1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
6 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
9 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
10 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
13 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
14 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
15 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
18 * New CAF format module
21 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
22 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
23 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
26 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
27 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
28 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
31 * New Oldmovie effect filter
32 * New VHS effect filter
33 * New Freeze effect filter
36 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
39 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
42 * ios video output: use ios2
43 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
46 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
47 --------------------------------
50 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
51 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
52 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
53 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
54 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
56 3rd party libraries (contrib):
57 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
61 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
62 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
63 * Partial support for Windows Store App
65 * Add an audio fingerprinter
66 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
69 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
70 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
71 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
72 * Support for Ulead DV audio
73 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
74 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
75 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
76 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
77 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
78 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
79 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
80 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
83 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
84 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
87 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
88 remove support for previous OS X releases
89 * Major improvements in DASH support
90 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
91 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
92 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
93 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
94 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
95 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
96 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
97 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
98 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
99 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
102 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
103 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
104 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
105 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
106 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
107 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
108 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
109 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
110 * Support for more MJPEG streams
111 * Add support for liveleak streams
112 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
113 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
114 program to terminate.
115 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
118 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
119 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
120 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
121 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
122 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
123 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
124 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
125 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
126 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
127 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
128 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
131 * New remapping channel filter
132 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
133 * New VSXu visualization plugin
134 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
135 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
138 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
139 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
140 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
141 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
142 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
143 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
144 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
145 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
148 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
149 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
150 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
151 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
152 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
153 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
154 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
157 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
158 * Options support for AVIO output module
159 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
160 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
161 * Livehttp stream encryption support
162 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
163 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
166 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
169 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
170 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
171 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
172 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
173 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
174 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
178 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
181 * Add support for multiple video outputs
182 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
184 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
185 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
186 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
187 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
188 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
189 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
190 VLC's internal volume level
191 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
193 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
194 selection and to manage the list of presets
195 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
196 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
197 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
198 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
199 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
200 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
201 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
202 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
203 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
204 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
206 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
207 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
208 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
209 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
210 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
211 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
212 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
213 3rd party applications
214 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
215 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
216 (system-wide settings)
217 * Add support for the Video Title option
218 * Add support for the Boss Key
219 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
220 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
223 * Partial support for Qt5.0
224 * Menus modifications and improvements
225 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
226 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
227 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
228 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
229 * EPG display fixes and improvements
230 * Add SD pixmap sources
231 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
232 * Display playlist total duration
233 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
235 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
236 * Remove language preference
237 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
242 * Extend sliders, offsets options
243 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
244 * Numerous fixes and improvements
245 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
248 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
249 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
250 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
251 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
252 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
253 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
254 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
255 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
256 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
257 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
260 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
261 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
262 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
263 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
264 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
265 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
267 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
268 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
269 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
270 * Broken crop video filter
272 * OSD parser and menu
273 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
274 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
275 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
276 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
280 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
281 --------------------------------
284 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
285 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
289 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
292 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
295 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
298 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
302 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
305 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
308 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
309 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
310 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
313 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
314 --------------------------------
317 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
320 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
323 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
324 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
325 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
326 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
327 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
328 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
331 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
332 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
333 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
334 * 3rd party codecs updates
337 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
338 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
339 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
340 in the advanced preferences panel
341 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
342 * Fix crash within the video output code
343 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
344 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
345 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
346 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
348 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
351 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
354 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
355 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
358 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
361 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
362 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
363 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
364 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
365 Dutch, Danish, translations
366 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
369 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
376 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
377 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
378 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
381 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
382 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
383 * Fix koreus lua parser
384 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
385 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
386 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
387 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
390 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
391 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
394 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
397 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
398 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
399 * Fix Time counter UI look
400 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
403 * Fix https streaming
406 * Fix audio and video track selection:
407 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
408 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
411 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
412 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
413 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
414 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
415 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
418 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
419 --------------------------------
422 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
423 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
424 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
425 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
426 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
427 during playback on Mac OS X
430 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
431 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
432 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
435 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
436 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
437 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
438 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
439 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
442 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
443 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
444 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
445 * Support Youtube live streams
448 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
451 * Fix media info dialog update
452 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
453 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
454 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
455 * Fix album art display at start
458 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
459 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
460 * Fix menus display and behavior
461 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
462 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
463 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
464 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
465 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
466 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
467 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
470 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
471 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
472 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
473 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
474 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
475 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
476 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
477 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
478 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
481 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
482 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
483 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
484 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
485 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
488 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
489 --------------------------------
492 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
495 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
496 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
499 * Add GateKeeper support
500 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
501 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
502 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
505 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
508 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
509 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
510 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
511 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
512 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
515 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
516 --------------------------------
519 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
520 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
521 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
522 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
523 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
524 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
525 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
526 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
527 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
528 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
529 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
533 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
534 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
535 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
536 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
537 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
538 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
539 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
540 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
541 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
542 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
543 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
544 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
547 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
548 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
550 * Fix MP3 free format support
553 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
554 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
555 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
556 * Fix for DVB channels file support
557 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
560 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
561 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
563 Audio filters and output:
564 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
565 * Fix DirectSound device selection
566 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
567 * Do not apply volume in file output
568 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
569 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
572 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
573 the persistant media library
574 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
575 to the media library or the temporary playlist
576 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
577 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
578 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
579 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
580 press on the Play/Pause button
581 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
582 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
583 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
584 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
585 * Many Fullscreen fixes
586 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
587 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
588 Synchronization panel
589 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
590 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
591 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
592 * Fix crashes on exit
593 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
595 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
596 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
597 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
598 automatically reset on the first launch.
