1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
9 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
12 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
13 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
14 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
15 * Support for Daala video
18 * Support for Daala video
21 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
22 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
26 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
27 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
31 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
34 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
37 * Support key accelerators
40 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
41 --------------------------------
44 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
45 notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
48 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
49 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
50 * Add extensions download from external repositories
51 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
54 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
55 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
56 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
57 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
59 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
60 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
63 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
64 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
65 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
66 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
67 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
68 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
69 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
70 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
71 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
72 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
73 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
74 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
75 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
76 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
77 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
78 * New jpeg image decoder
79 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
80 * New SVG image decoder
81 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
82 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
83 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
86 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
87 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
88 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
89 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
90 * New png image encoder using libpng
93 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
94 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
95 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
96 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
97 synchronization and tracks exclusion
98 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
99 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
100 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
101 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
102 * Support Opus in MKV
104 * Basic support for WebVTT
105 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
106 * Support HDPR TS files
107 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
108 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
109 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
110 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
111 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
112 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
113 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
114 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
115 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
116 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
117 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
118 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
121 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
122 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
123 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
124 * New Android native window provider module
125 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
126 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
127 * Add mmal based video output
130 * New Oldmovie effect filter
131 * New VHS effect filter
132 * New Freeze effect filter
133 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
134 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
135 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
138 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
139 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
140 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
141 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
142 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
143 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
146 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
147 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
149 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
152 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
153 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
154 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
155 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
156 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
157 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
158 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
159 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
160 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
162 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
163 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
164 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
167 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
168 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
171 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
172 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
175 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
176 * Add record button in Qt menus
177 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
178 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
179 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
182 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
183 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
184 * Fixes for advanced preferences
185 * Option to increase playlist font size
188 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
189 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
190 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
193 * ios video output: use ios2
194 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
195 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
198 * Update of all translations
201 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
202 --------------------------------
205 * Fix compilation on OS/2
208 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
210 Mac OS X audio output:
211 * Fix channel ordering
212 * Increase the buffersize
215 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
216 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
217 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
220 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
223 * Correctly support video-on-top
224 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
225 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
228 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
231 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
232 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
235 * Update British English
238 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
239 --------------------------------
242 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
245 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
248 * Fix DVD playback regression
249 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
250 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
253 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
254 --------------------------------
257 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
258 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
261 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
262 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
263 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
266 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
267 by updating codec libraries
268 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
269 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
270 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
273 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
274 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
275 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
276 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
279 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
280 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
283 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
284 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
285 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
286 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
287 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
290 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
291 * Fix record file names
294 * Fix minimal size possible on start
295 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
296 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
297 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
298 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
301 * Fix album art display on Windows
304 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
305 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
306 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
307 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
308 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
309 and Simplified Chinese translations
310 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
313 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
314 --------------------------------
317 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
318 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
319 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
320 audio devices on OS X
321 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
322 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
325 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
326 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
329 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
330 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
333 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
336 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
337 * Improve A-B loop control
338 * Fix album art update when changing media
341 * Add a language option in the interface
342 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
343 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
344 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
345 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
346 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
347 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
348 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
351 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
354 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
355 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
356 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
357 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
360 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
361 --------------------------------
364 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
366 * Fix some subtitles track selection
369 * VP9 support in WebM
370 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
371 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
374 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
375 * Support Speex in ogg files
376 * Fix some .mov playlists support
377 * Support Alac in mkv
378 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
379 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
382 * Fix DVB options parsing
383 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
384 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
387 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
388 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
391 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
392 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
395 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
396 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
397 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
398 * Fix play after drag'n drop
399 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
402 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
403 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
406 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
407 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
410 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
411 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
412 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
413 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
414 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
415 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
416 * Improves interface resizings
419 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
420 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
421 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
422 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
423 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
427 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
428 --------------------------------
431 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
432 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
433 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
434 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
435 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
437 3rd party libraries (contrib):
438 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
441 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
442 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
443 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
444 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
445 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
448 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
449 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
453 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
454 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
455 * Support for Ulead DV audio
456 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
457 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
458 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
459 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
460 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
461 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
462 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
463 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
464 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
465 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
468 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
469 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
470 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
473 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
474 remove support for previous OS X releases
475 * Major improvements in DASH support
476 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
477 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
478 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
479 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
480 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
481 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
482 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
483 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
484 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
485 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
486 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
489 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
490 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
491 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
492 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
493 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
494 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
495 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
496 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
497 * Support for more MJPEG streams
498 * Add support for liveleak streams
499 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
500 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
501 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
504 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
505 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
506 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
507 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
508 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
509 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
510 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
511 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
512 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
513 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
514 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
517 * New remapping channel filter
518 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
519 * New VSXu visualization plugin
520 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
521 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
