1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
9 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
12 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
13 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
14 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
15 * Support for Daala video
18 * Support for Daala video
21 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
22 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
24 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
27 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
28 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
32 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
35 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
38 * Support key accelerators
41 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
42 --------------------------------
45 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
46 notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
49 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
50 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
51 * Add extensions download from external repositories
52 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
55 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
56 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
57 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
58 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
60 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
61 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
64 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
65 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
66 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
67 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
68 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
69 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
70 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
71 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
72 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
73 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
74 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
75 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
76 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
77 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
78 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
79 * New jpeg image decoder
80 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
81 * New SVG image decoder
82 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
83 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
84 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
87 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
88 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
89 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
90 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
91 * New png image encoder using libpng
94 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
95 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
96 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
97 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
98 synchronization and tracks exclusion
99 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
100 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
101 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
102 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
103 * Support Opus in MKV
105 * Basic support for WebVTT
106 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
107 * Support HDPR TS files
108 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
109 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
110 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
111 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
112 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
113 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
114 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
115 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
116 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
117 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
118 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
119 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
122 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
123 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
124 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
125 * New Android native window provider module
126 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
127 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
128 * Add mmal based video output
131 * New Oldmovie effect filter
132 * New VHS effect filter
133 * New Freeze effect filter
134 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
135 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
136 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
139 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
140 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
141 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
142 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
143 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
144 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
147 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
148 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
150 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
153 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
154 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
155 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
156 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
157 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
158 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
159 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
160 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
161 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
163 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
164 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
165 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
168 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
169 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
172 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
173 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
176 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
177 * Add record button in Qt menus
178 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
179 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
180 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
183 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
184 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
185 * Fixes for advanced preferences
186 * Option to increase playlist font size
189 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
190 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
191 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
194 * ios video output: use ios2
195 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
196 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
199 * Update of all translations
202 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
203 --------------------------------
206 * Fix compilation on OS/2
209 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
211 Mac OS X audio output:
212 * Fix channel ordering
213 * Increase the buffersize
216 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
217 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
218 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
221 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
224 * Correctly support video-on-top
225 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
226 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
229 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
232 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
233 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
236 * Update British English
239 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
240 --------------------------------
243 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
246 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
249 * Fix DVD playback regression
250 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
251 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
254 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
255 --------------------------------
258 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
259 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
262 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
263 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
264 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
267 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
268 by updating codec libraries
269 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
270 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
271 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
274 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
275 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
276 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
277 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
280 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
281 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
284 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
285 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
286 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
287 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
288 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
291 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
292 * Fix record file names
295 * Fix minimal size possible on start
296 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
297 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
298 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
299 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
302 * Fix album art display on Windows
305 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
306 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
307 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
308 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
309 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
310 and Simplified Chinese translations
311 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
314 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
315 --------------------------------
318 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
319 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
320 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
321 audio devices on OS X
322 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
323 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
326 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
327 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
330 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
331 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
334 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
337 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
338 * Improve A-B loop control
339 * Fix album art update when changing media
342 * Add a language option in the interface
343 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
344 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
345 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
346 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
347 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
348 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
349 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
352 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
355 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
356 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
357 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
358 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
361 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
362 --------------------------------
365 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
367 * Fix some subtitles track selection
370 * VP9 support in WebM
371 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
372 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
375 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
376 * Support Speex in ogg files
377 * Fix some .mov playlists support
378 * Support Alac in mkv
379 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
380 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
383 * Fix DVB options parsing
384 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
385 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
388 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
389 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
392 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
393 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
396 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
397 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
398 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
399 * Fix play after drag'n drop
400 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
403 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
404 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
407 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
408 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
411 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
412 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
413 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
414 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
415 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
416 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
417 * Improves interface resizings
420 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
421 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
422 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
423 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
424 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
428 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
429 --------------------------------
432 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
433 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
434 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
435 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
436 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
438 3rd party libraries (contrib):
439 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
442 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
443 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
444 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
445 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
446 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
449 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
450 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
454 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
455 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
456 * Support for Ulead DV audio
457 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
458 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
459 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
460 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
461 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
462 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
463 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
464 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
465 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
466 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
469 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
470 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
471 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
474 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
475 remove support for previous OS X releases
476 * Major improvements in DASH support
477 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
478 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
479 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
480 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
481 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
482 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
483 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
484 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
485 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
486 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
487 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
490 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
491 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
492 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
493 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
494 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
495 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
496 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
497 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
498 * Support for more MJPEG streams
499 * Add support for liveleak streams
500 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
501 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
502 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
505 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
506 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
507 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
508 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
509 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
510 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
511 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
512 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
513 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
514 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
515 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
518 * New remapping channel filter
519 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
520 * New VSXu visualization plugin
521 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
522 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
523 * New gain audio filter
