1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
66 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
67 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
68 * Ogg seeking improvements
69 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
70 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
71 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
72 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
75 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
76 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
77 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
78 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
79 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
80 and important cleanups and optimisations
81 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
82 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
83 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
84 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
85 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
86 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
87 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
88 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
89 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
90 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
93 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
94 * New video output for iOS platform
95 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
96 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
97 * Various vmem improvements
98 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
100 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
101 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
104 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
105 * New audio output in memory (amem)
106 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
107 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
110 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
111 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
112 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
113 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
114 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
115 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
116 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
117 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
118 * New anti-flickering filter
119 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
120 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
121 blackbox and customizable shadow
124 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
127 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
128 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
129 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
130 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
131 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
132 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
133 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
134 * Major rework of VoD support
135 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
136 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
137 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
138 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
139 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
140 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
141 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
142 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
143 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
146 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
147 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
150 * New capabilities for libVLC:
151 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
152 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
153 list of available audio and video filters
154 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
155 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
158 * asademux: use libass only
159 * subsass: use libass
160 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
161 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
163 * upnp: use upnp_intel
164 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
165 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
166 * remove of the noise filter
169 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
170 ----------------------------------
173 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
174 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
177 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
178 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
179 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
180 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
181 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
183 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
184 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
185 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
187 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
188 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
191 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
194 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
197 * Fix quitting on Linux
198 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
202 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
205 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
208 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
209 ---------------------------------
211 Windows and Mac OS X:
212 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
215 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
216 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
219 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
222 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
225 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
227 Miscellaneous fixes in:
228 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
230 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
231 * RTP output and XML export
232 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
236 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
237 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
238 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
239 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
242 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
243 --------------------------------
245 Windows and Mac OS X:
246 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
249 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
252 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
253 * Improve Apple Remote handling
254 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
255 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
256 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
257 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
260 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
261 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
265 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
266 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
267 * New Luganda Translation
270 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
271 --------------------------------
274 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
277 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
278 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
279 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
280 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
283 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
285 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
286 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
287 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
288 * mp4 demuxer improvements
289 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
290 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
291 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
292 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
294 Miscellaneous fixes in:
295 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
296 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
297 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
298 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
299 * Configure and build system improvements
300 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
303 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
304 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
305 * New icelandic translation
308 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
316 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
317 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
318 and stability reasons
321 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
325 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
328 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
329 ----------------------------------
332 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
335 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
336 ---------------------------------
339 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
340 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
341 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
342 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
345 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
348 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
349 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
350 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
351 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
354 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
355 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
356 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
358 Subtitles and renderer:
359 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
360 * Mark more freetype options as safe
361 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
362 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
363 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
366 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
367 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
368 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
369 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
372 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
373 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
376 * KDE device solid actions
378 * Transcode integer overflow
379 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
380 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
383 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
384 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
385 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
388 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
389 ----------------------------------
392 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
396 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
399 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
402 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
403 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
404 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
405 * Taglib thread-safety fix
408 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
412 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
415 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
418 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
419 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
421 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
425 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
426 * Miscellaneous fixes
429 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
430 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
432 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
433 * New Asturian translation
436 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
437 ----------------------------------
440 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
442 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
445 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
448 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
449 * Various fixes for Windows
452 * New Armenian translation
453 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
454 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
457 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
458 --------------------------------
461 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
463 * Fix folders opening from the interface
466 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
467 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
470 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
471 --------------------------------
474 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
475 * fix for podcasts parsing
476 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
479 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
480 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
483 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
484 * fix m3u playlists exports
487 * fix video autoresize behaviour
490 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
493 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
496 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
499 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
502 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
503 --------------------------------
506 * Avformat fps displaying fix
507 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
510 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
511 of mono streams, especially on Windows
514 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
515 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
516 * fix console output encoding
518 Interface and extensions:
519 * Youtube and other scripts updates
520 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
523 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
524 --------------------------------
527 * New capabilities for libVLC:
528 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
529 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
530 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
531 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
532 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
533 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
534 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
535 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
536 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
537 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
538 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
539 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
540 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
541 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
542 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
546 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
547 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
548 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
549 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
550 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
553 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
556 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
557 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
558 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
562 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
565 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
566 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
567 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
570 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
571 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
572 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
573 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
576 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
577 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
580 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
581 --------------------------------
583 Important changes for users:
584 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
585 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
587 Important changes for packagers:
588 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
589 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
590 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
591 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
592 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
594 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
596 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
597 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
598 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
599 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
600 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
603 * Support for the sftp protocol
604 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
605 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
606 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
607 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
608 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
611 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
612 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
613 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
615 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
616 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
617 * Invmem module improvements
618 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
619 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
620 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
621 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
622 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
623 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
624 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
625 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
626 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
627 * Support for VP8 codec
628 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
631 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
632 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
633 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
634 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
635 * Various EGP improvements
636 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
637 * Metadata and cover art improvements
640 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
641 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
642 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
643 * Podcast images are now displayed
646 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
647 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
648 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
649 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
650 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
651 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
652 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
653 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
654 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
655 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
656 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
659 * New content extensions lua framework
662 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
663 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
664 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
665 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
666 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
667 * NEON assembly audio converter module
668 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
671 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
672 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
673 * Service discovery based on libudev
674 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
677 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
678 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
679 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
680 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
681 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
682 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
683 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
686 * New smem module, streaming to memory
687 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
688 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
691 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
693 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
694 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
697 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
700 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
701 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
702 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
703 by Andy Matuschak et al.
