1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
13 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
14 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
15 * Support for Ulead DV audio
16 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
17 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
18 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
19 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
22 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
25 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
26 * Major improvements in DASH support
27 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
28 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
29 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
30 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
33 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
34 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
35 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
36 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
37 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
38 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
39 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
40 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
41 * Support for more MJPEG streams
44 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
45 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
46 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
47 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
50 * new remapping channel filter
51 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
52 * new VSXu visualization plugin
55 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
56 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
59 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
60 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
61 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
62 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
63 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
64 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
67 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
70 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
71 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
72 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
73 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
74 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
77 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
78 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
81 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
83 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
84 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
85 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
86 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
87 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
88 VLC's internal volume level
89 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
90 selection and to manage the list of presets
91 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
92 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
93 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
94 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
95 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
96 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
98 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
99 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
100 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
101 * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while
103 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
107 * Partial support for Qt5.0
108 * Menus modifications and improvements
109 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
110 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
114 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
115 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
116 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
117 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
120 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
121 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
122 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
123 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
124 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
125 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
127 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
128 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
131 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
132 --------------------------------
135 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
138 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
139 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
142 * Add GateKeeper support
143 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
144 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
145 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
148 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
151 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
152 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
153 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
154 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
155 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
158 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
159 --------------------------------
162 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
163 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
164 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
165 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
166 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
167 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
168 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
169 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
170 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
171 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
172 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
176 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
177 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
178 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
179 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
180 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
181 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
182 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
183 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
184 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
185 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
186 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
187 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
190 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
191 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
193 * Fix MP3 free format support
196 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
197 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
198 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
199 * Fix for DVB channels file support
200 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
203 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
204 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
206 Audio filters and output:
207 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
208 * Fix DirectSound device selection
209 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
210 * Do not apply volume in file output
211 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
212 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
215 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
216 the persistant media library
217 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
218 to the media library or the temporary playlist
219 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
220 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
221 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
222 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
223 press on the Play/Pause button
224 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
225 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
226 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
227 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
228 * Many Fullscreen fixes
229 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
230 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
231 Synchronization panel
232 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
233 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
234 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
235 * Fix crashes on exit
236 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
238 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
239 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
240 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
241 automatically reset on the first launch.
242 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
243 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
244 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
247 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
248 * Fixes for icecast SD
251 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
252 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
253 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
254 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
255 * Fix tags and file names display
256 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
259 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
260 * Fix for key events and focus loss
263 * Fix display of some buttons
264 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
265 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
268 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
269 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
270 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
273 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
274 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
275 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
276 Thai translations update
277 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
280 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
281 --------------------------------
284 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
285 * fix the samba module compilation
286 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
287 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
288 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
289 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
292 * Support for MXPEG files
293 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
294 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
297 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
298 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
299 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
302 * Fix ogm header creation
305 * limit spatializer filter distortions
306 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
309 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
310 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
311 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
312 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
315 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
318 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
319 * allow to hide the sidebar
320 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
321 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
322 * noticebly faster launch time
323 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
324 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
325 * improve track synchronization panel
326 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
327 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
330 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
331 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
332 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
333 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
336 * fix for menus display
337 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
338 * documentation update
341 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
342 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
345 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
346 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
347 * Update Jamendo selections
351 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
352 * fix a crash on VLM close
355 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
356 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
357 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
358 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
361 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
364 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
365 ---------------------------------
368 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
369 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
370 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
371 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
372 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
373 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
374 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
375 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
376 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
377 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
378 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
379 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
380 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
381 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
382 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
383 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
384 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
385 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
386 --http-crl (optional CRL).
387 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
388 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
389 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
390 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
391 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
392 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
393 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
395 Important changes for packagers:
396 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
397 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
398 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
399 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
400 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
401 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
402 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
403 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
404 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
405 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
408 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
409 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
410 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
411 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
412 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
413 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
414 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
417 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
418 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
419 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
420 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
421 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
422 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
423 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
424 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
425 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
426 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
427 * PulseAudio audio input support
428 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
429 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
430 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
431 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
432 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
433 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
434 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
435 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
438 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
439 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
440 are notably concerned.
