1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
43 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
46 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
49 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
52 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
53 * Wayland shell surface window provider
54 * Wayland shared memory video output
55 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
56 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
57 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
58 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
59 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
62 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
63 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
66 * Chromecast output module
67 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
70 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
73 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
74 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
78 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
81 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
82 * Port to Yosemite X.10
85 * Batch convert support
88 * Support key accelerators
91 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
92 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
93 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
94 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
95 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
96 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
97 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
98 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
99 identifier (if there is one available)
102 * Support for the SystemD Journal
103 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
104 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
105 * New Android module for logging
108 * remove langfromtelx
111 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
112 --------------------------------
115 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
116 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
119 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
120 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
121 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
122 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
125 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
126 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
127 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
128 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
130 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
131 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
132 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
135 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
136 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
137 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
138 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
139 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
140 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
141 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
142 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
143 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
144 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
145 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
146 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
147 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
148 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
149 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
150 * New jpeg image decoder
151 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
152 * New SVG image decoder
153 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
154 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
155 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
158 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
159 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
160 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
161 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
162 * New png image encoder using libpng
165 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
166 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
167 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
168 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
169 synchronization and tracks exclusion
170 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
171 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
172 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
173 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
174 * Support Opus in MKV
176 * Basic support for WebVTT
177 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
178 * Support HDPR TS files
179 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
180 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
181 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
182 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
183 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
184 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
185 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
186 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
187 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
188 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
189 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
190 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
193 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
194 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
195 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
196 * New Android native window provider module
197 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
198 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
199 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
202 * New Oldmovie effect filter
203 * New VHS effect filter
204 * New Freeze effect filter
205 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
206 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
207 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
210 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
211 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
212 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
213 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
214 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
215 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
218 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
219 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
221 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
224 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
225 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
226 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
227 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
228 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
229 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
230 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
231 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
232 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
234 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
235 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
236 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
239 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
240 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
243 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
244 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
247 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
248 * Add record button in Qt menus
249 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
250 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
251 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
254 * Support for OS X Yosemite
255 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
256 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
257 * Fixes for advanced preferences
258 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
259 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
260 * Option to increase playlist font size
261 * Improved crash log reporting
264 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
265 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
266 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
267 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
270 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
273 * iOS video output: use ios2
274 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
275 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
278 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
279 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
280 * Update of all translations:
281 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
282 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
283 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
284 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
285 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
286 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
287 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
290 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
291 --------------------------------
297 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
298 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
299 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
300 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
301 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
302 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
303 * Fix potential crash in zip access
304 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
307 * Update translations and greek encoding
310 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
311 --------------------------------
314 * Fix compilation on OS/2
317 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
319 Mac OS X audio output:
320 * Fix channel ordering
321 * Increase the buffersize
324 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
325 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
326 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
329 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
332 * Correctly support video-on-top
333 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
334 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
337 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
340 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
341 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
344 * Update British English
347 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
348 --------------------------------
351 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
354 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
357 * Fix DVD playback regression
358 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
359 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
362 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
363 --------------------------------
366 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
367 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
370 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
371 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
372 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
375 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
376 by updating codec libraries
377 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
378 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
379 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
382 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
383 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
384 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
385 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
388 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
389 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
392 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
393 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
394 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
395 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
396 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
399 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
400 * Fix record file names
403 * Fix minimal size possible on start
404 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
405 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
406 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
407 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
410 * Fix album art display on Windows
413 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
414 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
415 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
416 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
417 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
418 and Simplified Chinese translations
419 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
422 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
423 --------------------------------
426 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
427 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
428 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
429 audio devices on OS X
430 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
431 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
434 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
435 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
438 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
439 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
442 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
445 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
446 * Improve A-B loop control
447 * Fix album art update when changing media
450 * Add a language option in the interface
451 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
452 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
453 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
454 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
455 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
456 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
457 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
460 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
463 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
464 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
465 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
466 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
469 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
470 --------------------------------
473 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
475 * Fix some subtitles track selection
478 * VP9 support in WebM
479 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
480 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
483 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
484 * Support Speex in ogg files
485 * Fix some .mov playlists support
486 * Support Alac in mkv
487 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
488 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
491 * Fix DVB options parsing
492 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
493 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
496 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
497 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
500 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
501 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
504 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
505 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
506 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
507 * Fix play after drag'n drop
508 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
511 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
512 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
515 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
516 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
519 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
520 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
521 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
522 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
523 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
524 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
525 * Improves interface resizings
528 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
529 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
530 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
531 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
532 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
536 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
537 --------------------------------
540 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
541 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
542 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
543 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
544 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
546 3rd party libraries (contrib):
547 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
550 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
551 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
552 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
553 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
554 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
557 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
558 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
562 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
563 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
564 * Support for Ulead DV audio
565 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
566 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
567 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
568 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
569 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
570 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
571 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
572 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
573 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
574 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
577 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
578 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
579 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
582 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
583 remove support for previous OS X releases
584 * Major improvements in DASH support
585 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
586 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
587 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
588 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
589 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
590 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
591 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
592 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
593 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
594 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
595 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
598 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
599 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
600 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
601 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
602 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
