved playlist handling
2876 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2878 - Embedded Video output
2879 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2880 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2881 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2882 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2883 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2885 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2886 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2889 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2892 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2893 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2894 * Growl "Now playing" support
2897 * Ability to log to syslog
2898 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2901 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2903 * A bit more automatic testing
2906 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2907 ---------------------------------
2910 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2911 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2914 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2915 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2918 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2921 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2922 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2928 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2931 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2932 --------------------------------
2935 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2939 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2940 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2941 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2944 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2945 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2946 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2947 * GnomeVFS input module
2948 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2949 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2952 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2953 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2954 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2957 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2958 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2964 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2965 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2968 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2969 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2970 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2973 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2975 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2976 - New extended controls panel
2977 - New bookmarks window
2978 - Fixed playlist sorting
2979 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2981 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2982 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2983 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2984 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2988 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2989 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2991 - Include macro to include other files
2995 * Should now work outside IE as well
2998 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3001 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3002 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3005 The following languages were added:
3009 * Simplified Chinese
3010 The following languages were re-added:
3014 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3015 --------------------------------
3018 * Rewrite of the playlist
3020 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3021 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3022 * Preferences improvements:
3023 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3024 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3026 * Core image manipulation support
3027 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3028 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3029 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3030 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3031 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3032 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3033 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3034 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3035 * Access filter architecture
3036 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3037 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3041 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3042 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3043 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3044 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3045 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3046 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3047 * Massive Matroska improvements
3048 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3050 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3051 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3052 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3053 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3054 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3056 Decoders / Encoders:
3057 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3058 * PNG decoder/encoder
3059 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3060 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3063 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3066 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3067 * Brand new SAP module
3068 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3069 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3070 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3071 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3072 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3073 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3077 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3080 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3081 * Image file video output (png)
3082 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3083 * Improvements to wall video filter
3084 * Support for font color and opacity
3090 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3091 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3092 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3096 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3097 - Improved preferences
3098 - Improvements to the wizard
3099 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3101 - Redesigned playlist
3102 - Improved preferences
3104 - Support for multiple actions
3107 - Support for the new playlist system
3109 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3112 * Screensaver disabling fix
3113 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3114 * Support for no-decoration windows
3117 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3118 * The OpenGL video output is back
3119 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3120 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3121 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3122 is not yet available in the new module
3123 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3126 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3135 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3138 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3141 The following languages were added:
3147 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3148 --------------------------------
3151 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3152 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3155 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3156 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3157 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3160 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3163 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3166 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3169 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3170 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3171 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3175 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3177 * Support of playlist group announcement
3180 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3181 --------------------------------
3184 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3185 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3186 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3187 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3188 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3189 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3192 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3193 (Stream your desktop)
3194 * Improved DVD support:
3195 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3196 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3197 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3198 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3199 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3200 (selection of titles/chapters).
3203 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3204 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3205 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3206 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3207 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3208 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3209 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3210 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3211 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3212 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3215 * G.726 audio support
3216 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3217 * MPEG-4 text support
3218 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3219 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3220 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3224 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3225 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3226 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3227 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3228 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3229 * DVB subtitles encoder
3230 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3231 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3233 * Text track muxing for mp4
3234 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3235 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3236 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3237 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3238 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3239 * Improved ASF muxer
3241 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3242 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3243 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3246 * New audio equalizer filter
3247 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3248 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3249 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3250 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3253 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3254 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3255 with support for effects.
3256 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3257 - New filters can be streamed.
3258 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3259 - Centralized scaling and blending
3261 - "time", to display current time
3262 - "marq", to display a marquee
3265 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3266 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3267 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3268 * A few skins2 improvements
3269 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3270 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3271 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3272 * Improved CORBA control module
3275 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3276 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3277 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3280 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3281 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3282 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3285 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3286 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3287 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3288 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3289 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3292 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3295 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3296 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3299 * Server/client network synchronization module
3300 * VBrick streams fully supported
3301 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3305 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3306 --------------------------------
3309 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3310 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3311 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3312 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3315 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3316 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3317 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3318 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3319 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3320 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3321 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3324 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3325 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3326 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3327 * Improved directory access module.
3328 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3329 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3330 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3331 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3332 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3335 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3336 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3337 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3340 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3341 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3342 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3345 * Improved session announcement system.
3346 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3347 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3348 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3349 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3350 * Improved transrater.
3351 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3352 * New configuration system.
3353 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3356 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3357 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3358 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3359 * Supports scheduling.
3360 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3361 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3364 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3365 - Ability to embed video output.
3366 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3367 - Lots of improvements.
3368 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3369 - New design and set of icons.
3370 - Ability to embed video output.
3371 - Support for hotkeys.
3372 - Support for bookmarks.
3374 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3375 - Better hotkeys handling.
3378 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3379 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3380 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3381 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3384 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3385 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3386 * Improved Windows installer.
3392 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3393 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3396 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3397 ---------------------------------
3400 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3401 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3404 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3405 --------------------------------
3408 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3409 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3412 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3413 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3414 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3415 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3418 * Internal improvments
3419 * Improved import/export
3422 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3424 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3425 small and strange formats.
3427 * New MOD audio demux.
3428 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3429 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3430 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3431 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3434 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3435 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3436 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3442 * New opengl video output plugin.
