1 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
24 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
25 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
28 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
29 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
30 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
33 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
34 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
35 * Ogg seeking improvements
36 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten from scratch using the C api
39 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
40 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
41 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
42 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
43 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
44 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
47 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
48 * New video output for iOS platform
49 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
50 * Various vmem improvements
53 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
54 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
55 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
56 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
59 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
62 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
65 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
66 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
67 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
68 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
69 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
70 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
71 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
74 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
77 * New capabilities for libVLC:
78 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
81 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
82 ----------------------------------
85 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
89 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
92 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
95 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
96 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
97 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
98 * Taglib thread-safety fix
101 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
105 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
108 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
111 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
112 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
114 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
118 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
119 * Miscellaneous fixes
122 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
123 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
125 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
126 * New Asturian translation
129 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
130 ----------------------------------
133 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
135 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
138 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
141 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
142 * Various fixes for Windows
145 * New Armenian translation
146 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
147 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
150 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
151 --------------------------------
154 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
156 * Fix folders opening from the interface
159 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
160 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
163 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
164 --------------------------------
167 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
168 * fix for podcasts parsing
169 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
172 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
173 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
176 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
177 * fix m3u playlists exports
180 * fix video autoresize behaviour
183 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
186 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
189 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
192 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
195 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
196 --------------------------------
199 * Avformat fps displaying fix
200 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
203 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
204 of mono streams, especially on Windows
207 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
208 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
209 * fix console output encoding
211 Interface and extensions:
212 * Youtube and other scripts updates
213 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
216 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
217 --------------------------------
220 * New capabilities for libVLC:
221 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
222 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
223 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
224 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
225 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
226 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
227 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
228 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
229 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
230 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
231 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
232 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
233 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
234 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
235 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
239 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
240 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
241 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
242 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
243 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
246 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
249 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
250 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
251 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
255 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
258 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
259 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
260 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
263 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
264 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
265 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
266 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
269 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
270 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
273 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
274 --------------------------------
276 Important changes for users:
277 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
278 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
280 Important changes for packagers:
281 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
282 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
283 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
284 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
285 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
287 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
289 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
290 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
291 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
292 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
293 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
296 * Support for the sftp protocol
297 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
298 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
299 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
300 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
301 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
304 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
305 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
306 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
308 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
309 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
310 * Invmem module improvements
311 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
312 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
313 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
314 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
315 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
316 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
317 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
318 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
319 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
320 * Support for VP8 codec
321 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
324 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
325 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
326 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
327 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
328 * Various EGP improvements
329 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
330 * Metadata and cover art improvements
333 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
334 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
335 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
336 * Podcast images are now displayed
339 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
340 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
341 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
342 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
343 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
344 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
345 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
346 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
347 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
348 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
349 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
352 * New content extensions lua framework
355 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
356 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
357 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
358 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
359 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
360 * NEON assembly audio converter module
361 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
364 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
365 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
366 * Service discovery based on libudev
367 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
370 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
371 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
372 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
373 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
374 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
375 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
376 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
379 * New smem module, streaming to memory
380 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
381 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
384 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
386 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
387 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
390 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
393 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
394 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
395 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
396 by Andy Matuschak et al.
397 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
398 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
399 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
402 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
403 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
406 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
407 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
408 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
412 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
413 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
414 * Improved Solaris port
417 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
418 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
421 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
422 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
423 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
424 * transrate: broken since too long
425 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
426 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
427 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
428 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
429 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
430 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
431 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
432 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
433 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
434 * cddax: use cdda instead.