704 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
705 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
706 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
709 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
710 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
713 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
714 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
715 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
719 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
720 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
721 * Improved Solaris port
724 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
725 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
728 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
729 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
730 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
731 * transrate: broken since too long
732 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
733 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
734 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
735 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
736 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
737 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
738 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
739 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
740 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
741 * cddax: use cdda instead.
742 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
743 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
744 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
745 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
748 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
749 --------------------------------
752 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
754 Decoders/Packetizers:
755 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
758 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
759 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
760 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
761 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
762 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
765 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
766 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
769 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
770 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
773 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
774 and Walloon translations updated
775 * Sinhala translation started
778 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
779 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
782 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
783 --------------------------------
786 * SubRip extra styles improvements
787 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
790 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
793 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
794 increase performance and fix x264 issues
797 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
798 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
799 Russian, Slovak translation updates
800 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
803 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
804 --------------------------------
807 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
808 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
811 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
812 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
815 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
816 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
819 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
822 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
823 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
826 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
827 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
830 * New Walloon translation
831 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
834 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
835 --------------------------------
838 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
839 regressions in most popular drivers
840 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
843 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
844 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
845 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
848 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
849 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
852 * Update for appletrailers lua script
853 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
854 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
855 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
856 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
859 * New udev module for linux
862 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
865 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
868 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
869 --------------------------------
872 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
873 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
874 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
877 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
878 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
881 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
882 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
885 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
888 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
889 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
890 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
891 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
894 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
895 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
896 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
897 - no support for Goom and SDL
898 - limited text rendering support
899 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
902 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
903 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
904 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
905 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
906 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
907 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
908 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
909 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
910 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
914 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
917 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
920 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
921 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
922 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
923 Arabic and French translation updates
926 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
927 --------------------------------
930 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
931 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
932 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
933 * Fix Dailymotion access script
934 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
935 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
938 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
939 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
942 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
943 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
944 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
947 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
950 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
951 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
954 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
955 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
956 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
957 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
958 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
959 * Fix various crashes
962 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
964 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
967 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
968 ---------------------------------
972 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
973 See 'Access:' for more info.
974 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
977 * Instantaneous pausing
978 * Frame-by-Frame playback
979 * Finer speed control
980 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
981 * Timeshift for most medias
982 * RTSP trickplay support
983 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
986 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
987 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
988 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
989 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
990 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
991 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
992 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
993 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
994 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
995 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
998 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
999 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1000 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1001 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1002 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1003 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1004 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1007 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1008 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1011 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1012 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1013 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1014 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1015 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1016 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1017 * DVB scanning on linux
1018 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1019 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1020 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1021 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1022 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1023 * MTP device access on Unix
1024 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1025 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1028 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1029 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1030 Windows and Mac OS X.
1033 * Export the playlist in HTML
1034 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1035 * Better metadata handling and reading
1037 Linux/Windows interface:
1038 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1039 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1040 * Recently played items list
1041 * Interface toolbar customizations
1042 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1043 - More menus actions
1044 - Finer speed slider
1045 - Improvements on many dialogs
1046 - New dialog for plugins listing
1047 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1048 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1049 * Better integration in GTK environments
1052 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1053 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1054 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1055 * Additional usability improvements
1058 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1059 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1060 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1061 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1062 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1065 * New Maemo port with:
1066 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1067 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1070 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1073 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1074 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1075 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1076 * Support for latest iSight models
1079 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1080 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1083 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1084 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1085 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1086 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1087 The old image video output has been removed.
