1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
9 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
12 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
13 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
14 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
15 * Support for Daala video
18 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
21 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
24 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
27 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
30 * Support key accelerators
33 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
34 --------------------------------
37 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
38 notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
41 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
42 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
43 * Add extensions download from external repositories
44 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
47 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
48 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
49 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
50 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
52 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
53 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
56 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
57 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
58 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
59 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
60 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
61 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
62 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
63 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
64 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
65 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
66 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
67 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
68 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
69 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
70 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
71 * New jpeg image decoder
72 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
73 * New SVG image decoder
74 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
75 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
76 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
79 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
80 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
81 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
82 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
83 * New png image encoder using libpng
86 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
87 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
88 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
89 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
90 synchronization and tracks exclusion
91 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
92 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
93 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
94 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
97 * Basic support for WebVTT
98 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
99 * Support HDPR TS files
100 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
101 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
102 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
103 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
104 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
105 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
106 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
107 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
108 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
109 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
110 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
111 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
114 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
115 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
116 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
117 * New Android native window provider module
118 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
119 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
120 * Add mmal based video output
123 * New Oldmovie effect filter
124 * New VHS effect filter
125 * New Freeze effect filter
126 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
127 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
128 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
131 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
132 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
133 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
134 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
135 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
136 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
139 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
140 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
142 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
145 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
146 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
147 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
148 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
149 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
150 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
151 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
152 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
153 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
155 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
156 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
157 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
160 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
161 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
164 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
165 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
168 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
169 * Add record button in Qt menus
170 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
171 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
172 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
175 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
176 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
177 * Fixes for advanced preferences
178 * Option to increase playlist font size
181 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
182 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
183 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
186 * ios video output: use ios2
187 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
188 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
191 * Update of all translations
194 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
195 --------------------------------
198 * Fix compilation on OS/2
201 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
203 Mac OS X audio output:
204 * Fix channel ordering
205 * Increase the buffersize
208 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
209 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
210 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
213 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
216 * Correctly support video-on-top
217 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
218 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
221 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
224 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
225 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
228 * Update British English
231 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
232 --------------------------------
235 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
238 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
241 * Fix DVD playback regression
242 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
243 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
246 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
247 --------------------------------
250 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
251 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
254 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
255 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
256 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
259 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
260 by updating codec libraries
261 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
262 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
263 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
266 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
267 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
268 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
269 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
272 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
273 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
276 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
277 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
278 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
279 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
280 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
283 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
284 * Fix record file names
287 * Fix minimal size possible on start
288 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
289 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
290 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
291 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
294 * Fix album art display on Windows
297 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
298 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
299 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
300 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
301 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
302 and Simplified Chinese translations
303 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
306 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
307 --------------------------------
310 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
311 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
312 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
313 audio devices on OS X
314 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
315 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
318 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
319 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
322 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
323 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
326 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
329 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
330 * Improve A-B loop control
331 * Fix album art update when changing media
334 * Add a language option in the interface
335 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
336 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
337 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
338 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
339 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
340 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
341 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
344 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
347 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
348 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
349 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
350 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
353 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
354 --------------------------------
357 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
359 * Fix some subtitles track selection
362 * VP9 support in WebM
363 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
364 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
367 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
368 * Support Speex in ogg files
369 * Fix some .mov playlists support
370 * Support Alac in mkv
371 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
372 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
375 * Fix DVB options parsing
376 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
377 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
380 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
381 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
384 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
385 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
388 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
389 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
390 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
391 * Fix play after drag'n drop
392 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
395 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
396 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
399 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
400 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
403 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
404 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
405 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
406 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
407 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
408 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
409 * Improves interface resizings
412 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
413 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
414 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
415 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
416 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
420 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
421 --------------------------------
424 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
425 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
426 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
427 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
428 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
430 3rd party libraries (contrib):
431 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
434 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
435 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
436 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
437 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
438 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
441 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
442 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
446 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
447 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
448 * Support for Ulead DV audio
449 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
450 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
451 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
452 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
453 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
454 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
455 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
456 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
457 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
458 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
461 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
462 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
463 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
466 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
467 remove support for previous OS X releases
468 * Major improvements in DASH support
469 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
470 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
471 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
472 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
473 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
474 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
475 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
476 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
477 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
478 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
479 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
482 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
483 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
484 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
485 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
486 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
487 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
488 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
489 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
490 * Support for more MJPEG streams
491 * Add support for liveleak streams
492 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
493 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
494 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
497 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
498 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
499 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
500 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
501 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
502 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
503 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
504 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
505 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
506 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
507 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
510 * New remapping channel filter
511 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
512 * New VSXu visualization plugin
513 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
514 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
515 * New gain audio filter
518 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
519 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