599 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
600 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
601 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
604 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
605 * Fixes for icecast SD
608 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
609 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
610 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
611 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
612 * Fix tags and file names display
613 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
616 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
617 * Fix for key events and focus loss
620 * Fix display of some buttons
621 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
622 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
625 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
626 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
627 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
630 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
631 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
632 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
633 Thai translations update
634 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
637 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
638 --------------------------------
641 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
642 * fix the samba module compilation
643 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
644 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
645 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
646 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
649 * Support for MXPEG files
650 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
651 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
654 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
655 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
656 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
659 * Fix ogm header creation
662 * limit spatializer filter distortions
663 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
666 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
667 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
668 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
669 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
672 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
675 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
676 * allow to hide the sidebar
677 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
678 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
679 * noticebly faster launch time
680 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
681 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
682 * improve track synchronization panel
683 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
684 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
687 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
688 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
689 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
690 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
693 * fix for menus display
694 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
695 * documentation update
698 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
699 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
702 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
703 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
704 * Update Jamendo selections
708 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
709 * fix a crash on VLM close
712 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
713 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
714 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
715 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
718 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
721 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
722 ---------------------------------
725 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
726 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
727 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
728 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
729 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
730 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
731 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
732 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
733 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
734 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
735 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
736 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
737 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
738 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
739 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
740 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
741 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
742 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
743 --http-crl (optional CRL).
744 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
745 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
746 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
747 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
748 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
749 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
750 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
752 Important changes for packagers:
753 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
754 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
755 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
756 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
757 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
758 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
759 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
760 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
761 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
762 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
765 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
766 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
767 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
768 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
769 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
770 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
771 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
774 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
775 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
776 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
777 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
778 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
779 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
780 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
781 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
782 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
783 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
784 * PulseAudio audio input support
785 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
786 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
787 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
788 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
789 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
790 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
791 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
792 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
795 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
796 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
797 are notably concerned.
798 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
799 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
800 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
801 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
802 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
803 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
804 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
805 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
806 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
807 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
808 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
809 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
810 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
811 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
812 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
815 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
816 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
817 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
818 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
819 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
820 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
821 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
822 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
823 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
824 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
825 * Improved support of tracker files
826 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
829 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
830 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
831 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
832 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
833 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
834 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
835 and important cleanups and optimisations
836 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
837 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
838 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
839 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
840 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
841 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
842 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
843 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
844 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
845 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
846 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
847 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
848 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
849 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
850 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
851 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
852 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
853 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
854 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
855 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
856 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
859 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
860 * New video output for iOS platform
861 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
862 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
863 * Various vmem improvements
864 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
865 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
866 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
867 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
868 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
869 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
871 Audio Output and Filters:
872 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
873 * New audio output in memory (amem)
874 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
875 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
876 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
877 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
878 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
879 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
880 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
881 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
884 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
885 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
886 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
887 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
888 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
889 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
890 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
891 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
892 * New anti-flickering filter
893 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
894 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
895 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
896 blackbox and customizable shadow.