603 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
604 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
605 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
606 * Support for more MJPEG streams
607 * Add support for liveleak streams
608 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
609 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
610 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
613 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
614 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
615 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
616 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
617 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
618 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
619 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
620 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
621 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
622 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
623 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
626 * New remapping channel filter
627 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
628 * New VSXu visualization plugin
629 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
630 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
631 * New gain audio filter
634 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
635 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
636 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
637 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
638 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
639 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
640 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
641 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
642 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
645 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
646 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
647 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
648 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
649 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
650 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
651 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
654 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
655 * Options support for AVIO output module
656 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
657 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
658 * Livehttp stream encryption support
659 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
660 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
663 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
666 * configurable password for the HTTP server
667 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
668 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
669 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
670 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
671 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
672 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
673 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
677 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
680 * Add support for multiple video outputs
681 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
683 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
684 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
685 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
686 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
687 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
688 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
689 VLC's internal volume level
690 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
692 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
693 selection and to manage the list of presets
694 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
695 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
696 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
697 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
698 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
699 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
700 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
701 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
702 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
703 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
705 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
706 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
707 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
708 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
709 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
710 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
711 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
712 3rd party applications
713 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
714 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
715 (system-wide settings)
716 * Add support for the Video Title option
717 * Add support for the Boss Key
718 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
719 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
722 * Partial support for Qt5.0
723 * Menus modifications and improvements
724 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
725 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
726 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
727 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
728 * EPG display fixes and improvements
729 * Add SD pixmap sources
730 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
731 * Display playlist total duration
732 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
733 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
734 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
739 * Extend sliders, offsets options
740 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
741 * Numerous fixes and improvements
742 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
745 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
746 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
747 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
748 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
749 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
750 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
751 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
752 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
753 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
754 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
757 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
758 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
759 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
760 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
761 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
762 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
764 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
765 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
766 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
767 * Broken crop video filter
769 * OSD parser and menu
770 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
771 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
772 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
773 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
777 * Update of all translations
780 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
781 --------------------------------
784 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
785 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
788 * Fix modplug security issues
791 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
792 --------------------------------
796 * Fix crash in QTsound
797 * Fix screen mouse file location
798 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
801 * Fix use after free in sgimb
802 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
805 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
808 * Fix interface crashes
809 * Fix autostart playback option
810 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
813 * update Welsh translation
814 * New Kannada translation
817 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
818 --------------------------------
821 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
822 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
826 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
829 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
832 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
835 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
839 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
842 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
845 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
846 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
847 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
850 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
851 --------------------------------
854 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
857 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
860 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
861 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
862 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
863 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
864 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
865 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
868 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
869 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
870 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
871 * 3rd party codecs updates
874 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
875 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
876 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
877 in the advanced preferences panel
878 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
879 * Fix crash within the video output code
880 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
881 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
882 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
883 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
885 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
888 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
891 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
892 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
895 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
898 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
899 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
900 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
901 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
902 Dutch, Danish, translations
903 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
906 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
907 --------------------------------
910 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
913 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
914 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
915 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
918 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
919 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
920 * Fix koreus lua parser
921 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
922 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
923 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
924 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
927 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
928 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
931 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
934 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
935 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
936 * Fix Time counter UI look
937 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
940 * Fix https streaming
943 * Fix audio and video track selection:
944 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
945 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
948 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
949 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
950 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
951 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
952 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
955 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
956 --------------------------------
959 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
960 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
961 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
962 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
963 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
964 during playback on Mac OS X
967 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
968 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
969 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
972 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
973 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
974 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
975 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
976 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
979 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
980 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
981 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
982 * Support Youtube live streams
985 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
988 * Fix media info dialog update
989 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
990 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
991 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
992 * Fix album art display at start
995 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
996 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
997 * Fix menus display and behavior
998 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
999 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1000 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1001 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1002 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1003 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1004 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1007 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1008 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1009 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1010 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1011 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1012 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1013 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1014 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1015 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1018 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1019 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1020 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1021 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1022 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1025 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1026 --------------------------------
1029 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1032 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1033 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1036 * Add GateKeeper support
1037 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1038 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1039 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1042 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1045 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1046 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1047 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1048 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1049 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1052 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1053 --------------------------------
1056 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1057 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1058 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1059 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1060 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1061 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1062 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1063 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1064 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1065 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1066 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1070 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1071 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1072 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1073 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1074 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1075 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1076 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1077 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1078 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1079 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1080 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1081 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1084 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1085 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1087 * Fix MP3 free format support
1090 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1091 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1092 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1093 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1094 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1097 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1098 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1100 Audio filters and output:
1101 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1102 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1103 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1104 * Do not apply volume in file output
1105 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1106 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1109 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1110 the persistant media library
1111 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1112 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1113 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1114 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1115 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1116 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1117 press on the Play/Pause button
1118 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1119 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1120 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1121 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1122 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1123 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1124 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1125 Synchronization panel
1126 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1127 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1128 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1129 * Fix crashes on exit
1130 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1132 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1133 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1134 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1135 automatically reset on the first launch.