520 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
521 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
522 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
523 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
524 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
525 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
526 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
529 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
530 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
531 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
532 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
533 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
534 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
535 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
538 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
539 * Options support for AVIO output module
540 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
541 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
542 * Livehttp stream encryption support
543 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
544 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
547 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
550 * configurable password for the HTTP server
551 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
552 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
553 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
554 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
555 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
556 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
557 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
561 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
564 * Add support for multiple video outputs
565 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
567 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
568 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
569 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
570 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
571 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
572 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
573 VLC's internal volume level
574 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
576 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
577 selection and to manage the list of presets
578 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
579 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
580 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
581 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
582 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
583 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
584 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
585 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
586 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
587 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
589 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
590 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
591 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
592 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
593 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
594 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
595 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
596 3rd party applications
597 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
598 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
599 (system-wide settings)
600 * Add support for the Video Title option
601 * Add support for the Boss Key
602 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
603 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
606 * Partial support for Qt5.0
607 * Menus modifications and improvements
608 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
609 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
610 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
611 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
612 * EPG display fixes and improvements
613 * Add SD pixmap sources
614 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
615 * Display playlist total duration
616 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
617 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
618 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
623 * Extend sliders, offsets options
624 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
625 * Numerous fixes and improvements
626 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
629 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
630 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
631 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
632 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
633 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
634 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
635 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
636 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
637 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
638 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
641 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
642 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
643 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
644 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
645 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
646 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
648 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
649 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
650 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
651 * Broken crop video filter
653 * OSD parser and menu
654 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
655 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
656 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
657 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
661 * Update of all translations
664 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
665 --------------------------------
668 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
669 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
672 * Fix modplug security issues
675 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
676 --------------------------------
680 * Fix crash in QTsound
681 * Fix screen mouse file location
682 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
685 * Fix use after free in sgimb
686 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
689 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
692 * Fix interface crashes
693 * Fix autostart playback option
694 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
697 * update Welsh translation
698 * New Kannada translation
701 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
702 --------------------------------
705 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
706 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
710 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
713 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
716 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
719 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
723 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
726 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
729 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
730 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
731 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
734 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
735 --------------------------------
738 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
741 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
744 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
745 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
746 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
747 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
748 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
749 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
752 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
753 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
754 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
755 * 3rd party codecs updates
758 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
759 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
760 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
761 in the advanced preferences panel
762 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
763 * Fix crash within the video output code
764 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
765 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
766 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
767 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
769 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
772 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
775 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
776 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
779 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
782 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
783 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
784 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
785 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
786 Dutch, Danish, translations
787 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
790 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
791 --------------------------------
794 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
797 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
798 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
799 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
802 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
803 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
804 * Fix koreus lua parser
805 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
806 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
807 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
808 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
811 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
812 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
815 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
818 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
819 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
820 * Fix Time counter UI look
821 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
824 * Fix https streaming
827 * Fix audio and video track selection:
828 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
829 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
832 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
833 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
834 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
835 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
836 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
839 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
840 --------------------------------
843 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
844 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
845 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
846 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
847 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
848 during playback on Mac OS X
851 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
852 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
853 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
856 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
857 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
858 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
859 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
860 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
863 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
864 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
865 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
866 * Support Youtube live streams
869 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
872 * Fix media info dialog update
873 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
874 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
875 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
876 * Fix album art display at start
879 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
880 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
881 * Fix menus display and behavior
882 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
883 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
884 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
885 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
886 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
887 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
888 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
891 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
892 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
893 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
894 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
895 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
896 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
897 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
898 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
899 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
902 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
903 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
904 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
905 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
906 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
909 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
910 --------------------------------
913 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
916 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
917 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
920 * Add GateKeeper support
921 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
922 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
923 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
926 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
929 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
930 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
931 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
932 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
933 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
936 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
937 --------------------------------
940 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
941 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
942 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
943 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
944 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
945 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
946 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
947 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
948 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
949 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
950 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
954 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
955 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
956 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
957 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
958 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
959 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
960 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
961 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
962 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
963 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
964 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
965 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
968 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
969 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
971 * Fix MP3 free format support
974 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
975 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
976 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
977 * Fix for DVB channels file support
978 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
981 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
982 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
984 Audio filters and output:
985 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
986 * Fix DirectSound device selection
987 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
988 * Do not apply volume in file output
989 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
990 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
993 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
994 the persistant media library
995 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
996 to the media library or the temporary playlist
997 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
998 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
999 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1000 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1001 press on the Play/Pause button
1002 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1003 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1004 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1005 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1006 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1007 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1008 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1009 Synchronization panel
1010 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1011 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1012 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1013 * Fix crashes on exit
1014 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1016 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1017 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1018 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1019 automatically reset on the first launch.