441 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
442 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
443 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
444 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
445 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
446 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
447 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
448 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
449 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
450 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
451 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
452 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
453 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
454 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
455 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
458 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
459 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
460 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
461 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
462 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
463 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
464 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
465 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
466 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
467 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
468 * Improved support of tracker files
469 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
472 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
473 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
474 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
475 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
476 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
477 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
478 and important cleanups and optimisations
479 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
480 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
481 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
482 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
483 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
484 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
485 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
486 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
487 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
488 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
489 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
490 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
491 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
492 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
493 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
494 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
495 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
496 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
497 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
498 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
499 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
502 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
503 * New video output for iOS platform
504 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
505 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
506 * Various vmem improvements
507 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
508 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
509 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
510 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
511 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
512 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
514 Audio Output and Filters:
515 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
516 * New audio output in memory (amem)
517 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
518 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
519 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
520 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
521 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
522 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
523 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
524 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
527 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
528 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
529 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
530 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
531 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
532 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
533 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
534 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
535 * New anti-flickering filter
536 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
537 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
538 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
539 blackbox and customizable shadow.
540 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
541 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
542 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
545 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
546 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
547 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
548 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
549 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
550 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
551 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
552 * Major rework of VoD support
553 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
554 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
555 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
556 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
557 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
558 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
559 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
560 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
561 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
562 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
565 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
566 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
569 * New capabilities for libVLC:
570 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
571 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
572 list of available audio and video filters
573 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
574 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
575 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
578 * asademux, subsass: use libass
579 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
580 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
582 * upnp: use upnp_intel
583 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
584 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
585 * removal of the noise filter
586 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
587 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
588 removed in Growl's next release, too.
589 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
592 * Update of translations for most languages.
593 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
596 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
597 ----------------------------------
600 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
601 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
604 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
605 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
608 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
609 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
610 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
613 * Camtasia decoding fix.
616 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
617 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
620 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
623 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
624 ----------------------------------
627 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
628 including support for OS X Lion
629 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
630 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
633 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
636 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
637 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
638 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
641 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
644 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
645 ----------------------------------
648 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
649 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
652 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
653 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
654 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
655 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
656 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
658 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
659 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
660 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
662 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
663 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
666 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
669 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
672 * Fix quitting on Linux
673 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
677 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
680 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
683 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
684 ---------------------------------
686 Windows and Mac OS X:
687 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
690 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
691 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
694 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
697 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
700 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
702 Miscellaneous fixes in:
703 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
705 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
706 * RTP output and XML export
707 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
711 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
712 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
713 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
714 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
717 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
718 --------------------------------
720 Windows and Mac OS X:
721 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
724 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
727 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
728 * Improve Apple Remote handling
729 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
730 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
731 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
732 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
735 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
736 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
740 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
741 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
742 * New Luganda Translation
745 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
746 --------------------------------
749 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
752 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
753 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
754 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
755 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
758 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
760 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
761 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
762 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
763 * mp4 demuxer improvements
764 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
765 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
766 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
767 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
769 Miscellaneous fixes in:
770 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
771 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
772 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
773 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
774 * Configure and build system improvements
775 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
778 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
779 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
780 * New icelandic translation
783 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
784 --------------------------------
787 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
791 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
792 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
793 and stability reasons
796 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
800 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
803 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
804 ----------------------------------
807 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
810 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
811 ---------------------------------
814 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
815 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
816 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
817 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
820 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
823 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
824 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
825 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
826 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
829 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
830 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
831 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
833 Subtitles and renderer:
834 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
835 * Mark more freetype options as safe
836 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
837 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
838 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
841 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
842 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
843 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
844 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
847 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
848 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
851 * KDE device solid actions
853 * Transcode integer overflow
854 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
855 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
858 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
859 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
860 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
863 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
864 ----------------------------------
867 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
871 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
874 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
877 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
878 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
879 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
880 * Taglib thread-safety fix
883 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
887 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
890 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
893 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
894 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
896 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
900 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
901 * Miscellaneous fixes
904 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
905 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
907 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
908 * New Asturian translation
911 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
912 ----------------------------------
915 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
917 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
920 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
923 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
924 * Various fixes for Windows
927 * New Armenian translation
928 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
929 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
932 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
933 --------------------------------
936 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
938 * Fix folders opening from the interface
941 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
942 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