897 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
898 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
899 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
902 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
903 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
904 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
905 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
906 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
907 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
908 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
909 * Major rework of VoD support
910 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
911 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
912 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
913 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
914 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
915 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
916 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
917 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
918 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
919 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
922 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
923 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
926 * New capabilities for libVLC:
927 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
928 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
929 list of available audio and video filters
930 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
931 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
932 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
935 * asademux, subsass: use libass
936 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
937 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
939 * upnp: use upnp_intel
940 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
941 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
942 * removal of the noise filter
943 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
944 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
945 removed in Growl's next release, too.
946 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
949 * Update of translations for most languages.
950 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
953 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
954 ----------------------------------
957 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
958 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
961 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
962 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
965 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
966 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
967 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
970 * Camtasia decoding fix.
973 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
974 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
977 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
980 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
981 ----------------------------------
984 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
985 including support for OS X Lion
986 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
987 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
990 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
993 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
994 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
995 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
998 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1001 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1002 ----------------------------------
1005 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1006 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1009 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1010 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1011 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1012 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1013 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1015 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1016 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1017 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1019 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1020 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1023 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1026 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1029 * Fix quitting on Linux
1030 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1034 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1037 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1040 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1041 ---------------------------------
1043 Windows and Mac OS X:
1044 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1047 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1048 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1051 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1054 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1057 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1059 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1060 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1062 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1063 * RTP output and XML export
1064 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1068 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1069 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1070 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1071 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1074 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1075 --------------------------------
1077 Windows and Mac OS X:
1078 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1081 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1084 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1085 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1086 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1087 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1088 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1089 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1092 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1093 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1097 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1098 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1099 * New Luganda Translation
1102 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1103 --------------------------------
1106 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1109 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1110 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1111 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1112 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1115 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1117 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1118 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1119 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1120 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1121 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1122 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1123 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1124 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1126 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1127 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1128 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1129 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1130 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1131 * Configure and build system improvements
1132 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1135 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1136 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1137 * New icelandic translation
1140 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1141 --------------------------------
1144 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1145 #234484 and #260719.
1148 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1149 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1150 and stability reasons
1153 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1157 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1160 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1161 ----------------------------------
1164 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1167 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1168 ---------------------------------
1171 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1172 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1173 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1174 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1177 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1180 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1181 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1182 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1183 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1186 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1187 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1188 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1190 Subtitles and renderer:
1191 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1192 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1193 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1194 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1195 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1198 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1199 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1200 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1201 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1204 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1205 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1207 Miscellaneous fixes:
1208 * KDE device solid actions
1210 * Transcode integer overflow
1211 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1212 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1215 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1216 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1217 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1220 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1221 ----------------------------------
1224 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1228 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1231 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1234 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1235 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1236 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1237 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1240 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1244 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1247 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1250 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1251 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1253 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1257 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1258 * Miscellaneous fixes
1261 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1262 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1263 French and Ukrainian
1264 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1265 * New Asturian translation
1268 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1269 ----------------------------------
1272 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1274 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1277 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1280 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1281 * Various fixes for Windows
1284 * New Armenian translation
1285 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1286 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1289 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1290 --------------------------------
1293 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1294 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1295 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1298 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1299 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1302 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1303 --------------------------------
1305 Access and demuxers:
1306 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1307 * fix for podcasts parsing
1308 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1311 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1312 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1315 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1316 * fix m3u playlists exports
1319 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1322 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1325 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1328 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1331 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1334 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1335 --------------------------------
1338 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1339 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1342 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1343 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1346 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1347 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1348 * fix console output encoding
1350 Interface and extensions:
1351 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1352 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1355 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1356 --------------------------------
1359 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1360 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1361 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1362 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1363 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1364 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1365 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1366 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1367 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1368 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1369 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1370 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1371 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1372 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1373 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1374 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1378 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1379 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1380 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1381 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1382 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1385 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1388 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1389 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1390 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1394 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1397 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1398 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1399 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1402 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1403 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1404 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1405 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1408 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1409 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1412 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1413 --------------------------------
1415 Important changes for users:
1416 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1417 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1419 Important changes for packagers:
1420 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1421 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1422 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1423 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1424 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1426 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1428 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1429 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1430 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1431 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1432 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1435 * Support for the sftp protocol
1436 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1437 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1438 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1439 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1440 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1443 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1444 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1445 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1447 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1448 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1449 * Invmem module improvements
1450 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1451 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1452 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1453 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1454 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1455 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1456 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1457 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1458 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1459 * Support for VP8 codec
