1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
21 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
22 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
23 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
24 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
25 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
26 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
27 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
28 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
31 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
32 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
33 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
34 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
35 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
38 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
39 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
40 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
43 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
44 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
45 * Ogg seeking improvements
46 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
49 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
50 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
51 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
52 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
53 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
54 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
55 and important cleanups and optimisations
56 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
59 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
60 * New video output for iOS platform
61 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
62 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
63 * Various vmem improvements
66 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
67 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
68 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
69 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
70 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
71 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
72 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
75 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
78 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
81 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
82 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
83 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
84 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
85 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
86 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
87 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
88 * Major rework of VoD support
89 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
90 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
91 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
92 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
93 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
94 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
95 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
96 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
97 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
100 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
103 * New capabilities for libVLC:
104 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
105 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
106 list of available audio and video filters
109 * asademux: use libass only
110 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
111 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
113 * upnp: use upnp_intel
116 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
117 --------------------------------
119 Windows and Mac OS X:
120 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
123 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
126 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
127 * Improve Apple Remote handling
128 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
129 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
130 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
131 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
134 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
135 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
139 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
140 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
141 * New Luganda Translation
144 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
145 --------------------------------
148 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
151 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
152 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
153 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
154 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
157 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
159 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
160 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
161 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
162 * mp4 demuxer improvements
163 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
164 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
165 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
166 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
168 Miscellaneous fixes in:
169 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
170 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
171 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
172 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
173 * Configure and build system improvements
174 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
177 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
178 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
179 * New icelandic translation
182 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
183 --------------------------------
186 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
190 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
191 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
192 and stability reasons
195 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
199 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
202 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
203 ----------------------------------
206 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
209 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
210 ---------------------------------
213 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
214 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
215 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
216 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
219 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
222 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
223 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
224 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
225 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
228 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
229 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
230 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
232 Subtitles and renderer:
233 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
234 * Mark more freetype options as safe
235 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
236 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
237 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
240 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
241 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
242 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
243 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
246 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
247 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
250 * KDE device solid actions
252 * Transcode integer overflow
253 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
254 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
257 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
258 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
259 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
262 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
263 ----------------------------------
266 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
270 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
273 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
276 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
277 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
278 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
279 * Taglib thread-safety fix
282 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
286 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
289 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
292 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
293 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
295 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
299 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
300 * Miscellaneous fixes
303 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
304 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
306 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
307 * New Asturian translation
310 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
311 ----------------------------------
314 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
316 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
319 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
322 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
323 * Various fixes for Windows
326 * New Armenian translation
327 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
328 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
331 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
332 --------------------------------
335 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
337 * Fix folders opening from the interface
340 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
341 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
344 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
345 --------------------------------
348 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
349 * fix for podcasts parsing
350 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
353 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
354 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
357 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
358 * fix m3u playlists exports
361 * fix video autoresize behaviour
364 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
367 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
370 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
373 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
376 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
377 --------------------------------
380 * Avformat fps displaying fix
381 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
384 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
385 of mono streams, especially on Windows
388 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
389 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
390 * fix console output encoding
392 Interface and extensions:
393 * Youtube and other scripts updates
394 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
397 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
398 --------------------------------
401 * New capabilities for libVLC:
402 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
403 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
404 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
405 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
406 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
407 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
408 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
409 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
410 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
411 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
412 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
413 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
414 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
415 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
416 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
420 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
421 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
422 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
423 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
424 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
427 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
430 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
431 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
432 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
436 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
439 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
440 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
441 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
444 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
445 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
446 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
447 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
450 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
451 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
454 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
455 --------------------------------
457 Important changes for users:
458 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
459 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
461 Important changes for packagers:
462 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
463 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
464 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
465 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
466 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
468 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
470 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
471 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
472 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
473 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
474 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
477 * Support for the sftp protocol
478 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
479 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
480 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
481 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
482 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
485 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
486 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
487 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
489 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
490 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
491 * Invmem module improvements
492 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
493 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
494 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
495 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
496 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
497 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
498 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
499 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
500 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
501 * Support for VP8 codec
502 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
505 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
506 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
507 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
508 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
509 * Various EGP improvements
510 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
511 * Metadata and cover art improvements
514 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
515 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
516 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
517 * Podcast images are now displayed
520 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
521 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
522 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
523 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
524 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
525 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
526 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
527 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
528 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
529 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
530 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
533 * New content extensions lua framework
536 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
537 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
538 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
539 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
540 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
541 * NEON assembly audio converter module
542 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
545 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
546 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
547 * Service discovery based on libudev
548 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
551 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
552 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
553 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
554 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
555 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
556 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
557 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
560 * New smem module, streaming to memory
561 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
562 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
565 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
567 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
568 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
571 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
574 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
575 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
576 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
577 by Andy Matuschak et al.