522 * New gain audio filter
525 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
526 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
527 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
528 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
529 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
530 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
531 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
532 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
533 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
536 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
537 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
538 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
539 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
540 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
541 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
542 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
545 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
546 * Options support for AVIO output module
547 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
548 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
549 * Livehttp stream encryption support
550 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
551 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
554 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
557 * configurable password for the HTTP server
558 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
559 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
560 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
561 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
562 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
563 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
564 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
568 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
571 * Add support for multiple video outputs
572 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
574 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
575 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
576 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
577 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
578 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
579 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
580 VLC's internal volume level
581 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
583 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
584 selection and to manage the list of presets
585 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
586 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
587 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
588 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
589 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
590 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
591 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
592 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
593 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
594 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
596 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
597 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
598 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
599 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
600 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
601 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
602 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
603 3rd party applications
604 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
605 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
606 (system-wide settings)
607 * Add support for the Video Title option
608 * Add support for the Boss Key
609 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
610 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
613 * Partial support for Qt5.0
614 * Menus modifications and improvements
615 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
616 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
617 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
618 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
619 * EPG display fixes and improvements
620 * Add SD pixmap sources
621 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
622 * Display playlist total duration
623 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
624 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
625 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
630 * Extend sliders, offsets options
631 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
632 * Numerous fixes and improvements
633 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
636 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
637 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
638 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
639 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
640 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
641 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
642 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
643 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
644 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
645 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
648 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
649 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
650 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
651 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
652 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
653 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
655 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
656 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
657 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
658 * Broken crop video filter
660 * OSD parser and menu
661 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
662 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
663 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
664 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
668 * Update of all translations
671 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
672 --------------------------------
675 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
676 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
679 * Fix modplug security issues
682 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
683 --------------------------------
687 * Fix crash in QTsound
688 * Fix screen mouse file location
689 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
692 * Fix use after free in sgimb
693 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
696 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
699 * Fix interface crashes
700 * Fix autostart playback option
701 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
704 * update Welsh translation
705 * New Kannada translation
708 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
709 --------------------------------
712 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
713 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
717 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
720 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
723 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
726 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
730 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
733 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
736 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
737 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
738 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
741 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
748 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
751 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
752 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
753 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
754 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
755 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
756 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
759 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
760 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
761 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
762 * 3rd party codecs updates
765 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
766 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
767 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
768 in the advanced preferences panel
769 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
770 * Fix crash within the video output code
771 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
772 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
773 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
774 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
776 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
779 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
782 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
783 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
786 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
789 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
790 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
791 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
792 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
793 Dutch, Danish, translations
794 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
797 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
798 --------------------------------
801 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
804 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
805 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
806 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
809 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
810 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
811 * Fix koreus lua parser
812 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
813 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
814 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
815 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
818 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
819 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
822 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
825 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
826 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
827 * Fix Time counter UI look
828 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
831 * Fix https streaming
834 * Fix audio and video track selection:
835 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
836 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
839 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
840 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
841 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
842 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
843 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
846 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
847 --------------------------------
850 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
851 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
852 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
853 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
854 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
855 during playback on Mac OS X
858 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
859 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
860 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
863 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
864 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
865 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
866 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
867 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
870 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
871 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
872 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
873 * Support Youtube live streams
876 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
879 * Fix media info dialog update
880 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
881 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
882 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
883 * Fix album art display at start
886 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
887 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
888 * Fix menus display and behavior
889 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
890 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
891 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
892 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
893 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
894 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
895 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
898 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
899 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
900 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
901 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
902 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
903 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
904 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
905 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
906 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
909 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
910 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
911 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
912 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
913 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
916 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
917 --------------------------------
920 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
923 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
924 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
927 * Add GateKeeper support
928 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
929 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
930 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
933 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
936 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
937 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
938 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
939 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
940 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
943 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
944 --------------------------------
947 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
948 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
949 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
950 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
951 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
952 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
953 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
954 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
955 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
956 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
957 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
961 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
962 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
963 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
964 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
965 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
966 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
967 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
968 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
969 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
970 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
971 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
972 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
975 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
976 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
978 * Fix MP3 free format support
981 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
982 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
983 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
984 * Fix for DVB channels file support
985 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
988 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
989 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
991 Audio filters and output:
992 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
993 * Fix DirectSound device selection
994 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
995 * Do not apply volume in file output
996 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
997 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1000 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1001 the persistant media library
1002 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1003 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1004 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1005 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1006 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1007 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1008 press on the Play/Pause button
1009 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1010 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1011 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1012 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1013 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1014 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1015 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1016 Synchronization panel
1017 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1018 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1019 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1020 * Fix crashes on exit
1021 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1023 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1024 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1025 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1026 automatically reset on the first launch.