1020 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1021 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1022 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1025 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1026 * Fixes for icecast SD
1029 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1030 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1031 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1032 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1033 * Fix tags and file names display
1034 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1037 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1038 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1041 * Fix display of some buttons
1042 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1043 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1046 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1047 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1048 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1051 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1052 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1053 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1054 Thai translations update
1055 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1058 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1059 --------------------------------
1062 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1063 * fix the samba module compilation
1064 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1065 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1066 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1067 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1070 * Support for MXPEG files
1071 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1072 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1075 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1076 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1077 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1080 * Fix ogm header creation
1083 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1084 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1087 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1088 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1089 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1090 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1093 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1096 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1097 * allow to hide the sidebar
1098 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1099 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1100 * noticebly faster launch time
1101 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1102 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1103 * improve track synchronization panel
1104 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1105 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1108 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1109 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1110 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1111 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1114 * fix for menus display
1115 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1116 * documentation update
1119 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1120 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1123 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1124 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1125 * Update Jamendo selections
1129 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1130 * fix a crash on VLM close
1133 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1134 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1135 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1136 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1139 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1142 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1143 ---------------------------------
1146 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1147 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1148 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1149 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1150 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1151 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1152 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1153 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1154 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1155 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1156 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1157 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1158 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1159 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1160 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1161 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1162 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1163 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1164 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1165 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1166 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1167 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1168 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1169 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1170 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1171 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1173 Important changes for packagers:
1174 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1175 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1176 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1177 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1178 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1179 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1180 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1181 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1182 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1183 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1186 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1187 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1188 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1189 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1190 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1191 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1192 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1195 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1196 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1197 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1198 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1199 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1200 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1201 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1202 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1203 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1204 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1205 * PulseAudio audio input support
1206 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1207 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1208 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1209 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1210 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1211 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1212 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1213 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1216 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1217 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1218 are notably concerned.
1219 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1220 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1221 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1222 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1223 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1224 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1225 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1226 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1227 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1228 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1229 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1230 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1231 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1232 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1233 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1236 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1237 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1238 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1239 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1240 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1241 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1242 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1243 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1244 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1245 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1246 * Improved support of tracker files
1247 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1250 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1251 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1252 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1253 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1254 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1255 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1256 and important cleanups and optimisations
1257 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1258 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1259 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1260 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1261 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1262 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1263 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1264 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1265 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1266 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1267 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1268 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1269 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1270 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1271 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1272 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1273 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1274 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1275 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1276 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1277 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1280 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1281 * New video output for iOS platform
1282 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1283 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1284 * Various vmem improvements
1285 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1286 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1287 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1288 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1289 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1290 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1292 Audio Output and Filters:
1293 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1294 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1295 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1296 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1297 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1298 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1299 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1300 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1301 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1302 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1305 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1306 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1307 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1308 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1309 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1310 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1311 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1312 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1313 * New anti-flickering filter
1314 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1315 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1316 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1317 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1318 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1319 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1320 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1323 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1324 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1325 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1326 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1327 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1328 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1329 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1330 * Major rework of VoD support
1331 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1332 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1333 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1334 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1335 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1336 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1337 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1338 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1339 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1340 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1343 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1344 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1347 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1348 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1349 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1350 list of available audio and video filters
1351 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1352 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1353 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1356 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1357 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1358 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1359 * id3tag: use taglib
1360 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1361 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1362 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1363 * removal of the noise filter
1364 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1365 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1366 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1367 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1370 * Update of translations for most languages.
1371 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1374 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1375 ----------------------------------
1378 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1379 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1382 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1383 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1386 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1387 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1388 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1391 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1394 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1395 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1398 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1401 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1402 ----------------------------------
1405 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1406 including support for OS X Lion
1407 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1408 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1411 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1414 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1415 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1416 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1419 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1422 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1423 ----------------------------------
1426 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1427 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1430 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1431 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1432 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1433 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1434 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1436 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1437 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1438 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1440 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1441 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1444 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1447 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1450 * Fix quitting on Linux
1451 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1455 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1458 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1461 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1462 ---------------------------------
1464 Windows and Mac OS X:
1465 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1468 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1469 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1472 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1475 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1478 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1480 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1481 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1483 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1484 * RTP output and XML export
1485 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1489 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1490 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1491 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1492 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1495 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1496 --------------------------------
1498 Windows and Mac OS X:
1499 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1502 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1505 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1506 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1507 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1508 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1509 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1510 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1513 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1514 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1518 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1519 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1520 * New Luganda Translation
1523 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1524 --------------------------------
1527 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1530 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1531 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1532 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1533 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1536 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1538 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1539 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1540 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1541 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1542 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1543 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1544 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1545 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1547 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1548 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1549 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1550 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1551 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1552 * Configure and build system improvements
1553 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1556 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1557 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1558 * New icelandic translation
1561 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1562 --------------------------------
1565 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1566 #234484 and #260719.