578 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
579 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
580 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
583 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
584 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
587 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
588 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
589 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
593 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
594 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
595 * Improved Solaris port
598 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
599 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
602 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
603 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
604 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
605 * transrate: broken since too long
606 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
607 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
608 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
609 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
610 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
611 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
612 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
613 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
614 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
615 * cddax: use cdda instead.
616 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
617 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
618 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
619 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
622 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
623 --------------------------------
626 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
628 Decoders/Packetizers:
629 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
632 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
633 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
634 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
635 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
636 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
639 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
640 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
643 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
644 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
647 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
648 and Walloon translations updated
649 * Sinhala translation started
652 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
653 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
656 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
657 --------------------------------
660 * SubRip extra styles improvements
661 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
664 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
667 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
668 increase performance and fix x264 issues
671 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
672 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
673 Russian, Slovak translation updates
674 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
677 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
678 --------------------------------
681 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
682 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
685 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
686 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
689 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
690 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
693 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
696 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
697 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
700 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
701 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
704 * New Walloon translation
705 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
708 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
709 --------------------------------
712 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
713 regressions in most popular drivers
714 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
717 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
718 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
719 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
722 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
723 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
726 * Update for appletrailers lua script
727 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
728 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
729 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
730 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
733 * New udev module for linux
736 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
739 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
742 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
743 --------------------------------
746 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
747 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
748 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
751 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
752 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
755 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
756 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
759 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
762 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
763 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
764 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
765 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
768 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
769 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
770 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
771 - no support for Goom and SDL
772 - limited text rendering support
773 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
776 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
777 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
778 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
779 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
780 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
781 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
782 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
783 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
784 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
788 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
791 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
794 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
795 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
796 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
797 Arabic and French translation updates
800 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
801 --------------------------------
804 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
805 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
806 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
807 * Fix Dailymotion access script
808 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
809 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
812 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
813 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
816 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
817 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
818 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
821 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
824 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
825 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
828 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
829 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
830 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
831 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
832 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
833 * Fix various crashes
836 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
838 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
841 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
842 ---------------------------------
846 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
847 See 'Access:' for more info.
848 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
851 * Instantaneous pausing
852 * Frame-by-Frame playback
853 * Finer speed control
854 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
855 * Timeshift for most medias
856 * RTSP trickplay support
857 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
860 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
861 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
862 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
863 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
864 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
865 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
866 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
867 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
868 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
869 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
872 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
873 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
874 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
875 * Metadata for mod files are supported
876 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
877 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
878 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
881 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
882 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
885 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
886 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
887 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
888 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
889 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
890 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
891 * DVB scanning on linux
892 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
893 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
894 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
895 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
896 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
897 * MTP device access on Unix
898 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
899 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
902 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
903 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
904 Windows and Mac OS X.
907 * Export the playlist in HTML
908 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
909 * Better metadata handling and reading
911 Linux/Windows interface:
912 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
913 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
914 * Recently played items list
915 * Interface toolbar customizations
916 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
919 - Improvements on many dialogs
920 - New dialog for plugins listing
921 - Fixed-size mode for videos
922 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
923 * Better integration in GTK environments
926 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
927 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
928 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
929 * Additional usability improvements
932 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
933 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
934 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
935 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
936 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
939 * New Maemo port with:
940 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
941 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
944 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
947 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
948 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
949 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
950 * Support for latest iSight models
953 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
954 * Surround support for PulseAudio
957 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
958 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
959 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
960 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
961 The old image video output has been removed.
962 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
963 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
966 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
974 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
975 --------------------------------------
981 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
982 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
983 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
984 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
985 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
986 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
987 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
989 Various fixes to the following modules:
992 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
993 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
996 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1001 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1002 ---------------------------------
1005 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1006 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1009 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1010 ---------------------------------
1013 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1016 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1019 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1020 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1021 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1022 main controller window.
