1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
17 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
20 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
21 * Major improvements in DASH support
22 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
25 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
26 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
27 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
28 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
29 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
30 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
33 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
34 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
37 * new remapping channel filter
38 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
39 * new VSXu visualization plugin
42 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
43 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
44 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
45 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
48 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
49 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
50 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
51 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
54 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
55 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
56 VLC's internal volume level
57 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
58 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
59 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
63 * portaudio audio output
64 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
65 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
66 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
69 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
70 --------------------------------
73 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
74 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
75 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
76 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
77 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
78 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
79 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
80 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
81 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
82 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
83 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
87 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
88 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
89 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
90 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
91 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
92 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
93 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
94 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
95 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
96 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
97 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
98 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
101 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
102 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
104 * Fix MP3 free format support
107 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
108 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
109 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
110 * Fix for DVB channels file support
111 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
114 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
115 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
117 Audio filters and output:
118 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
119 * Fix DirectSound device selection
120 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
121 * Do not apply volume in file output
122 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
123 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
126 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
127 the persistant media library
128 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
129 to the media library or the temporary playlist
130 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
131 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
132 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
133 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
134 press on the Play/Pause button
135 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
136 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
137 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
138 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
139 * Many Fullscreen fixes
140 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
141 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
142 Synchronization panel
143 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
144 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
145 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
146 * Fix crashes on exit
147 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
149 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
150 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
151 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
152 automatically reset on the first launch.
153 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
154 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
155 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
158 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
159 * Fixes for icecast SD
162 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
163 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
164 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
165 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
166 * Fix tags and file names display
167 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
170 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
171 * Fix for key events and focus loss
174 * Fix display of some buttons
175 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
176 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
179 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
180 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
181 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
184 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
185 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
186 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian,
187 Thai translations update
188 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
191 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
192 --------------------------------
195 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
196 * fix the samba module compilation
197 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
198 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
199 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
200 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
203 * Support for MXPEG files
204 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
205 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
208 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
209 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
210 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
213 * Fix ogm header creation
216 * limit spatializer filter distortions
217 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
220 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
221 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
222 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
223 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
226 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
229 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
230 * allow to hide the sidebar
231 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
232 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
233 * noticebly faster launch time
234 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
235 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
236 * improve track synchronization panel
237 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
238 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
241 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
242 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
243 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
244 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
247 * fix for menus display
248 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
249 * documentation update
252 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
253 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
256 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
257 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
258 * Update Jamendo selections
262 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
263 * fix a crash on VLM close
266 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
267 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
268 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
269 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
272 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
275 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
276 ---------------------------------
279 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
280 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
281 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
282 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
283 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
284 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
285 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
286 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
287 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
288 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
289 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
290 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
291 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
292 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
293 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
294 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
295 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
296 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
297 --http-crl (optional CRL).
298 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
299 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
300 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
301 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
302 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
303 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
304 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
306 Important changes for packagers:
307 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
308 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
309 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
310 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
311 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
312 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
313 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
314 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
315 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
316 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
319 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
320 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
321 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
322 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
323 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
324 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
325 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
328 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
329 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
330 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
331 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
332 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
333 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
334 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
335 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
336 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
337 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
338 * PulseAudio audio input support
339 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
340 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
341 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
342 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
343 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
344 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
345 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
346 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
349 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
350 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
351 are notably concerned.