1088 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1089 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1092 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1100 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1101 --------------------------------------
1107 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1108 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1109 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1110 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1111 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1112 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1113 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1115 Various fixes to the following modules:
1118 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1119 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1120 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1122 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1127 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1128 ---------------------------------
1131 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1132 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1135 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1136 ---------------------------------
1139 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1142 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1145 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1146 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1147 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1148 main controller window.
1149 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1152 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1157 * Updates of other localizations
1160 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1161 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1162 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1163 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1164 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1167 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1168 ---------------------------------
1171 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1173 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1176 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1177 --------------------------------
1182 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1183 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1186 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1187 --------------------------------
1189 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1190 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1193 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1196 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1197 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1200 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1201 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1204 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1205 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1206 * Various fixed in playlist
1209 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1212 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1215 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1216 ------------------------------------
1218 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1219 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1222 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1223 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1224 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1227 * Stability fix for the video output.
1230 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1231 --------------------------------
1234 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1235 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1236 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1237 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1238 * Fixed update system bugs
1239 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1242 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1243 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1244 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1245 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1246 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1247 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1248 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1249 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1250 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1251 modern Mac OS X versions
1254 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1255 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1257 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1258 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1261 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1262 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1263 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1264 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1265 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1266 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1269 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1270 --------------------------------
1272 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1273 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1274 * Multiple bugfixes.
1277 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1278 --------------------------------
1280 * Multiple bug fixes.
1283 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1284 ---------------------------------
1288 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1289 recent to work correctly
1290 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1291 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1292 edit the ".hosts" file.
1293 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1294 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1295 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1296 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1297 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1298 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1299 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1300 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1301 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1302 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1303 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1304 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1305 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1306 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1307 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1308 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1309 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1310 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1311 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1312 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1313 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1314 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1315 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1316 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1317 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1318 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1319 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1320 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1321 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1322 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1323 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1324 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1325 and postproc modules.
1326 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1327 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1328 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1329 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1331 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1332 filter. For example:
1333 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1334 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1336 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1337 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1343 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1345 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1346 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1349 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1350 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1352 * Shoutcast TV listings
1353 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1355 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1356 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1358 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1361 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1362 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1363 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1364 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1365 * JACK audio input support
1366 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1367 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1368 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1369 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1370 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1371 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1372 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1373 (available as a separate download).
1374 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1375 * RTMP input support
1376 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1377 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1378 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1380 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1381 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1384 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1385 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1386 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1387 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1389 * APEv1/2 tags support
1390 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1391 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1393 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1394 * TiVo Series 2 support
1395 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1400 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1401 * Flash Screen Video support
1402 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1403 * DosBox Capture support
1404 * Karl Morton's Video support
1405 * limited atrac3 support
1407 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1408 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1409 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1410 * H.264 PAFF support
1411 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1412 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1413 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1414 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1415 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1418 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1419 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1420 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1421 * AQTitle subtitles support
1422 * MKV USF subtitles support
1423 * HTML-based subtitles support
1424 * MPSub subtitles support
1425 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1426 * MPL2 subtitles support
1427 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1428 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1429 * Realtext subtitle support
1430 * DKS subtitle support
1431 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1432 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1435 * Flash Screen Video support
1436 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1438 Video outputs and filters:
1439 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1440 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1441 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1442 * New puzzle video output filter
1443 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1444 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1446 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1447 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1448 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1449 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1450 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1451 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1452 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1453 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1454 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1455 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1456 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1457 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1458 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1459 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1461 Audio outputs and filters:
1462 * Replay gain support
1463 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1464 new scaletempo audio filter)
1465 * New spatializer audio filter
1466 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1469 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1470 * New RTP payload formats:
1471 * Speex voice audio codec
1472 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1473 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1474 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1475 * DCCP transport for RTP
1476 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1481 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1482 end-user suitable way.
1483 * Improved user interaction
1484 * Improved mouse gestures
1485 * Vastly improved Update checker
1486 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1488 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1489 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1491 * Improved video output features
1492 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1493 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1494 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1495 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1496 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1498 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1499 if libncursesw is available.
