1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
14 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
15 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
17 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
18 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
22 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
23 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
24 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
25 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
26 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
27 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
30 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
31 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
32 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
33 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
34 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
35 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
36 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
37 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
38 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
39 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
40 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
41 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
42 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
43 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
44 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
47 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
48 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
49 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
50 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
51 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
52 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
55 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
56 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
57 * Ogg seeking improvements
58 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
59 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
60 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
61 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
64 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
65 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
66 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
67 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
68 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
69 and important cleanups and optimisations
70 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
71 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
72 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
73 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
74 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
75 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
76 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
77 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
78 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
81 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
82 * New video output for iOS platform
83 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
84 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
85 * Various vmem improvements
86 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
88 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
89 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
92 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
93 * New audio output in memory (amem)
94 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
95 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
98 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
99 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
100 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
101 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
102 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
103 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
104 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
105 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
106 * New anti-flickering filter
107 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
108 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
109 blackbox and customizable shadow
112 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
115 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
116 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
117 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
118 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
119 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
120 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
121 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
122 * Major rework of VoD support
123 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
124 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
125 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
126 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
127 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
128 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
129 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
130 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
131 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
134 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
135 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
138 * New capabilities for libVLC:
139 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
140 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
141 list of available audio and video filters
142 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
143 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
146 * asademux: use libass only
147 * subsass: use libass
148 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
149 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
151 * upnp: use upnp_intel
152 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
153 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
154 * remove of the noise filter
157 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
158 ----------------------------------
161 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
162 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
165 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
166 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
167 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
168 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
169 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
171 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
172 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
173 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
175 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
176 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
179 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
182 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
185 * Fix quitting on Linux
186 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
190 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
193 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
196 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
197 ---------------------------------
199 Windows and Mac OS X:
200 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
203 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
204 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
207 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
210 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
213 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
215 Miscellaneous fixes in:
216 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
218 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
219 * RTP output and XML export
220 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
224 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
225 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
226 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
227 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
230 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
231 --------------------------------
233 Windows and Mac OS X:
234 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
237 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
240 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
241 * Improve Apple Remote handling
242 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
243 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
244 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
245 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
248 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
249 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
253 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
254 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
255 * New Luganda Translation
258 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
259 --------------------------------
262 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
265 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
266 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
267 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
268 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
271 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
273 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
274 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
275 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
276 * mp4 demuxer improvements
277 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
278 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
279 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
280 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
282 Miscellaneous fixes in:
283 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
284 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
285 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
286 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
287 * Configure and build system improvements
288 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
291 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
292 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
293 * New icelandic translation
296 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
297 --------------------------------
300 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
304 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
305 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
306 and stability reasons
309 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
313 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
316 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
317 ----------------------------------
320 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
323 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
324 ---------------------------------
327 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
328 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
329 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
330 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
333 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
336 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
337 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
338 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
339 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
342 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
343 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
344 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
346 Subtitles and renderer:
347 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
348 * Mark more freetype options as safe
349 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
350 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
351 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
354 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
355 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
356 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
357 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
360 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