352 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
353 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
354 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
355 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
356 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
357 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
358 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
359 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
360 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
361 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
362 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
363 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
364 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
365 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
366 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
369 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
370 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
371 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
372 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
373 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
374 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
375 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
376 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
377 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
378 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
379 * Improved support of tracker files
380 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
383 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
384 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
385 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
386 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
387 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
388 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
389 and important cleanups and optimisations
390 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
391 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
392 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
393 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
394 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
395 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
396 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
397 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
398 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
399 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
400 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
401 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
402 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
403 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
404 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
405 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
406 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
407 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
408 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
409 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
410 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
413 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
414 * New video output for iOS platform
415 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
416 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
417 * Various vmem improvements
418 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
419 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
420 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
421 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
422 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
423 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
425 Audio Output and Filters:
426 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
427 * New audio output in memory (amem)
428 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
429 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
430 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
431 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
432 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
433 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
434 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
435 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
438 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
439 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
440 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
441 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
442 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
443 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
444 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
445 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
446 * New anti-flickering filter
447 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
448 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
449 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
450 blackbox and customizable shadow.
451 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
452 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
453 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
456 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
457 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
458 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
459 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
460 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
461 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
462 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
463 * Major rework of VoD support
464 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
465 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
466 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
467 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
468 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
469 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
470 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
471 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
472 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
473 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
476 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
477 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
480 * New capabilities for libVLC:
481 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
482 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
483 list of available audio and video filters
484 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
485 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
486 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
489 * asademux, subsass: use libass
490 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
491 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
493 * upnp: use upnp_intel
494 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
495 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
496 * removal of the noise filter
497 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
498 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
499 removed in Growl's next release, too.
500 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
503 * Update of translations for most languages.
504 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
507 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
508 ----------------------------------
511 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
512 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
515 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
516 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
519 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
520 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
521 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
524 * Camtasia decoding fix.
527 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
528 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
531 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
534 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
535 ----------------------------------
538 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
539 including support for OS X Lion
540 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
541 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
544 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
547 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
548 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
549 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
552 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
555 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
556 ----------------------------------
559 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
560 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
563 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
564 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
565 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
566 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
567 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
569 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
570 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
571 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
573 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
574 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
577 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
580 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
583 * Fix quitting on Linux
584 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
588 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
591 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
594 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
595 ---------------------------------
597 Windows and Mac OS X:
598 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
601 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
602 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
605 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
608 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
611 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
613 Miscellaneous fixes in:
614 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
616 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
617 * RTP output and XML export
618 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
622 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
623 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
624 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
625 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
628 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
629 --------------------------------
631 Windows and Mac OS X:
632 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
635 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
638 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
639 * Improve Apple Remote handling
640 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
641 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
642 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
643 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
646 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
647 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
651 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
652 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
653 * New Luganda Translation
656 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
657 --------------------------------
660 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
663 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
664 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
665 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
666 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
669 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
671 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
672 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
673 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
674 * mp4 demuxer improvements
675 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
676 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
677 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
678 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
680 Miscellaneous fixes in:
681 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
682 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
683 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
684 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
685 * Configure and build system improvements
686 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
689 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
690 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
691 * New icelandic translation
694 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
695 --------------------------------
698 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
702 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
703 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
704 and stability reasons
707 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
711 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
714 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
715 ----------------------------------
718 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
721 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
722 ---------------------------------
725 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
726 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
727 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
728 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
731 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
734 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
735 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
736 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
737 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
740 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
741 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
742 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
744 Subtitles and renderer:
745 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
746 * Mark more freetype options as safe
747 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
748 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
749 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
752 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
753 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
754 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
755 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
758 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
759 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
762 * KDE device solid actions
764 * Transcode integer overflow
765 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
766 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
769 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
770 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
771 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
774 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
775 ----------------------------------
778 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
782 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
785 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
788 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
789 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
790 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
791 * Taglib thread-safety fix
794 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
798 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
801 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
804 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
805 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
807 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
811 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
812 * Miscellaneous fixes
815 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
816 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
818 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
819 * New Asturian translation
822 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
823 ----------------------------------
826 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
828 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
831 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
834 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
835 * Various fixes for Windows
838 * New Armenian translation
839 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
840 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
843 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
844 --------------------------------
847 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
849 * Fix folders opening from the interface
852 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