526 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
527 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
528 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
529 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
530 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
531 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
532 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
533 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
534 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
537 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
538 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
539 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
540 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
541 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
542 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
543 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
546 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
547 * Options support for AVIO output module
548 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
549 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
550 * Livehttp stream encryption support
551 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
552 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
555 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
558 * configurable password for the HTTP server
559 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
560 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
561 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
562 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
563 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
564 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
565 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
569 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
572 * Add support for multiple video outputs
573 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
575 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
576 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
577 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
578 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
579 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
580 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
581 VLC's internal volume level
582 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
584 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
585 selection and to manage the list of presets
586 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
587 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
588 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
589 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
590 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
591 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
592 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
593 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
594 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
595 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
597 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
598 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
599 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
600 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
601 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
602 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
603 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
604 3rd party applications
605 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
606 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
607 (system-wide settings)
608 * Add support for the Video Title option
609 * Add support for the Boss Key
610 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
611 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
614 * Partial support for Qt5.0
615 * Menus modifications and improvements
616 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
617 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
618 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
619 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
620 * EPG display fixes and improvements
621 * Add SD pixmap sources
622 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
623 * Display playlist total duration
624 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
625 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
626 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
631 * Extend sliders, offsets options
632 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
633 * Numerous fixes and improvements
634 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
637 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
638 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
639 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
640 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
641 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
642 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
643 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
644 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
645 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
646 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
649 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
650 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
651 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
652 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
653 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
654 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
656 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
657 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
658 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
659 * Broken crop video filter
661 * OSD parser and menu
662 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
663 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
664 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
665 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
669 * Update of all translations
672 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
673 --------------------------------
676 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
677 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
680 * Fix modplug security issues
683 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
684 --------------------------------
688 * Fix crash in QTsound
689 * Fix screen mouse file location
690 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
693 * Fix use after free in sgimb
694 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
697 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
700 * Fix interface crashes
701 * Fix autostart playback option
702 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
705 * update Welsh translation
706 * New Kannada translation
709 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
710 --------------------------------
713 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
714 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
718 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
721 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
724 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
727 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
731 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
734 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
737 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
738 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
739 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
742 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
743 --------------------------------
746 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
749 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
752 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
753 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
754 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
755 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
756 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
757 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
760 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
761 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
762 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
763 * 3rd party codecs updates
766 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
767 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
768 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
769 in the advanced preferences panel
770 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
771 * Fix crash within the video output code
772 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
773 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
774 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
775 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
777 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
780 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
783 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
784 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
787 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
790 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
791 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
792 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
793 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
794 Dutch, Danish, translations
795 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
798 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
799 --------------------------------
802 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
805 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
806 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
807 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
810 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
811 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
812 * Fix koreus lua parser
813 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
814 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
815 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
816 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
819 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
820 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
823 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
826 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
827 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
828 * Fix Time counter UI look
829 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
832 * Fix https streaming
835 * Fix audio and video track selection:
836 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
837 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
840 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
841 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
842 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
843 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
844 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
847 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
848 --------------------------------
851 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
852 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
853 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
854 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
855 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
856 during playback on Mac OS X
859 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
860 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
861 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
864 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
865 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
866 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
867 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
868 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
871 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
872 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
873 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
874 * Support Youtube live streams
877 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
880 * Fix media info dialog update
881 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
882 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
883 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
884 * Fix album art display at start
887 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
888 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
889 * Fix menus display and behavior
890 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
891 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
892 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
893 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
894 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
895 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
896 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
899 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
900 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
901 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
902 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
903 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
904 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
905 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
906 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
907 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
910 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
911 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
912 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
913 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
914 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
917 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
918 --------------------------------
921 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
924 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
925 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
928 * Add GateKeeper support
929 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
930 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
931 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
934 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
937 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
938 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
939 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
940 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
941 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
944 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
945 --------------------------------
948 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
949 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
950 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
951 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
952 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
953 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
954 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
955 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
956 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
957 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
958 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
962 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
963 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
964 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
965 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
966 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
967 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
968 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
969 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
970 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
971 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
972 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
973 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
976 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
977 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
979 * Fix MP3 free format support
982 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
983 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
984 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
985 * Fix for DVB channels file support
986 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
989 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
990 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
992 Audio filters and output:
993 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
994 * Fix DirectSound device selection
995 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
996 * Do not apply volume in file output
997 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
998 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1001 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1002 the persistant media library
1003 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1004 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1005 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1006 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1007 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1008 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1009 press on the Play/Pause button
1010 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1011 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1012 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1013 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1014 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1015 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1016 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1017 Synchronization panel
1018 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1019 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1020 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1021 * Fix crashes on exit
1022 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1024 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1025 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1026 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1027 automatically reset on the first launch.