1569 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1570 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1571 and stability reasons
1574 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1578 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1581 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1582 ----------------------------------
1585 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1588 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1589 ---------------------------------
1592 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1593 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1594 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1595 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1598 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1601 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1602 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1603 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1604 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1607 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1608 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1609 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1611 Subtitles and renderer:
1612 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1613 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1614 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1615 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1616 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1619 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1620 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1621 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1622 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1625 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1626 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1628 Miscellaneous fixes:
1629 * KDE device solid actions
1631 * Transcode integer overflow
1632 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1633 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1636 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1637 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1638 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1641 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1642 ----------------------------------
1645 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1649 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1652 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1655 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1656 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1657 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1658 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1661 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1665 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1668 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1671 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1672 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1674 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1678 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1679 * Miscellaneous fixes
1682 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1683 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1684 French and Ukrainian
1685 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1686 * New Asturian translation
1689 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1690 ----------------------------------
1693 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1695 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1698 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1701 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1702 * Various fixes for Windows
1705 * New Armenian translation
1706 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1707 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1710 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1711 --------------------------------
1714 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1715 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1716 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1719 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1720 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1723 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1724 --------------------------------
1726 Access and demuxers:
1727 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1728 * fix for podcasts parsing
1729 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1732 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1733 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1736 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1737 * fix m3u playlists exports
1740 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1743 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1746 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1749 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1752 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1755 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1756 --------------------------------
1759 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1760 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1763 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1764 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1767 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1768 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1769 * fix console output encoding
1771 Interface and extensions:
1772 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1773 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1776 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1781 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1782 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1783 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1784 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1785 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1786 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1787 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1788 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1789 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1790 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1791 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1792 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1793 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1794 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1795 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1799 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1800 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1801 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1802 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1803 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1806 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1809 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1810 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1811 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1815 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1818 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1819 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1820 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1823 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1824 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1825 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1826 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1829 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1830 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1833 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1834 --------------------------------
1836 Important changes for users:
1837 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1838 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1840 Important changes for packagers:
1841 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1842 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1843 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1844 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1845 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1847 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1849 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1850 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1851 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1852 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1853 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1856 * Support for the sftp protocol
1857 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1858 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1859 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1860 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1861 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1864 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1865 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1866 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1868 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1869 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1870 * Invmem module improvements
1871 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1872 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1873 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1874 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1875 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1876 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1877 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1878 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1879 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1880 * Support for VP8 codec
1881 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1884 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1885 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1886 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1887 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1888 * Various EGP improvements
1889 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1890 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1893 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1894 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1895 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1896 * Podcast images are now displayed
1899 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1900 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1901 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1902 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1903 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1904 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1905 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1906 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1907 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1908 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1909 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1912 * New content extensions lua framework
1915 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1916 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1917 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1918 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1919 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1920 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1921 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1924 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1925 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1926 * Service discovery based on libudev
1927 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1930 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1931 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1932 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1933 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1934 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1935 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1936 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1939 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1940 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1941 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1944 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1946 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1947 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1950 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1953 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1954 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1955 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1956 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1957 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1958 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1959 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1962 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1963 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1966 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1967 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1968 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1972 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1973 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1974 * Improved Solaris port
1977 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1978 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1981 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1982 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1983 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1984 * transrate: broken since too long
1985 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1986 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1987 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1988 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1989 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1990 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1991 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1992 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1993 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1994 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1995 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1996 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1997 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1998 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2001 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2002 --------------------------------
2005 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2007 Decoders/Packetizers:
2008 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2011 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2012 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2013 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2014 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2015 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2018 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2019 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2022 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2023 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2026 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2027 and Walloon translations updated
2028 * Sinhala translation started
2031 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2032 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2035 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2036 --------------------------------
2039 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2040 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2043 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2046 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2047 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2050 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2051 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2052 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2053 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2056 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2057 --------------------------------
2060 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2061 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2064 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2065 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2068 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2069 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2072 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2075 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2076 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2079 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2080 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2083 * New Walloon translation
2084 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2087 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2088 --------------------------------
2091 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2092 regressions in most popular drivers
2093 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2096 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2097 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2098 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2101 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2102 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2105 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2106 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2107 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2108 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2109 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2112 * New udev module for linux
2115 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2118 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2121 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2122 --------------------------------
2125 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2126 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2127 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2130 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2131 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2134 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2135 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2138 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2141 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2142 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2143 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2144 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2147 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2148 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2149 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2150 - no support for Goom and SDL
2151 - limited text rendering support
2152 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2155 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2156 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2157 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2158 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2159 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2160 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2161 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2162 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2163 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2167 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2170 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2173 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2174 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2175 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2176 Arabic and French translation updates
2179 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2180 --------------------------------
2183 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2184 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2185 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2186 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2187 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2188 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2191 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2192 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2193 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2196 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2197 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2198 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2201 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2204 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2205 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2208 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2209 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2210 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2211 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2212 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2213 * Fix various crashes
2216 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2218 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2222 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2223 ---------------------------------
2227 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2228 See 'Access:' for more info.