853 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
856 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
857 --------------------------------
860 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
861 * fix for podcasts parsing
862 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
865 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
866 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
869 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
870 * fix m3u playlists exports
873 * fix video autoresize behaviour
876 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
879 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
882 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
885 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
888 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
889 --------------------------------
892 * Avformat fps displaying fix
893 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
896 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
897 of mono streams, especially on Windows
900 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
901 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
902 * fix console output encoding
904 Interface and extensions:
905 * Youtube and other scripts updates
906 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
909 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
910 --------------------------------
913 * New capabilities for libVLC:
914 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
915 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
916 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
917 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
918 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
919 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
920 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
921 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
922 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
923 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
924 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
925 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
926 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
927 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
928 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
932 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
933 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
934 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
935 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
936 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
939 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
942 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
943 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
944 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
948 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
951 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
952 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
953 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
956 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
957 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
958 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
959 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
962 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
963 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
966 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
967 --------------------------------
969 Important changes for users:
970 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
971 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
973 Important changes for packagers:
974 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
975 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
976 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
977 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
978 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
980 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
982 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
983 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
984 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
985 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
986 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
989 * Support for the sftp protocol
990 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
991 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
992 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
993 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
994 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
997 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
998 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
999 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1001 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1002 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1003 * Invmem module improvements
1004 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1005 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1006 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1007 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1008 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1009 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1010 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1011 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1012 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1013 * Support for VP8 codec
1014 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1017 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1018 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1019 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1020 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1021 * Various EGP improvements
1022 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1023 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1026 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1027 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1028 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1029 * Podcast images are now displayed
1032 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1033 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1034 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1035 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1036 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1037 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1038 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1039 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1040 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1041 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1042 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1045 * New content extensions lua framework
1048 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1049 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1050 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1051 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1052 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1053 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1054 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1057 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1058 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1059 * Service discovery based on libudev
1060 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1063 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1064 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1065 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1066 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1067 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1068 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1069 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1072 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1073 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1074 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1077 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1079 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1080 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1083 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1086 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1087 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1088 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1089 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1090 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1091 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1092 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1095 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1096 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1099 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1100 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1101 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1105 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1106 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1107 * Improved Solaris port
1110 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1111 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1114 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1115 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1116 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1117 * transrate: broken since too long
1118 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1119 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1120 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1121 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1122 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1123 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1124 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1125 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1126 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1127 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1128 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1129 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1130 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1131 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1134 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1135 --------------------------------
1138 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1140 Decoders/Packetizers:
1141 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1144 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1145 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1146 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1147 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1148 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1151 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1152 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1155 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1156 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1159 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1160 and Walloon translations updated
1161 * Sinhala translation started
1164 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1165 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1168 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1169 --------------------------------
1172 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1173 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1176 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1179 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1180 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1183 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1184 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1185 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1186 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1189 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1194 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1197 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1198 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1201 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1202 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1205 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1208 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1209 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1212 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1213 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1216 * New Walloon translation
1217 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1220 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1221 --------------------------------
1224 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1225 regressions in most popular drivers
1226 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1229 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1230 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1231 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1234 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1235 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1238 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1239 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1240 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1241 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1242 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1245 * New udev module for linux
1248 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1251 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1254 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1255 --------------------------------
1258 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1259 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1260 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1263 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1264 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1267 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1268 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1271 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1274 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1275 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1276 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1277 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1280 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1281 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1282 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1283 - no support for Goom and SDL
1284 - limited text rendering support
1285 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1288 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1289 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1290 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1291 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1292 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1293 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1294 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1295 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1296 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1300 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1303 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1306 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1307 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1308 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1309 Arabic and French translation updates
1312 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1313 --------------------------------
1316 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1317 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1318 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1319 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1320 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1321 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1324 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1325 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1326 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1329 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1330 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1331 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1334 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1337 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1338 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1341 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1342 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1343 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1344 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1345 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1346 * Fix various crashes
1349 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1351 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1355 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1356 ---------------------------------
1360 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1361 See 'Access:' for more info.