435 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
436 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
437 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
438 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
441 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
442 --------------------------------
445 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
447 Decoders/Packetizers:
448 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
451 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
452 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
453 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
454 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
455 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
458 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
459 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
462 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
463 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
466 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
467 and Walloon translations updated
468 * Sinhala translation started
471 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
472 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
475 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
476 --------------------------------
479 * SubRip extra styles improvements
480 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
483 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
486 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
487 increase performance and fix x264 issues
490 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
491 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
492 Russian, Slovak translation updates
493 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
496 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
497 --------------------------------
500 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
501 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
504 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
505 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
508 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
509 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
512 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
515 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
516 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
519 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
520 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
523 * New Walloon translation
524 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
527 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
528 --------------------------------
531 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
532 regressions in most popular drivers
533 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
536 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
537 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
538 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
541 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
542 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
545 * Update for appletrailers lua script
546 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
547 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
548 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
549 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
552 * New udev module for linux
555 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
558 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
561 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
562 --------------------------------
565 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
566 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
567 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
570 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
571 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
574 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
575 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
578 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
581 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
582 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
583 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
584 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
587 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
588 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
589 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
590 - no support for Goom and SDL
591 - limited text rendering support
592 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
595 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
596 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
597 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
598 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
599 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
600 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
601 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
602 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
603 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
607 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
610 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
613 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
614 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
615 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
616 Arabic and French translation updates
619 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
620 --------------------------------
623 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
624 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
625 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
626 * Fix Dailymotion access script
627 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
628 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
631 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
632 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
635 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
636 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
637 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
640 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
643 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
644 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
647 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
648 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
649 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
650 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
651 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
652 * Fix various crashes
655 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
657 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
660 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
661 ---------------------------------
665 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
666 See 'Access:' for more info.
667 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
670 * Instantaneous pausing
671 * Frame-by-Frame playback
672 * Finer speed control
673 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
674 * Timeshift for most medias
675 * RTSP trickplay support
676 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
679 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
680 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
681 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
682 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
683 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
684 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
685 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
686 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
687 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
688 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
691 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
692 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
693 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
694 * Metadata for mod files are supported
695 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
696 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
697 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
700 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
701 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
704 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
705 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
706 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
707 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
708 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
709 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
710 * DVB scanning on linux
711 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
712 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
713 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
714 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
715 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
716 * MTP device access on Unix
717 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
718 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
721 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
722 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
723 Windows and Mac OS X.
726 * Export the playlist in HTML
727 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
728 * Better metadata handling and reading
730 Linux/Windows interface:
731 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
732 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
733 * Recently played items list
734 * Interface toolbar customizations
735 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
738 - Improvements on many dialogs
739 - New dialog for plugins listing
740 - Fixed-size mode for videos
741 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
742 * Better integration in GTK environments
745 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
746 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
747 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
748 * Additional usability improvements
751 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
752 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
753 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
754 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
755 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
758 * New Maemo port with:
759 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
760 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
763 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
766 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
767 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
768 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
769 * Support for latest iSight models
772 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
773 * Surround support for PulseAudio
776 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
777 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
778 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
779 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
780 The old image video output has been removed.
781 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
782 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
785 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
793 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
794 --------------------------------------
800 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
801 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
802 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
803 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
804 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
805 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
806 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
808 Various fixes to the following modules:
811 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
812 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
815 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
820 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
821 ---------------------------------
824 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
825 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
828 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
829 ---------------------------------
832 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
835 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
838 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
839 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
840 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
841 main controller window.
842 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
845 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
850 * Updates of other localizations
853 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
854 * Lots of small bugfixes.
855 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
856 * Telnet fixes on Windows
857 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
860 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
861 ---------------------------------
864 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
866 Bunch of small bugfixes.
869 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
870 --------------------------------
875 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
876 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
879 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
880 --------------------------------
882 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
883 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
886 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
889 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
890 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
893 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
894 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
897 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
898 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
899 * Various fixed in playlist
902 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
905 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
908 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
909 ------------------------------------
911 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
912 * Fixes several memory leaks.
915 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
916 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
917 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
920 * Stability fix for the video output.
923 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
924 --------------------------------
927 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
928 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
929 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
930 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
931 * Fixed update system bugs
932 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
935 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
936 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
937 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
938 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
939 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
940 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
941 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
942 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
943 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
944 modern Mac OS X versions
947 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
948 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
950 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
951 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
954 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
955 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
956 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
957 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
958 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
959 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
962 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
963 --------------------------------
965 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
966 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
970 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
971 --------------------------------
973 * Multiple bug fixes.
976 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
977 ---------------------------------
981 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
982 recent to work correctly
983 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
984 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
985 edit the ".hosts" file.
