3 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released):
4 --------------------------------------------------------
7 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
8 * Support for downloading updates
12 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
13 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
14 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
15 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
17 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
18 * Improved subtitles encoding support
19 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
22 * Cook (Real audio) support
24 Playlist / Services discovery:
25 * XSPF playlist support
29 * New JACK audio output
33 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
34 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
35 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
36 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
37 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
38 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
41 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
44 * System to inform the user and request information
49 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
50 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
51 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
54 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
55 - Improved playlist handling
56 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
58 - Embedded Video output
59 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
60 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
61 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
62 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
63 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
65 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
66 - A bunch of new RPN functions
69 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
72 * Mac-Intel compatibility
73 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
74 * Growl "Now playing" support
77 * Ability to log to syslog
78 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
81 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
83 * A bit more automatic testing
85 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
86 ---------------------------------
89 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
90 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
93 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
94 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
97 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
100 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
101 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
107 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
109 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
110 --------------------------------
113 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
117 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
118 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
119 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
122 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
123 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
124 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
125 * GnomeVFS input module
126 * Support for RTP packet reordering
127 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
130 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
131 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
132 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
135 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
136 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
142 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
143 Mixer and Dolby Surround
146 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
147 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
148 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
151 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
153 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
154 - New extended controls panel
155 - New bookmarks window
156 - Fixed playlist sorting
157 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
159 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
160 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
161 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
162 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
166 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
167 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
169 - Include macro to include other files
173 * Should now work outside IE as well
176 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
179 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
180 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
183 The following languages were added:
188 The following languages were re-added:
191 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
192 --------------------------------
195 * Rewrite of the playlist
197 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
198 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
199 * Preferences improvements:
200 - New organization, designed to improve usability
201 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
203 * Core image manipulation support
204 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
205 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
206 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
207 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
208 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
209 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
210 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
211 now separated by ':' instead of ','
212 * Access filter architecture
213 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
214 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
218 * Support for SOCKS proxy
219 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
220 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
221 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
222 * Better support for Kasenna streams
223 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
224 * Massive Matroska improvements
225 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
227 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
228 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
229 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
230 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
231 * Support for FTP over IPv6
234 * Dirac decoder and encoder
235 * PNG decoder/encoder
236 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
237 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
240 * New Record and Timeshift filters
243 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
244 * Brand new SAP module
245 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
246 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
247 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
248 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
249 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
250 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
254 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
257 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
258 * Image file video output (png)
259 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
260 * Improvements to wall video filter
261 * Support for font color and opacity
267 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
268 - Seeking support in VoD streams
269 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
273 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
274 - Improved preferences
275 - Improvements to the wizard
276 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
278 - Redesigned playlist
279 - Improved preferences
281 - Support for multiple actions
284 - Support for the new playlist system
286 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
289 * Screensaver disabling fix
290 * DirectShow tuner configuration
291 * Support for no-decoration windows
294 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
295 * The OpenGL video output is back
296 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
297 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
298 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
299 is not yet available in the new module
300 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
303 * Support for single-buffered overlay
312 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
315 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
318 The following languages were added:
324 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
325 -----------------------------------------------------
328 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
329 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
332 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
333 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
334 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
337 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
340 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
343 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
346 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
347 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
348 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
352 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
354 * Support of playlist group announcement
356 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
357 -----------------------------------------------------
360 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
361 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
362 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
363 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
364 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
365 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
368 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
369 (Stream your desktop)
370 * Improved DVD support:
371 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
372 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
373 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
374 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
375 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
376 (selection of titles/chapters).
379 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
380 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
381 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
382 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
383 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
384 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
385 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
386 * Improved Ogg demuxer
387 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
388 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
391 * G.726 audio support
392 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
393 * MPEG-4 text support
394 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
395 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
396 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
400 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
401 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
402 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
403 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
404 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
405 * DVB subtitles encoder
406 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
407 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
409 * Text track muxing for mp4
410 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
411 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
412 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
413 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
414 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
417 * H.263 RTP streaming support
418 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
419 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
422 * New audio equalizer filter
423 * Very trivial volume normalizer
424 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
425 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
426 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
429 * Roku HD1000 Video output
430 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
431 with support for effects.