2229 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2232 * Instantaneous pausing
2233 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2234 * Finer speed control
2235 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2236 * Timeshift for most medias
2237 * RTSP trickplay support
2238 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2241 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2242 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2243 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2244 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2245 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2246 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2247 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2248 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2249 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2250 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2253 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2254 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2255 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2256 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2257 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2258 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2259 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2262 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2263 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2266 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2267 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2268 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2269 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2270 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2271 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2272 * DVB scanning on linux
2273 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2274 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2275 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2276 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2277 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2278 * MTP device access on Unix
2279 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2280 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2283 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2284 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2285 Windows and Mac OS X.
2288 * Export the playlist in HTML
2289 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2290 * Better metadata handling and reading
2292 Linux/Windows interface:
2293 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2294 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2295 * Recently played items list
2296 * Interface toolbar customizations
2297 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2298 - More menus actions
2299 - Finer speed slider
2300 - Improvements on many dialogs
2301 - New dialog for plugins listing
2302 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2303 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2304 * Better integration in GTK environments
2307 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2308 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2309 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2310 * Additional usability improvements
2313 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2314 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2315 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2316 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2317 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2320 * New Maemo port with:
2321 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2322 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2325 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2328 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2329 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2330 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2331 * Support for latest iSight models
2334 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2335 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2338 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2339 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2340 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2341 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2342 The old image video output has been removed.
2343 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2344 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2347 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2355 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2356 --------------------------------------
2362 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2363 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2364 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2365 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2366 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2367 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2368 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2370 Various fixes to the following modules:
2373 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2374 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2375 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2377 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2382 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2383 ---------------------------------
2386 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2387 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2390 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2391 ---------------------------------
2394 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2397 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2400 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2401 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2402 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2403 main controller window.
2404 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2407 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2412 * Updates of other localizations
2415 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2416 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2417 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2418 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2419 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2422 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2423 ---------------------------------
2426 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2428 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2431 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2432 --------------------------------
2437 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2438 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2441 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2442 --------------------------------
2444 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2445 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2448 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2451 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2452 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2455 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2456 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2459 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2460 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2461 * Various fixed in playlist
2464 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2467 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2470 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2471 ------------------------------------
2473 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2474 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2477 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2478 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2479 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2482 * Stability fix for the video output.
2485 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2486 --------------------------------
2489 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2490 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2491 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2492 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2493 * Fixed update system bugs
2494 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2497 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2498 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2499 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2500 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2501 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2502 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2503 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2504 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2505 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2506 modern Mac OS X versions
2509 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2510 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2512 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2513 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2516 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2517 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2518 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2519 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2520 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2521 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2524 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2525 --------------------------------
2527 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2528 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2529 * Multiple bugfixes.
2532 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2533 --------------------------------
2535 * Multiple bug fixes.
2538 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2539 ---------------------------------
2543 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2544 recent to work correctly
2545 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2546 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2547 edit the ".hosts" file.
2548 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2549 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2550 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2551 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2552 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2553 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2554 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2555 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2556 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2557 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2558 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2559 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2560 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2561 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2562 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2563 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2564 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2565 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2566 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2567 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2568 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2569 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2570 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2571 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2572 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2573 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2574 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2575 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2576 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2577 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2578 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2579 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2580 and postproc modules.
2581 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2582 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2583 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2584 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2586 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2587 filter. For example:
2588 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2589 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2591 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2592 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2598 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2600 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2601 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2604 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2605 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2607 * Shoutcast TV listings
2608 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2610 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2611 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2613 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2616 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2617 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2618 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2619 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2620 * JACK audio input support
2621 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2622 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2623 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2624 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2625 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2626 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2627 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2628 (available as a separate download).
2629 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2630 * RTMP input support
2631 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2632 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2633 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2635 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2636 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2639 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2640 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2641 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2642 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2644 * APEv1/2 tags support
2645 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2646 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2648 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2649 * TiVo Series 2 support
2650 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2655 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2656 * Flash Screen Video support
2657 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2658 * DosBox Capture support
2659 * Karl Morton's Video support
2660 * limited atrac3 support
2662 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2663 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2664 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2665 * H.264 PAFF support
2666 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2667 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2668 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2669 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2670 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2673 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2674 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2675 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2676 * AQTitle subtitles support
2677 * MKV USF subtitles support
2678 * HTML-based subtitles support
2679 * MPSub subtitles support
2680 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2681 * MPL2 subtitles support
2682 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2683 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2684 * Realtext subtitle support
2685 * DKS subtitle support
2686 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2687 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2690 * Flash Screen Video support
2691 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2693 Video outputs and filters:
2694 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2695 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2696 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2697 * New puzzle video output filter
2698 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2699 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2701 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2702 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2703 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2704 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2705 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2706 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2707 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2708 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2709 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2710 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2711 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2712 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2713 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2714 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2716 Audio outputs and filters:
2717 * Replay gain support
2718 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2719 new scaletempo audio filter)
2720 * New spatializer audio filter
2721 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2724 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2725 * New RTP payload formats:
2726 * Speex voice audio codec
2727 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2728 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2729 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2730 * DCCP transport for RTP
2731 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2736 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2737 end-user suitable way.