1028 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1029 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1030 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1033 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1034 * Fixes for icecast SD
1037 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1038 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1039 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1040 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1041 * Fix tags and file names display
1042 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1045 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1046 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1049 * Fix display of some buttons
1050 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1051 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1054 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1055 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1056 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1059 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1060 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1061 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1062 Thai translations update
1063 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1066 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1067 --------------------------------
1070 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1071 * fix the samba module compilation
1072 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1073 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1074 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1075 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1078 * Support for MXPEG files
1079 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1080 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1083 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1084 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1085 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1088 * Fix ogm header creation
1091 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1092 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1095 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1096 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1097 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1098 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1101 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1104 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1105 * allow to hide the sidebar
1106 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1107 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1108 * noticebly faster launch time
1109 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1110 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1111 * improve track synchronization panel
1112 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1113 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1116 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1117 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1118 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1119 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1122 * fix for menus display
1123 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1124 * documentation update
1127 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1128 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1131 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1132 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1133 * Update Jamendo selections
1137 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1138 * fix a crash on VLM close
1141 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1142 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1143 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1144 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1147 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1150 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1151 ---------------------------------
1154 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1155 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1156 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1157 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1158 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1159 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1160 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1161 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1162 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1163 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1164 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1165 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1166 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1167 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1168 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1169 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1170 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1171 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1172 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1173 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1174 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1175 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1176 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1177 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1178 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1179 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1181 Important changes for packagers:
1182 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1183 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1184 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1185 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1186 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1187 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1188 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1189 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1190 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1191 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1194 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1195 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1196 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1197 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1198 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1199 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1200 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1203 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1204 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1205 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1206 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1207 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1208 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1209 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1210 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1211 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1212 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1213 * PulseAudio audio input support
1214 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1215 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1216 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1217 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1218 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1219 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1220 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1221 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1224 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1225 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1226 are notably concerned.
1227 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1228 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1229 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1230 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1231 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1232 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1233 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1234 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1235 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1236 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1237 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1238 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1239 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1240 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1241 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1244 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1245 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1246 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1247 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1248 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1249 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1250 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1251 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1252 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1253 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1254 * Improved support of tracker files
1255 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1258 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1259 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1260 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1261 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1262 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1263 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1264 and important cleanups and optimisations
1265 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1266 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1267 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1268 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1269 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1270 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1271 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1272 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1273 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1274 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1275 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1276 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1277 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1278 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1279 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1280 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1281 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1282 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1283 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1284 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1285 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1288 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1289 * New video output for iOS platform
1290 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1291 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1292 * Various vmem improvements
1293 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1294 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1295 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1296 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1297 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1298 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1300 Audio Output and Filters:
1301 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1302 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1303 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1304 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1305 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1306 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1307 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1308 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1309 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1310 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1313 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1314 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1315 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1316 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1317 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1318 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1319 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1320 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1321 * New anti-flickering filter
1322 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1323 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1324 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1325 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1326 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1327 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1328 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1331 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1332 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1333 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1334 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1335 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1336 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1337 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1338 * Major rework of VoD support
1339 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1340 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1341 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1342 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1343 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1344 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1345 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1346 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1347 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1348 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1351 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1352 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1355 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1356 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1357 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1358 list of available audio and video filters
1359 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1360 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1361 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1364 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1365 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1366 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1367 * id3tag: use taglib
1368 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1369 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1370 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1371 * removal of the noise filter
1372 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1373 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1374 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1375 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1378 * Update of translations for most languages.
1379 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1382 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1383 ----------------------------------
1386 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1387 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1390 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1391 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1394 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1395 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1396 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1399 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1402 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1403 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1406 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1409 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1410 ----------------------------------
1413 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1414 including support for OS X Lion
1415 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1416 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1419 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1422 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1423 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1424 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1427 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1430 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1431 ----------------------------------
1434 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1435 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1438 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1439 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1440 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1441 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1442 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1444 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1445 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1446 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1448 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1449 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1452 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1455 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1458 * Fix quitting on Linux
1459 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1463 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1466 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1469 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1470 ---------------------------------
1472 Windows and Mac OS X:
1473 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1476 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1477 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1480 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1483 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1486 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1488 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1489 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1491 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1492 * RTP output and XML export
1493 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1497 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1498 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1499 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1500 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1503 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1504 --------------------------------
1506 Windows and Mac OS X:
1507 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1510 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1513 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1514 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1515 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1516 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1517 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1518 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1521 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1522 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1526 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1527 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1528 * New Luganda Translation
1531 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1532 --------------------------------
1535 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1538 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1539 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1540 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1541 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1544 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1546 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1547 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1548 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1549 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1550 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1551 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1552 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1553 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1555 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1556 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1557 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1558 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1559 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1560 * Configure and build system improvements
1561 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1564 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1565 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1566 * New icelandic translation
1569 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1570 --------------------------------
1573 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1574 #234484 and #260719.