1362 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1365 * Instantaneous pausing
1366 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1367 * Finer speed control
1368 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1369 * Timeshift for most medias
1370 * RTSP trickplay support
1371 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1374 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1375 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1376 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1377 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1378 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1379 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1380 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1381 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1382 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1383 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1386 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1387 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1388 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1389 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1390 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1391 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1392 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1395 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1396 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1399 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1400 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1401 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1402 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1403 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1404 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1405 * DVB scanning on linux
1406 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1407 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1408 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1409 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1410 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1411 * MTP device access on Unix
1412 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1413 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1416 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1417 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1418 Windows and Mac OS X.
1421 * Export the playlist in HTML
1422 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1423 * Better metadata handling and reading
1425 Linux/Windows interface:
1426 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1427 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1428 * Recently played items list
1429 * Interface toolbar customizations
1430 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1431 - More menus actions
1432 - Finer speed slider
1433 - Improvements on many dialogs
1434 - New dialog for plugins listing
1435 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1436 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1437 * Better integration in GTK environments
1440 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1441 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1442 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1443 * Additional usability improvements
1446 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1447 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1448 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1449 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1450 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1453 * New Maemo port with:
1454 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1455 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1458 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1461 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1462 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1463 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1464 * Support for latest iSight models
1467 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1468 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1471 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1472 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1473 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1474 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1475 The old image video output has been removed.
1476 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1477 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1480 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1488 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1489 --------------------------------------
1495 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1496 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1497 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1498 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1499 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1500 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1501 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1503 Various fixes to the following modules:
1506 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1507 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1508 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1510 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1515 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1516 ---------------------------------
1519 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1520 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1523 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1524 ---------------------------------
1527 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1530 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1533 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1534 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1535 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1536 main controller window.
1537 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1540 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1545 * Updates of other localizations
1548 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1549 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1550 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1551 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1552 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1555 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1556 ---------------------------------
1559 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1561 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1564 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1565 --------------------------------
1570 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1571 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1574 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1575 --------------------------------
1577 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1578 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1581 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1584 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1585 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1588 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1589 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1592 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1593 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1594 * Various fixed in playlist
1597 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1600 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1603 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1604 ------------------------------------
1606 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1607 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1610 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1611 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1612 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1615 * Stability fix for the video output.
1618 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1619 --------------------------------
1622 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1623 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1624 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1625 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1626 * Fixed update system bugs
1627 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1630 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1631 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1632 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1633 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1634 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1635 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1636 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1637 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1638 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1639 modern Mac OS X versions
1642 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1643 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1645 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1646 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1649 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1650 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1651 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1652 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1653 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1654 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1657 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1658 --------------------------------
1660 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1661 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1662 * Multiple bugfixes.
1665 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1666 --------------------------------
1668 * Multiple bug fixes.
1671 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1672 ---------------------------------
1676 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1677 recent to work correctly
1678 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1679 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1680 edit the ".hosts" file.
1681 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1682 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1683 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1684 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1685 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1686 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1687 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1688 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1689 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1690 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1691 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1692 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1693 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1694 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1695 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1696 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1697 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1698 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1699 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1700 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1701 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1702 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1703 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1704 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1705 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1706 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1707 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1708 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1709 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1710 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1711 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1712 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1713 and postproc modules.
1714 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1715 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1716 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1717 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1719 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1720 filter. For example:
1721 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1722 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1724 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1725 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1731 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1733 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1734 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1737 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1738 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1740 * Shoutcast TV listings
1741 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1743 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1744 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1746 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1749 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1750 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1751 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1752 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1753 * JACK audio input support
1754 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1755 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1756 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1757 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1758 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1759 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1760 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1761 (available as a separate download).
