1 Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
2 -------------------------------------
6 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
7 See 'Access:' for more info.
10 * Instantaneous pausing
11 * Frame-by-Frame playback
13 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
14 * Timeshift for most medias
15 * RTSP trickplay support
16 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
19 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
20 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
21 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
22 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
23 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
24 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
25 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
26 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
27 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
28 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
31 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
32 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
33 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
34 * Metadata for mod files are supported
35 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
36 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
37 * New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams
40 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
41 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
44 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
45 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
46 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
47 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
48 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
49 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
50 * DVB scanning on linux
51 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
52 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
53 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
54 * MTP device access on Unix
55 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
56 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
59 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
60 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
64 * Export the playlist in HTML
65 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
66 * Better metadata handling and reading
68 Linux/Windows interface:
69 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
70 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
71 * Recently played items list
72 * Interface toolbar customizations
73 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
76 - Improvements on many dialogs
77 - New dialog for plugins listing
78 - Fixed-size mode for videos
79 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
80 * Better integration in GTK environments
83 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
84 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
85 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
86 * Additional usability improvements
89 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
90 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
91 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
92 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
93 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
96 * New Maemo port with:
97 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
98 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
101 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
104 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
105 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
108 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
109 * Surround support for PulseAudio
112 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
113 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
114 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
115 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
116 The old image video output has been removed.
117 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
118 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
121 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
123 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
124 ---------------------------------
127 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
130 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
133 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
134 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
135 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
136 main controller window.
137 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
140 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
145 * Updates of other localizations
148 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
149 * Lots of small bugfixes.
150 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
151 * Telnet fixes on Windows
152 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
154 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
155 ---------------------------------
158 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
160 Bunch of small bugfixes.
163 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
164 --------------------------------
169 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
170 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
173 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
174 --------------------------------
176 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
177 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
180 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
183 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
184 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
187 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
188 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
191 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
192 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
193 * Various fixed in playlist
196 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
199 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
202 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
203 ------------------------------------
205 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
206 * Fixes several memory leaks.
209 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
210 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
211 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
214 * Stability fix for the video output.
217 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
218 --------------------------------
221 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
222 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
223 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
224 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
225 * Fixed update system bugs
226 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
229 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
230 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
231 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
232 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
233 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
234 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
235 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
236 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
237 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
238 modern Mac OS X versions
241 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
242 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
244 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
245 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
248 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
249 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
250 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
251 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
252 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
253 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
256 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
257 --------------------------------
259 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
260 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
264 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
265 --------------------------------
267 * Multiple bug fixes.
270 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
271 ---------------------------------
275 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
276 recent to work correctly
277 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
278 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
279 edit the ".hosts" file.
280 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
281 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
282 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
283 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
284 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
285 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
286 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
287 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
288 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
289 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
290 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
291 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
292 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
293 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
294 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
295 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
296 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
297 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
298 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
299 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
300 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
301 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
302 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
303 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
304 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
305 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
306 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
307 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
308 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
309 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
310 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
311 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
312 and postproc modules.
313 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
314 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
315 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
316 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
318 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
320 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
321 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
323 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
324 * Glide video output module has been removed.
330 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
332 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
333 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
336 * Vastly improved playlist support:
337 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
339 * Shoutcast TV listings
340 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
342 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
343 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
345 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
348 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
349 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
350 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
351 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
352 * JACK audio input support
353 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
354 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
355 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
356 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
357 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
358 * Experimental EyeTV access module
359 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
360 (available as a separate download).
361 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
363 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
364 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
365 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
367 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
368 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
371 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
372 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
373 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
374 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
376 * APEv1/2 tags support
377 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
378 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
380 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
381 * TiVo Series 2 support
382 * CD+G karaoke Files support
387 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
388 * Flash Screen Video support
389 * CamStudio Screen Video support
390 * DosBox Capture support
391 * Karl Morton's Video support
392 * limited atrac3 support
394 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
395 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
396 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
398 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
399 * NellyMoser ASAO support
400 * APE (Monkey audio) support
401 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
402 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
405 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
406 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
407 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
408 * AQTitle subtitles support
409 * MKV USF subtitles support
410 * HTML-based subtitles support
411 * MPSub subtitles support
412 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
413 * MPL2 subtitles support
414 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
415 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
416 * Realtext subtitle support
417 * DKS subtitle support
418 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
419 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
422 * Flash Screen Video support
423 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
425 Video outputs and filters:
426 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
427 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
428 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
429 * New puzzle video output filter
430 * Re-written motion detection video filter
431 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
433 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
434 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
435 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
436 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
437 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
438 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
439 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
440 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
441 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
442 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
443 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
444 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
445 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
446 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
448 Audio outputs and filters:
449 * Replay gain support
450 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
451 new scaletempo audio filter)
452 * New spatializer audio filter
453 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
456 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
457 * New RTP payload formats:
458 * Speex voice audio codec
459 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
460 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
461 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
462 * DCCP transport for RTP
463 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
468 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
469 end-user suitable way.