945 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
946 --------------------------------
949 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
950 * fix for podcasts parsing
951 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
954 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
955 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
958 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
959 * fix m3u playlists exports
962 * fix video autoresize behaviour
965 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
968 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
971 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
974 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
977 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
978 --------------------------------
981 * Avformat fps displaying fix
982 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
985 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
986 of mono streams, especially on Windows
989 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
990 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
991 * fix console output encoding
993 Interface and extensions:
994 * Youtube and other scripts updates
995 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
998 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
999 --------------------------------
1002 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1003 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1004 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1005 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1006 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1007 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1008 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1009 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1010 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1011 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1012 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1013 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1014 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1015 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1016 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1017 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1021 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1022 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1023 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1024 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1025 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1028 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1031 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1032 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1033 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1037 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1040 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1041 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1042 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1045 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1046 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1047 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1048 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1051 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1052 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1055 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1056 --------------------------------
1058 Important changes for users:
1059 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1060 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1062 Important changes for packagers:
1063 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1064 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1065 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1066 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1067 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1069 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1071 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1072 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1073 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1074 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1075 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1078 * Support for the sftp protocol
1079 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1080 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1081 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1082 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1083 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1086 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1087 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1088 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1090 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1091 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1092 * Invmem module improvements
1093 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1094 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1095 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1096 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1097 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1098 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1099 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1100 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1101 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1102 * Support for VP8 codec
1103 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1106 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1107 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1108 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1109 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1110 * Various EGP improvements
1111 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1112 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1115 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1116 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1117 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1118 * Podcast images are now displayed
1121 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1122 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1123 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1124 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1125 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1126 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1127 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1128 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1129 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1130 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1131 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1134 * New content extensions lua framework
1137 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1138 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1139 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1140 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1141 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1142 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1143 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1146 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1147 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1148 * Service discovery based on libudev
1149 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1152 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1153 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1154 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1155 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1156 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1157 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1158 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1161 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1162 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1163 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1166 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1168 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1169 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1172 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1175 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1176 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1177 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1178 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1179 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1180 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1181 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1184 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1185 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1188 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1189 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1190 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1194 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1195 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1196 * Improved Solaris port
1199 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1200 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1203 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1204 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1205 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1206 * transrate: broken since too long
1207 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1208 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1209 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1210 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1211 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1212 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1213 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1214 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1215 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1216 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1217 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1218 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1219 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1220 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1223 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1224 --------------------------------
1227 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1229 Decoders/Packetizers:
1230 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1233 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1234 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1235 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1236 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1237 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1240 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1241 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1244 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1245 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1248 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1249 and Walloon translations updated
1250 * Sinhala translation started
1253 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1254 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1257 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1258 --------------------------------
1261 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1262 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1265 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1268 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1269 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1272 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1273 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1274 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1275 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1278 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1279 --------------------------------
1282 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1283 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1286 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1287 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1290 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1291 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1294 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1297 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1298 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1301 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1302 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1305 * New Walloon translation
1306 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1309 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1310 --------------------------------
1313 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1314 regressions in most popular drivers
1315 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1318 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1319 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1320 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1323 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1324 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1327 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1328 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1329 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1330 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1331 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1334 * New udev module for linux
1337 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1340 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1343 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1344 --------------------------------
1347 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1348 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1349 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1352 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1353 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1356 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1357 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1360 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1363 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1364 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1365 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1366 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1369 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1370 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1371 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1372 - no support for Goom and SDL
1373 - limited text rendering support
1374 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1377 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1378 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1379 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1380 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1381 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1382 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1383 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1384 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1385 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1389 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1392 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1395 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1396 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1397 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1398 Arabic and French translation updates
1401 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1402 --------------------------------
1405 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1406 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1407 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1408 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1409 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1410 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1413 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1414 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1415 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1418 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1419 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1420 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1423 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1426 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1427 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1430 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1431 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1432 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1433 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1434 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1435 * Fix various crashes
1438 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1440 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1444 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1445 ---------------------------------
1449 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1450 See 'Access:' for more info.