2738 * Improved user interaction
2739 * Improved mouse gestures
2740 * Vastly improved Update checker
2741 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2743 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2744 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2746 * Improved video output features
2747 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2748 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2749 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2750 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2751 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2753 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2754 if libncursesw is available.
2755 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2756 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2757 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2759 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2760 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2761 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2762 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2763 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2764 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2765 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2766 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2769 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2770 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2771 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2774 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2775 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2776 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2777 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2778 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2779 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2782 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2783 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2793 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2794 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2795 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2798 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2799 ----------------------------------
2802 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2805 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2806 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2807 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2808 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2809 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2810 * Updated Polish translation
2813 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2814 ----------------------------------
2817 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2818 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2819 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2822 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2823 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2824 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2825 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2826 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2827 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2828 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2829 to an unexpected application termination
2830 * New Serbian translation
2831 * Updated Romanian translation
2834 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2835 ----------------------------------
2838 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2839 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2840 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2841 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2842 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2843 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2844 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2845 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2848 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2849 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2850 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2851 * Fixed AAC resampling
2852 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2853 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2856 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2857 ----------------------------------
2860 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2861 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2862 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2863 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2864 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2867 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2868 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2869 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2870 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2871 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2874 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2875 ----------------------------------
2878 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2879 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2882 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2883 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2884 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2885 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2887 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2891 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2894 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2897 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2900 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2903 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2904 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2905 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2906 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2907 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2909 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2910 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2911 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2912 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2915 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2918 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2919 ----------------------------------
2922 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2923 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2924 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2926 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2927 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2929 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2930 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2933 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2935 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2936 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2937 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2938 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2939 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2940 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2941 two different movies
2942 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2943 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2944 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2947 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2950 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2951 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2952 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2953 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2956 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2957 ----------------------------------
2959 Various bugfixes, notably:
2960 * Windows Vista compatibility
2961 * Cropping in Direct3D
2962 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2963 * RSS filter string overflow
2965 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2967 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2968 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2971 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2972 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2975 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2978 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2981 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2984 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2985 ----------------------------------
2987 Various bugfixes, notably:
2988 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2989 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2990 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2991 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2992 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2993 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2996 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2997 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3000 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3002 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3003 * Diverse usability improvements
3004 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3005 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3006 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3009 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3010 ---------------------------------
3012 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3013 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3016 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3019 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3020 --------------------------------
3023 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3026 * Support for RTSP authentication
3027 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3028 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3029 * ATSC support for DVB input
3030 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3031 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3032 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3035 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3036 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3037 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3038 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3039 * Matroska WavPack support
3040 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3041 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3042 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3045 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3046 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3047 * Improved libcaca support
3051 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3052 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3054 * Systray support in skins
3056 * Support for Apple Remote control
3057 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3058 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3059 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3060 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3062 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3065 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3066 Windows 9x/ME users:
3067 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3068 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3069 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3070 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3071 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3073 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3074 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3083 * Updates to the libvlc API
3084 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3087 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3088 --------------------------------
3091 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3092 * Support for downloading updates
3096 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3097 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3098 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3099 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3101 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3102 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3103 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3106 * Cook (Real audio) support
3108 Playlist / Services discovery:
3109 * XSPF playlist support
3111 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3114 * New JACK audio output
3117 * New video filters:
3118 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3119 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3120 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3121 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3122 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3123 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3126 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3129 * System to inform the user and request information
3130 - HTTP authentication
3134 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3135 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3136 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3139 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3140 - Improved playlist handling
3141 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3143 - Embedded Video output
3144 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3145 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3146 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3147 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3148 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3150 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3151 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3154 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3157 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3158 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3159 * Growl "Now playing" support
3162 * Ability to log to syslog
3163 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3166 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3168 * A bit more automatic testing
3171 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3172 ---------------------------------
3175 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3176 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3179 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3180 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3183 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3186 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3187 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3193 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3196 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3197 --------------------------------
3200 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3204 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3205 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3206 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3209 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3210 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3211 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3212 * GnomeVFS input module
3213 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3214 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3217 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3218 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3219 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3222 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3223 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3229 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3230 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3233 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3234 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3235 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3238 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3240 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3241 - New extended controls panel
3242 - New bookmarks window
3243 - Fixed playlist sorting
3244 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3246 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3247 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3248 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3249 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3253 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3254 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3256 - Include macro to include other files
3260 * Should now work outside IE as well