470 * Improved user interaction
471 * Improved mouse gestures
472 * Vastly improved Update checker
473 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
475 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
476 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
478 * Improved video output features
479 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
480 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
481 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
482 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
483 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
485 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
486 if libncursesw is available.
487 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
488 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
489 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
491 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
492 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
493 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
494 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
495 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
496 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
497 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
498 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
501 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
502 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
503 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
506 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
507 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
508 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
509 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
510 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
511 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
514 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
515 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
525 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
526 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
527 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
530 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
531 ----------------------------------
534 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
537 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
538 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
539 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
540 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
541 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
542 * Updated Polish translation
545 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
546 ----------------------------------
549 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
550 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
551 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
554 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
555 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
556 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
557 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
558 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
559 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
560 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
561 to an unexpected application termination
562 * New Serbian translation
563 * Updated Romanian translation
566 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
567 ----------------------------------
570 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
571 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
572 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
573 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
574 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
575 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
576 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
577 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
580 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
581 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
582 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
583 * Fixed AAC resampling
584 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
585 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
588 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
589 ----------------------------------
592 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
593 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
594 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
595 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
596 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
599 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
600 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
601 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
602 * Close MMS access on network timeout
603 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
606 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
607 ----------------------------------
610 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
611 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
614 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
615 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
616 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
617 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
619 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
623 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
626 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
629 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
632 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
635 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
636 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
637 encoding on multi-cpu systems
638 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
639 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
641 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
642 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
643 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
644 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
647 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
650 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
651 ----------------------------------
654 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
655 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
656 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
658 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
659 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
661 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
662 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
665 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
667 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
668 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
669 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
670 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
671 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
672 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
674 * Support for current Ogg file formats
675 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
676 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
679 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
682 * The automatic updating facility was removed
683 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
684 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
685 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
688 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
689 ----------------------------------
691 Various bugfixes, notably:
692 * Windows Vista compatibility
693 * Cropping in Direct3D
694 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
695 * RSS filter string overflow
697 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
699 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
700 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
703 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
704 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
707 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
710 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
713 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
716 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
717 ----------------------------------
719 Various bugfixes, notably:
720 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
721 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
722 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
723 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
724 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
725 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
728 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
729 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
732 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
734 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
735 * Diverse usability improvements
736 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
737 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
738 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
741 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
742 ---------------------------------
745 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
748 * Fullscreen controller improvements
751 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
752 --------------------------------
755 * Shoutcast TV listings support
758 * Support for RTSP authentication
759 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
760 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
761 * ATSC support for DVB input
762 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
763 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
764 * Improved support for Flash Video files
767 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
768 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
769 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
770 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
771 * Matroska WavPack support
772 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
773 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
774 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
777 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
778 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
779 * Improved libcaca support
783 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
784 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
786 * Systray support in skins
788 * Support for Apple Remote control
789 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
790 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
791 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
792 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
794 * Notifications using notification-daemon
797 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
799 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
800 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
801 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
802 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
803 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
805 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
806 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
815 * Updates to the libvlc API
816 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
819 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
820 --------------------------------
823 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
824 * Support for downloading updates
828 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
829 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
830 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
831 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
833 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
834 * Improved subtitles encoding support
835 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
838 * Cook (Real audio) support
840 Playlist / Services discovery:
841 * XSPF playlist support
843 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
846 * New JACK audio output
850 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
851 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
852 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
853 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
854 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
855 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
858 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
861 * System to inform the user and request information
862 - HTTP authentication
866 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
867 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
868 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
871 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
872 - Improved playlist handling
873 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
875 - Embedded Video output
876 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
877 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
878 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
879 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
880 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
882 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
883 - A bunch of new RPN functions
886 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
889 * Mac-Intel compatibility
890 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
891 * Growl "Now playing" support
894 * Ability to log to syslog
895 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
898 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
900 * A bit more automatic testing
903 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
904 ---------------------------------
907 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
908 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
911 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
912 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
915 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
918 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
919 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
925 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
928 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
936 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
937 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
938 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
941 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
942 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
943 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
944 * GnomeVFS input module
945 * Support for RTP packet reordering
946 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
949 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
950 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
951 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
954 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
955 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
961 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
962 Mixer and Dolby Surround
965 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
966 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
967 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
970 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
972 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
973 - New extended controls panel
974 - New bookmarks window
975 - Fixed playlist sorting
976 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
978 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
979 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
980 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
981 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
985 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
986 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
988 - Include macro to include other files
992 * Should now work outside IE as well
995 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
998 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
999 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1002 The following languages were added:
1006 * Simplified Chinese