1451 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1454 * Instantaneous pausing
1455 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1456 * Finer speed control
1457 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1458 * Timeshift for most medias
1459 * RTSP trickplay support
1460 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1463 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1464 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1465 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1466 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1467 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1468 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1469 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1470 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1471 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1472 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1475 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1476 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1477 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1478 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1479 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1480 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1481 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1484 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1485 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1488 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1489 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1490 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1491 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1492 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1493 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1494 * DVB scanning on linux
1495 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1496 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1497 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1498 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1499 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1500 * MTP device access on Unix
1501 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1502 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1505 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1506 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1507 Windows and Mac OS X.
1510 * Export the playlist in HTML
1511 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1512 * Better metadata handling and reading
1514 Linux/Windows interface:
1515 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1516 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1517 * Recently played items list
1518 * Interface toolbar customizations
1519 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1520 - More menus actions
1521 - Finer speed slider
1522 - Improvements on many dialogs
1523 - New dialog for plugins listing
1524 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1525 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1526 * Better integration in GTK environments
1529 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1530 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1531 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1532 * Additional usability improvements
1535 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1536 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1537 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1538 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1539 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1542 * New Maemo port with:
1543 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1544 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1547 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1550 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1551 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1552 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1553 * Support for latest iSight models
1556 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1557 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1560 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1561 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1562 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1563 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1564 The old image video output has been removed.
1565 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1566 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1569 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1577 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1578 --------------------------------------
1584 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1585 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1586 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1587 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1588 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1589 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1590 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1592 Various fixes to the following modules:
1595 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1596 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1597 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1599 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1604 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1605 ---------------------------------
1608 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1609 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1612 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1613 ---------------------------------
1616 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1619 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1622 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1623 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1624 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1625 main controller window.
1626 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1629 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1634 * Updates of other localizations
1637 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1638 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1639 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1640 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1641 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1644 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1645 ---------------------------------
1648 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1650 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1653 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1654 --------------------------------
1659 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1660 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1663 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1664 --------------------------------
1666 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1667 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1670 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1673 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1674 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1677 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1678 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1681 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1682 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1683 * Various fixed in playlist
1686 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1689 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1692 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1693 ------------------------------------
1695 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1696 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1699 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1700 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1701 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1704 * Stability fix for the video output.
1707 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1708 --------------------------------
1711 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1712 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1713 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1714 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1715 * Fixed update system bugs
1716 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1719 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1720 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1721 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1722 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1723 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1724 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1725 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1726 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1727 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1728 modern Mac OS X versions
1731 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1732 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1734 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1735 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1738 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1739 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1740 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1741 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1742 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1743 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1746 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1747 --------------------------------
1749 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1750 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1751 * Multiple bugfixes.
1754 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1755 --------------------------------
1757 * Multiple bug fixes.
1760 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1761 ---------------------------------
1765 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1766 recent to work correctly
1767 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1768 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1769 edit the ".hosts" file.
1770 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1771 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1772 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1773 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1774 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1775 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1776 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1777 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1778 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1779 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1780 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1781 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1782 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1783 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1784 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1785 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1786 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1787 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1788 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1789 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1790 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1791 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1792 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1793 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1794 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1795 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1796 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1797 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1798 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1799 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1800 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1801 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1802 and postproc modules.
