1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
10 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
11 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
12 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
13 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
14 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
15 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
16 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
17 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
18 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
19 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
20 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
21 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
22 --http-crl (optional CRL).
23 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
24 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
25 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
26 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
27 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
28 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
30 Important changes for packagers:
31 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
32 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
33 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
34 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
35 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
36 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
37 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
38 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
39 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
41 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
42 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
45 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
46 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
47 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
48 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
49 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
50 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
53 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
54 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
55 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
56 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
57 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
58 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
59 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
60 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
61 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
62 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
63 * PulseAudio audio input support
64 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
65 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
66 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
67 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
68 * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
69 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
70 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
73 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
74 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
75 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
76 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
77 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
78 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
79 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
80 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
81 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
82 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
83 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
84 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
85 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
86 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
89 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
90 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
91 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
92 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
93 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
94 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
95 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
96 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
97 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
100 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
101 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
102 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
103 * Qt: small look improvements
104 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
105 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
106 and important cleanups and optimisations
107 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
108 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
109 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
110 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
111 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
112 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
113 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
114 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
115 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
116 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
117 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
118 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
119 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
120 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
123 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
124 * New video output for iOS platform
125 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
126 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
127 * Various vmem improvements
128 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
130 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
131 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
132 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
134 Audio Output and Filters:
135 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
136 * New audio output in memory (amem)
137 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
138 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
139 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
140 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
141 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
142 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
145 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
146 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
147 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
148 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
149 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
150 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
151 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
152 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
153 * New anti-flickering filter
154 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
155 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
156 blackbox and customizable shadow
157 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
158 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
161 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
162 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
163 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
164 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
165 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
166 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
167 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
168 * Major rework of VoD support
169 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
170 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
171 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
172 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
173 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
174 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
175 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
176 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
177 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
178 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
181 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
182 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
185 * New capabilities for libVLC:
186 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
187 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
188 list of available audio and video filters
189 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
190 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
191 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
194 * asademux: use libass only
195 * subsass: use libass
196 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
197 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
199 * upnp: use upnp_intel
200 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
201 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
202 * removal of the noise filter
203 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
204 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
205 removed in Growl's next release, too.
206 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
209 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
210 ----------------------------------
213 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
214 including support for OS X Lion
215 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
216 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
219 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
222 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
223 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
224 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
227 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
230 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
231 ----------------------------------
234 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
235 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
238 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
239 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
240 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
241 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
242 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
244 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
245 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
246 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
248 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
249 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
252 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
255 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
258 * Fix quitting on Linux
259 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
263 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
266 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
269 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
270 ---------------------------------
272 Windows and Mac OS X:
273 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
276 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
277 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
280 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
283 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
286 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
288 Miscellaneous fixes in:
289 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
291 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
292 * RTP output and XML export
293 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
297 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
298 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
299 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
300 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
303 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
304 --------------------------------
306 Windows and Mac OS X:
307 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
310 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
313 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
314 * Improve Apple Remote handling
315 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
316 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
317 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
318 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
321 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
322 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
326 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
327 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
328 * New Luganda Translation
331 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
332 --------------------------------
335 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
338 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
339 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
340 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
341 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
344 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
346 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
347 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
348 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
349 * mp4 demuxer improvements
350 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
351 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
352 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
353 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
355 Miscellaneous fixes in:
356 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
357 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
358 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
359 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
360 * Configure and build system improvements
361 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
364 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
365 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
366 * New icelandic translation
369 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
377 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
378 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
379 and stability reasons
382 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
386 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
389 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
390 ----------------------------------
393 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
396 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
397 ---------------------------------
400 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
401 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
402 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
403 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
406 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
409 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
410 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
411 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
412 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
415 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
416 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
417 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
419 Subtitles and renderer:
420 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
421 * Mark more freetype options as safe
422 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
423 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
424 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
427 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
428 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
429 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
430 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
433 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
434 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
437 * KDE device solid actions
439 * Transcode integer overflow
440 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
441 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
444 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
445 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
446 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
449 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
450 ----------------------------------
453 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
457 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
460 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
463 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
464 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
465 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
466 * Taglib thread-safety fix
469 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
473 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
476 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
479 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
480 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
482 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
486 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
487 * Miscellaneous fixes
490 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
491 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
493 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
494 * New Asturian translation
497 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
498 ----------------------------------