1577 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1578 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1579 and stability reasons
1582 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1586 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1589 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1590 ----------------------------------
1593 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1596 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1597 ---------------------------------
1600 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1601 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1602 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1603 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1606 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1609 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1610 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1611 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1612 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1615 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1616 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1617 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1619 Subtitles and renderer:
1620 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1621 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1622 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1623 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1624 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1627 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1628 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1629 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1630 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1633 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1634 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1636 Miscellaneous fixes:
1637 * KDE device solid actions
1639 * Transcode integer overflow
1640 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1641 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1644 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1645 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1646 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1649 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1650 ----------------------------------
1653 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1657 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1660 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1663 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1664 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1665 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1666 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1669 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1673 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1676 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1679 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1680 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1682 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1686 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1687 * Miscellaneous fixes
1690 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1691 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1692 French and Ukrainian
1693 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1694 * New Asturian translation
1697 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1698 ----------------------------------
1701 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1703 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1706 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1709 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1710 * Various fixes for Windows
1713 * New Armenian translation
1714 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1715 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1718 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1719 --------------------------------
1722 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1723 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1724 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1727 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1728 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1731 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1732 --------------------------------
1734 Access and demuxers:
1735 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1736 * fix for podcasts parsing
1737 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1740 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1741 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1744 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1745 * fix m3u playlists exports
1748 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1751 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1754 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1757 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1760 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1763 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1764 --------------------------------
1767 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1768 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1771 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1772 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1775 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1776 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1777 * fix console output encoding
1779 Interface and extensions:
1780 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1781 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1784 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1785 --------------------------------
1788 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1789 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1790 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1791 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1792 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1793 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1794 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1795 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1796 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1797 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1798 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1799 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1800 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1801 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1802 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1803 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1807 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1808 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1809 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1810 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1811 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1814 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1817 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1818 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1819 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1823 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1826 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1827 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1828 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1831 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1832 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1833 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1834 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1837 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1838 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1841 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1842 --------------------------------
1844 Important changes for users:
1845 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1846 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1848 Important changes for packagers:
1849 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1850 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1851 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1852 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1853 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1855 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1857 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1858 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1859 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1860 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1861 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1864 * Support for the sftp protocol
1865 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1866 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1867 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1868 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1869 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1872 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1873 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1874 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1876 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1877 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1878 * Invmem module improvements
1879 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1880 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1881 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1882 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1883 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1884 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1885 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1886 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1887 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1888 * Support for VP8 codec
1889 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1892 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1893 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1894 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1895 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1896 * Various EGP improvements
1897 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1898 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1901 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1902 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1903 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1904 * Podcast images are now displayed
1907 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1908 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1909 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1910 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1911 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1912 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1913 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1914 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1915 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1916 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1917 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1920 * New content extensions lua framework
1923 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1924 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1925 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1926 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1927 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1928 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1929 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1932 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1933 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1934 * Service discovery based on libudev
1935 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1938 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1939 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1940 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1941 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1942 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1943 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1944 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1947 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1948 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1949 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1952 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1954 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1955 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1958 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1961 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1962 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1963 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1964 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1965 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1966 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1967 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1970 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1971 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1974 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1975 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1976 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1980 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1981 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1982 * Improved Solaris port
1985 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1986 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1989 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1990 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1991 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1992 * transrate: broken since too long
1993 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1994 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1995 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1996 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1997 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1998 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1999 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2000 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2001 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2002 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2003 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2004 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2005 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2006 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2009 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2010 --------------------------------
2013 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2015 Decoders/Packetizers:
2016 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2019 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2020 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2021 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2022 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2023 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2026 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2027 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2030 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2031 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2034 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2035 and Walloon translations updated
2036 * Sinhala translation started
2039 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2040 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2043 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2044 --------------------------------
2047 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2048 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2051 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2054 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2055 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2058 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2059 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2060 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2061 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2064 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2065 --------------------------------
2068 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2069 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2072 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2073 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2076 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2077 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2080 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2083 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2084 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2087 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2088 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2091 * New Walloon translation
2092 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2095 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2096 --------------------------------
2099 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2100 regressions in most popular drivers
2101 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2104 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2105 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2106 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2109 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2110 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2113 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2114 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2115 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2116 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2117 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2120 * New udev module for linux
2123 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2126 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2129 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2130 --------------------------------
2133 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2134 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2135 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2138 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2139 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2142 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2143 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2146 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2149 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2150 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2151 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2152 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2155 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2156 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2157 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2158 - no support for Goom and SDL
2159 - limited text rendering support
2160 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2163 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2164 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2165 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2166 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2167 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2168 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2169 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2170 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2171 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2175 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2178 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2181 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2182 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2183 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2184 Arabic and French translation updates
2187 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2188 --------------------------------
2191 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2192 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2193 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2194 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2195 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2196 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2199 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2200 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2201 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2204 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2205 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2206 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2209 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2212 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2213 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2216 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2217 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2218 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2219 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2220 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2221 * Fix various crashes
2224 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2226 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2230 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2231 ---------------------------------
2235 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2236 See 'Access:' for more info.