1762 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1763 * RTMP input support
1764 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1765 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1766 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1768 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1769 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1772 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1773 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1774 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1775 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1777 * APEv1/2 tags support
1778 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1779 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1781 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1782 * TiVo Series 2 support
1783 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1788 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1789 * Flash Screen Video support
1790 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1791 * DosBox Capture support
1792 * Karl Morton's Video support
1793 * limited atrac3 support
1795 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1796 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1797 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1798 * H.264 PAFF support
1799 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1800 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1801 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1802 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1803 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1806 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1807 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1808 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1809 * AQTitle subtitles support
1810 * MKV USF subtitles support
1811 * HTML-based subtitles support
1812 * MPSub subtitles support
1813 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1814 * MPL2 subtitles support
1815 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1816 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1817 * Realtext subtitle support
1818 * DKS subtitle support
1819 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1820 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1823 * Flash Screen Video support
1824 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1826 Video outputs and filters:
1827 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1828 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1829 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1830 * New puzzle video output filter
1831 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1832 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1834 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1835 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1836 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1837 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1838 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1839 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1840 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1841 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1842 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1843 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1844 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1845 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1846 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1847 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1849 Audio outputs and filters:
1850 * Replay gain support
1851 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1852 new scaletempo audio filter)
1853 * New spatializer audio filter
1854 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1857 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1858 * New RTP payload formats:
1859 * Speex voice audio codec
1860 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1861 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1862 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1863 * DCCP transport for RTP
1864 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1869 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1870 end-user suitable way.
1871 * Improved user interaction
1872 * Improved mouse gestures
1873 * Vastly improved Update checker
1874 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1876 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1877 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1879 * Improved video output features
1880 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1881 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1882 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1883 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1884 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1886 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1887 if libncursesw is available.
1888 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1889 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1890 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1892 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1893 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1894 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1895 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1896 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1897 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1898 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1899 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1902 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1903 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1904 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1907 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1908 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1909 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1910 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1911 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1912 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1915 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1916 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1926 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1927 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1928 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1931 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1932 ----------------------------------
1935 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1938 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1939 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1940 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1941 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1942 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1943 * Updated Polish translation
1946 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1947 ----------------------------------
1950 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1951 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1952 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1955 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1956 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1957 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1958 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1959 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1960 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1961 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1962 to an unexpected application termination
1963 * New Serbian translation
1964 * Updated Romanian translation
1967 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1968 ----------------------------------
1971 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1972 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1973 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1974 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1975 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1976 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1977 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1978 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1981 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1982 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1983 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1984 * Fixed AAC resampling
1985 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1986 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1989 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1990 ----------------------------------
1993 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1994 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1995 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1996 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1997 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2000 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2001 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2002 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2003 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2004 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2007 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2008 ----------------------------------
2011 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2012 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2015 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2016 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2017 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2018 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2020 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2024 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2027 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2030 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2033 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2036 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2037 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2038 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2039 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2040 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2042 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2043 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2044 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2045 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2048 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2051 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2052 ----------------------------------
2055 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2056 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2057 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2059 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2060 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2062 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2063 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2066 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2068 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2069 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2070 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2071 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2072 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2073 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2074 two different movies
2075 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2076 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2077 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2080 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2083 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2084 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2085 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2086 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2089 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2090 ----------------------------------
2092 Various bugfixes, notably:
2093 * Windows Vista compatibility
2094 * Cropping in Direct3D
2095 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2096 * RSS filter string overflow
2098 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2100 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2101 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2104 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2105 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2108 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2111 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2114 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2117 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2118 ----------------------------------
2120 Various bugfixes, notably:
2121 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2122 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2123 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2124 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2125 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2126 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2129 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2130 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2133 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2135 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2136 * Diverse usability improvements