1023 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1026 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1031 * Updates of other localizations
1034 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1035 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1036 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1037 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1038 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1041 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1042 ---------------------------------
1045 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1047 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1050 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1051 --------------------------------
1056 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1057 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1060 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1061 --------------------------------
1063 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1064 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1067 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1070 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1071 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1074 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1075 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1078 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1079 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1080 * Various fixed in playlist
1083 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1086 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1089 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1090 ------------------------------------
1092 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1093 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1096 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1097 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1098 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1101 * Stability fix for the video output.
1104 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1105 --------------------------------
1108 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1109 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1110 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1111 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1112 * Fixed update system bugs
1113 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1116 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1117 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1118 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1119 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1120 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1121 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1122 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1123 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1124 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1125 modern Mac OS X versions
1128 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1129 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1131 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1132 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1135 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1136 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1137 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1138 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1139 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1140 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1143 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1144 --------------------------------
1146 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1147 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1148 * Multiple bugfixes.
1151 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1152 --------------------------------
1154 * Multiple bug fixes.
1157 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1158 ---------------------------------
1162 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1163 recent to work correctly
1164 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1165 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1166 edit the ".hosts" file.
1167 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1168 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1169 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1170 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1171 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1172 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1173 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1174 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1175 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1176 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1177 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1178 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1179 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1180 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1181 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1182 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1183 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1184 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1185 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1186 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1187 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1188 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1189 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1190 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1191 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1192 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1193 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1194 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1195 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1196 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1197 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1198 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1199 and postproc modules.
1200 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1201 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1202 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1203 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1205 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1206 filter. For example:
1207 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1208 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1210 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1211 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1217 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1219 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1220 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1223 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1224 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1226 * Shoutcast TV listings
1227 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1229 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1230 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1232 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1235 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1236 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1237 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1238 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1239 * JACK audio input support
1240 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1241 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1242 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1243 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1244 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1245 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1246 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1247 (available as a separate download).
1248 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1249 * RTMP input support
1250 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1251 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1252 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1254 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1255 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1258 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1259 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1260 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1261 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1263 * APEv1/2 tags support
1264 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1265 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1267 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1268 * TiVo Series 2 support
1269 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1274 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1275 * Flash Screen Video support
1276 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1277 * DosBox Capture support
1278 * Karl Morton's Video support
1279 * limited atrac3 support
1281 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1282 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1283 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1284 * H.264 PAFF support
1285 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1286 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1287 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1288 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1289 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1292 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1293 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1294 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1295 * AQTitle subtitles support
1296 * MKV USF subtitles support
1297 * HTML-based subtitles support
1298 * MPSub subtitles support
1299 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1300 * MPL2 subtitles support
1301 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1302 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1303 * Realtext subtitle support
1304 * DKS subtitle support
1305 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1306 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1309 * Flash Screen Video support
1310 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1312 Video outputs and filters:
1313 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1314 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1315 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1316 * New puzzle video output filter
1317 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1318 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1320 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1321 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1322 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1323 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1324 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1325 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1326 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1327 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1328 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1329 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1330 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1331 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1332 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1333 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1335 Audio outputs and filters:
1336 * Replay gain support
1337 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1338 new scaletempo audio filter)
1339 * New spatializer audio filter
1340 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1343 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1344 * New RTP payload formats:
1345 * Speex voice audio codec
1346 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1347 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1348 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1349 * DCCP transport for RTP
1350 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1355 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1356 end-user suitable way.
1357 * Improved user interaction
1358 * Improved mouse gestures
1359 * Vastly improved Update checker
1360 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1362 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1363 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1365 * Improved video output features
1366 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1367 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1368 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1369 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1370 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1372 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1373 if libncursesw is available.