1460 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1463 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1464 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1465 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1466 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1467 * Various EGP improvements
1468 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1469 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1472 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1473 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1474 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1475 * Podcast images are now displayed
1478 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1479 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1480 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1481 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1482 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1483 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1484 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1485 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1486 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1487 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1488 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1491 * New content extensions lua framework
1494 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1495 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1496 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1497 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1498 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1499 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1500 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1503 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1504 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1505 * Service discovery based on libudev
1506 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1509 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1510 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1511 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1512 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1513 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1514 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1515 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1518 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1519 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1520 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1523 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1525 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1526 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1529 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1532 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1533 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1534 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1535 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1536 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1537 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1538 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1541 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1542 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1545 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1546 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1547 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1551 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1552 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1553 * Improved Solaris port
1556 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1557 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1560 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1561 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1562 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1563 * transrate: broken since too long
1564 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1565 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1566 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1567 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1568 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1569 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1570 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1571 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1572 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1573 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1574 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1575 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1576 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1577 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1580 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1581 --------------------------------
1584 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1586 Decoders/Packetizers:
1587 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1590 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1591 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1592 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1593 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1594 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1597 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1598 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1601 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1602 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1605 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1606 and Walloon translations updated
1607 * Sinhala translation started
1610 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1611 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1614 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1615 --------------------------------
1618 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1619 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1622 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1625 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1626 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1629 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1630 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1631 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1632 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1635 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1636 --------------------------------
1639 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1640 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1643 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1644 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1647 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1648 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1651 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1654 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1655 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1658 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1659 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1662 * New Walloon translation
1663 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1666 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1667 --------------------------------
1670 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1671 regressions in most popular drivers
1672 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1675 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1676 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1677 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1680 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1681 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1684 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1685 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1686 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1687 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1688 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1691 * New udev module for linux
1694 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1697 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1700 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1701 --------------------------------
1704 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1705 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1706 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1709 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1710 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1713 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1714 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1717 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1720 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1721 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1722 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1723 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1726 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1727 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1728 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1729 - no support for Goom and SDL
1730 - limited text rendering support
1731 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1734 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1735 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1736 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1737 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1738 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1739 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1740 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1741 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1742 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1746 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1749 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1752 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1753 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1754 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1755 Arabic and French translation updates
1758 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1759 --------------------------------
1762 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1763 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1764 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1765 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1766 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1767 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1770 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1771 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1772 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1775 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1776 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1777 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1780 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1783 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1784 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1787 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1788 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1789 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1790 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1791 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1792 * Fix various crashes
1795 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1797 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1801 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1802 ---------------------------------
1806 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1807 See 'Access:' for more info.
1808 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1811 * Instantaneous pausing
1812 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1813 * Finer speed control
1814 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1815 * Timeshift for most medias
1816 * RTSP trickplay support
1817 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1820 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1821 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1822 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1823 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1824 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1825 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1826 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1827 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1828 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1829 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1832 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1833 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1834 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1835 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1836 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1837 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1838 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1841 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1842 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1845 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1846 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1847 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1848 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1849 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1850 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1851 * DVB scanning on linux
1852 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1853 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1854 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1855 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1856 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1857 * MTP device access on Unix
1858 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1859 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1862 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1863 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1864 Windows and Mac OS X.
1867 * Export the playlist in HTML
1868 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1869 * Better metadata handling and reading
1871 Linux/Windows interface:
1872 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1873 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1874 * Recently played items list
1875 * Interface toolbar customizations
1876 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1877 - More menus actions
1878 - Finer speed slider
1879 - Improvements on many dialogs
1880 - New dialog for plugins listing
1881 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1882 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1883 * Better integration in GTK environments
1886 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1887 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1888 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1889 * Additional usability improvements
1892 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1893 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1894 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1895 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1896 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1899 * New Maemo port with:
1900 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1901 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1904 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1907 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1908 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1909 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1910 * Support for latest iSight models
1913 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1914 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1917 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1918 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1919 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1920 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1921 The old image video output has been removed.
1922 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1923 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1926 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1934 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1935 --------------------------------------
1941 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1942 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1943 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1944 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1945 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1946 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1947 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1949 Various fixes to the following modules:
1952 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1953 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1954 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1956 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1961 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1962 ---------------------------------
1965 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1966 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1969 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1970 ---------------------------------
1973 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1976 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1979 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1980 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1981 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1982 main controller window.