986 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
987 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
988 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
989 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
990 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
991 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
992 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
993 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
994 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
995 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
996 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
997 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
998 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
999 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1000 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1001 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1002 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1003 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1004 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1005 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1006 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1007 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1008 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1009 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1010 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1011 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1012 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1013 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1014 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1015 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1016 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1017 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1018 and postproc modules.
1019 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1020 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1021 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1022 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1024 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1025 filter. For example:
1026 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1027 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1029 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1030 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1036 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1038 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1039 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1042 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1043 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1045 * Shoutcast TV listings
1046 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1048 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1049 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1051 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1054 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1055 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1056 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1057 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1058 * JACK audio input support
1059 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1060 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1061 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1062 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1063 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1064 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1065 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1066 (available as a separate download).
1067 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1068 * RTMP input support
1069 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1070 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1071 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1073 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1074 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1077 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1078 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1079 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1080 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1082 * APEv1/2 tags support
1083 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1084 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1086 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1087 * TiVo Series 2 support
1088 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1093 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1094 * Flash Screen Video support
1095 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1096 * DosBox Capture support
1097 * Karl Morton's Video support
1098 * limited atrac3 support
1100 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1101 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1102 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1103 * H.264 PAFF support
1104 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1105 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1106 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1107 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1108 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1111 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1112 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1113 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1114 * AQTitle subtitles support
1115 * MKV USF subtitles support
1116 * HTML-based subtitles support
1117 * MPSub subtitles support
1118 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1119 * MPL2 subtitles support
1120 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1121 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1122 * Realtext subtitle support
1123 * DKS subtitle support
1124 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1125 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1128 * Flash Screen Video support
1129 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1131 Video outputs and filters:
1132 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1133 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1134 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1135 * New puzzle video output filter
1136 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1137 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1139 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1140 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1141 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1142 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1143 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1144 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1145 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1146 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1147 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1148 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1149 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1150 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1151 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1152 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1154 Audio outputs and filters:
1155 * Replay gain support
1156 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1157 new scaletempo audio filter)
1158 * New spatializer audio filter
1159 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1162 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1163 * New RTP payload formats:
1164 * Speex voice audio codec
1165 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1166 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1167 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1168 * DCCP transport for RTP
1169 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1174 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1175 end-user suitable way.
1176 * Improved user interaction
1177 * Improved mouse gestures
1178 * Vastly improved Update checker
1179 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1181 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1182 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1184 * Improved video output features
1185 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1186 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1187 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1188 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1189 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1191 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1192 if libncursesw is available.
1193 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1194 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1195 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1197 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1198 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1199 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1200 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1201 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1202 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1203 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1204 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1207 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1208 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1209 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1212 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1213 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1214 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1215 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1216 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1217 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1220 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1221 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1231 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1232 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1233 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1236 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1237 ----------------------------------
1240 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1243 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1244 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1245 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1246 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1247 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1248 * Updated Polish translation
1251 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1252 ----------------------------------
1255 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1256 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1257 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1260 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1261 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1262 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1263 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1264 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1265 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1266 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1267 to an unexpected application termination
1268 * New Serbian translation
1269 * Updated Romanian translation
1272 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1273 ----------------------------------
1276 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1277 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1278 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1279 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1280 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1281 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1282 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1283 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1286 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1287 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1288 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1289 * Fixed AAC resampling
1290 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1291 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1294 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1295 ----------------------------------
1298 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1299 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1300 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1301 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1302 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1305 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1306 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1307 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1308 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1309 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1312 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1313 ----------------------------------
1316 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1317 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1320 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1321 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1322 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1323 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1325 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1329 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1332 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1335 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1338 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1341 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1342 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1343 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1344 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1345 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1347 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1348 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1349 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1350 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1353 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1356 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1357 ----------------------------------
1360 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1361 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1362 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1364 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1365 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1367 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1368 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1371 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1373 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1374 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1375 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1376 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1377 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1378 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1379 two different movies