1136 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1137 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1138 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1141 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1142 * Fixes for icecast SD
1145 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1146 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1147 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1148 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1149 * Fix tags and file names display
1150 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1153 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1154 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1157 * Fix display of some buttons
1158 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1159 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1162 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1163 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1164 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1167 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1168 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1169 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1170 Thai translations update
1171 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1174 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1175 --------------------------------
1178 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1179 * fix the samba module compilation
1180 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1181 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1182 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1183 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1186 * Support for MXPEG files
1187 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1188 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1191 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1192 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1193 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1196 * Fix ogm header creation
1199 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1200 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1203 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1204 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1205 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1206 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1209 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1212 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1213 * allow to hide the sidebar
1214 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1215 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1216 * noticebly faster launch time
1217 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1218 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1219 * improve track synchronization panel
1220 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1221 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1224 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1225 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1226 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1227 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1230 * fix for menus display
1231 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1232 * documentation update
1235 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1236 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1239 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1240 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1241 * Update Jamendo selections
1245 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1246 * fix a crash on VLM close
1249 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1250 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1251 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1252 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1255 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1258 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1259 ---------------------------------
1262 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1263 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1264 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1265 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1266 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1267 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1268 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1269 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1270 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1271 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1272 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1273 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1274 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1275 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1276 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1277 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1278 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1279 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1280 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1281 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1282 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1283 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1284 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1285 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1286 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1287 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1289 Important changes for packagers:
1290 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1291 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1292 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1293 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1294 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1295 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1296 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1297 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1298 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1299 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1302 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1303 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1304 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1305 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1306 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1307 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1308 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1311 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1312 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1313 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1314 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1315 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1316 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1317 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1318 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1319 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1320 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1321 * PulseAudio audio input support
1322 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1323 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1324 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1325 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1326 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1327 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1328 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1329 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1332 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1333 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1334 are notably concerned.
1335 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1336 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1337 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1338 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1339 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1340 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1341 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1342 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1343 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1344 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1345 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1346 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1347 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1348 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1349 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1352 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1353 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1354 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1355 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1356 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1357 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1358 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1359 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1360 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1361 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1362 * Improved support of tracker files
1363 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1366 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1367 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1368 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1369 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1370 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1371 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1372 and important cleanups and optimisations
1373 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1374 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1375 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1376 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1377 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1378 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1379 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1380 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1381 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1382 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1383 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1384 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1385 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1386 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1387 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1388 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1389 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1390 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1391 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1392 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1393 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1396 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1397 * New video output for iOS platform
1398 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1399 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1400 * Various vmem improvements
1401 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1402 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1403 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1404 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1405 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1406 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1408 Audio Output and Filters:
1409 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1410 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1411 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1412 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1413 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1414 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1415 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1416 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1417 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1418 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1421 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1422 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1423 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1424 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1425 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1426 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1427 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1428 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1429 * New anti-flickering filter
1430 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1431 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1432 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1433 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1434 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1435 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1436 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1439 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1440 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1441 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1442 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1443 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1444 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1445 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1446 * Major rework of VoD support
1447 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1448 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1449 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1450 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1451 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1452 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1453 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1454 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1455 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1456 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1459 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1460 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1463 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1464 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1465 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1466 list of available audio and video filters
1467 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1468 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1469 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1472 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1473 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1474 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1475 * id3tag: use taglib
1476 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1477 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1478 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1479 * removal of the noise filter
1480 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1481 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1482 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1483 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1486 * Update of translations for most languages.
1487 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1490 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1491 ----------------------------------
1494 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1495 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1498 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1499 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1502 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1503 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1504 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1507 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1510 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1511 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1514 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1517 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1518 ----------------------------------
1521 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1522 including support for OS X Lion
1523 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1524 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1527 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1530 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1531 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1532 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1535 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1538 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1539 ----------------------------------
1542 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1543 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1546 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1547 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1548 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1549 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1550 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1552 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1553 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1554 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1556 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1557 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1560 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1563 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1566 * Fix quitting on Linux
1567 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1571 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1574 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1577 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1578 ---------------------------------
1580 Windows and Mac OS X:
1581 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1584 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1585 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1588 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1591 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1594 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1596 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1597 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1599 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1600 * RTP output and XML export
1601 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1605 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1606 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1607 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1608 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1611 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1612 --------------------------------
1614 Windows and Mac OS X:
1615 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1618 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1621 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1622 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1623 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1624 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1625 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1626 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1629 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1630 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1634 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1635 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1636 * New Luganda Translation
1639 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1640 --------------------------------
1643 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1646 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1647 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1648 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1649 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1652 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1654 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1655 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1656 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1657 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1658 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1659 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1660 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1661 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1663 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1664 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1665 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1666 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1667 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1668 * Configure and build system improvements
1669 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1672 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1673 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1674 * New icelandic translation
1677 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1678 --------------------------------
1681 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1682 #234484 and #260719.