1983 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1986 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1991 * Updates of other localizations
1994 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1995 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1996 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1997 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1998 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2001 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2002 ---------------------------------
2005 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2007 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2010 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2011 --------------------------------
2016 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2017 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2020 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2021 --------------------------------
2023 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2024 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2027 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2030 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2031 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2034 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2035 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2038 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2039 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2040 * Various fixed in playlist
2043 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2046 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2049 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2050 ------------------------------------
2052 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2053 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2056 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2057 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2058 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2061 * Stability fix for the video output.
2064 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2065 --------------------------------
2068 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2069 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2070 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2071 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2072 * Fixed update system bugs
2073 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2076 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2077 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2078 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2079 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2080 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2081 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2082 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2083 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2084 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2085 modern Mac OS X versions
2088 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2089 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2091 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2092 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2095 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2096 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2097 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2098 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2099 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2100 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2103 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2104 --------------------------------
2106 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2107 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2108 * Multiple bugfixes.
2111 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2112 --------------------------------
2114 * Multiple bug fixes.
2117 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2118 ---------------------------------
2122 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2123 recent to work correctly
2124 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2125 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2126 edit the ".hosts" file.
2127 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2128 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2129 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2130 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2131 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2132 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2133 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2134 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2135 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2136 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2137 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2138 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2139 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2140 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2141 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2142 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2143 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2144 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2145 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2146 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2147 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2148 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2149 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2150 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2151 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2152 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2153 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2154 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2155 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2156 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2157 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2158 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2159 and postproc modules.
2160 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2161 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2162 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2163 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2165 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2166 filter. For example:
2167 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2168 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2170 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2171 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2177 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2179 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2180 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2183 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2184 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2186 * Shoutcast TV listings
2187 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2189 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2190 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2192 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2195 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2196 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2197 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2198 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2199 * JACK audio input support
2200 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2201 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2202 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2203 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2204 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2205 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2206 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2207 (available as a separate download).
2208 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2209 * RTMP input support
2210 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2211 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2212 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2214 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2215 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2218 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2219 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2220 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2221 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2223 * APEv1/2 tags support
2224 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2225 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2227 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2228 * TiVo Series 2 support
2229 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2234 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2235 * Flash Screen Video support
2236 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2237 * DosBox Capture support
2238 * Karl Morton's Video support
2239 * limited atrac3 support
2241 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2242 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2243 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2244 * H.264 PAFF support
2245 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2246 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2247 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2248 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2249 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2252 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2253 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2254 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2255 * AQTitle subtitles support
2256 * MKV USF subtitles support
2257 * HTML-based subtitles support
2258 * MPSub subtitles support
2259 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2260 * MPL2 subtitles support
2261 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2262 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2263 * Realtext subtitle support
2264 * DKS subtitle support
2265 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2266 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2269 * Flash Screen Video support
2270 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2272 Video outputs and filters:
2273 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2274 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2275 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2276 * New puzzle video output filter
2277 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2278 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2280 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2281 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2282 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2283 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2284 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2285 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2286 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2287 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2288 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2289 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2290 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2291 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2292 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2293 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2295 Audio outputs and filters:
2296 * Replay gain support
2297 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2298 new scaletempo audio filter)
2299 * New spatializer audio filter
2300 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2303 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2304 * New RTP payload formats:
2305 * Speex voice audio codec
2306 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2307 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2308 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2309 * DCCP transport for RTP
2310 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2315 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2316 end-user suitable way.
2317 * Improved user interaction
2318 * Improved mouse gestures
2319 * Vastly improved Update checker
2320 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2322 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2323 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2325 * Improved video output features
2326 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2327 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2328 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2329 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2330 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2332 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2333 if libncursesw is available.