501 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
503 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
506 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
509 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
510 * Various fixes for Windows
513 * New Armenian translation
514 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
515 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
518 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
519 --------------------------------
522 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
524 * Fix folders opening from the interface
527 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
528 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
531 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
532 --------------------------------
535 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
536 * fix for podcasts parsing
537 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
540 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
541 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
544 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
545 * fix m3u playlists exports
548 * fix video autoresize behaviour
551 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
554 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
557 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
560 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
563 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
564 --------------------------------
567 * Avformat fps displaying fix
568 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
571 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
572 of mono streams, especially on Windows
575 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
576 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
577 * fix console output encoding
579 Interface and extensions:
580 * Youtube and other scripts updates
581 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
584 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
585 --------------------------------
588 * New capabilities for libVLC:
589 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
590 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
591 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
592 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
593 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
594 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
595 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
596 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
597 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
598 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
599 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
600 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
601 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
602 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
603 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
607 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
608 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
609 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
610 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
611 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
614 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
617 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
618 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
619 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
623 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
626 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
627 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
628 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
631 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
632 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
633 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
634 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
637 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
638 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
641 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
642 --------------------------------
644 Important changes for users:
645 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
646 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
648 Important changes for packagers:
649 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
650 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
651 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
652 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
653 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
655 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
657 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
658 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
659 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
660 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
661 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
664 * Support for the sftp protocol
665 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
666 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
667 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
668 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
669 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
672 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
673 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
674 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
676 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
677 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
678 * Invmem module improvements
679 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
680 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
681 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
682 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
683 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
684 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
685 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
686 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
687 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
688 * Support for VP8 codec
689 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
692 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
693 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
694 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
695 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
696 * Various EGP improvements
697 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
698 * Metadata and cover art improvements
701 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
702 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
703 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
704 * Podcast images are now displayed
707 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
708 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
709 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
710 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
711 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
712 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
713 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
714 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
715 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
716 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
717 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
720 * New content extensions lua framework
723 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
724 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
725 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
726 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
727 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
728 * NEON assembly audio converter module
729 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
732 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
733 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
734 * Service discovery based on libudev
735 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
738 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
739 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
740 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
741 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
742 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
743 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
744 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
747 * New smem module, streaming to memory
748 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
749 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
752 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
754 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
755 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
758 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
761 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
762 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
763 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
764 by Andy Matuschak et al.
765 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
766 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
767 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
770 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
771 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
774 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
775 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
776 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
780 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
781 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
782 * Improved Solaris port
785 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
786 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
789 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
790 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
791 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
792 * transrate: broken since too long
793 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
794 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
795 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
796 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
797 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
798 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
799 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
800 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
801 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
802 * cddax: use cdda instead.
803 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
804 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
805 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
806 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
809 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
810 --------------------------------
813 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
815 Decoders/Packetizers:
816 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
819 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
820 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
821 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
822 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
823 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
826 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
827 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
830 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
831 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
834 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
835 and Walloon translations updated
836 * Sinhala translation started
839 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
840 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
843 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
844 --------------------------------
847 * SubRip extra styles improvements
848 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
851 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
854 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
855 increase performance and fix x264 issues
858 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
859 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
860 Russian, Slovak translation updates
861 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
864 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
865 --------------------------------
868 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
869 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
872 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
873 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
876 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
877 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
880 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
883 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
884 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
887 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
888 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
891 * New Walloon translation
892 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
895 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
896 --------------------------------
899 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
900 regressions in most popular drivers
901 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
904 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
905 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
906 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
909 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
910 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
913 * Update for appletrailers lua script
914 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
915 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
916 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
917 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
920 * New udev module for linux
923 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
926 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
929 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
930 --------------------------------
933 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
934 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
935 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
938 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
939 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
942 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
943 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
946 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
949 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
950 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
951 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
952 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
955 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
956 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
957 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
958 - no support for Goom and SDL
959 - limited text rendering support
960 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
963 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
964 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
965 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
966 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
967 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
968 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
969 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
970 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
971 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
975 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
978 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
981 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
982 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
983 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
984 Arabic and French translation updates
987 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
988 --------------------------------
991 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
992 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
993 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
994 * Fix Dailymotion access script
995 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
996 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
999 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1000 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1001 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1004 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1005 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1006 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1009 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1012 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1013 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1016 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1017 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1018 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1019 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1020 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1021 * Fix various crashes
1024 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1026 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1030 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1031 ---------------------------------
1035 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1036 See 'Access:' for more info.