1685 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1686 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1687 and stability reasons
1690 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1694 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1697 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1698 ----------------------------------
1701 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1704 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1705 ---------------------------------
1708 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1709 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1710 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1711 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1714 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1717 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1718 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1719 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1720 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1723 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1724 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1725 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1727 Subtitles and renderer:
1728 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1729 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1730 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1731 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1732 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1735 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1736 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1737 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1738 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1741 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1742 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1744 Miscellaneous fixes:
1745 * KDE device solid actions
1747 * Transcode integer overflow
1748 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1749 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1752 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1753 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1754 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1757 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1758 ----------------------------------
1761 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1765 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1768 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1771 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1772 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1773 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1774 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1777 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1781 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1784 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1787 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1788 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1790 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1794 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1795 * Miscellaneous fixes
1798 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1799 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1800 French and Ukrainian
1801 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1802 * New Asturian translation
1805 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1806 ----------------------------------
1809 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1811 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1814 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1817 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1818 * Various fixes for Windows
1821 * New Armenian translation
1822 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1823 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1826 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1827 --------------------------------
1830 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1831 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1832 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1835 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1836 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1839 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1840 --------------------------------
1842 Access and demuxers:
1843 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1844 * fix for podcasts parsing
1845 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1848 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1849 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1852 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1853 * fix m3u playlists exports
1856 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1859 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1862 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1865 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1868 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1871 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1872 --------------------------------
1875 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1876 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1879 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1880 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1883 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1884 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1885 * fix console output encoding
1887 Interface and extensions:
1888 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1889 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1892 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1893 --------------------------------
1896 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1897 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1898 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1899 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1900 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1901 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1902 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1903 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1904 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1905 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1906 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1907 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1908 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1909 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1910 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1911 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1915 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1916 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1917 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1918 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1919 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1922 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1925 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1926 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1927 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1931 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1934 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1935 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1936 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1939 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1940 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1941 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1942 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1945 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1946 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1949 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1950 --------------------------------
1952 Important changes for users:
1953 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1954 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1956 Important changes for packagers:
1957 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1958 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1959 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1960 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1961 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1963 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1965 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1966 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1967 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1968 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1969 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1972 * Support for the sftp protocol
1973 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1974 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1975 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1976 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1977 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1980 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1981 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1982 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1984 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1985 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1986 * Invmem module improvements
1987 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1988 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1989 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1990 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1991 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1992 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1993 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1994 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1995 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1996 * Support for VP8 codec
1997 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2000 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2001 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2002 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2003 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2004 * Various EGP improvements
2005 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2006 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2009 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2010 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2011 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2012 * Podcast images are now displayed
2015 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2016 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2017 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2018 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2019 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2020 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2021 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2022 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2023 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2024 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2025 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2028 * New content extensions lua framework
2031 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2032 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2033 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2034 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2035 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2036 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2037 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2040 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2041 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2042 * Service discovery based on libudev
2043 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2046 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2047 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2048 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2049 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2050 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2051 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2052 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2055 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2056 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2057 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2060 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2062 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2063 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2066 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2069 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2070 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2071 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2072 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2073 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2074 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2075 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2078 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2079 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2082 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2083 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2084 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2088 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2089 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2090 * Improved Solaris port
2093 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2094 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2097 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2098 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2099 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2100 * transrate: broken since too long
2101 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2102 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2103 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2104 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2105 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2106 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2107 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2108 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2109 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2110 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2111 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2112 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2113 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2114 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2117 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2123 Decoders/Packetizers:
2124 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2127 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2128 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2129 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2130 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2131 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2134 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2135 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2138 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2139 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2142 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2143 and Walloon translations updated
2144 * Sinhala translation started
2147 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2148 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2151 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2152 --------------------------------
2155 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2156 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2159 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2162 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2163 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2166 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2167 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2168 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2169 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2172 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2173 --------------------------------
2176 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2177 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2180 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2181 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2184 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2185 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2188 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2191 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2192 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2195 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2196 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2199 * New Walloon translation
2200 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2203 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2204 --------------------------------
2207 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2208 regressions in most popular drivers
2209 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2212 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2213 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2214 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2217 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2218 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2221 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2222 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2223 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2224 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2225 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2228 * New udev module for linux
2231 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2234 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2237 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2238 --------------------------------
2241 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2242 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2243 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2246 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2247 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2250 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2251 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2254 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2257 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2258 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2259 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2260 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2263 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2264 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2265 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2266 - no support for Goom and SDL
2267 - limited text rendering support
2268 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2271 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2272 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2273 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2274 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2275 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2276 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2277 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2278 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2279 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2283 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2286 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2289 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2290 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2291 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2292 Arabic and French translation updates
2295 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2296 --------------------------------
2299 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2300 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2301 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2302 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2303 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2304 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2307 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2308 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2309 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2312 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2313 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2314 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2317 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2320 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2321 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2324 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2325 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2326 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2327 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2328 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2329 * Fix various crashes
2332 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2334 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2338 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2339 ---------------------------------
2343 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2344 See 'Access:' for more info.