1007 The following languages were re-added:
1011 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1012 --------------------------------
1015 * Rewrite of the playlist
1017 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1018 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1019 * Preferences improvements:
1020 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1021 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1023 * Core image manipulation support
1024 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1025 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1026 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1027 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1028 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1029 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1030 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1031 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1032 * Access filter architecture
1033 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1034 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1038 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1039 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1040 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1041 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1042 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1043 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1044 * Massive Matroska improvements
1045 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1047 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1048 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1049 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1050 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1051 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1053 Decoders / Encoders:
1054 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1055 * PNG decoder/encoder
1056 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1057 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1060 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1063 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1064 * Brand new SAP module
1065 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1066 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1067 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1068 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1069 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1070 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1074 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1077 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1078 * Image file video output (png)
1079 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1080 * Improvements to wall video filter
1081 * Support for font color and opacity
1087 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1088 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1089 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1093 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1094 - Improved preferences
1095 - Improvements to the wizard
1096 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1098 - Redesigned playlist
1099 - Improved preferences
1101 - Support for multiple actions
1104 - Support for the new playlist system
1106 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1109 * Screensaver disabling fix
1110 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1111 * Support for no-decoration windows
1114 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1115 * The OpenGL video output is back
1116 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1117 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1118 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1119 is not yet available in the new module
1120 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1123 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1132 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1135 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1138 The following languages were added:
1144 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1145 --------------------------------
1148 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1149 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1152 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1153 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1154 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1157 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1160 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1163 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1166 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1167 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1168 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1172 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1174 * Support of playlist group announcement
1177 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1178 --------------------------------
1181 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1182 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1183 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1184 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1185 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1186 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1189 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1190 (Stream your desktop)
1191 * Improved DVD support:
1192 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1193 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1194 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1195 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1196 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1197 (selection of titles/chapters).
1200 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1201 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1202 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1203 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1204 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1205 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1206 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1207 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1208 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1209 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1212 * G.726 audio support
1213 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1214 * MPEG-4 text support
1215 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1216 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1217 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1221 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1222 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1223 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1224 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1225 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1226 * DVB subtitles encoder
1227 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1228 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1230 * Text track muxing for mp4
1231 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1232 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1233 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1234 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1235 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1236 * Improved ASF muxer
1238 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1239 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1240 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1243 * New audio equalizer filter
1244 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1245 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1246 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1247 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1250 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1251 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1252 with support for effects.
1253 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1254 - New filters can be streamed.
1255 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1256 - Centralized scaling and blending
1258 - "time", to display current time
1259 - "marq", to display a marquee
1262 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1263 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1264 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1265 * A few skins2 improvements
1266 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1267 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1268 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1269 * Improved CORBA control module
1272 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1273 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1274 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1277 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1278 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1279 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1282 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1283 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1284 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1285 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1286 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1289 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1292 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1293 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1296 * Server/client network synchronization module
1297 * VBrick streams fully supported
1298 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1302 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1303 --------------------------------
1306 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1307 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1308 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1309 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1312 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1313 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1314 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1315 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1316 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1317 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1318 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1321 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1322 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1323 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1324 * Improved directory access module.
1325 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1326 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1327 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1328 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1329 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1332 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1333 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1334 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1337 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1338 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1339 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1342 * Improved session announcement system.
1343 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1344 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1345 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1346 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1347 * Improved transrater.
1348 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1349 * New configuration system.
1350 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1353 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1354 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1355 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1356 * Supports scheduling.
1357 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1358 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1361 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1362 - Ability to embed video output.
1363 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1364 - Lots of improvements.
1365 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1366 - New design and set of icons.
1367 - Ability to embed video output.
1368 - Support for hotkeys.
1369 - Support for bookmarks.
1371 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1372 - Better hotkeys handling.
1375 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1376 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1377 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1378 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1381 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1382 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1383 * Improved Windows installer.
1389 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1390 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1393 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1394 ---------------------------------
1397 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1398 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1401 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1402 --------------------------------
1405 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1406 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1409 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1410 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1411 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1412 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1415 * Internal improvments
1416 * Improved import/export
1419 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1421 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1422 small and strange formats.
1424 * New MOD audio demux.
1425 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1426 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1427 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1428 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1431 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1432 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1433 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1439 * New opengl video output plugin.
1442 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1443 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1446 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1447 --------------------------------
1450 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1451 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1452 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1453 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1454 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1455 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1456 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1457 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1460 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1465 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1466 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1467 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1468 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1469 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1470 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1471 * Better Icecast support.
1472 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1473 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1476 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1477 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1478 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1479 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1480 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1481 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1482 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1485 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1486 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1487 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1488 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1489 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1490 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1491 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1492 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1493 * Preliminary RTP support.