1380 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1381 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1382 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1385 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1388 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1389 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1390 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1391 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1394 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1395 ----------------------------------
1397 Various bugfixes, notably:
1398 * Windows Vista compatibility
1399 * Cropping in Direct3D
1400 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1401 * RSS filter string overflow
1403 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1405 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1406 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1409 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1410 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1413 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1416 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1419 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1422 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1423 ----------------------------------
1425 Various bugfixes, notably:
1426 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1427 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1428 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1429 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1430 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1431 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1434 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1435 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1438 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1440 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1441 * Diverse usability improvements
1442 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1443 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1444 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1447 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1448 ---------------------------------
1450 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1451 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1454 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1457 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1458 --------------------------------
1461 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1464 * Support for RTSP authentication
1465 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1466 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1467 * ATSC support for DVB input
1468 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1469 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1470 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1473 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1474 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1475 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1476 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1477 * Matroska WavPack support
1478 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1479 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1480 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1483 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1484 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1485 * Improved libcaca support
1489 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1490 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1492 * Systray support in skins
1494 * Support for Apple Remote control
1495 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1496 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1497 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1498 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1500 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1503 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1504 Windows 9x/ME users:
1505 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1506 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1507 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1508 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1509 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1511 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1512 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1521 * Updates to the libvlc API
1522 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1525 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1526 --------------------------------
1529 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1530 * Support for downloading updates
1534 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1535 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1536 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1537 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1539 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1540 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1541 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1544 * Cook (Real audio) support
1546 Playlist / Services discovery:
1547 * XSPF playlist support
1549 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1552 * New JACK audio output
1555 * New video filters:
1556 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1557 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1558 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1559 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1560 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1561 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1564 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1567 * System to inform the user and request information
1568 - HTTP authentication
1572 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1573 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1574 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1577 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1578 - Improved playlist handling
1579 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1581 - Embedded Video output
1582 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1583 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1584 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1585 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1586 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1588 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1589 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1592 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1595 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1596 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1597 * Growl "Now playing" support
1600 * Ability to log to syslog
1601 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1604 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1606 * A bit more automatic testing
1609 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1610 ---------------------------------
1613 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1614 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1617 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1618 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1621 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1624 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1625 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1631 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1634 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1635 --------------------------------
1638 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1642 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1643 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1644 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1647 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1648 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1649 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1650 * GnomeVFS input module
1651 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1652 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1655 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1656 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1657 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1660 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1661 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1667 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1668 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1671 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1672 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1673 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1676 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1678 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1679 - New extended controls panel
1680 - New bookmarks window
1681 - Fixed playlist sorting
1682 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1684 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1685 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1686 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1687 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1691 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1692 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1694 - Include macro to include other files
1698 * Should now work outside IE as well
1701 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1704 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1705 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1708 The following languages were added:
1712 * Simplified Chinese
1713 The following languages were re-added:
1717 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1718 --------------------------------
1721 * Rewrite of the playlist
1723 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1724 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1725 * Preferences improvements:
1726 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1727 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1729 * Core image manipulation support
1730 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1731 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1732 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1733 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1734 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1735 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1736 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1737 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1738 * Access filter architecture
1739 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1740 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1744 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1745 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1746 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1747 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1748 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1749 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1750 * Massive Matroska improvements
1751 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1753 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1754 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1755 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1756 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1757 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1759 Decoders / Encoders:
1760 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1761 * PNG decoder/encoder
1762 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1763 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1766 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1769 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1770 * Brand new SAP module
1771 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1772 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1773 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1774 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1775 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1776 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1780 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1783 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1784 * Image file video output (png)
1785 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1786 * Improvements to wall video filter
1787 * Support for font color and opacity
1793 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1794 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1795 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1799 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1800 - Improved preferences
1801 - Improvements to the wizard
1802 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1804 - Redesigned playlist
1805 - Improved preferences
1807 - Support for multiple actions
1810 - Support for the new playlist system
1812 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1815 * Screensaver disabling fix
1816 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1817 * Support for no-decoration windows
1820 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1821 * The OpenGL video output is back
1822 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1823 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1824 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1825 is not yet available in the new module
1826 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1829 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1838 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1841 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1844 The following languages were added:
1850 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1851 --------------------------------
1854 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1855 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1858 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1859 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1860 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1863 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1866 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1869 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1872 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1873 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1874 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1878 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1880 * Support of playlist group announcement
1883 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1884 --------------------------------
1887 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1888 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1889 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1890 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1891 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1892 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1895 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1896 (Stream your desktop)
1897 * Improved DVD support:
1898 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1899 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1900 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1901 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1902 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1903 (selection of titles/chapters).