2137 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2138 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2139 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2142 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2143 ---------------------------------
2145 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2146 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2149 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2152 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2153 --------------------------------
2156 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2159 * Support for RTSP authentication
2160 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2161 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2162 * ATSC support for DVB input
2163 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2164 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2165 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2168 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2169 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2170 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2171 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2172 * Matroska WavPack support
2173 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2174 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2175 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2178 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2179 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2180 * Improved libcaca support
2184 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2185 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2187 * Systray support in skins
2189 * Support for Apple Remote control
2190 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2191 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2192 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2193 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2195 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2198 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2199 Windows 9x/ME users:
2200 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2201 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2202 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2203 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2204 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2206 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2207 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2216 * Updates to the libvlc API
2217 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2220 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2221 --------------------------------
2224 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2225 * Support for downloading updates
2229 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2230 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2231 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2232 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2234 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2235 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2236 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2239 * Cook (Real audio) support
2241 Playlist / Services discovery:
2242 * XSPF playlist support
2244 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2247 * New JACK audio output
2250 * New video filters:
2251 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2252 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2253 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2254 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2255 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2256 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2259 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2262 * System to inform the user and request information
2263 - HTTP authentication
2267 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2268 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2269 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2272 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2273 - Improved playlist handling
2274 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2276 - Embedded Video output
2277 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2278 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2279 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2280 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2281 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2283 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2284 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2287 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2290 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2291 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2292 * Growl "Now playing" support
2295 * Ability to log to syslog
2296 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2299 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2301 * A bit more automatic testing
2304 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2305 ---------------------------------
2308 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2309 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2312 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2313 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2316 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2319 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2320 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2326 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2329 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2330 --------------------------------
2333 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2337 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2338 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2339 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2342 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2343 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2344 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2345 * GnomeVFS input module
2346 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2347 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2350 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2351 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2352 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2355 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2356 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2362 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2363 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2366 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2367 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2368 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2371 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2373 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2374 - New extended controls panel
2375 - New bookmarks window
2376 - Fixed playlist sorting
2377 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2379 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2380 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2381 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2382 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2386 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2387 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2389 - Include macro to include other files
2393 * Should now work outside IE as well
2396 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2399 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2400 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2403 The following languages were added:
2407 * Simplified Chinese
2408 The following languages were re-added:
2412 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2413 --------------------------------
2416 * Rewrite of the playlist
2418 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2419 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2420 * Preferences improvements:
2421 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2422 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2424 * Core image manipulation support
2425 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2426 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2427 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2428 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2429 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2430 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2431 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2432 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2433 * Access filter architecture
2434 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2435 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2439 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2440 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2441 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2442 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2443 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2444 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2445 * Massive Matroska improvements
2446 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2448 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2449 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2450 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2451 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2452 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2454 Decoders / Encoders:
2455 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2456 * PNG decoder/encoder
2457 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2458 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2461 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2464 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2465 * Brand new SAP module
2466 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2467 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2468 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2469 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2470 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2471 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2475 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2478 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2479 * Image file video output (png)
2480 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2481 * Improvements to wall video filter
2482 * Support for font color and opacity
2488 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2489 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2490 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2494 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2495 - Improved preferences
2496 - Improvements to the wizard
2497 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2499 - Redesigned playlist
2500 - Improved preferences
2502 - Support for multiple actions
2505 - Support for the new playlist system
2507 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2510 * Screensaver disabling fix
2511 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2512 * Support for no-decoration windows
2515 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2516 * The OpenGL video output is back
2517 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2518 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2519 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2520 is not yet available in the new module
2521 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2524 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2533 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2536 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2539 The following languages were added:
2545 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2546 --------------------------------
2549 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2550 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2553 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2554 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2555 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2558 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2561 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2564 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2567 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2568 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2569 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2573 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2575 * Support of playlist group announcement
2578 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2579 --------------------------------
2582 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2583 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2584 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2585 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2586 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2587 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2590 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2591 (Stream your desktop)
2592 * Improved DVD support:
2593 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2594 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2595 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2596 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2597 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2598 (selection of titles/chapters).