361 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
364 * KDE device solid actions
366 * Transcode integer overflow
367 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
368 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
371 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
372 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
373 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
376 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
377 ----------------------------------
380 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
384 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
387 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
390 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
391 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
392 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
393 * Taglib thread-safety fix
396 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
400 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
403 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
406 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
407 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
409 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
413 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
414 * Miscellaneous fixes
417 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
418 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
420 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
421 * New Asturian translation
424 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
425 ----------------------------------
428 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
430 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
433 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
436 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
437 * Various fixes for Windows
440 * New Armenian translation
441 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
442 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
445 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
446 --------------------------------
449 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
451 * Fix folders opening from the interface
454 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
455 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
458 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
459 --------------------------------
462 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
463 * fix for podcasts parsing
464 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
467 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
468 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
471 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
472 * fix m3u playlists exports
475 * fix video autoresize behaviour
478 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
481 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
484 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
487 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
490 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
491 --------------------------------
494 * Avformat fps displaying fix
495 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
498 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
499 of mono streams, especially on Windows
502 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
503 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
504 * fix console output encoding
506 Interface and extensions:
507 * Youtube and other scripts updates
508 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
511 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
512 --------------------------------
515 * New capabilities for libVLC:
516 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
517 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
518 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
519 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
520 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
521 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
522 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
523 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
524 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
525 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
526 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
527 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
528 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
529 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
530 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
534 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
535 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
536 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
537 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
538 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
541 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
544 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
545 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
546 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
550 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
553 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
554 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
555 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
558 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
559 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
560 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
561 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
564 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
565 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
568 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
569 --------------------------------
571 Important changes for users:
572 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
573 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
575 Important changes for packagers:
576 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
577 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
578 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
579 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
580 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
582 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
584 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
585 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
586 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
587 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
588 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
591 * Support for the sftp protocol
592 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
593 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
594 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
595 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
596 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
599 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
600 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
601 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
603 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
604 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
605 * Invmem module improvements
606 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
607 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
608 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
609 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
610 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
611 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
612 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
613 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
614 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
615 * Support for VP8 codec
616 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
619 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
620 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
621 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
622 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
623 * Various EGP improvements
624 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
625 * Metadata and cover art improvements
628 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
629 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
630 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
631 * Podcast images are now displayed
634 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
635 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
636 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
637 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
638 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
639 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
640 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
641 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
642 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
643 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
644 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
647 * New content extensions lua framework
650 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
651 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
652 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
653 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
654 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
655 * NEON assembly audio converter module
656 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
659 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
660 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
661 * Service discovery based on libudev
662 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
665 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
666 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
667 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
668 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
669 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
670 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
671 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
674 * New smem module, streaming to memory
675 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
676 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
679 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
681 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
682 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
685 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
688 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
689 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
690 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
691 by Andy Matuschak et al.
692 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
693 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
694 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
697 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
698 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
701 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
702 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
703 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
707 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
708 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
709 * Improved Solaris port
712 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
713 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
716 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
717 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
718 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
719 * transrate: broken since too long
720 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
721 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
722 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
723 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
724 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
725 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
726 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
727 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
728 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
729 * cddax: use cdda instead.
