1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
9 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
12 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
13 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
14 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
15 * Support for Daala video
18 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
19 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
22 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
23 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
26 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
29 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
32 * Support key accelerators
35 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
36 --------------------------------
39 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
40 notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
43 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
44 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
45 * Add extensions download from external repositories
46 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
49 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
50 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
51 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
52 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
54 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
55 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
58 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
59 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
60 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
61 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
62 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
63 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
64 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
65 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
66 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
67 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
68 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
69 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
70 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
71 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
72 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
73 * New jpeg image decoder
74 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
75 * New SVG image decoder
76 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
77 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
78 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
81 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
82 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
83 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
84 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
85 * New png image encoder using libpng
88 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
89 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
90 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
91 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
92 synchronization and tracks exclusion
93 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
94 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
95 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
96 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
99 * Basic support for WebVTT
100 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
101 * Support HDPR TS files
102 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
103 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
104 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
105 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
106 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
107 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
108 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
109 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
110 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
111 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
112 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
113 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
116 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
117 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
118 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
119 * New Android native window provider module
120 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
121 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
122 * Add mmal based video output
125 * New Oldmovie effect filter
126 * New VHS effect filter
127 * New Freeze effect filter
128 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
129 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
130 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
133 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
134 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
135 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
136 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
137 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
138 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
141 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
142 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
144 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
147 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
148 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
149 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
150 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
151 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
152 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
153 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
154 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
155 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
157 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
158 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
159 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
162 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
163 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
166 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
167 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
170 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
171 * Add record button in Qt menus
172 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
173 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
174 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
177 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
178 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
179 * Fixes for advanced preferences
180 * Option to increase playlist font size
183 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
184 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
185 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
188 * ios video output: use ios2
189 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
190 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
193 * Update of all translations
196 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
197 --------------------------------
200 * Fix compilation on OS/2
203 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
205 Mac OS X audio output:
206 * Fix channel ordering
207 * Increase the buffersize
210 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
211 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
212 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
215 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
218 * Correctly support video-on-top
219 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
220 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
223 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
226 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
227 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
230 * Update British English
233 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
234 --------------------------------
237 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
240 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
243 * Fix DVD playback regression
244 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
245 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
248 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
249 --------------------------------
252 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
253 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
256 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
257 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
258 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
261 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
262 by updating codec libraries
263 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
264 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
265 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
268 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
269 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
270 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
271 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
274 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
275 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
278 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
279 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
280 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
281 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
282 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
285 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
286 * Fix record file names
289 * Fix minimal size possible on start
290 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
291 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
292 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
293 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
296 * Fix album art display on Windows
299 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
300 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
301 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
302 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
303 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
304 and Simplified Chinese translations
305 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
308 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
313 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
314 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
315 audio devices on OS X
316 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
317 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
320 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
321 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
324 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
325 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
328 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
331 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
332 * Improve A-B loop control
333 * Fix album art update when changing media
336 * Add a language option in the interface
337 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
338 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
339 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
340 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
341 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
342 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
343 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
346 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
349 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
350 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
351 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
352 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
355 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
356 --------------------------------
359 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
361 * Fix some subtitles track selection
364 * VP9 support in WebM
365 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
366 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
369 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
370 * Support Speex in ogg files
371 * Fix some .mov playlists support
372 * Support Alac in mkv
373 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
374 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
377 * Fix DVB options parsing
378 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
379 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
382 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
383 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
386 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
387 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
390 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
391 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
392 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
393 * Fix play after drag'n drop
394 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
397 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
398 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
401 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
402 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
405 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
406 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
407 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
408 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
409 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
410 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
411 * Improves interface resizings
414 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
415 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
416 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
417 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
418 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
422 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
423 --------------------------------
426 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
427 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
428 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
429 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
430 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
432 3rd party libraries (contrib):
433 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
436 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
437 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
438 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
439 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
440 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
443 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
444 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
448 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
449 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
450 * Support for Ulead DV audio
451 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
452 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
453 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
454 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
455 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
456 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
457 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
458 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
459 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
460 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
463 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
464 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
465 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
468 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
469 remove support for previous OS X releases
470 * Major improvements in DASH support
471 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
472 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
473 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
474 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
475 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
476 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
477 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
478 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
479 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
480 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
481 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
484 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
485 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
486 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
487 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
488 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
489 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
490 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
491 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
492 * Support for more MJPEG streams
493 * Add support for liveleak streams
494 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
495 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
496 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
499 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
500 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
501 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
502 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
503 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
504 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
505 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
506 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
507 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
508 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
509 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
512 * New remapping channel filter
513 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
514 * New VSXu visualization plugin
515 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
516 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
517 * New gain audio filter
520 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
521 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