2601 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2602 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2603 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2604 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2605 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2606 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2607 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2608 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2609 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2610 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2613 * G.726 audio support
2614 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2615 * MPEG-4 text support
2616 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2617 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2618 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2622 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2623 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2624 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2625 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2626 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2627 * DVB subtitles encoder
2628 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2629 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2631 * Text track muxing for mp4
2632 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2633 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2634 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2635 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2636 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2637 * Improved ASF muxer
2639 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2640 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2641 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2644 * New audio equalizer filter
2645 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2646 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2647 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2648 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2651 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2652 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2653 with support for effects.
2654 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2655 - New filters can be streamed.
2656 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2657 - Centralized scaling and blending
2659 - "time", to display current time
2660 - "marq", to display a marquee
2663 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2664 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2665 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2666 * A few skins2 improvements
2667 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2668 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2669 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2670 * Improved CORBA control module
2673 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2674 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2675 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2678 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2679 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2680 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2683 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2684 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2685 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2686 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2687 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2690 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2693 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2694 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2697 * Server/client network synchronization module
2698 * VBrick streams fully supported
2699 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2703 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2704 --------------------------------
2707 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2708 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2709 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2710 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2713 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2714 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2715 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2716 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2717 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2718 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2719 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2722 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2723 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2724 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2725 * Improved directory access module.
2726 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2727 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2728 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2729 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2730 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2733 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2734 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2735 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2738 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2739 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2740 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2743 * Improved session announcement system.
2744 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2745 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2746 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2747 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2748 * Improved transrater.
2749 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2750 * New configuration system.
2751 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2754 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2755 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2756 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2757 * Supports scheduling.
2758 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2759 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2762 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2763 - Ability to embed video output.
2764 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2765 - Lots of improvements.
2766 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2767 - New design and set of icons.
2768 - Ability to embed video output.
2769 - Support for hotkeys.
2770 - Support for bookmarks.
2772 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2773 - Better hotkeys handling.
2776 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2777 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2778 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2779 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2782 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2783 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2784 * Improved Windows installer.
2790 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2791 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2794 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2795 ---------------------------------
2798 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2799 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2802 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2803 --------------------------------
2806 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2807 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2810 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2811 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2812 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2813 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2816 * Internal improvments
2817 * Improved import/export
2820 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2822 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2823 small and strange formats.
2825 * New MOD audio demux.
2826 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2827 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2828 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2829 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2832 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2833 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2834 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2840 * New opengl video output plugin.
2843 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2844 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2847 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2848 --------------------------------
2851 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2852 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2853 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2854 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2855 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2856 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2857 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2858 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2861 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2866 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2867 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2868 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2869 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2870 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2871 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2872 * Better Icecast support.
2873 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2874 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2877 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2878 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2879 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2880 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2881 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2882 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2883 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2886 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2887 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2888 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2889 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2890 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2891 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2892 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2893 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2894 * Preliminary RTP support.
2895 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2900 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2901 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2903 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2904 - Improvements and help in preferences
2905 - New streaming wizard
2906 - Revised Disc Open menu
2908 - Improvements of the standard pages
2909 - Support for new commands
2910 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2913 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2914 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2917 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2918 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2919 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2920 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2921 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2922 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2923 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2924 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2925 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2928 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2930 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2931 * Support for Panther.
2932 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2933 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2936 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2937 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2938 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2939 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2940 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2941 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2942 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2943 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2946 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2947 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2948 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2951 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2954 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2955 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2956 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2957 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2960 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2961 --------------------------------
2964 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2967 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2968 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2971 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2972 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2975 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2978 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2979 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2982 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2985 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2988 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2989 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2993 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2994 --------------------------------
2997 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2998 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3002 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3003 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3004 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3006 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3007 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3010 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3013 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3016 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3017 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3021 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3022 --------------------------------
3025 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3026 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3030 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3031 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3032 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3033 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3034 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3037 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3038 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3039 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3042 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3043 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3044 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3047 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3048 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3049 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3050 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3051 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3054 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3055 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3056 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3059 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3062 * Improved build system.