1803 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1804 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1805 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1806 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1808 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1809 filter. For example:
1810 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1811 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1813 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1814 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1820 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1822 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1823 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1826 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1827 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1829 * Shoutcast TV listings
1830 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1832 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1833 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1835 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1838 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1839 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1840 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1841 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1842 * JACK audio input support
1843 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1844 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1845 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1846 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1847 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1848 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1849 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1850 (available as a separate download).
1851 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1852 * RTMP input support
1853 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1854 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1855 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1857 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1858 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1861 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1862 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1863 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1864 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1866 * APEv1/2 tags support
1867 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1868 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1870 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1871 * TiVo Series 2 support
1872 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1877 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1878 * Flash Screen Video support
1879 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1880 * DosBox Capture support
1881 * Karl Morton's Video support
1882 * limited atrac3 support
1884 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1885 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1886 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1887 * H.264 PAFF support
1888 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1889 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1890 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1891 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1892 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1895 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1896 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1897 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1898 * AQTitle subtitles support
1899 * MKV USF subtitles support
1900 * HTML-based subtitles support
1901 * MPSub subtitles support
1902 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1903 * MPL2 subtitles support
1904 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1905 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1906 * Realtext subtitle support
1907 * DKS subtitle support
1908 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1909 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1912 * Flash Screen Video support
1913 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1915 Video outputs and filters:
1916 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1917 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1918 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1919 * New puzzle video output filter
1920 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1921 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1923 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1924 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1925 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1926 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1927 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1928 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1929 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1930 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1931 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1932 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1933 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1934 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1935 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1936 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1938 Audio outputs and filters:
1939 * Replay gain support
1940 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1941 new scaletempo audio filter)
1942 * New spatializer audio filter
1943 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1946 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1947 * New RTP payload formats:
1948 * Speex voice audio codec
1949 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1950 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1951 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1952 * DCCP transport for RTP
1953 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1958 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1959 end-user suitable way.
1960 * Improved user interaction
1961 * Improved mouse gestures
1962 * Vastly improved Update checker
1963 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1965 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1966 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1968 * Improved video output features
1969 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1970 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1971 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1972 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1973 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1975 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1976 if libncursesw is available.
1977 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1978 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1979 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1981 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1982 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1983 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1984 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1985 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1986 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1987 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1988 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1991 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1992 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1993 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1996 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1997 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1998 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1999 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2000 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2001 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2004 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2005 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2015 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2016 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2017 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2020 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2021 ----------------------------------
2024 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2027 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2028 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2029 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2030 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2031 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2032 * Updated Polish translation
2035 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2036 ----------------------------------
2039 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2040 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2041 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2044 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2045 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2046 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2047 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2048 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2049 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2050 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2051 to an unexpected application termination
2052 * New Serbian translation
2053 * Updated Romanian translation
2056 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2057 ----------------------------------
2060 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2061 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2062 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2063 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2064 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2065 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2066 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2067 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2070 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2071 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2072 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2073 * Fixed AAC resampling
2074 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2075 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2078 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2079 ----------------------------------
2082 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2083 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2084 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2085 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2086 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2089 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2090 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2091 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2092 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2093 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2096 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2097 ----------------------------------
2100 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2101 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2104 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2105 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2106 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2107 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2109 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2113 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2116 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2119 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2122 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2125 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2126 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2127 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2128 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2129 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2131 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2132 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2133 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2134 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2137 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2140 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2141 ----------------------------------
2144 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2145 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2146 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2148 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2149 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2151 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2152 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2155 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2157 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2158 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2159 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2160 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2161 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2162 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2163 two different movies
2164 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2165 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2166 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2169 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2172 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2173 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2174 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2175 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2178 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2179 ----------------------------------
2181 Various bugfixes, notably:
2182 * Windows Vista compatibility
2183 * Cropping in Direct3D
2184 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2185 * RSS filter string overflow
2187 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2189 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2190 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2193 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2194 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2197 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2200 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2203 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2206 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2207 ----------------------------------