432 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
433 - New filters can be streamed.
434 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
435 - Centralized scaling and blending
437 - "time", to display current time
438 - "marq", to display a marquee
441 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
442 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
443 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
444 * A few skins2 improvements
445 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
446 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
447 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
448 * Improved CORBA control module
451 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
452 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
453 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
456 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
457 * Experimental SVG rendering module
458 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
461 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
462 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
463 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
464 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
465 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
468 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
471 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
472 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
475 * Server/client network synchronization module
476 * VBrick streams fully supported
477 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
480 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
481 --------------------------------
484 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
485 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
486 * Improved HTTP daemon.
487 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
490 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
491 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
492 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
493 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
494 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
495 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
496 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
499 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
500 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
501 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
502 * Improved directory access module.
503 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
504 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
505 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
506 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
507 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
510 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
511 * mmsh streaming fixes.
512 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
515 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
516 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
517 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
520 * Improved session announcement system.
521 * Minimize threads usage by default.
522 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
523 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
524 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
525 * Improved transrater.
526 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
527 * New configuration system.
528 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
531 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
532 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
533 * Supports live streams and VoD.
534 * Supports scheduling.
535 * Telnet interface for vlm.
536 * HTTP interface for vlm.
539 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
540 - Ability to embed video output.
541 - Support for bitmap fonts.
542 - Lots of improvements.
543 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
544 - New design and set of icons.
545 - Ability to embed video output.
546 - Support for hotkeys.
547 - Support for bookmarks.
549 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
550 - Better hotkeys handling.
553 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
554 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
555 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
556 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
559 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
560 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
561 * Improved Windows installer.
567 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
568 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
570 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
571 ---------------------------------
574 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
575 * Playing MOD files is working now.
578 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
579 ---------------------------------
582 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
583 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
586 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
587 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
588 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
589 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
592 * Internal improvments
593 * Improved import/export
596 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
598 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
599 small and strange formats.
601 * New MOD audio demux.
602 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
603 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
604 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
605 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
608 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
609 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
610 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
616 * New opengl video output plugin.
619 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
620 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
622 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
623 ---------------------------------
626 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
627 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
628 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
629 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
630 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
631 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
632 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
633 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
636 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
641 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
642 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
643 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
644 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
645 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
646 * Reworked DVB tuning.
647 * Better Icecast support.
648 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
649 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
652 * Support for Theora video encoding.
653 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
654 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
655 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
656 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
657 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
658 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
661 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
662 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
663 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
664 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
665 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
666 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
667 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
668 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
669 * Preliminary RTP support.
670 * Fixes to SAP announces.
675 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
676 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
678 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
679 - Improvements and help in preferences
680 - New streaming wizard
681 - Revised Disc Open menu
683 - Improvements of the standard pages
684 - Support for new commands
685 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
688 * Many fixes to the SAP module
689 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
692 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
693 * Text subtitles autodetection.
694 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
695 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
696 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
697 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
698 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
699 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
700 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
703 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
705 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
706 * Support for Panther.
707 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
708 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
711 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
712 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
713 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
714 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
715 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
716 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
717 * Multimonitor support (untested).
718 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
721 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
722 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
723 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
726 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
729 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
730 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
731 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
732 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
734 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
735 ---------------------------------
738 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
741 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
742 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
745 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
746 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
749 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
752 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
753 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
756 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
759 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
762 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
763 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
766 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
767 ---------------------------------
770 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
771 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
775 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
776 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
777 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
779 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
780 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
783 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
786 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
789 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
790 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
793 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
794 ---------------------------------
797 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
798 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
802 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
803 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
804 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
805 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
806 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
809 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
810 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
811 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
814 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
815 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
816 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
819 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
820 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
821 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
822 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
823 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
826 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
827 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
828 * A new CORBA control plugin.