522 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
523 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
524 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
525 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
526 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
527 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
528 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
531 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
532 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
533 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
534 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
535 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
536 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
537 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
540 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
541 * Options support for AVIO output module
542 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
543 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
544 * Livehttp stream encryption support
545 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
546 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
549 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
552 * configurable password for the HTTP server
553 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
554 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
555 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
556 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
557 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
558 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
559 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
563 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
566 * Add support for multiple video outputs
567 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
569 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
570 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
571 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
572 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
573 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
574 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
575 VLC's internal volume level
576 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
578 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
579 selection and to manage the list of presets
580 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
581 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
582 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
583 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
584 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
585 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
586 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
587 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
588 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
589 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
591 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
592 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
593 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
594 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
595 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
596 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
597 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
598 3rd party applications
599 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
600 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
601 (system-wide settings)
602 * Add support for the Video Title option
603 * Add support for the Boss Key
604 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
605 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
608 * Partial support for Qt5.0
609 * Menus modifications and improvements
610 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
611 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
612 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
613 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
614 * EPG display fixes and improvements
615 * Add SD pixmap sources
616 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
617 * Display playlist total duration
618 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
619 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
620 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
625 * Extend sliders, offsets options
626 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
627 * Numerous fixes and improvements
628 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
631 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
632 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
633 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
634 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
635 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
636 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
637 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
638 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
639 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
640 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
643 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
644 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
645 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
646 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
647 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
648 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
650 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
651 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
652 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
653 * Broken crop video filter
655 * OSD parser and menu
656 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
657 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
658 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
659 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
663 * Update of all translations
666 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
667 --------------------------------
670 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
671 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
674 * Fix modplug security issues
677 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
678 --------------------------------
682 * Fix crash in QTsound
683 * Fix screen mouse file location
684 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
687 * Fix use after free in sgimb
688 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
691 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
694 * Fix interface crashes
695 * Fix autostart playback option
696 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
699 * update Welsh translation
700 * New Kannada translation
703 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
704 --------------------------------
707 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
708 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
712 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
715 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
718 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
721 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
725 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
728 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
731 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
732 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
733 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
736 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
737 --------------------------------
740 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
743 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
746 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
747 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
748 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
749 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
750 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
751 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
754 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
755 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
756 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
757 * 3rd party codecs updates
760 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
761 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
762 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
763 in the advanced preferences panel
764 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
765 * Fix crash within the video output code
766 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
767 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
768 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
769 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
771 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
774 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
777 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
778 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
781 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
784 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
785 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
786 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
787 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
788 Dutch, Danish, translations
789 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
792 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
793 --------------------------------
796 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
799 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
800 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
801 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
804 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
805 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
806 * Fix koreus lua parser
807 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
808 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
809 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
810 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
813 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
814 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
817 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
820 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
821 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
822 * Fix Time counter UI look
823 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
826 * Fix https streaming
829 * Fix audio and video track selection:
830 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
831 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
834 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
835 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
836 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
837 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
838 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
841 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
842 --------------------------------
845 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
846 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
847 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
848 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
849 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
850 during playback on Mac OS X
853 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
854 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
855 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
858 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
859 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
860 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
861 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
862 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
865 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
866 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
867 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
868 * Support Youtube live streams
871 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
874 * Fix media info dialog update
875 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
876 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
877 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
878 * Fix album art display at start
881 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
882 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
883 * Fix menus display and behavior
884 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
885 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
886 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
887 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
888 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
889 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
890 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
893 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
894 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
895 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
896 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
897 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
898 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
899 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
900 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
901 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
904 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
905 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
906 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
907 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
908 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
911 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
912 --------------------------------
915 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
918 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
919 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
922 * Add GateKeeper support
923 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
924 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
925 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
928 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
931 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
932 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
933 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
934 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
935 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
938 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
939 --------------------------------
942 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
943 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
944 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
945 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
946 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
947 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
948 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
949 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
950 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
951 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
952 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
956 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
957 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
958 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
959 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
960 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
961 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
962 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
963 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
964 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
965 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
966 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
967 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
970 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
971 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
973 * Fix MP3 free format support
976 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
977 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
978 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
979 * Fix for DVB channels file support
980 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
983 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
984 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
986 Audio filters and output:
987 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
988 * Fix DirectSound device selection
989 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
990 * Do not apply volume in file output
991 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
992 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
995 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
996 the persistant media library
997 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
998 to the media library or the temporary playlist
999 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1000 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1001 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1002 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1003 press on the Play/Pause button
1004 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1005 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1006 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1007 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1008 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1009 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1010 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1011 Synchronization panel
1012 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1013 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1014 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1015 * Fix crashes on exit
1016 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1018 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1019 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1020 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1021 automatically reset on the first launch.