1037 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1040 * Instantaneous pausing
1041 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1042 * Finer speed control
1043 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1044 * Timeshift for most medias
1045 * RTSP trickplay support
1046 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1049 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1050 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1051 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1052 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1053 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1054 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1055 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1056 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1057 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1058 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1061 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1062 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1063 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1064 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1065 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1066 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1067 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1070 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1071 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1074 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1075 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1076 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1077 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1078 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1079 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1080 * DVB scanning on linux
1081 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1082 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1083 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1084 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1085 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1086 * MTP device access on Unix
1087 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1088 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1091 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1092 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1093 Windows and Mac OS X.
1096 * Export the playlist in HTML
1097 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1098 * Better metadata handling and reading
1100 Linux/Windows interface:
1101 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1102 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1103 * Recently played items list
1104 * Interface toolbar customizations
1105 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1106 - More menus actions
1107 - Finer speed slider
1108 - Improvements on many dialogs
1109 - New dialog for plugins listing
1110 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1111 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1112 * Better integration in GTK environments
1115 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1116 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1117 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1118 * Additional usability improvements
1121 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1122 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1123 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1124 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1125 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1128 * New Maemo port with:
1129 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1130 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1133 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1136 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1137 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1138 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1139 * Support for latest iSight models
1142 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1143 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1146 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1147 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1148 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1149 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1150 The old image video output has been removed.
1151 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1152 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1155 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1163 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1164 --------------------------------------
1170 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1171 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1172 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1173 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1174 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1175 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1176 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1178 Various fixes to the following modules:
1181 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1182 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1183 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1185 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1190 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1191 ---------------------------------
1194 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1195 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1198 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1199 ---------------------------------
1202 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1205 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1208 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1209 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1210 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1211 main controller window.
1212 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1215 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1220 * Updates of other localizations
1223 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1224 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1225 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1226 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1227 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1230 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1231 ---------------------------------
1234 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1236 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1239 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1240 --------------------------------
1245 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1246 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1249 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1250 --------------------------------
1252 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1253 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1256 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1259 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1260 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1263 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1264 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1267 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1268 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1269 * Various fixed in playlist
1272 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1275 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1278 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1279 ------------------------------------
1281 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1282 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1285 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1286 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1287 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1290 * Stability fix for the video output.
1293 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1294 --------------------------------
1297 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1298 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1299 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1300 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1301 * Fixed update system bugs
1302 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1305 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1306 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1307 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1308 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1309 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1310 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1311 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1312 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1313 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1314 modern Mac OS X versions
1317 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1318 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1320 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1321 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1324 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1325 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1326 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1327 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1328 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1329 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1332 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1333 --------------------------------
1335 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1336 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1337 * Multiple bugfixes.
1340 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1341 --------------------------------
1343 * Multiple bug fixes.
1346 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1347 ---------------------------------
1351 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1352 recent to work correctly
1353 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1354 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1355 edit the ".hosts" file.
1356 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1357 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1358 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1359 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1360 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1361 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1362 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1363 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1364 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1365 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1366 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1367 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1368 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1369 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1370 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1371 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1372 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1373 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1374 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1375 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1376 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1377 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1378 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1379 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1380 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1381 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1382 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1383 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1384 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1385 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1386 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1387 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1388 and postproc modules.