831 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
834 * Improved build system.
835 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
836 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
837 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
838 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
841 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
842 ---------------------------------
845 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
848 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
849 * Fixed large file support on Windows
850 * Video 4 Linux support
851 * CD Digital Audio support
852 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
855 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
856 * Support for OpenDML avi files
857 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
858 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
861 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
862 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
863 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
864 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
865 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
866 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
867 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
870 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
871 * New HTTP remote control interface
874 * 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.
875 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
876 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
877 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
880 * New reset option for the preferences
881 * You can set your language in the prefences
882 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
883 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
884 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
885 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
888 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
889 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
890 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
893 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
894 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
895 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
896 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
897 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
898 * New icons by Davor Orel.
899 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
900 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
901 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
902 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
905 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
906 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
907 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
908 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
909 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
910 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
911 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
914 * Interface localization
915 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
916 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
917 * New full-featured Preferences window
919 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
920 ---------------------------------
923 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
924 * support for skins at the interface level
925 * new OSD module using Freetype2
926 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
927 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
928 input level before dropping out of date frames.
929 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
932 * fixed HTTP redirects
933 * support for opening an entire directory
934 * EOF should be detected more reliably
935 * new video4linux access plug-in
936 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
939 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
940 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
941 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
944 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
945 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
946 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
947 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
948 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
949 * new codec for raw I420 video
950 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
953 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
954 (although it still misses some important features)
955 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
958 * new HTTP output support
959 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
960 * fixed AV synchronization issues
963 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
966 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
969 * reorderable playlist
970 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
971 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
972 * support for mono audio output devices
973 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
974 * fixed several cosmetic issues
975 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
976 * the messages window remembers more lines
977 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
978 * http and ogg stream output options
979 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
982 * new skinnable interface
983 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
985 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
986 * support for FLAC audio format
987 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
989 * network tab in the interface
990 * "apply" handling in preferences
993 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
994 ---------------------------------
997 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
998 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
999 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1000 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1002 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1003 * DTS S/PDIF support
1006 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1007 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1008 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1009 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1012 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1013 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1016 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1019 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1022 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1024 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1025 * rc interface is now fully useable
1026 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1029 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1030 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1031 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1032 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1033 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1035 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1036 * support for mouse gestures
1037 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1040 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1041 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1044 * improved ID3 tag detection
1045 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1046 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1047 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1049 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1052 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1053 ---------------------------------
1056 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1057 English was set as the preferred language
1060 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1061 --------------------------------
1064 * new mouse gesture interface
1065 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1069 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1070 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1071 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1074 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1075 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1079 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1082 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1083 without the user consent
1086 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1088 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1089 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1090 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1093 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1094 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1095 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1096 * playlist enhancements
1097 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1098 * new step forward/step backward commands
1099 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1100 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1101 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1104 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1105 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1106 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1109 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1110 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1113 * native video output is working again
1114 * only commandline interface support
1115 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1118 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1119 --------------------------------
1122 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1123 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1124 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1125 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1126 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1127 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1128 and A/52 streams are supported)
1129 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1134 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1135 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1136 * VCD entry points support
1137 * VCD image file support
1140 * support for *.asf format
1141 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1142 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1143 * support for ogg encapsulation
1144 * support for raw DV format
1145 * support for *.wav format
1146 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1149 Stream discovery & playlists:
1150 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1151 * support for .m3u file format
1152 * support for .asx file format
1153 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1156 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1157 (only available with the .avi demux)
1158 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1159 * support for raw PCM data
1160 * support for Cinepak video codec
1161 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1162 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1163 * support for Xvid codec
1164 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1165 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1166 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1168 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1170 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1173 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1176 * new WxWindows interface
1177 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1178 device and the channels configuration
1179 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1180 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1181 format that VLC can play
1182 * new swedish translation
1183 * enhancements of the playlist window
1184 * new messages window to see debug info
1185 * fixed a few crashes
1188 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1189 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1190 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1191 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working