730 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
731 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
732 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
733 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
736 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
737 --------------------------------
740 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
742 Decoders/Packetizers:
743 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
746 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
747 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
748 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
749 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
750 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
753 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
754 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
757 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
758 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
761 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
762 and Walloon translations updated
763 * Sinhala translation started
766 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
767 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
770 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
771 --------------------------------
774 * SubRip extra styles improvements
775 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
778 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
781 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
782 increase performance and fix x264 issues
785 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
786 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
787 Russian, Slovak translation updates
788 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
791 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
792 --------------------------------
795 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
796 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
799 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
800 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
803 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
804 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
807 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
810 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
811 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
814 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
815 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
818 * New Walloon translation
819 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
822 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
823 --------------------------------
826 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
827 regressions in most popular drivers
828 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
831 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
832 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
833 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
836 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
837 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
840 * Update for appletrailers lua script
841 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
842 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
843 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
844 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
847 * New udev module for linux
850 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
853 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
856 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
857 --------------------------------
860 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
861 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
862 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
865 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
866 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
869 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
870 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
873 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
876 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
877 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
878 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
879 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
882 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
883 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
884 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
885 - no support for Goom and SDL
886 - limited text rendering support
887 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
890 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
891 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
892 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
893 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
894 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
895 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
896 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
897 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
898 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
902 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
905 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
908 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
909 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
910 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
911 Arabic and French translation updates
914 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
915 --------------------------------
918 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
919 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
920 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
921 * Fix Dailymotion access script
922 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
923 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
926 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
927 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
930 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
931 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
932 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
935 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
938 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
939 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
942 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
943 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
944 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
945 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
946 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
947 * Fix various crashes
950 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
952 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
955 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
956 ---------------------------------
960 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
961 See 'Access:' for more info.
962 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
965 * Instantaneous pausing
966 * Frame-by-Frame playback
967 * Finer speed control
968 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
969 * Timeshift for most medias
970 * RTSP trickplay support
971 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
974 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
975 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
976 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
977 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
978 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
979 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
980 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
981 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
982 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
983 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
986 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
987 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
988 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
989 * Metadata for mod files are supported
990 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
991 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
992 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
995 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
996 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
999 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1000 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1001 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1002 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1003 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1004 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1005 * DVB scanning on linux
1006 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1007 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1008 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1009 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1010 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1011 * MTP device access on Unix
1012 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1013 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1016 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1017 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1018 Windows and Mac OS X.
1021 * Export the playlist in HTML
1022 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1023 * Better metadata handling and reading
1025 Linux/Windows interface:
1026 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1027 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1028 * Recently played items list
1029 * Interface toolbar customizations
1030 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1031 - More menus actions
1032 - Finer speed slider
1033 - Improvements on many dialogs
1034 - New dialog for plugins listing
1035 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1036 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1037 * Better integration in GTK environments
1040 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1041 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1042 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1043 * Additional usability improvements
1046 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1047 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1048 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1049 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1050 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1053 * New Maemo port with:
1054 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1055 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1058 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1061 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1062 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1063 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1064 * Support for latest iSight models
1067 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1068 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1071 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1072 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1073 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1074 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1075 The old image video output has been removed.
1076 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1077 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1080 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1088 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1089 --------------------------------------
1095 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1096 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1097 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1098 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1099 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1100 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1101 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1103 Various fixes to the following modules:
1106 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1107 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1108 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1110 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1115 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1116 ---------------------------------
1119 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1120 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1123 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1124 ---------------------------------
1127 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1130 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1133 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1134 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1135 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1136 main controller window.
1137 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1140 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1145 * Updates of other localizations
1148 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1149 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1150 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1151 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1152 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1155 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1156 ---------------------------------
1159 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1161 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1164 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1165 --------------------------------
1170 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1171 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1174 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1175 --------------------------------
1177 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1178 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1181 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1184 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1185 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1188 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1189 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1192 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1193 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1194 * Various fixed in playlist
1197 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1200 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1203 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1204 ------------------------------------
1206 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1207 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1210 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1211 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1212 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1215 * Stability fix for the video output.
1218 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1219 --------------------------------
1222 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1223 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1224 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1225 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1226 * Fixed update system bugs
1227 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1230 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1231 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1232 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1233 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1234 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1235 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1236 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1237 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1238 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1239 modern Mac OS X versions
1242 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1243 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1245 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1246 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1249 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1250 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1251 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1252 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1253 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1254 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1257 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1258 --------------------------------
1260 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1261 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1262 * Multiple bugfixes.
1265 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1266 --------------------------------
1268 * Multiple bug fixes.
1271 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1272 ---------------------------------
1276 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1277 recent to work correctly
1278 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1279 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1280 edit the ".hosts" file.
1281 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1282 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1283 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1284 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1285 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1286 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1287 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1288 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1289 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1290 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1291 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1292 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1293 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1294 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1295 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1296 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1297 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1298 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1299 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1300 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1301 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1302 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1303 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1304 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1305 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1306 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1307 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1308 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1309 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1310 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1311 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1312 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1313 and postproc modules.
1314 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1315 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1316 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1317 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1319 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1320 filter. For example:
1321 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1322 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1324 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1325 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1331 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1333 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1334 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1337 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1338 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1340 * Shoutcast TV listings
1341 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1343 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1344 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1346 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1349 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1350 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1351 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1352 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1353 * JACK audio input support
1354 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1355 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1356 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1357 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1358 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1359 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1360 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1361 (available as a separate download).