1022 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1023 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1024 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1027 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1028 * Fixes for icecast SD
1031 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1032 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1033 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1034 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1035 * Fix tags and file names display
1036 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1039 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1040 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1043 * Fix display of some buttons
1044 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1045 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1048 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1049 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1050 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1053 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1054 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1055 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1056 Thai translations update
1057 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1060 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1061 --------------------------------
1064 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1065 * fix the samba module compilation
1066 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1067 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1068 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1069 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1072 * Support for MXPEG files
1073 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1074 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1077 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1078 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1079 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1082 * Fix ogm header creation
1085 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1086 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1089 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1090 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1091 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1092 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1095 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1098 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1099 * allow to hide the sidebar
1100 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1101 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1102 * noticebly faster launch time
1103 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1104 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1105 * improve track synchronization panel
1106 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1107 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1110 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1111 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1112 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1113 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1116 * fix for menus display
1117 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1118 * documentation update
1121 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1122 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1125 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1126 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1127 * Update Jamendo selections
1131 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1132 * fix a crash on VLM close
1135 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1136 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1137 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1138 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1141 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1144 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1145 ---------------------------------
1148 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1149 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1150 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1151 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1152 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1153 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1154 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1155 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1156 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1157 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1158 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1159 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1160 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1161 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1162 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1163 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1164 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1165 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1166 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1167 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1168 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1169 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1170 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1171 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1172 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1173 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1175 Important changes for packagers:
1176 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1177 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1178 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1179 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1180 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1181 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1182 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1183 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1184 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1185 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1188 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1189 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1190 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1191 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1192 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1193 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1194 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1197 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1198 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1199 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1200 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1201 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1202 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1203 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1204 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1205 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1206 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1207 * PulseAudio audio input support
1208 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1209 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1210 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1211 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1212 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1213 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1214 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1215 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1218 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1219 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1220 are notably concerned.
1221 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1222 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1223 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1224 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1225 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1226 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1227 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1228 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1229 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1230 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1231 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1232 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1233 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1234 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1235 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1238 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1239 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1240 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1241 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1242 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1243 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1244 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1245 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1246 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1247 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1248 * Improved support of tracker files
1249 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1252 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1253 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1254 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1255 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1256 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1257 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1258 and important cleanups and optimisations
1259 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1260 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1261 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1262 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1263 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1264 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1265 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1266 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1267 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1268 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1269 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1270 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1271 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1272 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1273 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1274 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1275 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1276 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1277 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1278 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1279 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1282 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1283 * New video output for iOS platform
1284 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1285 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1286 * Various vmem improvements
1287 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1288 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1289 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1290 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1291 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1292 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1294 Audio Output and Filters:
1295 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1296 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1297 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1298 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1299 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1300 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1301 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1302 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1303 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1304 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1307 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1308 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1309 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1310 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1311 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1312 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1313 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1314 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1315 * New anti-flickering filter
1316 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1317 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1318 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1319 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1320 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1321 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1322 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1325 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1326 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1327 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1328 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1329 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1330 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1331 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1332 * Major rework of VoD support
1333 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1334 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1335 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1336 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1337 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1338 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1339 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1340 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1341 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1342 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1345 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1346 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1349 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1350 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1351 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1352 list of available audio and video filters
1353 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1354 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1355 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1358 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1359 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1360 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1361 * id3tag: use taglib
1362 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1363 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1364 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1365 * removal of the noise filter
1366 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1367 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1368 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1369 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1372 * Update of translations for most languages.
1373 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1376 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1377 ----------------------------------
1380 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1381 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1384 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1385 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1388 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1389 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1390 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1393 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1396 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1397 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1400 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1403 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1404 ----------------------------------
1407 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1408 including support for OS X Lion
1409 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1410 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1413 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1416 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1417 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1418 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1421 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1424 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1425 ----------------------------------
1428 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1429 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1432 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1433 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1434 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1435 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1436 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1438 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1439 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1440 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1442 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1443 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1446 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1449 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1452 * Fix quitting on Linux
1453 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1457 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1460 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1463 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1464 ---------------------------------
1466 Windows and Mac OS X:
1467 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1470 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1471 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1474 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1477 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1480 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1482 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1483 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1485 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1486 * RTP output and XML export
1487 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1491 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1492 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1493 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1494 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1497 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1498 --------------------------------
1500 Windows and Mac OS X:
1501 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1504 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1507 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1508 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1509 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1510 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1511 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1512 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1515 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1516 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1520 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1521 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1522 * New Luganda Translation
1525 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1526 --------------------------------
1529 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1532 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1533 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1534 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1535 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1538 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1540 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1541 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1542 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1543 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1544 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1545 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1546 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1547 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1549 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1550 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1551 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1552 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1553 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1554 * Configure and build system improvements
1555 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1558 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1559 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1560 * New icelandic translation
1563 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1564 --------------------------------
1567 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1568 #234484 and #260719.