1500 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1501 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1502 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1504 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1505 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1506 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1507 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1508 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1509 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1510 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1511 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1514 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1515 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1516 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1519 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1520 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1521 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1522 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1523 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1524 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1527 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1528 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1538 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1539 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1540 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1543 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1544 ----------------------------------
1547 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1550 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1551 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1552 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1553 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1554 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1555 * Updated Polish translation
1558 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1559 ----------------------------------
1562 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1563 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1564 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1567 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1568 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1569 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1570 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1571 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1572 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1573 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1574 to an unexpected application termination
1575 * New Serbian translation
1576 * Updated Romanian translation
1579 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1580 ----------------------------------
1583 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1584 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1585 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1586 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1587 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1588 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1589 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1590 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1593 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1594 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1595 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1596 * Fixed AAC resampling
1597 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1598 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1601 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1602 ----------------------------------
1605 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1606 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1607 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1608 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1609 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1612 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1613 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1614 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1615 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1616 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1619 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1620 ----------------------------------
1623 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1624 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1627 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1628 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1629 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1630 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1632 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1636 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1639 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1642 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1645 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1648 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1649 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1650 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1651 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1652 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1654 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1655 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1656 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1657 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1660 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1663 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1664 ----------------------------------
1667 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1668 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1669 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1671 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1672 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1674 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1675 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1678 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1680 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1681 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1682 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1683 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1684 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1685 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1686 two different movies
1687 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1688 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1689 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1692 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1695 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1696 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1697 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1698 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1701 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1702 ----------------------------------
1704 Various bugfixes, notably:
1705 * Windows Vista compatibility
1706 * Cropping in Direct3D
1707 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1708 * RSS filter string overflow
1710 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1712 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1713 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1716 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1717 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1720 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1723 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1726 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1729 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1730 ----------------------------------
1732 Various bugfixes, notably:
1733 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1734 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1735 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1736 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1737 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1738 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1741 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1742 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1745 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1747 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1748 * Diverse usability improvements
1749 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1750 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1751 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1754 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1755 ---------------------------------
1757 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1758 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1761 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1764 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1765 --------------------------------
1768 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1771 * Support for RTSP authentication
1772 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1773 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1774 * ATSC support for DVB input
1775 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1776 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1777 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1780 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1781 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1782 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1783 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1784 * Matroska WavPack support
1785 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1786 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1787 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1790 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1791 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1792 * Improved libcaca support
1796 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1797 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1799 * Systray support in skins
1801 * Support for Apple Remote control
1802 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1803 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1804 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1805 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1807 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1810 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1811 Windows 9x/ME users:
1812 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1813 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1814 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1815 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1816 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1818 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1819 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1828 * Updates to the libvlc API
1829 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1832 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1833 --------------------------------
1836 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1837 * Support for downloading updates
1841 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1842 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1843 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1844 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1846 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1847 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1848 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1851 * Cook (Real audio) support
1853 Playlist / Services discovery:
1854 * XSPF playlist support
1856 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1859 * New JACK audio output
1862 * New video filters:
1863 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1864 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1865 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1866 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1867 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1868 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1871 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1874 * System to inform the user and request information
1875 - HTTP authentication
1879 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1880 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1881 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1884 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1885 - Improved playlist handling
1886 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1888 - Embedded Video output
1889 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1890 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1891 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1892 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1893 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1895 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1896 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1899 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1902 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1903 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1904 * Growl "Now playing" support
1907 * Ability to log to syslog
1908 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1911 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1913 * A bit more automatic testing
1916 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1917 ---------------------------------
1920 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1921 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1924 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1925 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1928 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1931 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1932 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1938 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1941 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1942 --------------------------------
1945 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1949 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1950 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1951 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1954 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1955 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1956 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1957 * GnomeVFS input module
1958 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1959 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1962 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1963 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1964 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1967 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1968 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1974 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1975 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1978 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1979 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1980 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1983 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1985 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1986 - New extended controls panel
1987 - New bookmarks window
1988 - Fixed playlist sorting
1989 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1991 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1992 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1993 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1994 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1998 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1999 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2001 - Include macro to include other files
2005 * Should now work outside IE as well
2008 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2011 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2012 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2015 The following languages were added:
2019 * Simplified Chinese
2020 The following languages were re-added:
2024 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2025 --------------------------------
2028 * Rewrite of the playlist
2030 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2031 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2032 * Preferences improvements:
2033 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2034 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2036 * Core image manipulation support
2037 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2038 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2039 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2040 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2041 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2042 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2043 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2044 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2045 * Access filter architecture
2046 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2047 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2051 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2052 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2053 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2054 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2055 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2056 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2057 * Massive Matroska improvements
2058 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2060 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2061 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2062 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2063 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2064 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2066 Decoders / Encoders:
2067 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2068 * PNG decoder/encoder
2069 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2070 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2073 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2076 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2077 * Brand new SAP module
2078 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2079 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2080 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2081 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2082 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2083 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2087 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2090 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2091 * Image file video output (png)
2092 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2093 * Improvements to wall video filter
2094 * Support for font color and opacity
2100 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2101 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2102 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2106 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2107 - Improved preferences
2108 - Improvements to the wizard
2109 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2111 - Redesigned playlist
2112 - Improved preferences
2114 - Support for multiple actions
2117 - Support for the new playlist system
2119 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2122 * Screensaver disabling fix
2123 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2124 * Support for no-decoration windows
2127 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2128 * The OpenGL video output is back
2129 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2130 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2131 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2132 is not yet available in the new module
2133 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2136 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2145 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2148 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2151 The following languages were added:
2157 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2158 --------------------------------
2161 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2162 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2165 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2166 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2167 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2170 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2173 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2176 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2179 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2180 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2181 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2185 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2187 * Support of playlist group announcement
2190 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2191 --------------------------------
2194 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2195 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2196 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2197 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2198 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2199 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2202 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2203 (Stream your desktop)
2204 * Improved DVD support:
2205 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2206 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2207 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2208 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2209 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2210 (selection of titles/chapters).