1389 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1390 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1391 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1392 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1394 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1395 filter. For example:
1396 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1397 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1399 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1400 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1406 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1408 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1409 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1412 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1413 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1415 * Shoutcast TV listings
1416 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1418 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1419 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1421 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1424 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1425 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1426 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1427 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1428 * JACK audio input support
1429 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1430 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1431 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1432 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1433 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1434 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1435 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1436 (available as a separate download).
1437 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1438 * RTMP input support
1439 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1440 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1441 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1443 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1444 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1447 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1448 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1449 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1450 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1452 * APEv1/2 tags support
1453 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1454 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1456 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1457 * TiVo Series 2 support
1458 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1463 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1464 * Flash Screen Video support
1465 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1466 * DosBox Capture support
1467 * Karl Morton's Video support
1468 * limited atrac3 support
1470 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1471 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1472 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1473 * H.264 PAFF support
1474 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1475 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1476 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1477 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1478 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1481 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1482 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1483 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1484 * AQTitle subtitles support
1485 * MKV USF subtitles support
1486 * HTML-based subtitles support
1487 * MPSub subtitles support
1488 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1489 * MPL2 subtitles support
1490 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1491 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1492 * Realtext subtitle support
1493 * DKS subtitle support
1494 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1495 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1498 * Flash Screen Video support
1499 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1501 Video outputs and filters:
1502 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1503 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1504 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1505 * New puzzle video output filter
1506 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1507 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1509 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1510 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1511 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1512 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1513 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1514 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1515 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1516 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1517 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1518 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1519 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1520 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1521 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1522 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1524 Audio outputs and filters:
1525 * Replay gain support
1526 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1527 new scaletempo audio filter)
1528 * New spatializer audio filter
1529 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1532 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1533 * New RTP payload formats:
1534 * Speex voice audio codec
1535 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1536 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1537 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1538 * DCCP transport for RTP
1539 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1544 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1545 end-user suitable way.
1546 * Improved user interaction
1547 * Improved mouse gestures
1548 * Vastly improved Update checker
1549 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1551 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1552 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1554 * Improved video output features
1555 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1556 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1557 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1558 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1559 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1561 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1562 if libncursesw is available.
1563 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1564 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1565 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1567 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1568 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1569 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1570 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1571 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1572 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1573 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1574 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1577 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1578 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1579 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1582 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1583 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1584 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1585 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1586 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1587 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1590 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1591 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1601 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1602 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1603 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1606 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1607 ----------------------------------
1610 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1613 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1614 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1615 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1616 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1617 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1618 * Updated Polish translation
1621 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1622 ----------------------------------
1625 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1626 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1627 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1630 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1631 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1632 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1633 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1634 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1635 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1636 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1637 to an unexpected application termination
1638 * New Serbian translation
1639 * Updated Romanian translation
1642 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1643 ----------------------------------
1646 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1647 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1648 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1649 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1650 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1651 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1652 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1653 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1656 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1657 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1658 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1659 * Fixed AAC resampling
1660 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1661 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1664 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1665 ----------------------------------
1668 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1669 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1670 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1671 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1672 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1675 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1676 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1677 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1678 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1679 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1682 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1683 ----------------------------------
1686 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1687 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1690 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1691 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1692 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1693 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1695 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1699 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1702 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1705 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1708 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1711 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1712 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1713 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1714 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1715 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1717 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1718 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1719 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1720 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1723 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1726 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1727 ----------------------------------
1730 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1731 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1732 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1734 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1735 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1737 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1738 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1741 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1743 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1744 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1745 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1746 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1747 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1748 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1749 two different movies
1750 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1751 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1752 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1755 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1758 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1759 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1760 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1761 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1764 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1765 ----------------------------------
1767 Various bugfixes, notably:
1768 * Windows Vista compatibility
1769 * Cropping in Direct3D
1770 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1771 * RSS filter string overflow
1773 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1775 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1776 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1779 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1780 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1783 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1786 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1789 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1792 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1793 ----------------------------------