1571 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1572 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1573 and stability reasons
1576 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1580 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1583 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1584 ----------------------------------
1587 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1590 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1591 ---------------------------------
1594 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1595 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1596 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1597 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1600 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1603 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1604 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1605 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1606 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1609 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1610 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1611 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1613 Subtitles and renderer:
1614 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1615 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1616 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1617 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1618 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1621 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1622 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1623 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1624 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1627 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1628 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1630 Miscellaneous fixes:
1631 * KDE device solid actions
1633 * Transcode integer overflow
1634 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1635 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1638 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1639 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1640 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1643 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1644 ----------------------------------
1647 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1651 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1654 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1657 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1658 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1659 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1660 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1663 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1667 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1670 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1673 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1674 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1676 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1680 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1681 * Miscellaneous fixes
1684 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1685 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1686 French and Ukrainian
1687 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1688 * New Asturian translation
1691 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1692 ----------------------------------
1695 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1697 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1700 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1703 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1704 * Various fixes for Windows
1707 * New Armenian translation
1708 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1709 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1712 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1713 --------------------------------
1716 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1717 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1718 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1721 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1722 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1725 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1726 --------------------------------
1728 Access and demuxers:
1729 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1730 * fix for podcasts parsing
1731 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1734 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1735 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1738 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1739 * fix m3u playlists exports
1742 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1745 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1748 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1751 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1754 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1757 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1758 --------------------------------
1761 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1762 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1765 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1766 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1769 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1770 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1771 * fix console output encoding
1773 Interface and extensions:
1774 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1775 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1778 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1779 --------------------------------
1782 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1783 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1784 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1785 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1786 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1787 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1788 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1789 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1790 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1791 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1792 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1793 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1794 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1795 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1796 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1797 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1801 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1802 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1803 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1804 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1805 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1808 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1811 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1812 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1813 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1817 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1820 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1821 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1822 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1825 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1826 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1827 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1828 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1831 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1832 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1835 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1836 --------------------------------
1838 Important changes for users:
1839 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1840 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1842 Important changes for packagers:
1843 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1844 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1845 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1846 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1847 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1849 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1851 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1852 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1853 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1854 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1855 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1858 * Support for the sftp protocol
1859 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1860 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1861 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1862 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1863 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1866 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1867 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1868 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1870 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1871 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1872 * Invmem module improvements
1873 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1874 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1875 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1876 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1877 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1878 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1879 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1880 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1881 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1882 * Support for VP8 codec
1883 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1886 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1887 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1888 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1889 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1890 * Various EGP improvements
1891 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1892 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1895 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1896 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1897 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1898 * Podcast images are now displayed
1901 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1902 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1903 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1904 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1905 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1906 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1907 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1908 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1909 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1910 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1911 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1914 * New content extensions lua framework
1917 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1918 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1919 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1920 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1921 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1922 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1923 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1926 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1927 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1928 * Service discovery based on libudev
1929 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1932 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1933 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1934 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1935 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1936 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1937 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1938 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1941 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1942 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1943 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1946 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1948 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1949 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1952 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1955 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1956 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1957 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1958 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1959 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1960 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1961 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1964 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1965 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1968 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1969 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1970 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1974 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1975 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1976 * Improved Solaris port
1979 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1980 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1983 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1984 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1985 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1986 * transrate: broken since too long
1987 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1988 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1989 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1990 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1991 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1992 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1993 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1994 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1995 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1996 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1997 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1998 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1999 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2000 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2003 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2004 --------------------------------
2007 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2009 Decoders/Packetizers:
2010 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2013 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2014 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2015 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2016 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2017 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2020 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2021 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2024 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2025 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2028 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2029 and Walloon translations updated
2030 * Sinhala translation started
2033 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2034 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2037 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2038 --------------------------------
2041 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2042 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2045 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2048 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2049 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2052 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2053 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2054 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2055 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2058 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2059 --------------------------------
2062 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2063 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2066 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2067 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2070 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2071 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2074 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2077 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2078 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2081 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2082 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2085 * New Walloon translation
2086 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2089 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2090 --------------------------------
2093 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2094 regressions in most popular drivers
2095 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2098 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2099 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2100 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2103 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2104 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2107 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2108 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2109 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2110 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2111 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2114 * New udev module for linux
2117 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2120 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2123 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2124 --------------------------------
2127 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2128 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2129 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2132 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2133 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2136 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2137 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2140 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2143 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2144 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2145 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2146 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2149 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2150 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2151 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2152 - no support for Goom and SDL
2153 - limited text rendering support
2154 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2157 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2158 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2159 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2160 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2161 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2162 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2163 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2164 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2165 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2169 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2172 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2175 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2176 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2177 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2178 Arabic and French translation updates
2181 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2182 --------------------------------
2185 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2186 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2187 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2188 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2189 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2190 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2193 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2194 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2195 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2198 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2199 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2200 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2203 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2206 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2207 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2210 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2211 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2212 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2213 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2214 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2215 * Fix various crashes
2218 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2220 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2224 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2225 ---------------------------------
2229 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2230 See 'Access:' for more info.