2237 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2240 * Instantaneous pausing
2241 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2242 * Finer speed control
2243 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2244 * Timeshift for most medias
2245 * RTSP trickplay support
2246 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2249 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2250 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2251 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2252 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2253 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2254 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2255 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2256 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2257 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2258 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2261 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2262 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2263 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2264 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2265 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2266 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2267 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2270 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2271 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2274 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2275 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2276 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2277 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2278 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2279 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2280 * DVB scanning on linux
2281 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2282 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2283 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2284 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2285 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2286 * MTP device access on Unix
2287 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2288 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2291 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2292 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2293 Windows and Mac OS X.
2296 * Export the playlist in HTML
2297 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2298 * Better metadata handling and reading
2300 Linux/Windows interface:
2301 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2302 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2303 * Recently played items list
2304 * Interface toolbar customizations
2305 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2306 - More menus actions
2307 - Finer speed slider
2308 - Improvements on many dialogs
2309 - New dialog for plugins listing
2310 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2311 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2312 * Better integration in GTK environments
2315 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2316 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2317 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2318 * Additional usability improvements
2321 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2322 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2323 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2324 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2325 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2328 * New Maemo port with:
2329 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2330 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2333 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2336 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2337 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2338 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2339 * Support for latest iSight models
2342 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2343 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2346 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2347 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2348 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2349 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2350 The old image video output has been removed.
2351 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2352 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2355 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2363 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2364 --------------------------------------
2370 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2371 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2372 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2373 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2374 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2375 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2376 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2378 Various fixes to the following modules:
2381 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2382 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2383 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2385 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2390 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2391 ---------------------------------
2394 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2395 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2398 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2399 ---------------------------------
2402 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2405 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2408 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2409 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2410 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2411 main controller window.
2412 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2415 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2420 * Updates of other localizations
2423 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2424 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2425 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2426 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2427 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2430 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2431 ---------------------------------
2434 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2436 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2439 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2440 --------------------------------
2445 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2446 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2449 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2450 --------------------------------
2452 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2453 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2456 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2459 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2460 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2463 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2464 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2467 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2468 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2469 * Various fixed in playlist
2472 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2475 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2478 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2479 ------------------------------------
2481 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2482 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2485 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2486 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2487 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2490 * Stability fix for the video output.
2493 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2494 --------------------------------
2497 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2498 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2499 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2500 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2501 * Fixed update system bugs
2502 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2505 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2506 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2507 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2508 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2509 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2510 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2511 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2512 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2513 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2514 modern Mac OS X versions
2517 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2518 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2520 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2521 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2524 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2525 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2526 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2527 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2528 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2529 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2532 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2533 --------------------------------
2535 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2536 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2537 * Multiple bugfixes.
2540 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2541 --------------------------------
2543 * Multiple bug fixes.
2546 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2547 ---------------------------------
2551 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2552 recent to work correctly
2553 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2554 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2555 edit the ".hosts" file.
2556 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2557 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2558 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2559 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2560 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2561 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2562 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2563 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2564 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2565 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2566 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2567 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2568 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2569 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2570 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2571 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2572 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2573 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2574 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2575 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2576 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2577 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2578 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2579 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2580 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2581 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2582 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2583 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2584 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2585 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2586 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2587 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2588 and postproc modules.
2589 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2590 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2591 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2592 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2594 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2595 filter. For example:
2596 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2597 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2599 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2600 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2606 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2608 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2609 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2612 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2613 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2615 * Shoutcast TV listings
2616 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2618 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2619 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2621 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2624 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2625 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2626 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2627 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2628 * JACK audio input support
2629 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2630 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2631 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2632 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2633 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2634 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2635 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2636 (available as a separate download).
2637 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2638 * RTMP input support
2639 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2640 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2641 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2643 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2644 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2647 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2648 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2649 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2650 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2652 * APEv1/2 tags support
2653 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2654 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2656 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2657 * TiVo Series 2 support
2658 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2663 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2664 * Flash Screen Video support
2665 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2666 * DosBox Capture support
2667 * Karl Morton's Video support
2668 * limited atrac3 support
2670 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2671 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2672 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2673 * H.264 PAFF support
2674 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2675 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2676 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2677 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2678 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2681 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2682 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2683 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2684 * AQTitle subtitles support
2685 * MKV USF subtitles support
2686 * HTML-based subtitles support
2687 * MPSub subtitles support
2688 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2689 * MPL2 subtitles support
2690 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2691 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2692 * Realtext subtitle support
2693 * DKS subtitle support
2694 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2695 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2698 * Flash Screen Video support
2699 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2701 Video outputs and filters:
2702 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2703 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2704 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2705 * New puzzle video output filter
2706 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2707 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2709 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2710 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2711 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2712 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2713 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2714 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2715 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2716 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2717 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2718 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2719 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2720 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2721 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2722 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2724 Audio outputs and filters:
2725 * Replay gain support
2726 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2727 new scaletempo audio filter)
2728 * New spatializer audio filter
2729 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2732 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2733 * New RTP payload formats:
2734 * Speex voice audio codec
2735 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2736 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2737 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2738 * DCCP transport for RTP
2739 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2744 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2745 end-user suitable way.