3263 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3266 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3267 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3270 The following languages were added:
3274 * Simplified Chinese
3275 The following languages were re-added:
3279 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3280 --------------------------------
3283 * Rewrite of the playlist
3285 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3286 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3287 * Preferences improvements:
3288 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3289 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3291 * Core image manipulation support
3292 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3293 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3294 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3295 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3296 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3297 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3298 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3299 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3300 * Access filter architecture
3301 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3302 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3306 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3307 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3308 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3309 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3310 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3311 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3312 * Massive Matroska improvements
3313 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3315 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3316 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3317 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3318 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3319 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3321 Decoders / Encoders:
3322 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3323 * PNG decoder/encoder
3324 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3325 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3328 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3331 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3332 * Brand new SAP module
3333 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3334 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3335 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3336 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3337 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3338 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3342 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3345 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3346 * Image file video output (png)
3347 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3348 * Improvements to wall video filter
3349 * Support for font color and opacity
3355 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3356 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3357 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3361 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3362 - Improved preferences
3363 - Improvements to the wizard
3364 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3366 - Redesigned playlist
3367 - Improved preferences
3369 - Support for multiple actions
3372 - Support for the new playlist system
3374 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3377 * Screensaver disabling fix
3378 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3379 * Support for no-decoration windows
3382 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3383 * The OpenGL video output is back
3384 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3385 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3386 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3387 is not yet available in the new module
3388 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3391 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3400 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3403 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3406 The following languages were added:
3412 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3413 --------------------------------
3416 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3417 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3420 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3421 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3422 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3425 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3428 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3431 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3434 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3435 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3436 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3440 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3442 * Support of playlist group announcement
3445 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3446 --------------------------------
3449 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3450 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3451 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3452 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3453 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3454 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3457 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3458 (Stream your desktop)
3459 * Improved DVD support:
3460 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3461 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3462 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3463 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3464 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3465 (selection of titles/chapters).
3468 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3469 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3470 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3471 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3472 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3473 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3474 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3475 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3476 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3477 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3480 * G.726 audio support
3481 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3482 * MPEG-4 text support
3483 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3484 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3485 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3489 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3490 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3491 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3492 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3493 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3494 * DVB subtitles encoder
3495 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3496 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3498 * Text track muxing for mp4
3499 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3500 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3501 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3502 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3503 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3504 * Improved ASF muxer
3506 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3507 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3508 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3511 * New audio equalizer filter
3512 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3513 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3514 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3515 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3518 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3519 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3520 with support for effects.
3521 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3522 - New filters can be streamed.
3523 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3524 - Centralized scaling and blending
3526 - "time", to display current time
3527 - "marq", to display a marquee
3530 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3531 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3532 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3533 * A few skins2 improvements
3534 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3535 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3536 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3537 * Improved CORBA control module
3540 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3541 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3542 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3545 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3546 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3547 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3550 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3551 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3552 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3553 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3554 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3557 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3560 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3561 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3564 * Server/client network synchronization module
3565 * VBrick streams fully supported
3566 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3570 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3571 --------------------------------
3574 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3575 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3576 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3577 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3580 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3581 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3582 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3583 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3584 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3585 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3586 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3589 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3590 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3591 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3592 * Improved directory access module.
3593 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3594 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3595 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3596 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3597 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3600 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3601 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3602 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3605 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3606 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3607 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3610 * Improved session announcement system.
3611 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3612 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3613 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3614 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3615 * Improved transrater.
3616 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3617 * New configuration system.
3618 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3621 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3622 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3623 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3624 * Supports scheduling.
3625 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3626 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3629 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3630 - Ability to embed video output.
3631 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3632 - Lots of improvements.
3633 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3634 - New design and set of icons.
3635 - Ability to embed video output.
3636 - Support for hotkeys.
3637 - Support for bookmarks.
3639 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3640 - Better hotkeys handling.
3643 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3644 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3645 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3646 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3649 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3650 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3651 * Improved Windows installer.
3657 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3658 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3661 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3662 ---------------------------------
3665 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3666 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3669 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3670 --------------------------------
3673 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3674 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3677 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3678 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3679 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3680 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3683 * Internal improvments
3684 * Improved import/export
3687 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3689 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3690 small and strange formats.
3692 * New MOD audio demux.
3693 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3694 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3695 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3696 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3699 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3700 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3701 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3707 * New opengl video output plugin.
3710 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3711 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3714 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3715 --------------------------------
3718 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3719 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3720 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3721 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3722 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3723 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3724 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3725 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3728 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3733 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3734 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3735 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3736 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3737 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3738 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3739 * Better Icecast support.
3740 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3741 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3744 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3745 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3746 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3747 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3748 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3749 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3750 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3753 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3754 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3755 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3756 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3757 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3758 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3759 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3760 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3761 * Preliminary RTP support.
