3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 * Vastly improved playlist support:
30 * Media library support
32 * Shoutcast TV listings
33 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
36 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
37 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
41 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
42 * MKV USF subtitles support
43 * Flash Screen Video support
46 * Flash Screen Video support
49 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
50 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
51 * New puzzle video output filter
52 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
53 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
54 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
55 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML tags
58 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
62 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
64 * Improved user interaction
67 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
68 -----------------------------------------------------------
69 Various bugfixes notably:
70 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
71 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
72 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
75 * further usability improvements
78 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
79 ---------------------------------
82 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
85 * Fullscreen controller improvements
88 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
89 --------------------------------
92 * Shoutcast TV listings support
95 * Support for RTSP authentication
96 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
97 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
98 * ATSC support for DVB input
99 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
100 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
101 * Improved support for Flash Video files
104 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
105 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
106 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
107 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
108 * Matroska WavPack support
109 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
110 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
111 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
114 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
115 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
116 * Improved libcaca support
120 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
121 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
123 * Systray support in skins
125 * Support for Apple Remote control
126 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
127 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
128 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
129 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
131 * Notifications using notification-daemon
134 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
136 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
137 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
138 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
139 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
140 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
142 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
143 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
152 * Updates to the libvlc API
153 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
157 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
158 ---------------------------------
161 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
162 * Support for downloading updates
166 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
167 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
168 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
169 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
171 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
172 * Improved subtitles encoding support
173 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
176 * Cook (Real audio) support
178 Playlist / Services discovery:
179 * XSPF playlist support
181 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
184 * New JACK audio output
188 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
189 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
190 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
191 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
192 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
193 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
196 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
199 * System to inform the user and request information
200 - HTTP authentication
204 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
205 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
206 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
209 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
210 - Improved playlist handling
211 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
213 - Embedded Video output
214 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
215 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
216 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
217 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
218 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
220 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
221 - A bunch of new RPN functions
224 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
227 * Mac-Intel compatibility
228 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
229 * Growl "Now playing" support
232 * Ability to log to syslog
233 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
236 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
238 * A bit more automatic testing
240 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
241 ---------------------------------
244 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
245 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
248 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
249 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
252 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
255 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
256 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
262 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
264 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
265 --------------------------------
268 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
272 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
273 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
274 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
277 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
278 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
279 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
280 * GnomeVFS input module
281 * Support for RTP packet reordering
282 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
285 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
286 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
287 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
290 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
291 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
297 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
298 Mixer and Dolby Surround
301 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
302 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
303 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
306 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
308 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
309 - New extended controls panel
310 - New bookmarks window
311 - Fixed playlist sorting
312 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
314 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
315 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
316 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
317 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
321 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
322 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
324 - Include macro to include other files
328 * Should now work outside IE as well
331 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
334 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
335 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
338 The following languages were added:
343 The following languages were re-added:
346 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
347 --------------------------------
350 * Rewrite of the playlist
352 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
353 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
354 * Preferences improvements:
355 - New organization, designed to improve usability
356 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
358 * Core image manipulation support
359 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
360 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
361 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
362 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
363 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
364 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
365 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
366 now separated by ':' instead of ','
367 * Access filter architecture
368 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
369 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
373 * Support for SOCKS proxy
374 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
375 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
376 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
377 * Better support for Kasenna streams
378 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
379 * Massive Matroska improvements
380 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
382 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
383 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
384 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
385 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
386 * Support for FTP over IPv6
389 * Dirac decoder and encoder
390 * PNG decoder/encoder
391 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
392 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
395 * New Record and Timeshift filters
398 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
399 * Brand new SAP module
400 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
401 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
402 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
403 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
404 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
405 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
409 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
412 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
413 * Image file video output (png)
414 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
415 * Improvements to wall video filter
416 * Support for font color and opacity
422 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
423 - Seeking support in VoD streams
424 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
428 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
429 - Improved preferences
430 - Improvements to the wizard
431 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
433 - Redesigned playlist
434 - Improved preferences
436 - Support for multiple actions
439 - Support for the new playlist system
441 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
444 * Screensaver disabling fix
445 * DirectShow tuner configuration
446 * Support for no-decoration windows
449 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
450 * The OpenGL video output is back
451 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
452 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
453 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
454 is not yet available in the new module
455 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
458 * Support for single-buffered overlay
467 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
470 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
473 The following languages were added:
479 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
480 -----------------------------------------------------
483 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
484 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
487 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
488 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
489 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
492 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
495 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
498 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
501 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
502 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
503 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
507 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
509 * Support of playlist group announcement
511 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
512 -----------------------------------------------------
515 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
516 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
517 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
518 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
519 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
520 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
523 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
524 (Stream your desktop)
525 * Improved DVD support:
526 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
527 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
528 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
529 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
530 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
531 (selection of titles/chapters).