2746 * Improved user interaction
2747 * Improved mouse gestures
2748 * Vastly improved Update checker
2749 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2751 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2752 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2754 * Improved video output features
2755 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2756 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2757 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2758 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2759 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2761 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2762 if libncursesw is available.
2763 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2764 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2765 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2767 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2768 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2769 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2770 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2771 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2772 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2773 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2774 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2777 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2778 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2779 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2782 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2783 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2784 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2785 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2786 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2787 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2790 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2791 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2801 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2802 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2803 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2806 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2807 ----------------------------------
2810 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2813 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2814 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2815 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2816 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2817 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2818 * Updated Polish translation
2821 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2822 ----------------------------------
2825 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2826 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2827 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2830 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2831 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2832 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2833 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2834 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2835 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2836 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2837 to an unexpected application termination
2838 * New Serbian translation
2839 * Updated Romanian translation
2842 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2843 ----------------------------------
2846 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2847 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2848 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2849 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2850 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2851 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2852 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2853 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2856 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2857 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2858 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2859 * Fixed AAC resampling
2860 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2861 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2864 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2865 ----------------------------------
2868 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2869 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2870 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2871 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2872 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2875 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2876 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2877 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2878 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2879 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2882 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2883 ----------------------------------
2886 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2887 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2890 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2891 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2892 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2893 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2895 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2899 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2902 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2905 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2908 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2911 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2912 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2913 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2914 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2915 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2917 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2918 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2919 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2920 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2923 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2926 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2927 ----------------------------------
2930 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2931 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2932 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2934 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2935 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2937 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2938 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2941 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2943 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2944 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2945 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2946 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2947 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2948 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2949 two different movies
2950 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2951 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2952 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2955 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2958 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2959 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2960 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2961 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2964 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2965 ----------------------------------
2967 Various bugfixes, notably:
2968 * Windows Vista compatibility
2969 * Cropping in Direct3D
2970 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2971 * RSS filter string overflow
2973 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2975 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2976 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2979 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2980 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2983 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2986 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2989 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2992 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2993 ----------------------------------
2995 Various bugfixes, notably:
2996 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2997 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2998 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2999 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3000 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3001 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3004 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3005 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3008 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3010 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3011 * Diverse usability improvements
3012 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3013 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3014 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3017 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3018 ---------------------------------
3020 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3021 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3024 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3027 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3028 --------------------------------
3031 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3034 * Support for RTSP authentication
3035 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3036 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3037 * ATSC support for DVB input
3038 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3039 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3040 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3043 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3044 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3045 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3046 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3047 * Matroska WavPack support
3048 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3049 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3050 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3053 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3054 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3055 * Improved libcaca support
3059 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3060 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3062 * Systray support in skins
3064 * Support for Apple Remote control
3065 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3066 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3067 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3068 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3070 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3073 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3074 Windows 9x/ME users:
3075 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3076 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3077 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3078 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3079 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3081 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3082 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3091 * Updates to the libvlc API
3092 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3095 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3096 --------------------------------
3099 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3100 * Support for downloading updates
3104 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3105 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3106 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3107 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3109 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3110 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3111 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3114 * Cook (Real audio) support
3116 Playlist / Services discovery:
3117 * XSPF playlist support
3119 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3122 * New JACK audio output
3125 * New video filters:
3126 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3127 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3128 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3129 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3130 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3131 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3134 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3137 * System to inform the user and request information
3138 - HTTP authentication
3142 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3143 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3144 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3147 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3148 - Improved playlist handling
3149 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3151 - Embedded Video output
3152 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3153 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3154 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3155 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3156 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3158 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3159 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3162 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3165 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3166 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3167 * Growl "Now playing" support
3170 * Ability to log to syslog
3171 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3174 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3176 * A bit more automatic testing
3179 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3180 ---------------------------------
3183 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3184 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3187 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3188 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3191 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3194 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3195 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3201 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3204 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3205 --------------------------------
3208 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3212 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3213 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3214 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3217 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3218 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3219 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3220 * GnomeVFS input module
3221 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3222 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3225 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3226 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3227 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3230 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3231 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3237 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3238 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3241 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3242 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3243 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3246 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3248 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3249 - New extended controls panel
3250 - New bookmarks window
3251 - Fixed playlist sorting
3252 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3254 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3255 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3256 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3257 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3261 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3262 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3264 - Include macro to include other files
3268 * Should now work outside IE as well