2231 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2234 * Instantaneous pausing
2235 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2236 * Finer speed control
2237 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2238 * Timeshift for most medias
2239 * RTSP trickplay support
2240 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2243 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2244 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2245 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2246 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2247 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2248 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2249 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2250 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2251 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2252 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2255 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2256 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2257 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2258 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2259 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2260 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2261 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2264 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2265 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2268 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2269 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2270 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2271 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2272 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2273 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2274 * DVB scanning on linux
2275 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2276 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2277 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2278 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2279 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2280 * MTP device access on Unix
2281 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2282 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2285 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2286 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2287 Windows and Mac OS X.
2290 * Export the playlist in HTML
2291 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2292 * Better metadata handling and reading
2294 Linux/Windows interface:
2295 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2296 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2297 * Recently played items list
2298 * Interface toolbar customizations
2299 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2300 - More menus actions
2301 - Finer speed slider
2302 - Improvements on many dialogs
2303 - New dialog for plugins listing
2304 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2305 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2306 * Better integration in GTK environments
2309 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2310 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2311 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2312 * Additional usability improvements
2315 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2316 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2317 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2318 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2319 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2322 * New Maemo port with:
2323 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2324 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2327 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2330 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2331 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2332 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2333 * Support for latest iSight models
2336 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2337 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2340 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2341 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2342 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2343 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2344 The old image video output has been removed.
2345 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2346 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2349 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2357 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2358 --------------------------------------
2364 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2365 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2366 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2367 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2368 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2369 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2370 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2372 Various fixes to the following modules:
2375 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2376 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2377 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2379 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2384 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2385 ---------------------------------
2388 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2389 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2392 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2393 ---------------------------------
2396 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2399 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2402 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2403 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2404 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2405 main controller window.
2406 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2409 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2414 * Updates of other localizations
2417 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2418 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2419 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2420 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2421 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2424 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2425 ---------------------------------
2428 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2430 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2433 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2434 --------------------------------
2439 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2440 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2443 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2444 --------------------------------
2446 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2447 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2450 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2453 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2454 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2457 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2458 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2461 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2462 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2463 * Various fixed in playlist
2466 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2469 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2472 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2473 ------------------------------------
2475 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2476 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2479 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2480 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2481 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2484 * Stability fix for the video output.
2487 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2488 --------------------------------
2491 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2492 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2493 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2494 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2495 * Fixed update system bugs
2496 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2499 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2500 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2501 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2502 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2503 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2504 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2505 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2506 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2507 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2508 modern Mac OS X versions
2511 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2512 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2514 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2515 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2518 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2519 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2520 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2521 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2522 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2523 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2526 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2527 --------------------------------
2529 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2530 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2531 * Multiple bugfixes.
2534 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2535 --------------------------------
2537 * Multiple bug fixes.
2540 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2541 ---------------------------------
2545 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2546 recent to work correctly
2547 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2548 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2549 edit the ".hosts" file.
2550 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2551 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2552 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2553 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2554 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2555 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2556 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2557 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2558 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2559 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2560 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2561 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2562 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2563 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2564 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2565 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2566 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2567 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2568 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2569 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2570 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2571 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2572 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2573 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2574 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2575 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2576 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2577 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2578 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2579 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2580 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2581 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2582 and postproc modules.
2583 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2584 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2585 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2586 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2588 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2589 filter. For example:
2590 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2591 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2593 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2594 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2600 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2602 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2603 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2606 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2607 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2609 * Shoutcast TV listings
2610 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2612 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2613 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2615 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2618 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2619 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2620 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2621 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2622 * JACK audio input support
2623 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2624 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2625 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2626 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2627 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2628 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2629 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2630 (available as a separate download).
2631 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2632 * RTMP input support
2633 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2634 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2635 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2637 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2638 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2641 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2642 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2643 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2644 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2646 * APEv1/2 tags support
2647 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2648 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2650 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2651 * TiVo Series 2 support
2652 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2657 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2658 * Flash Screen Video support
2659 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2660 * DosBox Capture support
2661 * Karl Morton's Video support
2662 * limited atrac3 support
2664 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2665 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2666 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2667 * H.264 PAFF support
2668 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2669 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2670 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2671 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2672 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2675 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2676 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2677 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2678 * AQTitle subtitles support
2679 * MKV USF subtitles support
2680 * HTML-based subtitles support
2681 * MPSub subtitles support
2682 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2683 * MPL2 subtitles support
2684 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2685 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2686 * Realtext subtitle support
2687 * DKS subtitle support
2688 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2689 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2692 * Flash Screen Video support
2693 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2695 Video outputs and filters:
2696 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2697 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2698 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2699 * New puzzle video output filter
2700 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2701 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2703 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2704 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2705 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2706 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2707 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2708 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2709 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2710 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2711 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2712 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2713 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2714 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2715 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2716 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2718 Audio outputs and filters:
2719 * Replay gain support
2720 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2721 new scaletempo audio filter)
2722 * New spatializer audio filter
2723 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2726 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2727 * New RTP payload formats:
2728 * Speex voice audio codec
2729 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2730 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2731 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2732 * DCCP transport for RTP
2733 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2738 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2739 end-user suitable way.