1795 Various bugfixes, notably:
1796 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1797 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1798 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1799 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1800 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1801 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1804 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1805 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1808 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1810 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1811 * Diverse usability improvements
1812 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1813 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1814 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1817 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1818 ---------------------------------
1820 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1821 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1824 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1827 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1828 --------------------------------
1831 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1834 * Support for RTSP authentication
1835 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1836 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1837 * ATSC support for DVB input
1838 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1839 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1840 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1843 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1844 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1845 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1846 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1847 * Matroska WavPack support
1848 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1849 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1850 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1853 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1854 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1855 * Improved libcaca support
1859 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1860 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1862 * Systray support in skins
1864 * Support for Apple Remote control
1865 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1866 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1867 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1868 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1870 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1873 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1874 Windows 9x/ME users:
1875 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1876 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1877 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1878 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1879 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1881 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1882 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1891 * Updates to the libvlc API
1892 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1895 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1896 --------------------------------
1899 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1900 * Support for downloading updates
1904 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1905 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1906 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1907 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1909 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1910 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1911 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1914 * Cook (Real audio) support
1916 Playlist / Services discovery:
1917 * XSPF playlist support
1919 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1922 * New JACK audio output
1925 * New video filters:
1926 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1927 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1928 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1929 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1930 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1931 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1934 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1937 * System to inform the user and request information
1938 - HTTP authentication
1942 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1943 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1944 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1947 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1948 - Improved playlist handling
1949 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1951 - Embedded Video output
1952 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1953 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1954 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1955 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1956 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1958 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1959 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1962 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1965 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1966 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1967 * Growl "Now playing" support
1970 * Ability to log to syslog
1971 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1974 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1976 * A bit more automatic testing
1979 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1980 ---------------------------------
1983 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1984 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1987 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1988 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1991 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1994 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1995 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2001 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2004 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2005 --------------------------------
2008 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2012 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2013 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2014 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2017 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2018 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2019 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2020 * GnomeVFS input module
2021 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2022 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2025 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2026 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2027 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2030 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2031 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2037 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2038 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2041 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2042 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2043 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2046 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2048 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2049 - New extended controls panel
2050 - New bookmarks window
2051 - Fixed playlist sorting
2052 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2054 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2055 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2056 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2057 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2061 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2062 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2064 - Include macro to include other files
2068 * Should now work outside IE as well
2071 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2074 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2075 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2078 The following languages were added:
2082 * Simplified Chinese
2083 The following languages were re-added:
2087 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2088 --------------------------------
2091 * Rewrite of the playlist
2093 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2094 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2095 * Preferences improvements:
2096 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2097 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2099 * Core image manipulation support
2100 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2101 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2102 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2103 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2104 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2105 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2106 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2107 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2108 * Access filter architecture
2109 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2110 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2114 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2115 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2116 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2117 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2118 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2119 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2120 * Massive Matroska improvements
2121 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2123 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2124 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2125 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2126 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2127 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2129 Decoders / Encoders:
2130 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2131 * PNG decoder/encoder
2132 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2133 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2136 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2139 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2140 * Brand new SAP module
2141 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2142 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2143 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2144 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2145 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2146 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2150 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2153 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2154 * Image file video output (png)
2155 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2156 * Improvements to wall video filter
2157 * Support for font color and opacity
2163 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2164 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2165 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2169 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2170 - Improved preferences
2171 - Improvements to the wizard
2172 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2174 - Redesigned playlist
2175 - Improved preferences
2177 - Support for multiple actions
2180 - Support for the new playlist system
2182 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2185 * Screensaver disabling fix
2186 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2187 * Support for no-decoration windows
2190 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2191 * The OpenGL video output is back
2192 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2193 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2194 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2195 is not yet available in the new module
2196 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2199 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2208 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2211 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2214 The following languages were added:
2220 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2221 --------------------------------
2224 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2225 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2228 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2229 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2230 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2233 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2236 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2239 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2242 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2243 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2244 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2248 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2250 * Support of playlist group announcement
2253 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2254 --------------------------------
2257 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2258 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2259 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2260 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2261 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2262 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2265 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2266 (Stream your desktop)
2267 * Improved DVD support:
2268 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2269 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2270 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2271 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2272 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2273 (selection of titles/chapters).