1362 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1363 * RTMP input support
1364 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1365 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1366 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1368 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1369 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1372 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1373 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1374 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1375 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1377 * APEv1/2 tags support
1378 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1379 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1381 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1382 * TiVo Series 2 support
1383 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1388 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1389 * Flash Screen Video support
1390 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1391 * DosBox Capture support
1392 * Karl Morton's Video support
1393 * limited atrac3 support
1395 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1396 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1397 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1398 * H.264 PAFF support
1399 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1400 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1401 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1402 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1403 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1406 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1407 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1408 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1409 * AQTitle subtitles support
1410 * MKV USF subtitles support
1411 * HTML-based subtitles support
1412 * MPSub subtitles support
1413 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1414 * MPL2 subtitles support
1415 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1416 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1417 * Realtext subtitle support
1418 * DKS subtitle support
1419 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1420 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1423 * Flash Screen Video support
1424 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1426 Video outputs and filters:
1427 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1428 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1429 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1430 * New puzzle video output filter
1431 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1432 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1434 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1435 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1436 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1437 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1438 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1439 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1440 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1441 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1442 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1443 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1444 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1445 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1446 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1447 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1449 Audio outputs and filters:
1450 * Replay gain support
1451 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1452 new scaletempo audio filter)
1453 * New spatializer audio filter
1454 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1457 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1458 * New RTP payload formats:
1459 * Speex voice audio codec
1460 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1461 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1462 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1463 * DCCP transport for RTP
1464 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1469 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1470 end-user suitable way.
1471 * Improved user interaction
1472 * Improved mouse gestures
1473 * Vastly improved Update checker
1474 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1476 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1477 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1479 * Improved video output features
1480 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1481 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1482 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1483 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1484 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1486 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1487 if libncursesw is available.
1488 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1489 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1490 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1492 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1493 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1494 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1495 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1496 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1497 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1498 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1499 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1502 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1503 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1504 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1507 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1508 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1509 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1510 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1511 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1512 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1515 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1516 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1526 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1527 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1528 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1531 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1532 ----------------------------------
1535 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1538 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1539 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1540 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1541 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1542 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1543 * Updated Polish translation
1546 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1547 ----------------------------------
1550 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1551 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1552 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1555 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1556 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1557 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1558 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1559 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1560 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1561 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1562 to an unexpected application termination
1563 * New Serbian translation
1564 * Updated Romanian translation
1567 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1568 ----------------------------------
1571 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1572 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1573 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1574 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1575 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1576 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1577 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1578 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1581 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1582 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1583 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1584 * Fixed AAC resampling
1585 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1586 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1589 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1590 ----------------------------------
1593 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1594 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1595 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1596 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1597 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1600 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1601 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1602 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1603 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1604 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1607 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1608 ----------------------------------
1611 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1612 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1615 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1616 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1617 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1618 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1620 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1624 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1627 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1630 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1633 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1636 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1637 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1638 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1639 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1640 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1642 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1643 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1644 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1645 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1648 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1651 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1652 ----------------------------------
1655 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1656 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1657 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1659 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1660 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1662 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1663 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1666 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1668 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1669 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1670 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1671 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1672 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1673 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1674 two different movies
1675 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1676 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1677 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1680 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1683 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1684 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1685 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1686 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1689 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1690 ----------------------------------
1692 Various bugfixes, notably:
1693 * Windows Vista compatibility
1694 * Cropping in Direct3D
1695 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1696 * RSS filter string overflow
1698 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1700 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1701 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1704 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1705 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1708 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1711 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1714 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1717 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1718 ----------------------------------
1720 Various bugfixes, notably:
1721 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1722 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1723 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1724 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1725 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1726 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1729 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1730 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1733 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1735 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1736 * Diverse usability improvements