1906 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1907 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1908 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1909 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1910 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1911 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1912 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1913 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1914 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1915 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1918 * G.726 audio support
1919 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1920 * MPEG-4 text support
1921 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1922 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1923 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1927 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1928 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1929 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1930 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1931 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1932 * DVB subtitles encoder
1933 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1934 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1936 * Text track muxing for mp4
1937 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1938 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1939 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1940 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1941 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1942 * Improved ASF muxer
1944 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1945 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1946 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1949 * New audio equalizer filter
1950 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1951 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1952 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1953 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1956 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1957 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1958 with support for effects.
1959 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1960 - New filters can be streamed.
1961 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1962 - Centralized scaling and blending
1964 - "time", to display current time
1965 - "marq", to display a marquee
1968 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1969 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1970 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1971 * A few skins2 improvements
1972 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1973 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1974 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1975 * Improved CORBA control module
1978 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1979 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1980 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1983 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1984 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1985 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1988 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1989 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1990 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1991 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1992 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1995 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1998 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1999 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2002 * Server/client network synchronization module
2003 * VBrick streams fully supported
2004 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2008 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2009 --------------------------------
2012 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2013 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2014 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2015 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2018 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2019 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2020 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2021 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2022 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2023 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2024 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2027 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2028 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2029 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2030 * Improved directory access module.
2031 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2032 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2033 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2034 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2035 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2038 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2039 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2040 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2043 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2044 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2045 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2048 * Improved session announcement system.
2049 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2050 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2051 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2052 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2053 * Improved transrater.
2054 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2055 * New configuration system.
2056 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2059 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2060 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2061 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2062 * Supports scheduling.
2063 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2064 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2067 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2068 - Ability to embed video output.
2069 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2070 - Lots of improvements.
2071 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2072 - New design and set of icons.
2073 - Ability to embed video output.
2074 - Support for hotkeys.
2075 - Support for bookmarks.
2077 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2078 - Better hotkeys handling.
2081 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2082 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2083 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2084 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2087 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2088 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2089 * Improved Windows installer.
2095 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2096 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2099 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2100 ---------------------------------
2103 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2104 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2107 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2108 --------------------------------
2111 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2112 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2115 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2116 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2117 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2118 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2121 * Internal improvments
2122 * Improved import/export
2125 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2127 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2128 small and strange formats.
2130 * New MOD audio demux.
2131 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2132 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2133 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2134 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2137 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2138 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2139 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2145 * New opengl video output plugin.
2148 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2149 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2152 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2153 --------------------------------
2156 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2157 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2158 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2159 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2160 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2161 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2162 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2163 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2166 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2171 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2172 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2173 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2174 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2175 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2176 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2177 * Better Icecast support.
2178 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2179 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2182 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2183 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2184 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2185 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2186 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2187 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2188 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2191 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2192 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2193 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2194 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2195 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2196 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2197 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2198 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2199 * Preliminary RTP support.
2200 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2205 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2206 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2208 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2209 - Improvements and help in preferences
2210 - New streaming wizard
2211 - Revised Disc Open menu
2213 - Improvements of the standard pages
2214 - Support for new commands
2215 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2218 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2219 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2222 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2223 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2224 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2225 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2226 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2227 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2228 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2229 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2230 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2233 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2235 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2236 * Support for Panther.
2237 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2238 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2241 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2242 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2243 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2244 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2245 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2246 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2247 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2248 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2251 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2252 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2253 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2256 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2259 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2260 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2261 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2262 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2265 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2266 --------------------------------
2269 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2272 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2273 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2276 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2277 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2280 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2283 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2284 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2287 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2290 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2293 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2294 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2298 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2299 --------------------------------
2302 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2303 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2307 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2308 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2309 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2311 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2312 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2315 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2318 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2321 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2322 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2326 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2327 --------------------------------
2330 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2331 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2335 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2336 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2337 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2338 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2339 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2342 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2343 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2344 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2347 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2348 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2349 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2352 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2353 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2354 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2355 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2356 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2359 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2360 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2361 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2364 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2367 * Improved build system.