2276 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2277 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2278 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2279 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2280 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2281 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2282 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2283 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2284 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2285 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2288 * G.726 audio support
2289 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2290 * MPEG-4 text support
2291 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2292 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2293 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2297 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2298 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2299 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2300 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2301 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2302 * DVB subtitles encoder
2303 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2304 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2306 * Text track muxing for mp4
2307 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2308 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2309 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2310 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2311 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2312 * Improved ASF muxer
2314 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2315 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2316 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2319 * New audio equalizer filter
2320 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2321 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2322 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2323 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2326 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2327 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2328 with support for effects.
2329 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2330 - New filters can be streamed.
2331 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2332 - Centralized scaling and blending
2334 - "time", to display current time
2335 - "marq", to display a marquee
2338 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2339 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2340 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2341 * A few skins2 improvements
2342 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2343 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2344 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2345 * Improved CORBA control module
2348 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2349 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2350 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2353 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2354 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2355 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2358 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2359 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2360 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2361 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2362 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2365 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2368 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2369 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2372 * Server/client network synchronization module
2373 * VBrick streams fully supported
2374 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2378 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2379 --------------------------------
2382 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2383 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2384 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2385 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2388 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2389 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2390 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2391 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2392 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2393 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2394 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2397 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2398 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2399 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2400 * Improved directory access module.
2401 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2402 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2403 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2404 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2405 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2408 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2409 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2410 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2413 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2414 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2415 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2418 * Improved session announcement system.
2419 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2420 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2421 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2422 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2423 * Improved transrater.
2424 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2425 * New configuration system.
2426 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2429 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2430 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2431 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2432 * Supports scheduling.
2433 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2434 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2437 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2438 - Ability to embed video output.
2439 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2440 - Lots of improvements.
2441 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2442 - New design and set of icons.
2443 - Ability to embed video output.
2444 - Support for hotkeys.
2445 - Support for bookmarks.
2447 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2448 - Better hotkeys handling.
2451 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2452 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2453 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2454 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2457 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2458 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2459 * Improved Windows installer.
2465 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2466 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2469 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2470 ---------------------------------
2473 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2474 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2477 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2478 --------------------------------
2481 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2482 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2485 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2486 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2487 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2488 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2491 * Internal improvments
2492 * Improved import/export
2495 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2497 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2498 small and strange formats.
2500 * New MOD audio demux.
2501 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2502 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2503 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2504 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2507 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2508 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2509 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2515 * New opengl video output plugin.
2518 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2519 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2522 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2523 --------------------------------
2526 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2527 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2528 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2529 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2530 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2531 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2532 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2533 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2536 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2541 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2542 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2543 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2544 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2545 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2546 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2547 * Better Icecast support.
2548 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2549 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2552 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2553 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2554 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2555 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2556 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2557 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2558 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2561 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2562 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2563 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2564 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2565 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2566 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2567 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2568 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2569 * Preliminary RTP support.
2570 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2575 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2576 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2578 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2579 - Improvements and help in preferences
2580 - New streaming wizard
2581 - Revised Disc Open menu
2583 - Improvements of the standard pages
2584 - Support for new commands
2585 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2588 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2589 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2592 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2593 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2594 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2595 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2596 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2597 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2598 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2599 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2600 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2603 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2605 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2606 * Support for Panther.
2607 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2608 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2611 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2612 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2613 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2614 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2615 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2616 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2617 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2618 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2621 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2622 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2623 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2626 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2629 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2630 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2631 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2632 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2635 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2636 --------------------------------
2639 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2642 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2643 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2646 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2647 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2650 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2653 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2654 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2657 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2660 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2663 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2664 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2668 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2669 --------------------------------
2672 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2673 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2677 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2678 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2679 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2681 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2682 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2685 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2688 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2691 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2692 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2696 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2697 --------------------------------
2700 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2701 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2705 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2706 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2707 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2708 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2709 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2712 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2713 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2714 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2717 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2718 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2719 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2722 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2723 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2724 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2725 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2726 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2729 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2730 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2731 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2734 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2737 * Improved build system.