2345 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2348 * Instantaneous pausing
2349 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2350 * Finer speed control
2351 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2352 * Timeshift for most medias
2353 * RTSP trickplay support
2354 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2357 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2358 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2359 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2360 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2361 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2362 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2363 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2364 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2365 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2366 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2369 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2370 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2371 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2372 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2373 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2374 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2375 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2378 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2379 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2382 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2383 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2384 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2385 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2386 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2387 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2388 * DVB scanning on linux
2389 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2390 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2391 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2392 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2393 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2394 * MTP device access on Unix
2395 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2396 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2399 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2400 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2401 Windows and Mac OS X.
2404 * Export the playlist in HTML
2405 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2406 * Better metadata handling and reading
2408 Linux/Windows interface:
2409 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2410 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2411 * Recently played items list
2412 * Interface toolbar customizations
2413 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2414 - More menus actions
2415 - Finer speed slider
2416 - Improvements on many dialogs
2417 - New dialog for plugins listing
2418 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2419 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2420 * Better integration in GTK environments
2423 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2424 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2425 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2426 * Additional usability improvements
2429 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2430 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2431 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2432 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2433 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2436 * New Maemo port with:
2437 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2438 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2441 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2444 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2445 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2446 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2447 * Support for latest iSight models
2450 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2451 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2454 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2455 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2456 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2457 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2458 The old image video output has been removed.
2459 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2460 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2463 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2471 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2472 --------------------------------------
2478 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2479 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2480 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2481 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2482 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2483 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2484 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2486 Various fixes to the following modules:
2489 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2490 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2491 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2493 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2498 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2499 ---------------------------------
2502 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2503 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2506 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2507 ---------------------------------
2510 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2513 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2516 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2517 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2518 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2519 main controller window.
2520 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2523 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2528 * Updates of other localizations
2531 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2532 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2533 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2534 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2535 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2538 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2539 ---------------------------------
2542 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2544 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2547 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2548 --------------------------------
2553 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2554 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2557 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2558 --------------------------------
2560 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2561 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2564 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2567 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2568 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2571 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2572 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2575 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2576 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2577 * Various fixed in playlist
2580 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2583 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2586 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2587 ------------------------------------
2589 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2590 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2593 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2594 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2595 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2598 * Stability fix for the video output.
2601 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2602 --------------------------------
2605 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2606 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2607 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2608 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2609 * Fixed update system bugs
2610 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2613 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2614 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2615 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2616 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2617 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2618 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2619 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2620 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2621 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2622 modern Mac OS X versions
2625 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2626 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2628 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2629 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2632 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2633 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2634 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2635 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2636 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2637 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2640 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2641 --------------------------------
2643 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2644 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2645 * Multiple bugfixes.
2648 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2649 --------------------------------
2651 * Multiple bug fixes.
2654 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2655 ---------------------------------
2659 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2660 recent to work correctly
2661 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2662 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2663 edit the ".hosts" file.
2664 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2665 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2666 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2667 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2668 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2669 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2670 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2671 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2672 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2673 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2674 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2675 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2676 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2677 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2678 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2679 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2680 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2681 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2682 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2683 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2684 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2685 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2686 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2687 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2688 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2689 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2690 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2691 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2692 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2693 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2694 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2695 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2696 and postproc modules.
2697 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2698 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2699 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2700 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2702 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2703 filter. For example:
2704 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2705 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2707 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2708 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2714 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2716 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2717 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2720 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2721 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2723 * Shoutcast TV listings
2724 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2726 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2727 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2729 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2732 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2733 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2734 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2735 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2736 * JACK audio input support
2737 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2738 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2739 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2740 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2741 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2742 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2743 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2744 (available as a separate download).
2745 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2746 * RTMP input support
2747 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2748 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2749 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2751 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2752 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2755 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2756 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2757 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2758 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2760 * APEv1/2 tags support
2761 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2762 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2764 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2765 * TiVo Series 2 support
2766 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2771 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2772 * Flash Screen Video support
2773 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2774 * DosBox Capture support
2775 * Karl Morton's Video support
2776 * limited atrac3 support
2778 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2779 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2780 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2781 * H.264 PAFF support
2782 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2783 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2784 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2785 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2786 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2789 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2790 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2791 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2792 * AQTitle subtitles support
2793 * MKV USF subtitles support
2794 * HTML-based subtitles support
2795 * MPSub subtitles support
2796 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2797 * MPL2 subtitles support
2798 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2799 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2800 * Realtext subtitle support
2801 * DKS subtitle support
2802 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2803 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2806 * Flash Screen Video support
2807 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2809 Video outputs and filters:
2810 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2811 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2812 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2813 * New puzzle video output filter
2814 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2815 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2817 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2818 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2819 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2820 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2821 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2822 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2823 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2824 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2825 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2826 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2827 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2828 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2829 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2830 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2832 Audio outputs and filters:
2833 * Replay gain support
2834 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2835 new scaletempo audio filter)
2836 * New spatializer audio filter
2837 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2840 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2841 * New RTP payload formats:
2842 * Speex voice audio codec
2843 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2844 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2845 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2846 * DCCP transport for RTP
2847 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2852 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2853 end-user suitable way.