1374 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1375 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1376 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1378 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1379 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1380 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1381 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1382 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1383 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1384 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1385 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1388 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1389 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1390 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1393 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1394 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1395 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1396 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1397 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1398 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1401 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1402 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1412 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1413 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1414 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1417 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1418 ----------------------------------
1421 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1424 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1425 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1426 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1427 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1428 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1429 * Updated Polish translation
1432 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1433 ----------------------------------
1436 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1437 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1438 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1441 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1442 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1443 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1444 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1445 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1446 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1447 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1448 to an unexpected application termination
1449 * New Serbian translation
1450 * Updated Romanian translation
1453 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1454 ----------------------------------
1457 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1458 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1459 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1460 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1461 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1462 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1463 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1464 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1467 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1468 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1469 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1470 * Fixed AAC resampling
1471 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1472 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1475 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1476 ----------------------------------
1479 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1480 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1481 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1482 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1483 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1486 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1487 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1488 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1489 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1490 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1493 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1494 ----------------------------------
1497 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1498 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1501 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1502 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1503 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1504 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1506 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1510 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1513 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1516 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1519 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1522 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1523 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1524 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1525 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1526 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1528 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1529 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1530 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1531 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1534 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1537 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1538 ----------------------------------
1541 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1542 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1543 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1545 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1546 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1548 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1549 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1552 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1554 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1555 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1556 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1557 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1558 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1559 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1560 two different movies
1561 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1562 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1563 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1566 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1569 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1570 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1571 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1572 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1575 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1576 ----------------------------------
1578 Various bugfixes, notably:
1579 * Windows Vista compatibility
1580 * Cropping in Direct3D
1581 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1582 * RSS filter string overflow
1584 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1586 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1587 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1590 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1591 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1594 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1597 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1600 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1603 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1604 ----------------------------------
1606 Various bugfixes, notably:
1607 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1608 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1609 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1610 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1611 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1612 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1615 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1616 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1619 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1621 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1622 * Diverse usability improvements
1623 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1624 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1625 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1628 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1629 ---------------------------------
1631 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1632 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1635 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1638 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1639 --------------------------------
1642 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1645 * Support for RTSP authentication
1646 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1647 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1648 * ATSC support for DVB input
1649 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1650 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1651 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1654 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1655 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1656 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1657 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1658 * Matroska WavPack support
1659 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1660 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1661 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1664 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1665 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1666 * Improved libcaca support
1670 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1671 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1673 * Systray support in skins
1675 * Support for Apple Remote control
1676 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1677 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1678 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1679 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1681 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1684 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1685 Windows 9x/ME users:
1686 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1687 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1688 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1689 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1690 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1692 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1693 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1702 * Updates to the libvlc API
1703 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1706 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1707 --------------------------------
1710 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1711 * Support for downloading updates
1715 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1716 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1717 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1718 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1720 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1721 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1722 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1725 * Cook (Real audio) support
1727 Playlist / Services discovery:
1728 * XSPF playlist support
1730 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1733 * New JACK audio output
1736 * New video filters:
1737 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1738 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1739 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1740 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1741 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1742 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1745 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1748 * System to inform the user and request information
1749 - HTTP authentication
1753 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1754 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1755 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1758 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1759 - Improved playlist handling
1760 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1762 - Embedded Video output
1763 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1764 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1765 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1766 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1767 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1769 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1770 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1773 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1776 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1777 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1778 * Growl "Now playing" support
1781 * Ability to log to syslog
1782 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1785 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1787 * A bit more automatic testing
1790 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1791 ---------------------------------
1794 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1795 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1798 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1799 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1802 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1805 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1806 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1812 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1815 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1816 --------------------------------
1819 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1823 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1824 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1825 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1828 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1829 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1830 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1831 * GnomeVFS input module
1832 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1833 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1836 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1837 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1838 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1841 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1842 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1848 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1849 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1852 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1853 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1854 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1857 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1859 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1860 - New extended controls panel
1861 - New bookmarks window
1862 - Fixed playlist sorting
1863 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1865 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1866 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1867 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1868 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1872 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1873 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1875 - Include macro to include other files
1879 * Should now work outside IE as well
1882 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1885 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1886 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1889 The following languages were added:
1893 * Simplified Chinese
1894 The following languages were re-added:
1898 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1899 --------------------------------
1902 * Rewrite of the playlist
1904 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1905 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1906 * Preferences improvements:
1907 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1908 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1910 * Core image manipulation support
1911 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1912 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1913 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1914 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1915 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1916 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1917 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1918 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1919 * Access filter architecture
1920 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1921 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1925 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1926 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1927 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1928 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1929 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1930 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1931 * Massive Matroska improvements
1932 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1934 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1935 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1936 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1937 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1938 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1940 Decoders / Encoders:
1941 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1942 * PNG decoder/encoder
1943 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1944 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1947 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1950 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1951 * Brand new SAP module
1952 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1953 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1954 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1955 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1956 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1957 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1961 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1964 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1965 * Image file video output (png)
1966 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1967 * Improvements to wall video filter
1968 * Support for font color and opacity
1974 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1975 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1976 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1980 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1981 - Improved preferences
1982 - Improvements to the wizard
1983 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1985 - Redesigned playlist
1986 - Improved preferences
1988 - Support for multiple actions
1991 - Support for the new playlist system
1993 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1996 * Screensaver disabling fix
1997 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1998 * Support for no-decoration windows
2001 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2002 * The OpenGL video output is back
2003 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2004 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2005 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2006 is not yet available in the new module
2007 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2010 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2019 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2022 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2025 The following languages were added:
2031 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2032 --------------------------------
2035 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2036 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2039 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2040 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2041 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2044 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2047 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2050 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2053 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2054 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2055 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2059 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2061 * Support of playlist group announcement
2064 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2065 --------------------------------
2068 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2069 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2070 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2071 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2072 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2073 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2076 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2077 (Stream your desktop)
2078 * Improved DVD support:
2079 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2080 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2081 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2082 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2083 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2084 (selection of titles/chapters).