1737 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1738 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1739 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1742 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1743 ---------------------------------
1745 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1746 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1749 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1752 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1753 --------------------------------
1756 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1759 * Support for RTSP authentication
1760 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1761 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1762 * ATSC support for DVB input
1763 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1764 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1765 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1768 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1769 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1770 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1771 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1772 * Matroska WavPack support
1773 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1774 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1775 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1778 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1779 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1780 * Improved libcaca support
1784 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1785 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1787 * Systray support in skins
1789 * Support for Apple Remote control
1790 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1791 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1792 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1793 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1795 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1798 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1799 Windows 9x/ME users:
1800 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1801 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1802 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1803 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1804 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1806 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1807 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1816 * Updates to the libvlc API
1817 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1820 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1821 --------------------------------
1824 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1825 * Support for downloading updates
1829 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1830 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1831 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1832 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1834 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1835 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1836 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1839 * Cook (Real audio) support
1841 Playlist / Services discovery:
1842 * XSPF playlist support
1844 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1847 * New JACK audio output
1850 * New video filters:
1851 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1852 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1853 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1854 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1855 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1856 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1859 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1862 * System to inform the user and request information
1863 - HTTP authentication
1867 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1868 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1869 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1872 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1873 - Improved playlist handling
1874 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1876 - Embedded Video output
1877 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1878 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1879 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1880 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1881 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1883 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1884 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1887 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1890 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1891 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1892 * Growl "Now playing" support
1895 * Ability to log to syslog
1896 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1899 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1901 * A bit more automatic testing
1904 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1905 ---------------------------------
1908 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1909 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1912 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1913 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1916 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1919 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1920 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1926 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1929 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1930 --------------------------------
1933 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1937 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1938 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1939 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1942 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1943 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1944 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1945 * GnomeVFS input module
1946 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1947 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1950 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1951 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1952 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1955 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1956 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1962 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1963 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1966 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1967 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1968 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1971 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1973 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1974 - New extended controls panel
1975 - New bookmarks window
1976 - Fixed playlist sorting
1977 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1979 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1980 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1981 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1982 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1986 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1987 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1989 - Include macro to include other files
1993 * Should now work outside IE as well
1996 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1999 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2000 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2003 The following languages were added:
2007 * Simplified Chinese
2008 The following languages were re-added:
2012 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2013 --------------------------------
2016 * Rewrite of the playlist
2018 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2019 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2020 * Preferences improvements:
2021 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2022 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2024 * Core image manipulation support
2025 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2026 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2027 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2028 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2029 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2030 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2031 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2032 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2033 * Access filter architecture
2034 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2035 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2039 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2040 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2041 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2042 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2043 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2044 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2045 * Massive Matroska improvements
2046 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2048 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2049 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2050 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2051 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2052 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2054 Decoders / Encoders:
2055 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2056 * PNG decoder/encoder
2057 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2058 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2061 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2064 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2065 * Brand new SAP module
2066 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2067 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2068 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2069 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2070 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2071 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2075 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2078 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2079 * Image file video output (png)
2080 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2081 * Improvements to wall video filter
2082 * Support for font color and opacity
2088 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2089 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2090 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2094 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2095 - Improved preferences
2096 - Improvements to the wizard
2097 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2099 - Redesigned playlist
2100 - Improved preferences
2102 - Support for multiple actions
2105 - Support for the new playlist system
2107 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2110 * Screensaver disabling fix
2111 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2112 * Support for no-decoration windows
2115 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2116 * The OpenGL video output is back
2117 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2118 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2119 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2120 is not yet available in the new module
2121 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2124 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2133 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2136 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2139 The following languages were added:
2145 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2146 --------------------------------
2149 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2150 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2153 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2154 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2155 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2158 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2161 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2164 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2167 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2168 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2169 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2173 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2175 * Support of playlist group announcement
2178 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2183 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2184 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2185 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2186 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2187 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2190 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2191 (Stream your desktop)
2192 * Improved DVD support:
2193 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2194 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2195 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2196 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2197 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2198 (selection of titles/chapters).