2854 * Improved user interaction
2855 * Improved mouse gestures
2856 * Vastly improved Update checker
2857 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2859 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2860 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2862 * Improved video output features
2863 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2864 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2865 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2866 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2867 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2869 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2870 if libncursesw is available.
2871 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2872 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2873 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2875 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2876 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2877 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2878 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2879 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2880 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2881 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2882 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2885 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2886 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2887 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2890 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2891 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2892 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2893 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2894 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2895 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2898 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2899 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2909 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2910 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2911 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2914 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2915 ----------------------------------
2918 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2921 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2922 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2923 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2924 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2925 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2926 * Updated Polish translation
2929 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2930 ----------------------------------
2933 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2934 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2935 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2938 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2939 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2940 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2941 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2942 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2943 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2944 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2945 to an unexpected application termination
2946 * New Serbian translation
2947 * Updated Romanian translation
2950 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2951 ----------------------------------
2954 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2955 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2956 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2957 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2958 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2959 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2960 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2961 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2964 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2965 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2966 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2967 * Fixed AAC resampling
2968 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2969 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2972 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2973 ----------------------------------
2976 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2977 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2978 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2979 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2980 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2983 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2984 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2985 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2986 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2987 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2990 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2991 ----------------------------------
2994 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2995 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2998 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2999 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3000 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3001 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3003 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3007 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3010 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3013 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3016 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3019 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3020 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3021 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3022 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3023 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3025 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3026 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3027 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3028 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3031 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3034 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3035 ----------------------------------
3038 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3039 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3040 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3042 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3043 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3045 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3046 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3049 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3051 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3052 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3053 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3054 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3055 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3056 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3057 two different movies
3058 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3059 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3060 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3063 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3066 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3067 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3068 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3069 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3072 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3073 ----------------------------------
3075 Various bugfixes, notably:
3076 * Windows Vista compatibility
3077 * Cropping in Direct3D
3078 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3079 * RSS filter string overflow
3081 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3083 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3084 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3087 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3088 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3091 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3094 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3097 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3100 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3101 ----------------------------------
3103 Various bugfixes, notably:
3104 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3105 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3106 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3107 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3108 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3109 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3112 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3113 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3116 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3118 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3119 * Diverse usability improvements
3120 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3121 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3122 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3125 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3126 ---------------------------------
3128 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3129 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3132 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3135 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3136 --------------------------------
3139 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3142 * Support for RTSP authentication
3143 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3144 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3145 * ATSC support for DVB input
3146 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3147 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3148 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3151 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3152 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3153 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3154 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3155 * Matroska WavPack support
3156 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3157 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3158 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3161 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3162 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3163 * Improved libcaca support
3167 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3168 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3170 * Systray support in skins
3172 * Support for Apple Remote control
3173 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3174 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3175 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3176 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3178 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3181 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3182 Windows 9x/ME users:
3183 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3184 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3185 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3186 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3187 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3189 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3190 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3199 * Updates to the libvlc API
3200 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3203 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3204 --------------------------------
3207 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3208 * Support for downloading updates
3212 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3213 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3214 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3215 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3217 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3218 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3219 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3222 * Cook (Real audio) support
3224 Playlist / Services discovery:
3225 * XSPF playlist support
3227 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3230 * New JACK audio output
3233 * New video filters:
3234 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3235 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3236 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3237 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3238 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3239 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3242 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3245 * System to inform the user and request information
3246 - HTTP authentication
3250 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3251 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3252 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3255 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3256 - Improved playlist handling
3257 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3259 - Embedded Video output
3260 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3261 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3262 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3263 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3264 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3266 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3267 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3270 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3273 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3274 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3275 * Growl "Now playing" support
3278 * Ability to log to syslog
3279 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3282 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3284 * A bit more automatic testing
3287 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3288 ---------------------------------
3291 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3292 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3295 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3296 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3299 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3302 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3303 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3309 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3312 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3313 --------------------------------
3316 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3320 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3321 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3322 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3325 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3326 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3327 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3328 * GnomeVFS input module
3329 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3330 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3333 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3334 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3335 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3338 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3339 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3345 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3346 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3349 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3350 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3351 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3354 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3356 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3357 - New extended controls panel
3358 - New bookmarks window
3359 - Fixed playlist sorting
3360 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3362 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3363 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3364 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3365 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3369 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3370 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3372 - Include macro to include other files
3376 * Should now work outside IE as well