3271 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3274 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3275 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3278 The following languages were added:
3282 * Simplified Chinese
3283 The following languages were re-added:
3287 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3288 --------------------------------
3291 * Rewrite of the playlist
3293 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3294 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3295 * Preferences improvements:
3296 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3297 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3299 * Core image manipulation support
3300 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3301 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3302 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3303 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3304 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3305 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3306 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3307 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3308 * Access filter architecture
3309 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3310 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3314 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3315 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3316 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3317 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3318 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3319 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3320 * Massive Matroska improvements
3321 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3323 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3324 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3325 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3326 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3327 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3329 Decoders / Encoders:
3330 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3331 * PNG decoder/encoder
3332 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3333 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3336 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3339 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3340 * Brand new SAP module
3341 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3342 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3343 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3344 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3345 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3346 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3350 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3353 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3354 * Image file video output (png)
3355 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3356 * Improvements to wall video filter
3357 * Support for font color and opacity
3363 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3364 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3365 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3369 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3370 - Improved preferences
3371 - Improvements to the wizard
3372 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3374 - Redesigned playlist
3375 - Improved preferences
3377 - Support for multiple actions
3380 - Support for the new playlist system
3382 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3385 * Screensaver disabling fix
3386 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3387 * Support for no-decoration windows
3390 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3391 * The OpenGL video output is back
3392 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3393 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3394 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3395 is not yet available in the new module
3396 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3399 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3408 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3411 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3414 The following languages were added:
3420 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3421 --------------------------------
3424 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3425 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3428 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3429 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3430 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3433 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3436 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3439 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3442 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3443 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3444 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3448 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3450 * Support of playlist group announcement
3453 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3454 --------------------------------
3457 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3458 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3459 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3460 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3461 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3462 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3465 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3466 (Stream your desktop)
3467 * Improved DVD support:
3468 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3469 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3470 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3471 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3472 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3473 (selection of titles/chapters).
3476 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3477 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3478 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3479 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3480 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3481 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3482 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3483 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3484 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3485 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3488 * G.726 audio support
3489 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3490 * MPEG-4 text support
3491 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3492 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3493 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3497 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3498 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3499 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3500 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3501 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3502 * DVB subtitles encoder
3503 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3504 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3506 * Text track muxing for mp4
3507 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3508 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3509 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3510 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3511 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3512 * Improved ASF muxer
3514 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3515 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3516 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3519 * New audio equalizer filter
3520 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3521 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3522 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3523 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3526 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3527 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3528 with support for effects.
3529 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3530 - New filters can be streamed.
3531 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3532 - Centralized scaling and blending
3534 - "time", to display current time
3535 - "marq", to display a marquee
3538 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3539 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3540 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3541 * A few skins2 improvements
3542 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3543 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3544 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3545 * Improved CORBA control module
3548 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3549 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3550 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3553 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3554 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3555 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3558 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3559 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3560 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3561 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3562 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3565 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3568 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3569 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3572 * Server/client network synchronization module
3573 * VBrick streams fully supported
3574 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3578 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3579 --------------------------------
3582 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3583 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3584 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3585 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3588 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3589 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3590 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3591 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3592 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3593 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3594 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3597 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3598 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3599 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3600 * Improved directory access module.
3601 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3602 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3603 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3604 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3605 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3608 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3609 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3610 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3613 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3614 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3615 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3618 * Improved session announcement system.
3619 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3620 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3621 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3622 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3623 * Improved transrater.
3624 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3625 * New configuration system.
3626 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3629 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3630 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3631 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3632 * Supports scheduling.
3633 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3634 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3637 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3638 - Ability to embed video output.
3639 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3640 - Lots of improvements.
3641 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3642 - New design and set of icons.
3643 - Ability to embed video output.
3644 - Support for hotkeys.
3645 - Support for bookmarks.
3647 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3648 - Better hotkeys handling.
3651 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3652 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3653 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3654 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3657 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3658 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3659 * Improved Windows installer.
3665 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3666 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3669 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3670 ---------------------------------
3673 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3674 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3677 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3678 --------------------------------
3681 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3682 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3685 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3686 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3687 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3688 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3691 * Internal improvments
3692 * Improved import/export
3695 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3697 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3698 small and strange formats.
3700 * New MOD audio demux.
3701 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3702 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3703 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3704 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3707 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3708 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3709 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3715 * New opengl video output plugin.
3718 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3719 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3722 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3723 --------------------------------
3726 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3727 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3728 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3729 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3730 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3731 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3732 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3733 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3736 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3741 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3742 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3743 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3744 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3745 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3746 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3747 * Better Icecast support.
3748 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3749 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3752 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3753 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3754 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3755 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3756 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3757 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3758 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3761 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3762 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3763 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3764 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3765 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3766 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3767 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3768 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3769 * Preliminary RTP support.