2201 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2202 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2203 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2204 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2205 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2206 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2207 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2208 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2209 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2210 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2213 * G.726 audio support
2214 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2215 * MPEG-4 text support
2216 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2217 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2218 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2222 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2223 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2224 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2225 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2226 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2227 * DVB subtitles encoder
2228 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2229 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2231 * Text track muxing for mp4
2232 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2233 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2234 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2235 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2236 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2237 * Improved ASF muxer
2239 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2240 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2241 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2244 * New audio equalizer filter
2245 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2246 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2247 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2248 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2251 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2252 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2253 with support for effects.
2254 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2255 - New filters can be streamed.
2256 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2257 - Centralized scaling and blending
2259 - "time", to display current time
2260 - "marq", to display a marquee
2263 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2264 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2265 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2266 * A few skins2 improvements
2267 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2268 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2269 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2270 * Improved CORBA control module
2273 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2274 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2275 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2278 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2279 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2280 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2283 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2284 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2285 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2286 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2287 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2290 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2293 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2294 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2297 * Server/client network synchronization module
2298 * VBrick streams fully supported
2299 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2303 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2304 --------------------------------
2307 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2308 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2309 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2310 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2313 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2314 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2315 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2316 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2317 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2318 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2319 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2322 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2323 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2324 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2325 * Improved directory access module.
2326 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2327 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2328 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2329 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2330 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2333 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2334 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2335 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2338 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2339 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2340 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2343 * Improved session announcement system.
2344 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2345 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2346 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2347 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2348 * Improved transrater.
2349 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2350 * New configuration system.
2351 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2354 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2355 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2356 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2357 * Supports scheduling.
2358 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2359 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2362 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2363 - Ability to embed video output.
2364 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2365 - Lots of improvements.
2366 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2367 - New design and set of icons.
2368 - Ability to embed video output.
2369 - Support for hotkeys.
2370 - Support for bookmarks.
2372 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2373 - Better hotkeys handling.
2376 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2377 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2378 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2379 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2382 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2383 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2384 * Improved Windows installer.
2390 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2391 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2394 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2395 ---------------------------------
2398 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2399 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2402 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2403 --------------------------------
2406 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2407 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2410 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2411 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2412 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2413 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2416 * Internal improvments
2417 * Improved import/export
2420 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2422 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2423 small and strange formats.
2425 * New MOD audio demux.
2426 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2427 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2428 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2429 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2432 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2433 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2434 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2440 * New opengl video output plugin.
2443 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2444 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2447 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2448 --------------------------------
2451 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2452 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2453 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2454 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2455 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2456 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2457 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2458 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2461 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2466 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2467 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2468 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2469 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2470 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2471 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2472 * Better Icecast support.
2473 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2474 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2477 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2478 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2479 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2480 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2481 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2482 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2483 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2486 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2487 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2488 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2489 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2490 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2491 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2492 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2493 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2494 * Preliminary RTP support.
2495 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2500 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2501 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2503 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2504 - Improvements and help in preferences
2505 - New streaming wizard
2506 - Revised Disc Open menu
2508 - Improvements of the standard pages
2509 - Support for new commands
2510 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2513 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2514 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2517 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2518 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2519 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2520 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2521 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2522 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2523 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2524 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2525 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2528 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2530 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2531 * Support for Panther.
2532 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2533 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2536 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2537 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2538 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2539 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2540 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2541 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2542 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2543 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2546 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2547 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2548 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2551 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2554 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2555 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2556 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2557 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2560 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2561 --------------------------------
2564 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2567 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2568 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2571 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2572 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2575 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2578 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2579 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2582 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2585 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2588 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2589 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2593 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2594 --------------------------------
2597 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2598 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2602 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2603 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2604 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2606 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2607 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2610 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2613 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2616 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2617 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2621 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2622 --------------------------------
2625 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2626 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2630 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2631 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2632 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2633 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2634 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2637 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2638 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2639 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2642 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2643 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2644 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2647 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2648 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2649 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2650 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2651 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2654 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2655 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2656 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2659 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2662 * Improved build system.