2209 Various bugfixes, notably:
2210 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2211 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2212 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2213 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2214 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2215 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2218 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2219 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2222 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2224 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2225 * Diverse usability improvements
2226 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2227 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2228 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2231 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2232 ---------------------------------
2234 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2235 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2238 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2241 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2242 --------------------------------
2245 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2248 * Support for RTSP authentication
2249 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2250 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2251 * ATSC support for DVB input
2252 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2253 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2254 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2257 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2258 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2259 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2260 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2261 * Matroska WavPack support
2262 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2263 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2264 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2267 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2268 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2269 * Improved libcaca support
2273 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2274 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2276 * Systray support in skins
2278 * Support for Apple Remote control
2279 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2280 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2281 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2282 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2284 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2287 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2288 Windows 9x/ME users:
2289 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2290 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2291 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2292 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2293 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2295 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2296 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2305 * Updates to the libvlc API
2306 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2309 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2310 --------------------------------
2313 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2314 * Support for downloading updates
2318 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2319 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2320 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2321 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2323 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2324 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2325 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2328 * Cook (Real audio) support
2330 Playlist / Services discovery:
2331 * XSPF playlist support
2333 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2336 * New JACK audio output
2339 * New video filters:
2340 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2341 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2342 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2343 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2344 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2345 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2348 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2351 * System to inform the user and request information
2352 - HTTP authentication
2356 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2357 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2358 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2361 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2362 - Improved playlist handling
2363 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2365 - Embedded Video output
2366 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2367 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2368 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2369 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2370 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2372 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2373 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2376 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2379 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2380 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2381 * Growl "Now playing" support
2384 * Ability to log to syslog
2385 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2388 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2390 * A bit more automatic testing
2393 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2394 ---------------------------------
2397 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2398 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2401 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2402 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2405 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2408 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2409 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2415 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2418 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2419 --------------------------------
2422 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2426 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2427 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2428 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2431 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2432 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2433 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2434 * GnomeVFS input module
2435 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2436 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2439 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2440 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2441 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2444 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2445 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2451 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2452 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2455 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2456 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2457 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2460 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2462 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2463 - New extended controls panel
2464 - New bookmarks window
2465 - Fixed playlist sorting
2466 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2468 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2469 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2470 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2471 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2475 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2476 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2478 - Include macro to include other files
2482 * Should now work outside IE as well
2485 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2488 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2489 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2492 The following languages were added:
2496 * Simplified Chinese
2497 The following languages were re-added:
2501 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2502 --------------------------------
2505 * Rewrite of the playlist
2507 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2508 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2509 * Preferences improvements:
2510 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2511 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2513 * Core image manipulation support
2514 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2515 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2516 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2517 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2518 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2519 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2520 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2521 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2522 * Access filter architecture
2523 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2524 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2528 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2529 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2530 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2531 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2532 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2533 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2534 * Massive Matroska improvements
2535 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2537 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2538 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2539 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2540 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2541 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2543 Decoders / Encoders:
2544 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2545 * PNG decoder/encoder
2546 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2547 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2550 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2553 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2554 * Brand new SAP module
2555 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2556 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2557 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2558 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2559 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2560 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2564 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2567 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2568 * Image file video output (png)
2569 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2570 * Improvements to wall video filter
2571 * Support for font color and opacity
2577 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2578 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2579 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2583 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2584 - Improved preferences
2585 - Improvements to the wizard
2586 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2588 - Redesigned playlist
2589 - Improved preferences
2591 - Support for multiple actions
2594 - Support for the new playlist system
2596 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2599 * Screensaver disabling fix
2600 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2601 * Support for no-decoration windows
2604 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2605 * The OpenGL video output is back
2606 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2607 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2608 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2609 is not yet available in the new module
2610 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2613 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2622 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2625 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2628 The following languages were added:
2634 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2635 --------------------------------
2638 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2639 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2642 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2643 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2644 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2647 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2650 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2653 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2656 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2657 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2658 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2662 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2664 * Support of playlist group announcement
2667 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2668 --------------------------------
2671 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2672 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2673 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2674 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2675 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2676 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2679 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2680 (Stream your desktop)
2681 * Improved DVD support:
2682 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2683 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2684 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2685 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2686 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2687 (selection of titles/chapters).