2087 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2088 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2089 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2090 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2091 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2092 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2093 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2094 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2095 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2096 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2099 * G.726 audio support
2100 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2101 * MPEG-4 text support
2102 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2103 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2104 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2108 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2109 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2110 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2111 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2112 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2113 * DVB subtitles encoder
2114 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2115 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2117 * Text track muxing for mp4
2118 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2119 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2120 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2121 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2122 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2123 * Improved ASF muxer
2125 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2126 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2127 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2130 * New audio equalizer filter
2131 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2132 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2133 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2134 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2137 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2138 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2139 with support for effects.
2140 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2141 - New filters can be streamed.
2142 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2143 - Centralized scaling and blending
2145 - "time", to display current time
2146 - "marq", to display a marquee
2149 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2150 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2151 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2152 * A few skins2 improvements
2153 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2154 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2155 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2156 * Improved CORBA control module
2159 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2160 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2161 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2164 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2165 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2166 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2169 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2170 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2171 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2172 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2173 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2176 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2179 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2180 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2183 * Server/client network synchronization module
2184 * VBrick streams fully supported
2185 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2189 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2190 --------------------------------
2193 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2194 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2195 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2196 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2199 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2200 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2201 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2202 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2203 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2204 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2205 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2208 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2209 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2210 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2211 * Improved directory access module.
2212 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2213 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2214 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2215 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2216 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2219 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2220 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2221 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2224 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2225 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2226 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2229 * Improved session announcement system.
2230 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2231 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2232 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2233 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2234 * Improved transrater.
2235 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2236 * New configuration system.
2237 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2240 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2241 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2242 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2243 * Supports scheduling.
2244 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2245 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2248 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2249 - Ability to embed video output.
2250 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2251 - Lots of improvements.
2252 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2253 - New design and set of icons.
2254 - Ability to embed video output.
2255 - Support for hotkeys.
2256 - Support for bookmarks.
2258 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2259 - Better hotkeys handling.
2262 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2263 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2264 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2265 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2268 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2269 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2270 * Improved Windows installer.
2276 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2277 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2280 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2281 ---------------------------------
2284 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2285 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2288 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2289 --------------------------------
2292 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2293 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2296 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2297 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2298 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2299 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2302 * Internal improvments
2303 * Improved import/export
2306 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2308 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2309 small and strange formats.
2311 * New MOD audio demux.
2312 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2313 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2314 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2315 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2318 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2319 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2320 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2326 * New opengl video output plugin.
2329 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2330 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2333 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2334 --------------------------------
2337 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2338 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2339 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2340 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2341 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2342 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2343 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2344 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2347 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2352 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2353 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2354 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2355 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2356 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2357 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2358 * Better Icecast support.
2359 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2360 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2363 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2364 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2365 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2366 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2367 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2368 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2369 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2372 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2373 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2374 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2375 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2376 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2377 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2378 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2379 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2380 * Preliminary RTP support.
2381 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2386 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2387 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2389 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2390 - Improvements and help in preferences
2391 - New streaming wizard
2392 - Revised Disc Open menu
2394 - Improvements of the standard pages
2395 - Support for new commands
2396 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2399 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2400 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2403 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2404 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2405 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2406 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2407 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2408 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2409 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2410 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2411 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2414 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2416 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2417 * Support for Panther.