3770 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3775 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3776 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3778 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3779 - Improvements and help in preferences
3780 - New streaming wizard
3781 - Revised Disc Open menu
3783 - Improvements of the standard pages
3784 - Support for new commands
3785 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3788 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3789 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3792 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3793 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3794 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3795 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3796 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3797 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3798 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3799 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3800 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3803 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3805 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3806 * Support for Panther.
3807 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3808 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3811 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3812 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3813 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3814 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3815 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3816 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3817 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3818 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3821 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3822 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3823 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3826 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3829 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3830 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3831 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3832 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3835 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3836 --------------------------------
3839 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3842 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3843 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3846 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3847 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3850 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3853 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3854 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3857 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3860 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3863 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3864 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3868 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3869 --------------------------------
3872 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3873 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3877 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3878 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3879 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3881 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3882 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3885 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3888 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3891 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3892 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3896 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3897 --------------------------------
3900 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3901 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3905 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3906 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3907 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3908 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3909 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3912 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3913 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3914 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3917 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3918 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3919 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3922 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3923 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3924 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3925 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3926 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3929 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3930 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3931 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3934 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3937 * Improved build system.
3938 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3939 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3940 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3941 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3944 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3945 --------------------------------
3948 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3951 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3952 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3953 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3954 * Video 4 Linux support
3955 * CD Digital Audio support
3956 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3959 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3960 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3961 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3962 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3965 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3966 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3967 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3968 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3969 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3970 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3971 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3974 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3975 * New HTTP remote control interface
3978 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3979 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3980 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3981 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3982 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3985 * New reset option for the preferences
3986 * You can set your language in the prefences
3987 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3988 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3989 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3990 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3993 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3994 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3995 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3998 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3999 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4000 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4001 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4002 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4003 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4004 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4005 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4006 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4007 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4010 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4011 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4012 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4013 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4014 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4015 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4016 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4019 * Interface localization
4020 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4021 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4022 * New full-featured Preferences window
4025 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4026 --------------------------------
4029 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4030 * support for skins at the interface level
4031 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4032 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4033 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4034 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4035 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4038 * fixed HTTP redirects
4039 * support for opening an entire directory
4040 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4041 * new video4linux access plug-in
4042 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4045 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4046 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4047 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4050 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4051 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4052 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4053 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4054 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4055 * new codec for raw I420 video
4056 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4059 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4060 (although it still misses some important features)
4061 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4064 * new HTTP output support
4065 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4066 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4069 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4072 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4075 * reorderable playlist
4076 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4077 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4078 * support for mono audio output devices
4079 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4080 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4081 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4082 * the messages window remembers more lines
4083 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4084 * http and ogg stream output options
4085 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4088 * new skinnable interface
4089 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4091 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4092 * support for FLAC audio format
4093 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4095 * network tab in the interface
4096 * "apply" handling in preferences
4099 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4100 ---------------------------------
4103 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4104 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4105 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4106 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4108 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4109 * DTS S/PDIF support
4112 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4113 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4114 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4115 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4118 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4119 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4122 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4125 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4128 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4130 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4131 * rc interface is now fully useable
4132 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4135 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4136 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4137 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4138 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4139 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4141 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4142 * support for mouse gestures
4143 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4146 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4147 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4150 * improved ID3 tag detection
4151 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4152 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4153 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4155 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4158 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4159 ---------------------------------
4162 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4163 English was set as the preferred language
4166 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4167 --------------------------------
4170 * new mouse gesture interface
4171 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4175 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4176 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4177 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4180 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4181 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4185 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4188 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4189 without the user consent
4192 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4194 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4195 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4196 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4199 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4200 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4201 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4202 * playlist enhancements
4203 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4204 * new step forward/step backward commands
4205 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4206 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4207 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4210 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4211 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4212 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4215 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4216 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4219 * native video output is working again
4220 * only commandline interface support
4221 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4224 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4225 --------------------------------
4228 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4229 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4230 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4231 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4232 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4233 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4234 and A/52 streams are supported)
4235 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4240 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4241 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4242 * VCD entry points support
4243 * VCD image file support
4246 * support for *.asf format
4247 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4248 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4249 * support for ogg encapsulation
4250 * support for raw DV format
4251 * support for *.wav format
4252 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4255 Stream discovery & playlists:
4256 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4257 * support for .m3u file format
4258 * support for .asx file format
4259 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4262 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4263 (only available with the .avi demux)
4264 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4265 * support for raw PCM data
4266 * support for Cinepak video codec
4267 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4268 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4269 * support for Xvid codec
4270 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4271 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4272 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4274 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4276 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4279 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4282 * new WxWindows interface
4283 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4284 device and the channels configuration
4285 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4286 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4287 format that VLC can play
4288 * new swedish translation
4289 * enhancements of the playlist window
4290 * new messages window to see debug info
4291 * fixed a few crashes
4294 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4295 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4296 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4297 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working