2740 * Improved user interaction
2741 * Improved mouse gestures
2742 * Vastly improved Update checker
2743 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2745 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2746 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2748 * Improved video output features
2749 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2750 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2751 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2752 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2753 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2755 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2756 if libncursesw is available.
2757 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2758 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2759 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2761 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2762 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2763 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2764 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2765 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2766 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2767 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2768 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2771 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2772 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2773 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2776 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2777 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2778 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2779 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2780 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2781 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2784 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2785 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2795 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2796 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2797 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2800 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2801 ----------------------------------
2804 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2807 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2808 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2809 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2810 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2811 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2812 * Updated Polish translation
2815 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2816 ----------------------------------
2819 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2820 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2821 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2824 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2825 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2826 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2827 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2828 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2829 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2830 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2831 to an unexpected application termination
2832 * New Serbian translation
2833 * Updated Romanian translation
2836 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2837 ----------------------------------
2840 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2841 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2842 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2843 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2844 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2845 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2846 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2847 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2850 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2851 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2852 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2853 * Fixed AAC resampling
2854 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2855 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2858 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2859 ----------------------------------
2862 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2863 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2864 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2865 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2866 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2869 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2870 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2871 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2872 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2873 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2876 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2877 ----------------------------------
2880 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2881 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2884 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2885 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2886 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2887 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2889 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2893 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2896 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2899 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2902 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2905 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2906 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2907 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2908 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2909 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2911 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2912 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2913 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2914 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2917 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2920 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2921 ----------------------------------
2924 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2925 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2926 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2928 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2929 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2931 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2932 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2935 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2937 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2938 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2939 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2940 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2941 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2942 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2943 two different movies
2944 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2945 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2946 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2949 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2952 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2953 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2954 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2955 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2958 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2959 ----------------------------------
2961 Various bugfixes, notably:
2962 * Windows Vista compatibility
2963 * Cropping in Direct3D
2964 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2965 * RSS filter string overflow
2967 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2969 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2970 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2973 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2974 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2977 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2980 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2983 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2986 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2987 ----------------------------------
2989 Various bugfixes, notably:
2990 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2991 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2992 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2993 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2994 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2995 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2998 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2999 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3002 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3004 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3005 * Diverse usability improvements
3006 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3007 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3008 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3011 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3012 ---------------------------------
3014 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3015 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3018 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3021 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3022 --------------------------------
3025 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3028 * Support for RTSP authentication
3029 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3030 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3031 * ATSC support for DVB input
3032 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3033 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3034 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3037 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3038 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3039 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3040 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3041 * Matroska WavPack support
3042 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3043 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3044 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3047 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3048 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3049 * Improved libcaca support
3053 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3054 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3056 * Systray support in skins
3058 * Support for Apple Remote control
3059 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3060 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3061 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3062 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3064 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3067 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3068 Windows 9x/ME users:
3069 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3070 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3071 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3072 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3073 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3075 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3076 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3085 * Updates to the libvlc API
3086 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3089 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3090 --------------------------------
3093 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3094 * Support for downloading updates
3098 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3099 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3100 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3101 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3103 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3104 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3105 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3108 * Cook (Real audio) support
3110 Playlist / Services discovery:
3111 * XSPF playlist support
3113 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3116 * New JACK audio output
3119 * New video filters:
3120 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3121 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3122 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3123 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3124 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3125 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3128 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3131 * System to inform the user and request information
3132 - HTTP authentication
3136 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3137 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3138 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3141 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3142 - Improved playlist handling
3143 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3145 - Embedded Video output
3146 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3147 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3148 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3149 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3150 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3152 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3153 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3156 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3159 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3160 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3161 * Growl "Now playing" support
3164 * Ability to log to syslog
3165 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3168 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3170 * A bit more automatic testing
3173 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3174 ---------------------------------
3177 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3178 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3181 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3182 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3185 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3188 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3189 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3195 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3198 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3199 --------------------------------
3202 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3206 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3207 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3208 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3211 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3212 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3213 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3214 * GnomeVFS input module
3215 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3216 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3219 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3220 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3221 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3224 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3225 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3231 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3232 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3235 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3236 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3237 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3240 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3242 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3243 - New extended controls panel
3244 - New bookmarks window
3245 - Fixed playlist sorting
3246 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3248 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3249 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3250 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3251 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3255 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3256 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3258 - Include macro to include other files
3262 * Should now work outside IE as well