2334 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2335 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2336 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2338 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2339 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2340 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2341 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2342 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2343 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2344 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2345 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2348 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2349 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2350 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2353 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2354 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2355 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2356 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2357 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2358 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2361 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2362 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2372 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2373 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2374 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2377 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2378 ----------------------------------
2381 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2384 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2385 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2386 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2387 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2388 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2389 * Updated Polish translation
2392 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2393 ----------------------------------
2396 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2397 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2398 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2401 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2402 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2403 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2404 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2405 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2406 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2407 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2408 to an unexpected application termination
2409 * New Serbian translation
2410 * Updated Romanian translation
2413 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2414 ----------------------------------
2417 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2418 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2419 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2420 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2421 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2422 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2423 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2424 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2427 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2428 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2429 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2430 * Fixed AAC resampling
2431 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2432 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2435 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2436 ----------------------------------
2439 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2440 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2441 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2442 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2443 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2446 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2447 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2448 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2449 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2450 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2453 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2454 ----------------------------------
2457 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2458 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2461 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2462 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2463 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2464 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2466 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2470 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2473 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2476 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2479 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2482 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2483 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2484 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2485 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2486 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2488 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2489 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2490 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2491 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2494 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2497 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2498 ----------------------------------
2501 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2502 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2503 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2505 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2506 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2508 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2509 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2512 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2514 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2515 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2516 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2517 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2518 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2519 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2520 two different movies
2521 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2522 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2523 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2526 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2529 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2530 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2531 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2532 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2535 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2536 ----------------------------------
2538 Various bugfixes, notably:
2539 * Windows Vista compatibility
2540 * Cropping in Direct3D
2541 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2542 * RSS filter string overflow
2544 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2546 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2547 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2550 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2551 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2554 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2557 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2560 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2563 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2564 ----------------------------------
2566 Various bugfixes, notably:
2567 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2568 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2569 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2570 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2571 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2572 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2575 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2576 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2579 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2581 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2582 * Diverse usability improvements
2583 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2584 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2585 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2588 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2589 ---------------------------------
2591 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2592 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2595 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2598 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2599 --------------------------------
2602 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2605 * Support for RTSP authentication
2606 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2607 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2608 * ATSC support for DVB input
2609 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2610 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2611 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2614 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2615 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2616 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2617 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2618 * Matroska WavPack support
2619 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2620 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2621 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2624 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2625 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2626 * Improved libcaca support
2630 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2631 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2633 * Systray support in skins
2635 * Support for Apple Remote control
2636 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2637 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2638 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2639 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2641 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2644 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2645 Windows 9x/ME users:
2646 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2647 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2648 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2649 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2650 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2652 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2653 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2662 * Updates to the libvlc API
2663 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2666 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2667 --------------------------------
2670 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2671 * Support for downloading updates
2675 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2676 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2677 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2678 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2680 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2681 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2682 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2685 * Cook (Real audio) support
2687 Playlist / Services discovery:
2688 * XSPF playlist support
2690 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2693 * New JACK audio output
2696 * New video filters:
2697 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2698 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2699 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2700 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2701 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2702 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2705 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2708 * System to inform the user and request information
2709 - HTTP authentication
2713 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2714 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2715 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2718 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2719 - Improved playlist handling
2720 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2722 - Embedded Video output
2723 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2724 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2725 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2726 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2727 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2729 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2730 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2733 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2736 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2737 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2738 * Growl "Now playing" support
2741 * Ability to log to syslog
2742 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2745 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2747 * A bit more automatic testing
2750 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2751 ---------------------------------
2754 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2755 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2758 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2759 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2762 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2765 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2766 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2772 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2775 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2776 --------------------------------
2779 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2783 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2784 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2785 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2788 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2789 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2790 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2791 * GnomeVFS input module
2792 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2793 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2796 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2797 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2798 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2801 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2802 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2808 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2809 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2812 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2813 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2814 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2817 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2819 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2820 - New extended controls panel
2821 - New bookmarks window
2822 - Fixed playlist sorting
2823 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2825 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2826 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2827 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2828 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2832 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2833 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2835 - Include macro to include other files
2839 * Should now work outside IE as well
2842 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2845 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2846 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2849 The following languages were added:
2853 * Simplified Chinese
2854 The following languages were re-added:
2858 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2859 --------------------------------
2862 * Rewrite of the playlist
2864 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2865 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2866 * Preferences improvements:
2867 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2868 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2870 * Core image manipulation support
2871 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2872 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2873 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2874 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2875 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2876 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2877 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2878 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2879 * Access filter architecture
2880 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2881 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2885 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2886 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2887 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2888 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2889 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2890 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2891 * Massive Matroska improvements
2892 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2894 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2895 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2896 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2897 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2898 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2900 Decoders / Encoders:
2901 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2902 * PNG decoder/encoder
2903 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2904 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2907 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2910 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2911 * Brand new SAP module
2912 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2913 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2914 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2915 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2916 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2917 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2921 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2924 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2925 * Image file video output (png)
2926 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2927 * Improvements to wall video filter
2928 * Support for font color and opacity
2934 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2935 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2936 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2940 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2941 - Improved preferences
2942 - Improvements to the wizard
2943 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2945 - Redesigned playlist
2946 - Improved preferences
2948 - Support for multiple actions
2951 - Support for the new playlist system
2953 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2956 * Screensaver disabling fix
2957 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2958 * Support for no-decoration windows
2961 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2962 * The OpenGL video output is back
2963 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2964 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2965 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2966 is not yet available in the new module
2967 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2970 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2979 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2982 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2985 The following languages were added:
2991 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2992 --------------------------------
2995 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2996 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2999 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3000 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3001 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3004 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3007 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3010 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3013 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3014 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3015 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3019 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3021 * Support of playlist group announcement
3024 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3025 --------------------------------
3028 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3029 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3030 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3031 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3032 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3033 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3036 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3037 (Stream your desktop)
3038 * Improved DVD support:
3039 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3040 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3041 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3042 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3043 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3044 (selection of titles/chapters).