3445 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3446 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3449 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3450 --------------------------------
3453 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3454 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3455 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3456 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3457 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3458 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3459 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3460 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3463 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3468 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3469 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3470 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3471 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3472 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3473 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3474 * Better Icecast support.
3475 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3476 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3479 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3480 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3481 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3482 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3483 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3484 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3485 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3488 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3489 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3490 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3491 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3492 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3493 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3494 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3495 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3496 * Preliminary RTP support.
3497 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3502 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3503 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3505 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3506 - Improvements and help in preferences
3507 - New streaming wizard
3508 - Revised Disc Open menu
3510 - Improvements of the standard pages
3511 - Support for new commands
3512 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3515 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3516 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3519 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3520 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3521 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3522 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3523 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3524 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3525 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3526 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3527 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3530 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3532 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3533 * Support for Panther.
3534 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3535 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3538 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3539 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3540 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3541 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3542 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3543 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3544 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3545 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3548 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3549 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3550 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3553 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3556 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3557 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3558 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3559 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3562 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3563 --------------------------------
3566 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3569 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3570 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3573 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3574 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3577 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3580 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3581 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3584 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3587 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3590 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3591 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3595 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3596 --------------------------------
3599 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3600 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3604 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3605 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3606 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3608 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3609 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3612 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3615 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3618 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3619 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3623 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3624 --------------------------------
3627 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3628 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3632 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3633 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3634 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3635 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3636 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3639 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3640 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3641 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3644 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3645 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3646 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3649 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3650 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3651 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3652 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3653 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3656 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3657 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3658 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3661 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3664 * Improved build system.
3665 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3666 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3667 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3668 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3671 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3672 --------------------------------
3675 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3678 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3679 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3680 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3681 * Video 4 Linux support
3682 * CD Digital Audio support
3683 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3686 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3687 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3688 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3689 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3692 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3693 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3694 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3695 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3696 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3697 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3698 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3701 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3702 * New HTTP remote control interface
3705 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3706 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3707 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3708 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3709 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3712 * New reset option for the preferences
3713 * You can set your language in the prefences
3714 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3715 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3716 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3717 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3720 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3721 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3722 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3725 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3726 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3727 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3728 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3729 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3730 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3731 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3732 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3733 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3734 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3737 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3738 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3739 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3740 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3741 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3742 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3743 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3746 * Interface localization
3747 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3748 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3749 * New full-featured Preferences window
3752 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3753 --------------------------------
3756 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3757 * support for skins at the interface level
3758 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3759 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3760 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3761 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3762 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3765 * fixed HTTP redirects
3766 * support for opening an entire directory
3767 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3768 * new video4linux access plug-in
3769 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3772 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3773 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3774 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3777 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3778 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3779 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3780 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3781 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3782 * new codec for raw I420 video
3783 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3786 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3787 (although it still misses some important features)
3788 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3791 * new HTTP output support
3792 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3793 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3796 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3799 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3802 * reorderable playlist
3803 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3804 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3805 * support for mono audio output devices
3806 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3807 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3808 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3809 * the messages window remembers more lines
3810 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3811 * http and ogg stream output options
3812 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3815 * new skinnable interface
3816 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3818 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3819 * support for FLAC audio format
3820 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3822 * network tab in the interface
3823 * "apply" handling in preferences
3826 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3827 ---------------------------------
3830 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3831 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3832 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3833 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3835 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3836 * DTS S/PDIF support
3839 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3840 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3841 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3842 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3845 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3846 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3849 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3852 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3855 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3857 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3858 * rc interface is now fully useable
3859 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3862 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3863 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3864 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3865 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3866 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3868 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3869 * support for mouse gestures
3870 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3873 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3874 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3877 * improved ID3 tag detection
3878 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3879 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3880 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3882 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3885 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3886 ---------------------------------
3889 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3890 English was set as the preferred language
3893 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3894 --------------------------------
3897 * new mouse gesture interface
3898 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3902 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3903 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3904 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3907 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3908 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3912 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3915 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3916 without the user consent
3919 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3921 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3922 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3923 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3926 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3927 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3928 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3929 * playlist enhancements
3930 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3931 * new step forward/step backward commands
3932 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3933 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3934 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3937 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3938 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3939 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3942 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3943 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3946 * native video output is working again
3947 * only commandline interface support
3948 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3951 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3952 --------------------------------
3955 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3956 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3957 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3958 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3959 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3960 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3961 and A/52 streams are supported)
3962 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3967 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3968 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3969 * VCD entry points support
3970 * VCD image file support
3973 * support for *.asf format
3974 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3975 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3976 * support for ogg encapsulation
3977 * support for raw DV format
3978 * support for *.wav format
3979 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3982 Stream discovery & playlists:
3983 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3984 * support for .m3u file format
3985 * support for .asx file format
3986 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3989 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3990 (only available with the .avi demux)
3991 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3992 * support for raw PCM data
3993 * support for Cinepak video codec
3994 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3995 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3996 * support for Xvid codec
3997 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3998 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3999 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4001 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4003 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4006 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4009 * new WxWindows interface
4010 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4011 device and the channels configuration
4012 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4013 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4014 format that VLC can play
4015 * new swedish translation
4016 * enhancements of the playlist window
4017 * new messages window to see debug info
4018 * fixed a few crashes
4021 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4022 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4023 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4024 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working