1027 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1028 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1029 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1032 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1033 * Fixes for icecast SD
1036 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1037 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1038 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1039 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1040 * Fix tags and file names display
1041 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1044 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1045 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1048 * Fix display of some buttons
1049 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1050 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1053 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1054 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1055 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1058 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1059 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1060 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1061 Thai translations update
1062 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1065 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1066 --------------------------------
1069 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1070 * fix the samba module compilation
1071 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1072 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1073 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1074 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1077 * Support for MXPEG files
1078 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1079 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1082 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1083 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1084 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1087 * Fix ogm header creation
1090 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1091 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1094 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1095 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1096 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1097 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1100 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1103 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1104 * allow to hide the sidebar
1105 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1106 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1107 * noticebly faster launch time
1108 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1109 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1110 * improve track synchronization panel
1111 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1112 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1115 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1116 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1117 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1118 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1121 * fix for menus display
1122 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1123 * documentation update
1126 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1127 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1130 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1131 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1132 * Update Jamendo selections
1136 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1137 * fix a crash on VLM close
1140 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1141 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1142 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1143 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1146 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1149 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1150 ---------------------------------
1153 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1154 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1155 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1156 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1157 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1158 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1159 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1160 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1161 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1162 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1163 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1164 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1165 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1166 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1167 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1168 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1169 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1170 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1171 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1172 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1173 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1174 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1175 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1176 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1177 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1178 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1180 Important changes for packagers:
1181 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1182 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1183 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1184 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1185 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1186 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1187 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1188 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1189 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1190 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1193 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1194 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1195 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1196 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1197 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1198 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1199 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1202 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1203 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1204 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1205 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1206 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1207 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1208 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1209 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1210 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1211 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1212 * PulseAudio audio input support
1213 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1214 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1215 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1216 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1217 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1218 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1219 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1220 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1223 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1224 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1225 are notably concerned.
1226 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1227 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1228 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1229 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1230 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1231 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1232 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1233 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1234 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1235 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1236 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1237 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1238 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1239 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1240 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1243 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1244 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1245 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1246 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1247 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1248 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1249 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1250 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1251 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1252 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1253 * Improved support of tracker files
1254 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1257 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1258 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1259 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1260 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1261 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1262 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1263 and important cleanups and optimisations
1264 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1265 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1266 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1267 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1268 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1269 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1270 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1271 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1272 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1273 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1274 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1275 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1276 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1277 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1278 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1279 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1280 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1281 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1282 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1283 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1284 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1287 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1288 * New video output for iOS platform
1289 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1290 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1291 * Various vmem improvements
1292 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1293 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1294 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1295 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1296 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1297 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1299 Audio Output and Filters:
1300 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1301 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1302 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1303 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1304 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1305 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1306 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1307 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1308 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1309 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1312 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1313 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1314 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1315 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1316 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1317 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1318 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1319 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1320 * New anti-flickering filter
1321 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1322 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1323 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1324 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1325 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1326 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1327 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1330 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1331 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1332 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1333 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1334 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1335 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1336 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1337 * Major rework of VoD support
1338 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1339 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1340 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1341 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1342 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1343 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1344 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1345 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1346 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1347 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1350 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1351 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1354 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1355 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1356 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1357 list of available audio and video filters
1358 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1359 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1360 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1363 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1364 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1365 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1366 * id3tag: use taglib
1367 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1368 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1369 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1370 * removal of the noise filter
1371 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1372 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1373 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1374 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1377 * Update of translations for most languages.