534 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
535 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
536 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
537 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
538 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
539 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
540 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
541 * Improved Ogg demuxer
542 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
543 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
546 * G.726 audio support
547 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
548 * MPEG-4 text support
549 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
550 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
551 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
555 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
556 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
557 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
558 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
559 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
560 * DVB subtitles encoder
561 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
562 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
564 * Text track muxing for mp4
565 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
566 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
567 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
568 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
569 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
572 * H.263 RTP streaming support
573 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
574 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
577 * New audio equalizer filter
578 * Very trivial volume normalizer
579 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
580 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
581 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
584 * Roku HD1000 Video output
585 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
586 with support for effects.
587 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
588 - New filters can be streamed.
589 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
590 - Centralized scaling and blending
592 - "time", to display current time
593 - "marq", to display a marquee
596 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
597 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
598 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
599 * A few skins2 improvements
600 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
601 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
602 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
603 * Improved CORBA control module
606 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
607 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
608 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
611 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
612 * Experimental SVG rendering module
613 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
616 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
617 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
618 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
619 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
620 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
623 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
626 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
627 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
630 * Server/client network synchronization module
631 * VBrick streams fully supported
632 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
635 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
636 --------------------------------
639 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
640 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
641 * Improved HTTP daemon.
642 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
645 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
646 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
647 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
648 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
649 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
650 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
651 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
654 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
655 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
656 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
657 * Improved directory access module.
658 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
659 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
660 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
661 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
662 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
665 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
666 * mmsh streaming fixes.
667 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
670 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
671 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
672 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
675 * Improved session announcement system.
676 * Minimize threads usage by default.
677 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
678 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
679 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
680 * Improved transrater.
681 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
682 * New configuration system.
683 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
686 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
687 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
688 * Supports live streams and VoD.
689 * Supports scheduling.
690 * Telnet interface for vlm.
691 * HTTP interface for vlm.
694 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
695 - Ability to embed video output.
696 - Support for bitmap fonts.
697 - Lots of improvements.
698 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
699 - New design and set of icons.
700 - Ability to embed video output.
701 - Support for hotkeys.
702 - Support for bookmarks.
704 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
705 - Better hotkeys handling.
708 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
709 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
710 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
711 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
714 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
715 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
716 * Improved Windows installer.
722 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
723 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
725 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
726 ---------------------------------
729 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
730 * Playing MOD files is working now.
733 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
734 ---------------------------------
737 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
738 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
741 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
742 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
743 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
744 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
747 * Internal improvments
748 * Improved import/export
751 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
753 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
754 small and strange formats.
756 * New MOD audio demux.
757 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
758 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
759 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
760 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
763 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
764 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
765 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
771 * New opengl video output plugin.
774 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
775 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
777 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
778 ---------------------------------
781 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
782 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
783 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
784 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
785 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
786 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
787 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
788 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
791 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
796 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
797 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
798 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
799 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
800 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
801 * Reworked DVB tuning.
802 * Better Icecast support.
803 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
804 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
807 * Support for Theora video encoding.
808 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
809 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
810 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
811 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
812 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
813 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
816 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
817 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
818 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
819 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
820 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
821 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
822 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
823 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
824 * Preliminary RTP support.
825 * Fixes to SAP announces.
830 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
831 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
833 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
834 - Improvements and help in preferences
835 - New streaming wizard
836 - Revised Disc Open menu
838 - Improvements of the standard pages
839 - Support for new commands
840 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
843 * Many fixes to the SAP module
844 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
847 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
848 * Text subtitles autodetection.
849 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
850 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
851 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
852 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
853 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
854 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
855 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
858 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
860 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
861 * Support for Panther.
862 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
863 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
866 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
867 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
868 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
869 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
870 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
871 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
872 * Multimonitor support (untested).