2213 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2214 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2215 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2216 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2217 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2218 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2219 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2220 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2221 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2222 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2225 * G.726 audio support
2226 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2227 * MPEG-4 text support
2228 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2229 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2230 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2234 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2235 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2236 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2237 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2238 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2239 * DVB subtitles encoder
2240 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2241 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2243 * Text track muxing for mp4
2244 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2245 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2246 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2247 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2248 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2249 * Improved ASF muxer
2251 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2252 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2253 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2256 * New audio equalizer filter
2257 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2258 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2259 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2260 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2263 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2264 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2265 with support for effects.
2266 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2267 - New filters can be streamed.
2268 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2269 - Centralized scaling and blending
2271 - "time", to display current time
2272 - "marq", to display a marquee
2275 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2276 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2277 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2278 * A few skins2 improvements
2279 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2280 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2281 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2282 * Improved CORBA control module
2285 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2286 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2287 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2290 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2291 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2292 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2295 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2296 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2297 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2298 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2299 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2302 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2305 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2306 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2309 * Server/client network synchronization module
2310 * VBrick streams fully supported
2311 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2315 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2316 --------------------------------
2319 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2320 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2321 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2322 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2325 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2326 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2327 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2328 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2329 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2330 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2331 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2334 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2335 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2336 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2337 * Improved directory access module.
2338 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2339 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2340 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2341 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2342 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2345 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2346 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2347 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2350 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2351 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2352 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2355 * Improved session announcement system.
2356 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2357 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2358 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2359 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2360 * Improved transrater.
2361 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2362 * New configuration system.
2363 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2366 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2367 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2368 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2369 * Supports scheduling.
2370 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2371 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2374 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2375 - Ability to embed video output.
2376 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2377 - Lots of improvements.
2378 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2379 - New design and set of icons.
2380 - Ability to embed video output.
2381 - Support for hotkeys.
2382 - Support for bookmarks.
2384 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2385 - Better hotkeys handling.
2388 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2389 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2390 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2391 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2394 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2395 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2396 * Improved Windows installer.
2402 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2403 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2406 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2407 ---------------------------------
2410 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2411 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2414 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2415 --------------------------------
2418 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2419 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2422 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2423 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2424 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2425 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2428 * Internal improvments
2429 * Improved import/export
2432 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2434 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2435 small and strange formats.
2437 * New MOD audio demux.
2438 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2439 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2440 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2441 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2444 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2445 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2446 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2452 * New opengl video output plugin.
2455 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2456 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2459 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2460 --------------------------------
2463 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2464 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2465 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2466 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2467 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2468 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2469 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2470 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2473 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2478 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2479 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2480 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2481 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2482 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2483 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2484 * Better Icecast support.
2485 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2486 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2489 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2490 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2491 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2492 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2493 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2494 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2495 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2498 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2499 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2500 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2501 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2502 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2503 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2504 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2505 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2506 * Preliminary RTP support.
2507 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2512 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2513 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2515 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2516 - Improvements and help in preferences
2517 - New streaming wizard
2518 - Revised Disc Open menu
2520 - Improvements of the standard pages
2521 - Support for new commands
2522 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2525 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2526 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2529 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2530 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2531 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2532 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2533 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2534 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2535 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2536 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2537 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2540 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2542 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2543 * Support for Panther.