3063 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3064 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3065 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3066 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3069 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3070 --------------------------------
3073 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3076 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3077 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3078 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3079 * Video 4 Linux support
3080 * CD Digital Audio support
3081 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3084 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3085 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3086 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3087 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3090 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3091 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3092 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3093 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3094 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3095 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3096 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3099 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3100 * New HTTP remote control interface
3103 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3104 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3105 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3106 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3107 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3110 * New reset option for the preferences
3111 * You can set your language in the prefences
3112 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3113 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3114 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3115 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3118 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3119 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3120 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3123 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3124 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3125 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3126 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3127 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3128 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3129 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3130 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3131 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3132 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3135 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3136 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3137 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3138 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3139 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3140 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3141 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3144 * Interface localization
3145 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3146 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3147 * New full-featured Preferences window
3150 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3151 --------------------------------
3154 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3155 * support for skins at the interface level
3156 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3157 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3158 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3159 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3160 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3163 * fixed HTTP redirects
3164 * support for opening an entire directory
3165 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3166 * new video4linux access plug-in
3167 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3170 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3171 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3172 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3175 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3176 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3177 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3178 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3179 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3180 * new codec for raw I420 video
3181 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3184 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3185 (although it still misses some important features)
3186 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3189 * new HTTP output support
3190 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3191 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3194 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3197 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3200 * reorderable playlist
3201 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3202 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3203 * support for mono audio output devices
3204 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3205 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3206 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3207 * the messages window remembers more lines
3208 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3209 * http and ogg stream output options
3210 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3213 * new skinnable interface
3214 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3216 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3217 * support for FLAC audio format
3218 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3220 * network tab in the interface
3221 * "apply" handling in preferences
3224 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3225 ---------------------------------
3228 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3229 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3230 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3231 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3233 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3234 * DTS S/PDIF support
3237 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3238 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3239 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3240 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3243 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3244 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3247 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3250 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3253 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3255 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3256 * rc interface is now fully useable
3257 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3260 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3261 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3262 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3263 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3264 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3266 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3267 * support for mouse gestures
3268 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3271 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3272 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3275 * improved ID3 tag detection
3276 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3277 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3278 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3280 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3283 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3284 ---------------------------------
3287 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3288 English was set as the preferred language
3291 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3292 --------------------------------
3295 * new mouse gesture interface
3296 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3300 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3301 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3302 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3305 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3306 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3310 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3313 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3314 without the user consent
3317 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3319 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3320 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3321 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3324 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3325 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3326 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3327 * playlist enhancements
3328 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3329 * new step forward/step backward commands
3330 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3331 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3332 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3335 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3336 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3337 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3340 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3341 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3344 * native video output is working again
3345 * only commandline interface support
3346 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3349 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3350 --------------------------------
3353 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3354 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3355 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3356 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3357 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3358 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3359 and A/52 streams are supported)
3360 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3365 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3366 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3367 * VCD entry points support
3368 * VCD image file support
3371 * support for *.asf format
3372 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3373 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3374 * support for ogg encapsulation
3375 * support for raw DV format
3376 * support for *.wav format
3377 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3380 Stream discovery & playlists:
3381 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3382 * support for .m3u file format
3383 * support for .asx file format
3384 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3387 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3388 (only available with the .avi demux)
3389 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3390 * support for raw PCM data
3391 * support for Cinepak video codec
3392 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3393 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3394 * support for Xvid codec
3395 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3396 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3397 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3399 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3401 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3404 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3407 * new WxWindows interface
3408 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3409 device and the channels configuration
3410 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3411 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3412 format that VLC can play
3413 * new swedish translation
3414 * enhancements of the playlist window
3415 * new messages window to see debug info
3416 * fixed a few crashes
3419 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3420 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3421 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3422 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working