2738 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2739 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2740 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2741 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2744 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2745 --------------------------------
2748 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2751 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2752 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2753 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2754 * Video 4 Linux support
2755 * CD Digital Audio support
2756 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2759 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2760 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2761 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2762 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2765 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2766 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2767 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2768 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2769 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2770 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2771 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2774 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2775 * New HTTP remote control interface
2778 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2779 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2780 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2781 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2782 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2785 * New reset option for the preferences
2786 * You can set your language in the prefences
2787 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2788 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2789 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2790 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2793 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2794 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2795 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2798 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2799 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2800 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2801 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2802 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2803 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2804 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2805 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2806 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2807 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2810 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2811 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2812 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2813 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2814 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2815 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2816 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2819 * Interface localization
2820 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2821 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2822 * New full-featured Preferences window
2825 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2826 --------------------------------
2829 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2830 * support for skins at the interface level
2831 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2832 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2833 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2834 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2835 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2838 * fixed HTTP redirects
2839 * support for opening an entire directory
2840 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2841 * new video4linux access plug-in
2842 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2845 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2846 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2847 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2850 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2851 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2852 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2853 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2854 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2855 * new codec for raw I420 video
2856 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2859 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2860 (although it still misses some important features)
2861 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2864 * new HTTP output support
2865 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2866 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2869 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2872 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2875 * reorderable playlist
2876 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2877 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2878 * support for mono audio output devices
2879 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2880 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2881 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2882 * the messages window remembers more lines
2883 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2884 * http and ogg stream output options
2885 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2888 * new skinnable interface
2889 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2891 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2892 * support for FLAC audio format
2893 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2895 * network tab in the interface
2896 * "apply" handling in preferences
2899 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2900 ---------------------------------
2903 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2904 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2905 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2906 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2908 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2909 * DTS S/PDIF support
2912 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2913 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2914 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2915 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2918 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2919 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2922 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2925 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2928 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2930 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2931 * rc interface is now fully useable
2932 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2935 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2936 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2937 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2938 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2939 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2941 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2942 * support for mouse gestures
2943 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2946 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2947 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2950 * improved ID3 tag detection
2951 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2952 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2953 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2955 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2958 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2959 ---------------------------------
2962 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2963 English was set as the preferred language
2966 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2967 --------------------------------
2970 * new mouse gesture interface
2971 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2975 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2976 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2977 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2980 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2981 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2985 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2988 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2989 without the user consent
2992 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2994 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2995 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2996 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2999 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3000 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3001 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3002 * playlist enhancements
3003 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3004 * new step forward/step backward commands
3005 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3006 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3007 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3010 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3011 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3012 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3015 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3016 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3019 * native video output is working again
3020 * only commandline interface support
3021 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3024 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3025 --------------------------------
3028 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3029 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3030 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3031 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3032 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3033 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3034 and A/52 streams are supported)
3035 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3040 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3041 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3042 * VCD entry points support
3043 * VCD image file support
3046 * support for *.asf format
3047 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3048 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3049 * support for ogg encapsulation
3050 * support for raw DV format
3051 * support for *.wav format
3052 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3055 Stream discovery & playlists:
3056 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3057 * support for .m3u file format
3058 * support for .asx file format
3059 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3062 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3063 (only available with the .avi demux)
3064 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3065 * support for raw PCM data
3066 * support for Cinepak video codec
3067 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3068 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3069 * support for Xvid codec
3070 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3071 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3072 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3074 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3076 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3079 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3082 * new WxWindows interface
3083 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3084 device and the channels configuration
3085 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3086 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3087 format that VLC can play
3088 * new swedish translation
3089 * enhancements of the playlist window
3090 * new messages window to see debug info
3091 * fixed a few crashes
3094 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3095 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3096 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3097 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working