3047 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3048 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3049 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3050 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3051 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3052 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3053 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3054 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3055 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3056 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3059 * G.726 audio support
3060 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3061 * MPEG-4 text support
3062 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3063 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3064 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3068 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3069 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3070 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3071 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3072 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3073 * DVB subtitles encoder
3074 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3075 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3077 * Text track muxing for mp4
3078 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3079 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3080 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3081 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3082 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3083 * Improved ASF muxer
3085 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3086 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3087 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3090 * New audio equalizer filter
3091 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3092 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3093 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3094 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3097 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3098 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3099 with support for effects.
3100 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3101 - New filters can be streamed.
3102 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3103 - Centralized scaling and blending
3105 - "time", to display current time
3106 - "marq", to display a marquee
3109 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3110 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3111 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3112 * A few skins2 improvements
3113 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3114 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3115 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3116 * Improved CORBA control module
3119 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3120 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3121 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3124 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3125 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3126 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3129 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3130 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3131 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3132 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3133 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3136 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3139 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3140 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3143 * Server/client network synchronization module
3144 * VBrick streams fully supported
3145 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3149 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3150 --------------------------------
3153 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3154 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3155 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3156 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3159 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3160 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3161 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3162 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3163 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3164 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3165 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3168 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3169 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3170 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3171 * Improved directory access module.
3172 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3173 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3174 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3175 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3176 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3179 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3180 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3181 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3184 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3185 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3186 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3189 * Improved session announcement system.
3190 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3191 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3192 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3193 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3194 * Improved transrater.
3195 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3196 * New configuration system.
3197 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3200 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3201 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3202 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3203 * Supports scheduling.
3204 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3205 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3208 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3209 - Ability to embed video output.
3210 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3211 - Lots of improvements.
3212 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3213 - New design and set of icons.
3214 - Ability to embed video output.
3215 - Support for hotkeys.
3216 - Support for bookmarks.
3218 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3219 - Better hotkeys handling.
3222 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3223 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3224 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3225 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3228 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3229 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3230 * Improved Windows installer.
3236 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3237 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3240 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3241 ---------------------------------
3244 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3245 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3248 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3249 --------------------------------
3252 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3253 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3256 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3257 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3258 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3259 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3262 * Internal improvments
3263 * Improved import/export
3266 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3268 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3269 small and strange formats.
3271 * New MOD audio demux.
3272 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3273 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3274 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3275 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3278 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3279 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3280 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3286 * New opengl video output plugin.
3289 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3290 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3293 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3294 --------------------------------
3297 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3298 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3299 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3300 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3301 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3302 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3303 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3304 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3307 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3312 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3313 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3314 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3315 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3316 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3317 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3318 * Better Icecast support.
3319 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3320 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3323 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3324 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3325 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3326 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3327 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3328 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3329 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3332 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3333 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3334 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3335 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3336 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3337 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3338 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3339 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3340 * Preliminary RTP support.
3341 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3346 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3347 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3349 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3350 - Improvements and help in preferences
3351 - New streaming wizard
3352 - Revised Disc Open menu
3354 - Improvements of the standard pages
3355 - Support for new commands
3356 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3359 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3360 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3363 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3364 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3365 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3366 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3367 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3368 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3369 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3370 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3371 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3374 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3376 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3377 * Support for Panther.