2690 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2691 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2692 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2693 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2694 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2695 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2696 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2697 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2698 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2699 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2702 * G.726 audio support
2703 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2704 * MPEG-4 text support
2705 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2706 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2707 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2711 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2712 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2713 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2714 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2715 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2716 * DVB subtitles encoder
2717 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2718 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2720 * Text track muxing for mp4
2721 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2722 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2723 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2724 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2725 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2726 * Improved ASF muxer
2728 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2729 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2730 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2733 * New audio equalizer filter
2734 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2735 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2736 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2737 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2740 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2741 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2742 with support for effects.
2743 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2744 - New filters can be streamed.
2745 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2746 - Centralized scaling and blending
2748 - "time", to display current time
2749 - "marq", to display a marquee
2752 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2753 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2754 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2755 * A few skins2 improvements
2756 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2757 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2758 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2759 * Improved CORBA control module
2762 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2763 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2764 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2767 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2768 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2769 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2772 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2773 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2774 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2775 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2776 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2779 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2782 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2783 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2786 * Server/client network synchronization module
2787 * VBrick streams fully supported
2788 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2792 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2793 --------------------------------
2796 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2797 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2798 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2799 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2802 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2803 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2804 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2805 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2806 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2807 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2808 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2811 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2812 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2813 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2814 * Improved directory access module.
2815 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2816 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2817 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2818 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2819 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2822 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2823 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2824 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2827 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2828 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2829 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2832 * Improved session announcement system.
2833 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2834 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2835 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2836 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2837 * Improved transrater.
2838 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2839 * New configuration system.
2840 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2843 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2844 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2845 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2846 * Supports scheduling.
2847 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2848 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2851 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2852 - Ability to embed video output.
2853 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2854 - Lots of improvements.
2855 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2856 - New design and set of icons.
2857 - Ability to embed video output.
2858 - Support for hotkeys.
2859 - Support for bookmarks.
2861 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2862 - Better hotkeys handling.
2865 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2866 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2867 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2868 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2871 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2872 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2873 * Improved Windows installer.
2879 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2880 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2883 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2884 ---------------------------------
2887 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2888 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2891 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2892 --------------------------------
2895 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2896 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2899 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2900 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2901 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2902 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2905 * Internal improvments
2906 * Improved import/export
2909 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2911 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2912 small and strange formats.
2914 * New MOD audio demux.
2915 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2916 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2917 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2918 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2921 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2922 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2923 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2929 * New opengl video output plugin.
2932 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2933 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2936 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2937 --------------------------------
2940 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2941 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2942 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2943 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2944 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2945 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2946 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2947 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2950 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2955 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2956 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2957 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2958 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2959 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2960 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2961 * Better Icecast support.
2962 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2963 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2966 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2967 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2968 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2969 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2970 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2971 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2972 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2975 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2976 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2977 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2978 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2979 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2980 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2981 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2982 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2983 * Preliminary RTP support.
2984 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2989 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2990 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2992 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2993 - Improvements and help in preferences
2994 - New streaming wizard
2995 - Revised Disc Open menu
2997 - Improvements of the standard pages
2998 - Support for new commands
2999 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3002 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3003 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3006 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3007 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3008 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3009 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3010 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3011 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3012 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3013 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3014 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3017 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3019 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3020 * Support for Panther.
3021 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3022 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3025 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3026 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3027 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3028 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3029 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3030 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3031 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3032 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3035 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3036 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3037 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3040 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3043 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3044 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3045 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3046 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3049 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3050 --------------------------------
3053 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3056 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3057 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3060 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3061 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3064 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3067 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3068 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3071 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3074 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3077 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3078 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3082 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3083 --------------------------------
3086 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3087 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3091 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3092 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3093 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3095 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3096 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3099 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3102 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3105 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3106 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3110 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3111 --------------------------------
3114 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3115 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3119 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3120 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3121 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3122 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3123 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3126 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3127 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3128 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3131 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3132 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3133 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3136 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3137 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3138 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3139 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3140 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3143 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3144 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3145 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3148 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3151 * Improved build system.