2544 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2545 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2548 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2549 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2550 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2551 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2552 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2553 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2554 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2555 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2558 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2559 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2560 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2563 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2566 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2567 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2568 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2569 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2572 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2573 --------------------------------
2576 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2579 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2580 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2583 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2584 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2587 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2590 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2591 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2594 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2597 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2600 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2601 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2605 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2606 --------------------------------
2609 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2610 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2614 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2615 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2616 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2618 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2619 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2622 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2625 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2628 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2629 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2633 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2634 --------------------------------
2637 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2638 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2642 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2643 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2644 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2645 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2646 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2649 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2650 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2651 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2654 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2655 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2656 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2659 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2660 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2661 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2662 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2663 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2666 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2667 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2668 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2671 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2674 * Improved build system.
2675 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2676 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2677 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2678 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2681 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2682 --------------------------------
2685 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2688 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2689 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2690 * Video 4 Linux support
2691 * CD Digital Audio support
2692 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2695 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2696 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2697 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2698 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2701 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2702 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2703 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2704 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2705 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2706 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2707 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2710 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2711 * New HTTP remote control interface
2714 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2715 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2716 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2717 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2720 * New reset option for the preferences
2721 * You can set your language in the prefences
2722 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2723 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2724 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2725 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2728 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2729 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2730 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2733 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2734 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2735 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2736 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2737 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2738 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2739 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2740 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2741 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2742 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2745 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2746 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2747 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2748 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2749 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2750 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2751 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2754 * Interface localization
2755 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2756 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2757 * New full-featured Preferences window
2760 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2761 --------------------------------
2764 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2765 * support for skins at the interface level
2766 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2767 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2768 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2769 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2770 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2773 * fixed HTTP redirects
2774 * support for opening an entire directory
2775 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2776 * new video4linux access plug-in
2777 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2780 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2781 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2782 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2785 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2786 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2787 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2788 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2789 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2790 * new codec for raw I420 video
2791 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2794 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2795 (although it still misses some important features)
2796 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2799 * new HTTP output support
2800 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2801 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2804 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2807 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2810 * reorderable playlist
2811 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2812 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2813 * support for mono audio output devices
2814 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2815 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2816 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2817 * the messages window remembers more lines
2818 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2819 * http and ogg stream output options
2820 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2823 * new skinnable interface
2824 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2826 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2827 * support for FLAC audio format
2828 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2830 * network tab in the interface
2831 * "apply" handling in preferences
2834 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2835 ---------------------------------
2838 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2839 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2840 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2841 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2843 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2844 * DTS S/PDIF support
2847 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2848 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2849 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2850 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2853 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2854 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2857 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2860 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2863 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2865 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2866 * rc interface is now fully useable
2867 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2870 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2871 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2872 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2873 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2874 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2876 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2877 * support for mouse gestures
2878 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2881 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2882 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2885 * improved ID3 tag detection
2886 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2887 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2888 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2890 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2893 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2894 ---------------------------------
2897 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2898 English was set as the preferred language
2901 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2902 --------------------------------
2905 * new mouse gesture interface
2906 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2910 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2911 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2912 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2915 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2916 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2920 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2923 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2924 without the user consent
2927 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2929 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2930 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2931 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2934 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2935 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2936 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2937 * playlist enhancements
2938 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2939 * new step forward/step backward commands
2940 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2941 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2942 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2945 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2946 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2947 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2950 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2951 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2954 * native video output is working again
2955 * only commandline interface support
2956 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2959 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2960 --------------------------------
2963 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2964 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2965 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2966 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2967 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2968 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2969 and A/52 streams are supported)
2970 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2975 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2976 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2977 * VCD entry points support
2978 * VCD image file support
2981 * support for *.asf format
2982 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2983 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2984 * support for ogg encapsulation
2985 * support for raw DV format
2986 * support for *.wav format
2987 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2990 Stream discovery & playlists:
2991 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2992 * support for .m3u file format
2993 * support for .asx file format
2994 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2997 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2998 (only available with the .avi demux)
2999 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3000 * support for raw PCM data
3001 * support for Cinepak video codec
3002 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3003 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3004 * support for Xvid codec
3005 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3006 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3007 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3009 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3011 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3014 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3017 * new WxWindows interface
3018 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3019 device and the channels configuration
3020 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3021 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3022 format that VLC can play
3023 * new swedish translation
3024 * enhancements of the playlist window
3025 * new messages window to see debug info
3026 * fixed a few crashes
3029 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3030 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3031 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3032 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working