3378 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3379 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3382 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3383 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3384 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3385 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3386 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3387 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3388 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3389 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3392 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3393 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3394 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3397 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3400 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3401 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3402 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3403 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3406 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3407 --------------------------------
3410 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3413 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3414 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3417 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3418 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3421 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3424 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3425 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3428 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3431 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3434 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3435 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3439 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3440 --------------------------------
3443 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3444 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3448 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3449 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3450 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3452 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3453 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3456 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3459 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3462 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3463 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3467 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3468 --------------------------------
3471 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3472 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3476 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3477 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3478 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3479 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3480 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3483 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3484 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3485 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3488 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3489 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3490 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3493 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3494 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3495 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3496 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3497 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3500 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3501 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3502 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3505 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3508 * Improved build system.
3509 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3510 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3511 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3512 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3515 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3516 --------------------------------
3519 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3522 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3523 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3524 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3525 * Video 4 Linux support
3526 * CD Digital Audio support
3527 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3530 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3531 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3532 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3533 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3536 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3537 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3538 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3539 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3540 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3541 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3542 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3545 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3546 * New HTTP remote control interface
3549 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3550 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3551 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3552 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3553 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3556 * New reset option for the preferences
3557 * You can set your language in the prefences
3558 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3559 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3560 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3561 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3564 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3565 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3566 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3569 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3570 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3571 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3572 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3573 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3574 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3575 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3576 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3577 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3578 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3581 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3582 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3583 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3584 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3585 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3586 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3587 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3590 * Interface localization
3591 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3592 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3593 * New full-featured Preferences window
3596 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3597 --------------------------------
3600 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3601 * support for skins at the interface level
3602 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3603 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3604 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3605 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3606 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3609 * fixed HTTP redirects
3610 * support for opening an entire directory
3611 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3612 * new video4linux access plug-in
3613 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3616 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3617 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3618 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3621 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3622 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3623 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3624 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3625 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3626 * new codec for raw I420 video
3627 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3630 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3631 (although it still misses some important features)
3632 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3635 * new HTTP output support
3636 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3637 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3640 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3643 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3646 * reorderable playlist
3647 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3648 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3649 * support for mono audio output devices
3650 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3651 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3652 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3653 * the messages window remembers more lines
3654 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3655 * http and ogg stream output options
3656 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3659 * new skinnable interface
3660 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3662 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3663 * support for FLAC audio format
3664 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3666 * network tab in the interface
3667 * "apply" handling in preferences
3670 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3671 ---------------------------------
3674 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3675 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3676 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3677 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3679 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3680 * DTS S/PDIF support
3683 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3684 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3685 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3686 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3689 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3690 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3693 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3696 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3699 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3701 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3702 * rc interface is now fully useable
3703 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3706 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3707 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3708 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3709 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3710 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3712 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3713 * support for mouse gestures
3714 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3717 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3718 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3721 * improved ID3 tag detection
3722 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3723 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3724 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3726 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3729 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3730 ---------------------------------
3733 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3734 English was set as the preferred language
3737 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3738 --------------------------------
3741 * new mouse gesture interface
3742 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3746 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3747 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3748 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3751 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3752 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3756 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3759 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3760 without the user consent
3763 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3765 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3766 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3767 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3770 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3771 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3772 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3773 * playlist enhancements
3774 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3775 * new step forward/step backward commands
3776 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3777 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3778 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3781 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3782 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3783 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3786 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3787 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3790 * native video output is working again
3791 * only commandline interface support
3792 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3795 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3796 --------------------------------
3799 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3800 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3801 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3802 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3803 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3804 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3805 and A/52 streams are supported)
3806 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3811 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3812 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3813 * VCD entry points support
3814 * VCD image file support
3817 * support for *.asf format
3818 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3819 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3820 * support for ogg encapsulation
3821 * support for raw DV format
3822 * support for *.wav format
3823 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3826 Stream discovery & playlists:
3827 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3828 * support for .m3u file format
3829 * support for .asx file format
3830 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3833 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3834 (only available with the .avi demux)
3835 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3836 * support for raw PCM data
3837 * support for Cinepak video codec
3838 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3839 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3840 * support for Xvid codec
3841 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3842 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3843 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3845 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3847 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3850 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3853 * new WxWindows interface
3854 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3855 device and the channels configuration
3856 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3857 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3858 format that VLC can play
3859 * new swedish translation
3860 * enhancements of the playlist window
3861 * new messages window to see debug info
3862 * fixed a few crashes
3865 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3866 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3867 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3868 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working