1494 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1499 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1500 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1502 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1503 - Improvements and help in preferences
1504 - New streaming wizard
1505 - Revised Disc Open menu
1507 - Improvements of the standard pages
1508 - Support for new commands
1509 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1512 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1513 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1516 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1517 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1518 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1519 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1520 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1521 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1522 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1523 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1524 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1527 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1529 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1530 * Support for Panther.
1531 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1532 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1535 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1536 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1537 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1538 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1539 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1540 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1541 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1542 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1545 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1546 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1547 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1550 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1553 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1554 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1555 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1556 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1559 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1560 --------------------------------
1563 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1566 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1567 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1570 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1571 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1574 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1577 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1578 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1581 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1584 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1587 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1588 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1592 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1593 --------------------------------
1596 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1597 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1601 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1602 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1603 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1605 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1606 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1609 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1612 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1615 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1616 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1620 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1621 --------------------------------
1624 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1625 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1629 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1630 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1631 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1632 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1633 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1636 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1637 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1638 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1641 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1642 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1643 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1646 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1647 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1648 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1649 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1650 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1653 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1654 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1655 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1658 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1661 * Improved build system.
1662 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1663 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1664 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1665 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1668 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1669 --------------------------------
1672 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1675 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1676 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1677 * Video 4 Linux support
1678 * CD Digital Audio support
1679 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1682 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1683 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1684 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1685 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1688 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1689 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1690 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1691 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1692 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1693 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1694 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1697 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1698 * New HTTP remote control interface
1701 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1702 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1703 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1704 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1707 * New reset option for the preferences
1708 * You can set your language in the prefences
1709 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1710 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1711 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1712 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1715 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1716 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1717 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1720 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1721 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1722 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1723 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1724 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1725 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1726 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1727 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1728 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1729 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1732 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1733 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1734 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1735 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1736 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1737 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1738 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1741 * Interface localization
1742 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1743 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1744 * New full-featured Preferences window
1747 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1748 --------------------------------
1751 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1752 * support for skins at the interface level
1753 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1754 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1755 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1756 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1757 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1760 * fixed HTTP redirects
1761 * support for opening an entire directory
1762 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1763 * new video4linux access plug-in
1764 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1767 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1768 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1769 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1772 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1773 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1774 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1775 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1776 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1777 * new codec for raw I420 video
1778 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1781 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1782 (although it still misses some important features)
1783 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1786 * new HTTP output support
1787 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1788 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1791 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1794 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1797 * reorderable playlist
1798 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1799 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1800 * support for mono audio output devices
1801 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1802 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1803 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1804 * the messages window remembers more lines
1805 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1806 * http and ogg stream output options
1807 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1810 * new skinnable interface
1811 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1813 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1814 * support for FLAC audio format
1815 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1817 * network tab in the interface
1818 * "apply" handling in preferences
1821 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1822 ---------------------------------
1825 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1826 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1827 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1828 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1830 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1831 * DTS S/PDIF support
1834 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1835 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1836 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1837 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1840 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1841 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1844 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1847 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1850 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1852 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1853 * rc interface is now fully useable
1854 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1857 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1858 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1859 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1860 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1861 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1863 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1864 * support for mouse gestures
1865 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1868 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1869 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1872 * improved ID3 tag detection
1873 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1874 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1875 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1877 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1880 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1881 ---------------------------------
1884 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1885 English was set as the preferred language
1888 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1889 --------------------------------
1892 * new mouse gesture interface
1893 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1897 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1898 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1899 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1902 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1903 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1907 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1910 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1911 without the user consent
1914 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1916 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1917 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1918 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1921 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1922 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1923 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1924 * playlist enhancements
1925 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1926 * new step forward/step backward commands
1927 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1928 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1929 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1932 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1933 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1934 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1937 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1938 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1941 * native video output is working again
1942 * only commandline interface support
1943 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1946 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1947 --------------------------------
1950 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1951 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1952 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1953 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1954 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1955 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1956 and A/52 streams are supported)
1957 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1962 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1963 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1964 * VCD entry points support
1965 * VCD image file support
1968 * support for *.asf format
1969 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1970 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1971 * support for ogg encapsulation
1972 * support for raw DV format
1973 * support for *.wav format
1974 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1977 Stream discovery & playlists:
1978 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1979 * support for .m3u file format
1980 * support for .asx file format
1981 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1984 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1985 (only available with the .avi demux)
1986 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1987 * support for raw PCM data
1988 * support for Cinepak video codec
1989 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1990 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1991 * support for Xvid codec
1992 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1993 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1994 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1996 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1998 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2001 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2004 * new WxWindows interface
2005 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2006 device and the channels configuration
2007 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2008 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2009 format that VLC can play
2010 * new swedish translation
2011 * enhancements of the playlist window
2012 * new messages window to see debug info
2013 * fixed a few crashes
2016 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2017 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2018 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2019 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working