3265 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3268 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3269 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3272 The following languages were added:
3276 * Simplified Chinese
3277 The following languages were re-added:
3281 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3282 --------------------------------
3285 * Rewrite of the playlist
3287 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3288 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3289 * Preferences improvements:
3290 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3291 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3293 * Core image manipulation support
3294 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3295 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3296 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3297 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3298 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3299 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3300 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3301 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3302 * Access filter architecture
3303 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3304 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3308 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3309 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3310 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3311 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3312 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3313 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3314 * Massive Matroska improvements
3315 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3317 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3318 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3319 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3320 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3321 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3323 Decoders / Encoders:
3324 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3325 * PNG decoder/encoder
3326 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3327 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3330 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3333 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3334 * Brand new SAP module
3335 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3336 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3337 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3338 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3339 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3340 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3344 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3347 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3348 * Image file video output (png)
3349 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3350 * Improvements to wall video filter
3351 * Support for font color and opacity
3357 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3358 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3359 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3363 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3364 - Improved preferences
3365 - Improvements to the wizard
3366 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3368 - Redesigned playlist
3369 - Improved preferences
3371 - Support for multiple actions
3374 - Support for the new playlist system
3376 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3379 * Screensaver disabling fix
3380 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3381 * Support for no-decoration windows
3384 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3385 * The OpenGL video output is back
3386 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3387 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3388 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3389 is not yet available in the new module
3390 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3393 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3402 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3405 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3408 The following languages were added:
3414 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3415 --------------------------------
3418 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3419 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3422 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3423 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3424 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3427 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3430 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3433 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3436 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3437 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3438 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3442 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3444 * Support of playlist group announcement
3447 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3448 --------------------------------
3451 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3452 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3453 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3454 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3455 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3456 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3459 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3460 (Stream your desktop)
3461 * Improved DVD support:
3462 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3463 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3464 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3465 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3466 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3467 (selection of titles/chapters).
3470 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3471 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3472 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3473 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3474 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3475 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3476 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3477 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3478 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3479 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3482 * G.726 audio support
3483 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3484 * MPEG-4 text support
3485 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3486 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3487 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3491 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3492 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3493 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3494 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3495 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3496 * DVB subtitles encoder
3497 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3498 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3500 * Text track muxing for mp4
3501 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3502 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3503 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3504 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3505 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3506 * Improved ASF muxer
3508 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3509 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3510 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3513 * New audio equalizer filter
3514 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3515 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3516 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3517 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3520 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3521 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3522 with support for effects.
3523 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3524 - New filters can be streamed.
3525 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3526 - Centralized scaling and blending
3528 - "time", to display current time
3529 - "marq", to display a marquee
3532 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3533 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3534 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3535 * A few skins2 improvements
3536 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3537 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3538 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3539 * Improved CORBA control module
3542 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3543 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3544 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3547 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3548 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3549 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3552 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3553 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3554 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3555 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3556 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3559 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3562 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3563 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3566 * Server/client network synchronization module
3567 * VBrick streams fully supported
3568 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3572 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3573 --------------------------------
3576 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3577 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3578 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3579 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3582 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3583 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3584 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3585 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3586 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3587 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3588 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3591 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3592 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3593 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3594 * Improved directory access module.
3595 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3596 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3597 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3598 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3599 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3602 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3603 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3604 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3607 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3608 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3609 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3612 * Improved session announcement system.
3613 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3614 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3615 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3616 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3617 * Improved transrater.
3618 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3619 * New configuration system.
3620 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3623 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3624 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3625 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3626 * Supports scheduling.
3627 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3628 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3631 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3632 - Ability to embed video output.
3633 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3634 - Lots of improvements.
3635 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3636 - New design and set of icons.
3637 - Ability to embed video output.
3638 - Support for hotkeys.
3639 - Support for bookmarks.
3641 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3642 - Better hotkeys handling.
3645 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3646 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3647 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3648 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3651 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3652 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3653 * Improved Windows installer.
3659 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3660 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3663 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3664 ---------------------------------
3667 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3668 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3671 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3672 --------------------------------
3675 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3676 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3679 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3680 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3681 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3682 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3685 * Internal improvments
3686 * Improved import/export
3689 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3691 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3692 small and strange formats.
3694 * New MOD audio demux.
3695 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3696 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3697 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3698 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3701 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3702 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3703 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3709 * New opengl video output plugin.
3712 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3713 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3716 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3717 --------------------------------
3720 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3721 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3722 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3723 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3724 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3725 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3726 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3727 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3730 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3735 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3736 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3737 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3738 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3739 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3740 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3741 * Better Icecast support.
3742 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3743 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3746 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3747 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3748 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3749 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3750 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3751 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3752 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3755 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3756 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3757 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3758 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3759 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3760 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3761 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3762 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3763 * Preliminary RTP support.