2368 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2369 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2370 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2371 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2374 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2375 --------------------------------
2378 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2381 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2382 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2383 * Video 4 Linux support
2384 * CD Digital Audio support
2385 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2388 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2389 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2390 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2391 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2394 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2395 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2396 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2397 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2398 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2399 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2400 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2403 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2404 * New HTTP remote control interface
2407 * 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.
2408 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2409 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2410 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2413 * New reset option for the preferences
2414 * You can set your language in the prefences
2415 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2416 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2417 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2418 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2421 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2422 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2423 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2426 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2427 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2428 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2429 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2430 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2431 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2432 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2433 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2434 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2435 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2438 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2439 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2440 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2441 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2442 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2443 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2444 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2447 * Interface localization
2448 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2449 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2450 * New full-featured Preferences window
2453 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2454 --------------------------------
2457 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2458 * support for skins at the interface level
2459 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2460 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2461 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2462 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2463 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2466 * fixed HTTP redirects
2467 * support for opening an entire directory
2468 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2469 * new video4linux access plug-in
2470 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2473 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2474 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2475 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2478 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2479 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2480 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2481 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2482 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2483 * new codec for raw I420 video
2484 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2487 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2488 (although it still misses some important features)
2489 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2492 * new HTTP output support
2493 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2494 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2497 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2500 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2503 * reorderable playlist
2504 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2505 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2506 * support for mono audio output devices
2507 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2508 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2509 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2510 * the messages window remembers more lines
2511 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2512 * http and ogg stream output options
2513 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2516 * new skinnable interface
2517 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2519 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2520 * support for FLAC audio format
2521 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2523 * network tab in the interface
2524 * "apply" handling in preferences
2527 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2528 ---------------------------------
2531 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2532 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2533 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2534 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2536 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2537 * DTS S/PDIF support
2540 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2541 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2542 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2543 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2546 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2547 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2550 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2553 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2556 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2558 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2559 * rc interface is now fully useable
2560 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2563 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2564 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2565 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2566 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2567 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2569 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2570 * support for mouse gestures
2571 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2574 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2575 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2578 * improved ID3 tag detection
2579 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2580 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2581 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2583 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2586 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2587 ---------------------------------
2590 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2591 English was set as the preferred language
2594 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2595 --------------------------------
2598 * new mouse gesture interface
2599 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2603 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2604 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2605 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2608 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2609 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2613 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2616 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2617 without the user consent
2620 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2622 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2623 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2624 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2627 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2628 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2629 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2630 * playlist enhancements
2631 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2632 * new step forward/step backward commands
2633 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2634 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2635 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2638 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2639 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2640 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2643 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2644 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2647 * native video output is working again
2648 * only commandline interface support
2649 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2652 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2653 --------------------------------
2656 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2657 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2658 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2659 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2660 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2661 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2662 and A/52 streams are supported)
2663 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2668 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2669 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2670 * VCD entry points support
2671 * VCD image file support
2674 * support for *.asf format
2675 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2676 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2677 * support for ogg encapsulation
2678 * support for raw DV format
2679 * support for *.wav format
2680 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2683 Stream discovery & playlists:
2684 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2685 * support for .m3u file format
2686 * support for .asx file format
2687 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2690 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2691 (only available with the .avi demux)
2692 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2693 * support for raw PCM data
2694 * support for Cinepak video codec
2695 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2696 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2697 * support for Xvid codec
2698 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2699 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2700 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2702 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2704 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2707 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2710 * new WxWindows interface
2711 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2712 device and the channels configuration
2713 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2714 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2715 format that VLC can play
2716 * new swedish translation
2717 * enhancements of the playlist window
2718 * new messages window to see debug info
2719 * fixed a few crashes
2722 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2723 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2724 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2725 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working