3379 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3382 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3383 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3386 The following languages were added:
3390 * Simplified Chinese
3391 The following languages were re-added:
3395 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3396 --------------------------------
3399 * Rewrite of the playlist
3401 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3402 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3403 * Preferences improvements:
3404 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3405 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3407 * Core image manipulation support
3408 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3409 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3410 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3411 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3412 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3413 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3414 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3415 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3416 * Access filter architecture
3417 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3418 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3422 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3423 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3424 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3425 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3426 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3427 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3428 * Massive Matroska improvements
3429 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3431 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3432 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3433 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3434 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3435 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3437 Decoders / Encoders:
3438 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3439 * PNG decoder/encoder
3440 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3441 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3444 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3447 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3448 * Brand new SAP module
3449 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3450 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3451 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3452 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3453 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3454 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3458 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3461 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3462 * Image file video output (png)
3463 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3464 * Improvements to wall video filter
3465 * Support for font color and opacity
3471 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3472 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3473 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3477 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3478 - Improved preferences
3479 - Improvements to the wizard
3480 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3482 - Redesigned playlist
3483 - Improved preferences
3485 - Support for multiple actions
3488 - Support for the new playlist system
3490 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3493 * Screensaver disabling fix
3494 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3495 * Support for no-decoration windows
3498 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3499 * The OpenGL video output is back
3500 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3501 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3502 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3503 is not yet available in the new module
3504 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3507 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3516 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3519 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3522 The following languages were added:
3528 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3529 --------------------------------
3532 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3533 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3536 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3537 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3538 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3541 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3544 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3547 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3550 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3551 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3552 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3556 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3558 * Support of playlist group announcement
3561 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3562 --------------------------------
3565 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3566 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3567 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3568 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3569 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3570 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3573 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3574 (Stream your desktop)
3575 * Improved DVD support:
3576 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3577 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3578 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3579 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3580 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3581 (selection of titles/chapters).
3584 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3585 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3586 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3587 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3588 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3589 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3590 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3591 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3592 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3593 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3596 * G.726 audio support
3597 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3598 * MPEG-4 text support
3599 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3600 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3601 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3605 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3606 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3607 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3608 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3609 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3610 * DVB subtitles encoder
3611 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3612 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3614 * Text track muxing for mp4
3615 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3616 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3617 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3618 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3619 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3620 * Improved ASF muxer
3622 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3623 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3624 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3627 * New audio equalizer filter
3628 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3629 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3630 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3631 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3634 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3635 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3636 with support for effects.
3637 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3638 - New filters can be streamed.
3639 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3640 - Centralized scaling and blending
3642 - "time", to display current time
3643 - "marq", to display a marquee
3646 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3647 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3648 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3649 * A few skins2 improvements
3650 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3651 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3652 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3653 * Improved CORBA control module
3656 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3657 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3658 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3661 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3662 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3663 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3666 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3667 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3668 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3669 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3670 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3673 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3676 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3677 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3680 * Server/client network synchronization module
3681 * VBrick streams fully supported
3682 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3686 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3687 --------------------------------
3690 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3691 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3692 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3693 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3696 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3697 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3698 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3699 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3700 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3701 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3702 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3705 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3706 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3707 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3708 * Improved directory access module.
3709 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3710 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3711 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3712 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3713 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3716 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3717 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3718 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3721 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3722 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3723 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3726 * Improved session announcement system.
3727 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3728 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3729 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3730 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3731 * Improved transrater.
3732 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3733 * New configuration system.
3734 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3737 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3738 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3739 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3740 * Supports scheduling.
3741 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3742 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3745 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3746 - Ability to embed video output.
3747 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3748 - Lots of improvements.
3749 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3750 - New design and set of icons.
3751 - Ability to embed video output.
3752 - Support for hotkeys.
3753 - Support for bookmarks.
3755 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3756 - Better hotkeys handling.
3759 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3760 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3761 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3762 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3765 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3766 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3767 * Improved Windows installer.
3773 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3774 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3777 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3778 ---------------------------------
3781 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3782 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3785 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3786 --------------------------------
3789 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3790 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3793 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3794 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3795 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3796 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3799 * Internal improvments
3800 * Improved import/export
3803 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3805 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3806 small and strange formats.
3808 * New MOD audio demux.
3809 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3810 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3811 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3812 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3815 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3816 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3817 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3823 * New opengl video output plugin.
3826 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3827 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3830 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3831 --------------------------------
3834 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3835 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3836 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3837 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3838 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3839 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3840 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3841 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3844 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3849 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3850 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3851 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3852 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3853 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3854 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3855 * Better Icecast support.
3856 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3857 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3860 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3861 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3862 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3863 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3864 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3865 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3866 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3869 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3870 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3871 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3872 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3873 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3874 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3875 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3876 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3877 * Preliminary RTP support.