3764 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3769 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3770 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3772 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3773 - Improvements and help in preferences
3774 - New streaming wizard
3775 - Revised Disc Open menu
3777 - Improvements of the standard pages
3778 - Support for new commands
3779 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3782 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3783 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3786 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3787 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3788 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3789 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3790 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3791 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3792 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3793 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3794 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3797 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3799 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3800 * Support for Panther.
3801 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3802 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3805 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3806 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3807 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3808 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3809 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3810 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3811 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3812 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3815 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3816 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3817 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3820 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3823 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3824 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3825 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3826 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3829 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3830 --------------------------------
3833 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3836 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3837 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3840 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3841 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3844 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3847 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3848 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3851 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3854 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3857 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3858 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3862 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3863 --------------------------------
3866 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3867 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3871 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3872 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3873 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3875 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3876 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3879 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3882 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3885 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3886 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3890 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3891 --------------------------------
3894 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3895 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3899 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3900 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3901 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3902 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3903 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3906 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3907 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3908 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3911 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3912 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3913 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3916 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3917 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3918 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3919 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3920 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3923 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3924 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3925 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3928 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3931 * Improved build system.
3932 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3933 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3934 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3935 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3938 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3939 --------------------------------
3942 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3945 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3946 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3947 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3948 * Video 4 Linux support
3949 * CD Digital Audio support
3950 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3953 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3954 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3955 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3956 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3959 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3960 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3961 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3962 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3963 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3964 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3965 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3968 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3969 * New HTTP remote control interface
3972 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3973 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3974 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3975 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3976 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3979 * New reset option for the preferences
3980 * You can set your language in the prefences
3981 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3982 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3983 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3984 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3987 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3988 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3989 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3992 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3993 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3994 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3995 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3996 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3997 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3998 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3999 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4000 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4001 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4004 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4005 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4006 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4007 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4008 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4009 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4010 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4013 * Interface localization
4014 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4015 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4016 * New full-featured Preferences window
4019 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4020 --------------------------------
4023 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4024 * support for skins at the interface level
4025 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4026 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4027 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4028 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4029 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4032 * fixed HTTP redirects
4033 * support for opening an entire directory
4034 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4035 * new video4linux access plug-in
4036 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4039 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4040 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4041 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4044 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4045 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4046 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4047 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4048 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4049 * new codec for raw I420 video
4050 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4053 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4054 (although it still misses some important features)
4055 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4058 * new HTTP output support
4059 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4060 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4063 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4066 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4069 * reorderable playlist
4070 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4071 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4072 * support for mono audio output devices
4073 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4074 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4075 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4076 * the messages window remembers more lines
4077 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4078 * http and ogg stream output options
4079 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4082 * new skinnable interface
4083 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4085 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4086 * support for FLAC audio format
4087 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4089 * network tab in the interface
4090 * "apply" handling in preferences
4093 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4094 ---------------------------------
4097 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4098 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4099 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4100 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4102 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4103 * DTS S/PDIF support
4106 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4107 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4108 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4109 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4112 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4113 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4116 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4119 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4122 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4124 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4125 * rc interface is now fully useable
4126 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4129 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4130 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4131 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4132 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4133 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4135 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4136 * support for mouse gestures
4137 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4140 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4141 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4144 * improved ID3 tag detection
4145 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4146 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4147 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4149 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4152 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4153 ---------------------------------
4156 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4157 English was set as the preferred language
4160 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4161 --------------------------------
4164 * new mouse gesture interface
4165 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4169 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4170 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4171 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4174 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4175 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4179 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4182 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4183 without the user consent
4186 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4188 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4189 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4190 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4193 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4194 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4195 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4196 * playlist enhancements
4197 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4198 * new step forward/step backward commands
4199 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4200 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4201 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4204 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4205 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4206 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4209 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4210 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4213 * native video output is working again
4214 * only commandline interface support
4215 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4218 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4219 --------------------------------
4222 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4223 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4224 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4225 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4226 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4227 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4228 and A/52 streams are supported)
4229 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4234 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4235 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4236 * VCD entry points support
4237 * VCD image file support
4240 * support for *.asf format
4241 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4242 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4243 * support for ogg encapsulation
4244 * support for raw DV format
4245 * support for *.wav format
4246 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4249 Stream discovery & playlists:
4250 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4251 * support for .m3u file format
4252 * support for .asx file format
4253 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4256 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4257 (only available with the .avi demux)
4258 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4259 * support for raw PCM data
4260 * support for Cinepak video codec
4261 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4262 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4263 * support for Xvid codec
4264 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4265 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4266 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4268 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4270 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4273 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4276 * new WxWindows interface
4277 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4278 device and the channels configuration
4279 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4280 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4281 format that VLC can play
4282 * new swedish translation
4283 * enhancements of the playlist window
4284 * new messages window to see debug info
4285 * fixed a few crashes
4288 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4289 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4290 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4291 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working