3152 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3153 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3154 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3155 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3158 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3159 --------------------------------
3162 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3165 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3166 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3167 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3168 * Video 4 Linux support
3169 * CD Digital Audio support
3170 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3173 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3174 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3175 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3176 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3179 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3180 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3181 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3182 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3183 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3184 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3185 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3188 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3189 * New HTTP remote control interface
3192 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3193 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3194 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3195 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3196 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3199 * New reset option for the preferences
3200 * You can set your language in the prefences
3201 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3202 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3203 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3204 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3207 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3208 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3209 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3212 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3213 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3214 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3215 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3216 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3217 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3218 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3219 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3220 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3221 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3224 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3225 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3226 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3227 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3228 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3229 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3230 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3233 * Interface localization
3234 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3235 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3236 * New full-featured Preferences window
3239 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3240 --------------------------------
3243 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3244 * support for skins at the interface level
3245 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3246 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3247 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3248 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3249 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3252 * fixed HTTP redirects
3253 * support for opening an entire directory
3254 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3255 * new video4linux access plug-in
3256 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3259 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3260 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3261 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3264 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3265 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3266 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3267 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3268 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3269 * new codec for raw I420 video
3270 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3273 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3274 (although it still misses some important features)
3275 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3278 * new HTTP output support
3279 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3280 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3283 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3286 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3289 * reorderable playlist
3290 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3291 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3292 * support for mono audio output devices
3293 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3294 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3295 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3296 * the messages window remembers more lines
3297 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3298 * http and ogg stream output options
3299 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3302 * new skinnable interface
3303 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3305 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3306 * support for FLAC audio format
3307 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3309 * network tab in the interface
3310 * "apply" handling in preferences
3313 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3314 ---------------------------------
3317 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3318 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3319 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3320 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3322 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3323 * DTS S/PDIF support
3326 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3327 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3328 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3329 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3332 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3333 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3336 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3339 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3342 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3344 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3345 * rc interface is now fully useable
3346 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3349 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3350 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3351 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3352 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3353 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3355 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3356 * support for mouse gestures
3357 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3360 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3361 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3364 * improved ID3 tag detection
3365 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3366 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3367 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3369 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3372 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3373 ---------------------------------
3376 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3377 English was set as the preferred language
3380 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3381 --------------------------------
3384 * new mouse gesture interface
3385 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3389 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3390 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3391 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3394 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3395 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3399 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3402 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3403 without the user consent
3406 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3408 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3409 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3410 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3413 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3414 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3415 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3416 * playlist enhancements
3417 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3418 * new step forward/step backward commands
3419 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3420 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3421 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3424 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3425 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3426 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3429 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3430 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3433 * native video output is working again
3434 * only commandline interface support
3435 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3438 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3439 --------------------------------
3442 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3443 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3444 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3445 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3446 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3447 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3448 and A/52 streams are supported)
3449 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3454 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3455 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3456 * VCD entry points support
3457 * VCD image file support
3460 * support for *.asf format
3461 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3462 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3463 * support for ogg encapsulation
3464 * support for raw DV format
3465 * support for *.wav format
3466 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3469 Stream discovery & playlists:
3470 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3471 * support for .m3u file format
3472 * support for .asx file format
3473 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3476 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3477 (only available with the .avi demux)
3478 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3479 * support for raw PCM data
3480 * support for Cinepak video codec
3481 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3482 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3483 * support for Xvid codec
3484 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3485 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3486 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3488 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3490 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3493 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3496 * new WxWindows interface
3497 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3498 device and the channels configuration
3499 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3500 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3501 format that VLC can play
3502 * new swedish translation
3503 * enhancements of the playlist window
3504 * new messages window to see debug info
3505 * fixed a few crashes
3508 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3509 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3510 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3511 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working