3878 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3883 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3884 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3886 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3887 - Improvements and help in preferences
3888 - New streaming wizard
3889 - Revised Disc Open menu
3891 - Improvements of the standard pages
3892 - Support for new commands
3893 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3896 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3897 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3900 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3901 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3902 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3903 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3904 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3905 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3906 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3907 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3908 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3911 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3913 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3914 * Support for Panther.
3915 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3916 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3919 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3920 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3921 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3922 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3923 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3924 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3925 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3926 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3929 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3930 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3931 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3934 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3937 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3938 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3939 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3940 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3943 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3944 --------------------------------
3947 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3950 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3951 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3954 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3955 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3958 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3961 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3962 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3965 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3968 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3971 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3972 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3976 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3977 --------------------------------
3980 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3981 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3985 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3986 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3987 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3989 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3990 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3993 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3996 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3999 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4000 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4004 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4005 --------------------------------
4008 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4009 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4013 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4014 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4015 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4016 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4017 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4020 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4021 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4022 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4025 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4026 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4027 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4030 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4031 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4032 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4033 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4034 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4037 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4038 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4039 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4042 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4045 * Improved build system.
4046 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4047 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4048 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4049 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4052 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4053 --------------------------------
4056 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4059 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4060 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4061 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4062 * Video 4 Linux support
4063 * CD Digital Audio support
4064 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4067 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4068 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4069 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4070 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4073 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4074 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4075 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4076 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4077 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4078 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4079 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4082 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4083 * New HTTP remote control interface
4086 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4087 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4088 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4089 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4090 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4093 * New reset option for the preferences
4094 * You can set your language in the prefences
4095 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4096 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4097 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4098 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4101 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4102 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4103 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4106 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4107 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4108 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4109 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4110 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4111 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4112 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4113 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4114 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4115 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4118 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4119 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4120 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4121 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4122 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4123 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4124 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4127 * Interface localization
4128 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4129 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4130 * New full-featured Preferences window
4133 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4134 --------------------------------
4137 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4138 * support for skins at the interface level
4139 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4140 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4141 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4142 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4143 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4146 * fixed HTTP redirects
4147 * support for opening an entire directory
4148 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4149 * new video4linux access plug-in
4150 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4153 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4154 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4155 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4158 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4159 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4160 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4161 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4162 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4163 * new codec for raw I420 video
4164 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4167 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4168 (although it still misses some important features)
4169 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4172 * new HTTP output support
4173 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4174 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4177 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4180 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4183 * reorderable playlist
4184 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4185 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4186 * support for mono audio output devices
4187 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4188 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4189 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4190 * the messages window remembers more lines
4191 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4192 * http and ogg stream output options
4193 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4196 * new skinnable interface
4197 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4199 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4200 * support for FLAC audio format
4201 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4203 * network tab in the interface
4204 * "apply" handling in preferences
4207 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4208 ---------------------------------
4211 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4212 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4213 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4214 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4216 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4217 * DTS S/PDIF support
4220 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4221 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4222 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4223 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4226 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4227 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4230 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4233 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4236 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4238 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4239 * rc interface is now fully useable
4240 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4243 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4244 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4245 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4246 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4247 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4249 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4250 * support for mouse gestures
4251 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4254 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4255 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4258 * improved ID3 tag detection
4259 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4260 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4261 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4263 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4266 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4267 ---------------------------------
4270 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4271 English was set as the preferred language
4274 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4275 --------------------------------
4278 * new mouse gesture interface
4279 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4283 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4284 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4285 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4288 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4289 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4293 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4296 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4297 without the user consent
4300 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4302 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4303 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4304 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4307 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4308 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4309 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4310 * playlist enhancements
4311 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4312 * new step forward/step backward commands
4313 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4314 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4315 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4318 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4319 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4320 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4323 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4324 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4327 * native video output is working again
4328 * only commandline interface support
4329 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4332 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4333 --------------------------------
4336 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4337 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4338 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4339 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4340 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4341 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4342 and A/52 streams are supported)
4343 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4348 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4349 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4350 * VCD entry points support
4351 * VCD image file support
4354 * support for *.asf format
4355 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4356 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4357 * support for ogg encapsulation
4358 * support for raw DV format
4359 * support for *.wav format
4360 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4363 Stream discovery & playlists:
4364 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4365 * support for .m3u file format
4366 * support for .asx file format
4367 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4370 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4371 (only available with the .avi demux)
4372 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4373 * support for raw PCM data
4374 * support for Cinepak video codec
4375 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4376 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4377 * support for Xvid codec
4378 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4379 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4380 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4382 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4384 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4387 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4390 * new WxWindows interface
4391 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4392 device and the channels configuration
4393 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4394 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4395 format that VLC can play
4396 * new swedish translation
4397 * enhancements of the playlist window
4398 * new messages window to see debug info
4399 * fixed a few crashes
4402 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4403 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4404 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4405 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working