3762 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3767 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3768 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3770 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3771 - Improvements and help in preferences
3772 - New streaming wizard
3773 - Revised Disc Open menu
3775 - Improvements of the standard pages
3776 - Support for new commands
3777 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3780 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3781 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3784 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3785 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3786 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3787 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3788 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3789 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3790 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3791 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3792 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3795 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3797 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3798 * Support for Panther.
3799 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3800 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3803 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3804 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3805 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3806 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3807 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3808 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3809 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3810 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3813 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3814 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3815 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3818 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3821 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3822 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3823 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3824 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3827 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3828 --------------------------------
3831 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3834 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3835 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3838 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3839 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3842 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3845 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3846 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3849 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3852 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3855 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3856 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3860 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3861 --------------------------------
3864 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3865 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3869 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3870 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3871 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3873 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3874 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3877 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3880 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3883 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3884 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3888 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3889 --------------------------------
3892 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3893 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3897 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3898 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3899 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3900 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3901 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3904 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3905 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3906 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3909 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3910 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3911 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3914 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3915 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3916 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3917 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3918 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3921 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3922 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3923 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3926 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3929 * Improved build system.
3930 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3931 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3932 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3933 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3936 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3937 --------------------------------
3940 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3943 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3944 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3945 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3946 * Video 4 Linux support
3947 * CD Digital Audio support
3948 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3951 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3952 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3953 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3954 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3957 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3958 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3959 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3960 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3961 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3962 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3963 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3966 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3967 * New HTTP remote control interface
3970 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3971 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3972 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3973 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3974 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3977 * New reset option for the preferences
3978 * You can set your language in the prefences
3979 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3980 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3981 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3982 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3985 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3986 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3987 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3990 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3991 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3992 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3993 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3994 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3995 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3996 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3997 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3998 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3999 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4002 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4003 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4004 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4005 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4006 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4007 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4008 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4011 * Interface localization
4012 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4013 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4014 * New full-featured Preferences window
4017 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4018 --------------------------------
4021 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4022 * support for skins at the interface level
4023 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4024 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4025 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4026 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4027 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4030 * fixed HTTP redirects
4031 * support for opening an entire directory
4032 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4033 * new video4linux access plug-in
4034 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4037 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4038 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4039 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4042 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4043 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4044 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4045 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4046 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4047 * new codec for raw I420 video
4048 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4051 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4052 (although it still misses some important features)
4053 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4056 * new HTTP output support
4057 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4058 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4061 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4064 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4067 * reorderable playlist
4068 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4069 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4070 * support for mono audio output devices
4071 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4072 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4073 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4074 * the messages window remembers more lines
4075 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4076 * http and ogg stream output options
4077 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4080 * new skinnable interface
4081 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4083 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4084 * support for FLAC audio format
4085 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4087 * network tab in the interface
4088 * "apply" handling in preferences
4091 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4092 ---------------------------------
4095 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4096 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4097 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4098 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4100 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4101 * DTS S/PDIF support
4104 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4105 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4106 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4107 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4110 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4111 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4114 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4117 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4120 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4122 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4123 * rc interface is now fully useable
4124 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4127 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4128 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4129 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4130 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4131 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4133 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4134 * support for mouse gestures
4135 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4138 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4139 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4142 * improved ID3 tag detection
4143 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4144 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4145 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4147 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4150 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4151 ---------------------------------
4154 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4155 English was set as the preferred language
4158 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4159 --------------------------------
4162 * new mouse gesture interface
4163 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4167 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4168 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4169 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4172 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4173 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4177 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4180 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4181 without the user consent
4184 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4186 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4187 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4188 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4191 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4192 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4193 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4194 * playlist enhancements
4195 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4196 * new step forward/step backward commands
4197 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4198 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4199 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4202 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4203 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4204 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4207 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4208 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4211 * native video output is working again
4212 * only commandline interface support
4213 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4216 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4217 --------------------------------
4220 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4221 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4222 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4223 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4224 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4225 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4226 and A/52 streams are supported)
4227 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4232 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4233 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4234 * VCD entry points support
4235 * VCD image file support
4238 * support for *.asf format
4239 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4240 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4241 * support for ogg encapsulation
4242 * support for raw DV format
4243 * support for *.wav format
4244 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4247 Stream discovery & playlists:
4248 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4249 * support for .m3u file format
4250 * support for .asx file format
4251 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4254 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4255 (only available with the .avi demux)
4256 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4257 * support for raw PCM data
4258 * support for Cinepak video codec
4259 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4260 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4261 * support for Xvid codec
4262 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4263 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4264 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4266 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4268 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4271 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4274 * new WxWindows interface
4275 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4276 device and the channels configuration
4277 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4278 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4279 format that VLC can play
4280 * new swedish translation
4281 * enhancements of the playlist window
4282 * new messages window to see debug info
4283 * fixed a few crashes
4286 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4287 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4288 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4289 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working