2418 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2419 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2422 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2423 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2424 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2425 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2426 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2427 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2428 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2429 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2432 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2433 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2434 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2437 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2440 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2441 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2442 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2443 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2446 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2447 --------------------------------
2450 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2453 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2454 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2457 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2458 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2461 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2464 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2465 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2468 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2471 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2474 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2475 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2479 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2480 --------------------------------
2483 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2484 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2488 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2489 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2490 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2492 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2493 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2496 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2499 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2502 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2503 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2507 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2508 --------------------------------
2511 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2512 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2516 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2517 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2518 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2519 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2520 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2523 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2524 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2525 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2528 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2529 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2530 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2533 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2534 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2535 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2536 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2537 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2540 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2541 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2542 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2545 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2548 * Improved build system.
2549 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2550 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2551 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2552 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2555 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2556 --------------------------------
2559 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2562 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2563 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2564 * Video 4 Linux support
2565 * CD Digital Audio support
2566 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2569 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2570 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2571 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2572 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2575 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2576 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2577 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2578 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2579 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2580 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2581 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2584 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2585 * New HTTP remote control interface
2588 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2589 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2590 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2591 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2594 * New reset option for the preferences
2595 * You can set your language in the prefences
2596 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2597 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2598 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2599 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2602 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2603 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2604 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2607 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2608 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2609 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2610 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2611 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2612 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2613 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2614 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2615 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2616 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2619 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2620 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2621 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2622 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2623 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2624 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2625 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2628 * Interface localization
2629 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2630 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2631 * New full-featured Preferences window
2634 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2635 --------------------------------
2638 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2639 * support for skins at the interface level
2640 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2641 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2642 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2643 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2644 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2647 * fixed HTTP redirects
2648 * support for opening an entire directory
2649 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2650 * new video4linux access plug-in
2651 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2654 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2655 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2656 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2659 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2660 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2661 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2662 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2663 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2664 * new codec for raw I420 video
2665 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2668 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2669 (although it still misses some important features)
2670 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2673 * new HTTP output support
2674 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2675 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2678 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2681 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2684 * reorderable playlist
2685 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2686 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2687 * support for mono audio output devices
2688 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2689 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2690 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2691 * the messages window remembers more lines
2692 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2693 * http and ogg stream output options
2694 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2697 * new skinnable interface
2698 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2700 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2701 * support for FLAC audio format
2702 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2704 * network tab in the interface
2705 * "apply" handling in preferences
2708 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2709 ---------------------------------
2712 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2713 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2714 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2715 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2717 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2718 * DTS S/PDIF support
2721 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2722 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2723 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2724 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2727 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2728 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2731 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2734 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2737 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2739 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2740 * rc interface is now fully useable
2741 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2744 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2745 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2746 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2747 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2748 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2750 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2751 * support for mouse gestures
2752 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2755 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2756 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2759 * improved ID3 tag detection
2760 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2761 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2762 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2764 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2767 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2768 ---------------------------------
2771 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2772 English was set as the preferred language
2775 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2776 --------------------------------
2779 * new mouse gesture interface
2780 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2784 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2785 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2786 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2789 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2790 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2794 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2797 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2798 without the user consent
2801 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2803 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2804 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2805 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2808 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2809 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2810 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2811 * playlist enhancements
2812 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2813 * new step forward/step backward commands
2814 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2815 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2816 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2819 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2820 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2821 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2824 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2825 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2828 * native video output is working again
2829 * only commandline interface support
2830 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2833 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2834 --------------------------------
2837 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2838 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2839 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2840 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2841 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2842 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2843 and A/52 streams are supported)
2844 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2849 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2850 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2851 * VCD entry points support
2852 * VCD image file support
2855 * support for *.asf format
2856 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2857 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2858 * support for ogg encapsulation
2859 * support for raw DV format
2860 * support for *.wav format
2861 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2864 Stream discovery & playlists:
2865 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2866 * support for .m3u file format
2867 * support for .asx file format
2868 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2871 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2872 (only available with the .avi demux)
2873 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2874 * support for raw PCM data
2875 * support for Cinepak video codec
2876 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2877 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2878 * support for Xvid codec
2879 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2880 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2881 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2883 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2885 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2888 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2891 * new WxWindows interface
2892 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2893 device and the channels configuration
2894 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2895 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2896 format that VLC can play
2897 * new swedish translation
2898 * enhancements of the playlist window
2899 * new messages window to see debug info
2900 * fixed a few crashes
2903 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2904 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2905 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2906 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working