873 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
876 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
877 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
878 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
881 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
884 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
885 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
886 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
887 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
889 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
890 ---------------------------------
893 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
896 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
897 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
900 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
901 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
904 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
907 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
908 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
911 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
914 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
917 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
918 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
921 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
922 ---------------------------------
925 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
926 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
930 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
931 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
932 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
934 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
935 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
938 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
941 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
944 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
945 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
948 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
949 ---------------------------------
952 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
953 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
957 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
958 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
959 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
960 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
961 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
964 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
965 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
966 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
969 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
970 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
971 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
974 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
975 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
976 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
977 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
978 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
981 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
982 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
983 * A new CORBA control plugin.
986 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
989 * Improved build system.
990 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
991 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
992 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
993 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
996 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
997 ---------------------------------
1000 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1003 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1004 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1005 * Video 4 Linux support
1006 * CD Digital Audio support
1007 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1010 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1011 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1012 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1013 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1016 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1017 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1018 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1019 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1020 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1021 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1022 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1025 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1026 * New HTTP remote control interface
1029 * 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.
1030 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1031 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1032 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1035 * New reset option for the preferences
1036 * You can set your language in the prefences
1037 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1038 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1039 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1040 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1043 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1044 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1045 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1048 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1049 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1050 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1051 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1052 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1053 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1054 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1055 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1056 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1057 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1060 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1061 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1062 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1063 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1064 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1065 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1066 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1069 * Interface localization
1070 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1071 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1072 * New full-featured Preferences window
1074 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1075 ---------------------------------
1078 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1079 * support for skins at the interface level
1080 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1081 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1082 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1083 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1084 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1087 * fixed HTTP redirects
1088 * support for opening an entire directory
1089 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1090 * new video4linux access plug-in
1091 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1094 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1095 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1096 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1099 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1100 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1101 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1102 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1103 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1104 * new codec for raw I420 video
1105 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1108 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1109 (although it still misses some important features)
1110 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1113 * new HTTP output support
1114 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1115 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1118 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1121 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1124 * reorderable playlist
1125 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1126 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1127 * support for mono audio output devices
1128 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1129 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1130 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1131 * the messages window remembers more lines
1132 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1133 * http and ogg stream output options
1134 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1137 * new skinnable interface
1138 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1140 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1141 * support for FLAC audio format
1142 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1144 * network tab in the interface
1145 * "apply" handling in preferences
1148 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1149 ---------------------------------
1152 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1153 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1154 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1155 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1157 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1158 * DTS S/PDIF support
1161 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1162 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1163 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1164 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1167 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1168 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1171 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1174 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1177 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1179 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1180 * rc interface is now fully useable
1181 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1184 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1185 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1186 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1187 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1188 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1190 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1191 * support for mouse gestures
1192 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1195 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1196 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1199 * improved ID3 tag detection
1200 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1201 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1202 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1204 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1207 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1208 ---------------------------------
1211 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1212 English was set as the preferred language
1215 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1216 --------------------------------
1219 * new mouse gesture interface
1220 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1224 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1225 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1226 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1229 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1230 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1234 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1237 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1238 without the user consent
1241 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1243 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1244 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1245 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1248 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1249 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1250 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1251 * playlist enhancements
1252 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1253 * new step forward/step backward commands
1254 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1255 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1256 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1259 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1260 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1261 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1264 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1265 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1268 * native video output is working again
1269 * only commandline interface support
1270 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1273 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1274 --------------------------------
1277 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1278 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1279 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1280 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1281 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1282 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1283 and A/52 streams are supported)
1284 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1289 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1290 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1291 * VCD entry points support
1292 * VCD image file support
1295 * support for *.asf format
1296 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1297 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1298 * support for ogg encapsulation
1299 * support for raw DV format
1300 * support for *.wav format
1301 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1304 Stream discovery & playlists:
1305 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1306 * support for .m3u file format
1307 * support for .asx file format
1308 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1311 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1312 (only available with the .avi demux)
1313 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1314 * support for raw PCM data
1315 * support for Cinepak video codec
1316 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1317 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1318 * support for Xvid codec
1319 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1320 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1321 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1323 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1325 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1328 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1331 * new WxWindows interface
1332 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1333 device and the channels configuration
1334 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1335 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1336 format that VLC can play
1337 * new swedish translation
1338 * enhancements of the playlist window
1339 * new messages window to see debug info
1340 * fixed a few crashes
1343 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1344 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1345 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1346 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working