2663 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2664 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2665 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2666 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2669 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2670 --------------------------------
2673 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2676 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2677 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2678 * Video 4 Linux support
2679 * CD Digital Audio support
2680 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2683 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2684 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2685 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2686 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2689 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2690 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2691 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2692 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2693 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2694 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2695 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2698 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2699 * New HTTP remote control interface
2702 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2703 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2704 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2705 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2708 * New reset option for the preferences
2709 * You can set your language in the prefences
2710 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2711 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2712 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2713 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2716 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2717 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2718 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2721 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2722 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2723 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2724 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2725 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2726 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2727 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2728 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2729 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2730 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2733 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2734 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2735 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2736 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2737 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2738 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2739 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2742 * Interface localization
2743 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2744 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2745 * New full-featured Preferences window
2748 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2749 --------------------------------
2752 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2753 * support for skins at the interface level
2754 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2755 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2756 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2757 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2758 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2761 * fixed HTTP redirects
2762 * support for opening an entire directory
2763 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2764 * new video4linux access plug-in
2765 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2768 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2769 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2770 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2773 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2774 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2775 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2776 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2777 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2778 * new codec for raw I420 video
2779 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2782 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2783 (although it still misses some important features)
2784 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2787 * new HTTP output support
2788 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2789 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2792 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2795 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2798 * reorderable playlist
2799 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2800 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2801 * support for mono audio output devices
2802 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2803 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2804 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2805 * the messages window remembers more lines
2806 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2807 * http and ogg stream output options
2808 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2811 * new skinnable interface
2812 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2814 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2815 * support for FLAC audio format
2816 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2818 * network tab in the interface
2819 * "apply" handling in preferences
2822 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2823 ---------------------------------
2826 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2827 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2828 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2829 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2831 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2832 * DTS S/PDIF support
2835 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2836 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2837 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2838 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2841 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2842 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2845 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2848 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2851 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2853 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2854 * rc interface is now fully useable
2855 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2858 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2859 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2860 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2861 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2862 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2864 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2865 * support for mouse gestures
2866 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2869 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2870 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2873 * improved ID3 tag detection
2874 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2875 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2876 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2878 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2881 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2882 ---------------------------------
2885 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2886 English was set as the preferred language
2889 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2890 --------------------------------
2893 * new mouse gesture interface
2894 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2898 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2899 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2900 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2903 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2904 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2908 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2911 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2912 without the user consent
2915 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2917 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2918 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2919 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2922 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2923 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2924 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2925 * playlist enhancements
2926 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2927 * new step forward/step backward commands
2928 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2929 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2930 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2933 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2934 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2935 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2938 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2939 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2942 * native video output is working again
2943 * only commandline interface support
2944 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2947 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2948 --------------------------------
2951 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2952 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2953 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2954 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2955 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2956 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2957 and A/52 streams are supported)
2958 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2963 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2964 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2965 * VCD entry points support
2966 * VCD image file support
2969 * support for *.asf format
2970 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2971 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2972 * support for ogg encapsulation
2973 * support for raw DV format
2974 * support for *.wav format
2975 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2978 Stream discovery & playlists:
2979 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2980 * support for .m3u file format
2981 * support for .asx file format
2982 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2985 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2986 (only available with the .avi demux)
2987 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2988 * support for raw PCM data
2989 * support for Cinepak video codec
2990 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2991 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2992 * support for Xvid codec
2993 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2994 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2995 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2997 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2999 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3002 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3005 * new WxWindows interface
3006 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3007 device and the channels configuration
3008 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3009 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3010 format that VLC can play
3011 * new swedish translation
3012 * enhancements of the playlist window
3013 * new messages window to see debug info
3014 * fixed a few crashes
3017 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3018 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3019 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3020 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working