1378 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1381 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1382 ----------------------------------
1385 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1386 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1389 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1390 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1393 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1394 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1395 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1398 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1401 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1402 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1405 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1408 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1409 ----------------------------------
1412 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1413 including support for OS X Lion
1414 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1415 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1418 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1421 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1422 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1423 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1426 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1429 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1430 ----------------------------------
1433 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1434 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1437 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1438 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1439 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1440 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1441 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1443 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1444 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1445 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1447 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1448 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1451 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1454 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1457 * Fix quitting on Linux
1458 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1462 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1465 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1468 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1469 ---------------------------------
1471 Windows and Mac OS X:
1472 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1475 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1476 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1479 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1482 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1485 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1487 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1488 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1490 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1491 * RTP output and XML export
1492 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1496 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1497 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1498 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1499 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1502 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1503 --------------------------------
1505 Windows and Mac OS X:
1506 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1509 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1512 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1513 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1514 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1515 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1516 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1517 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1520 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1521 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1525 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1526 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1527 * New Luganda Translation
1530 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1531 --------------------------------
1534 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1537 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1538 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1539 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1540 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1543 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1545 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1546 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1547 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1548 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1549 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1550 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1551 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1552 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1554 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1555 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1556 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1557 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1558 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1559 * Configure and build system improvements
1560 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1563 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1564 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1565 * New icelandic translation
1568 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1569 --------------------------------
1572 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1573 #234484 and #260719.
1576 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1577 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1578 and stability reasons
1581 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1585 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1588 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1589 ----------------------------------
1592 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1595 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1596 ---------------------------------
1599 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1600 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1601 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1602 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1605 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1608 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1609 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1610 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1611 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1614 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1615 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1616 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1618 Subtitles and renderer:
1619 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1620 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1621 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1622 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1623 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1626 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1627 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1628 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1629 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1632 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1633 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1635 Miscellaneous fixes:
1636 * KDE device solid actions
1638 * Transcode integer overflow
1639 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1640 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1643 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1644 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1645 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1648 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1649 ----------------------------------
1652 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1656 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1659 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1662 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1663 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1664 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1665 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1668 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1672 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1675 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1678 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1679 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1681 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1685 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1686 * Miscellaneous fixes
1689 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1690 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1691 French and Ukrainian
1692 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1693 * New Asturian translation
1696 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1697 ----------------------------------
1700 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1702 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1705 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1708 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1709 * Various fixes for Windows
1712 * New Armenian translation
1713 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1714 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1717 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1718 --------------------------------
1721 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1722 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1723 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1726 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1727 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1730 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1731 --------------------------------
1733 Access and demuxers:
1734 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1735 * fix for podcasts parsing
1736 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1739 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1740 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1743 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1744 * fix m3u playlists exports
1747 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1750 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1753 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1756 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1759 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1762 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1763 --------------------------------
1766 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1767 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1770 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1771 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1774 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1775 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1776 * fix console output encoding
1778 Interface and extensions:
1779 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1780 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1783 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1784 --------------------------------
1787 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1788 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1789 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1790 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1791 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1792 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1793 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1794 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1795 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1796 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1797 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1798 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1799 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1800 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1801 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1802 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1806 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1807 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1808 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1809 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1810 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1813 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1816 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1817 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1818 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1822 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1825 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1826 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1827 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1830 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1831 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1832 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1833 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1836 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1837 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1840 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1841 --------------------------------
1843 Important changes for users:
1844 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1845 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1847 Important changes for packagers:
1848 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1849 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1850 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1851 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1852 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1854 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1856 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1857 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1858 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1859 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1860 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1863 * Support for the sftp protocol
1864 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1865 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1866 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1867 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1868 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1871 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1872 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1873 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1875 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1876 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1877 * Invmem module improvements
1878 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1879 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1880 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1881 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1882 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1883 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1884 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1885 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1886 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1887 * Support for VP8 codec
1888 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1891 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1892 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1893 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1894 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1895 * Various EGP improvements
1896 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1897 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1900 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1901 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1902 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1903 * Podcast images are now displayed
1906 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1907 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1908 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1909 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1910 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1911 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1912 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1913 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1914 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1915 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1916 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1919 * New content extensions lua framework
1922 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1923 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1924 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1925 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1926 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1927 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1928 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1931 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1932 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1933 * Service discovery based on libudev
1934 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1937 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1938 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1939 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1940 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1941 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1942 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1943 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1946 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1947 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1948 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1951 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1953 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1954 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1957 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1960 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1961 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1962 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1963 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1964 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1965 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1966 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1969 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1970 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1973 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1974 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1975 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1979 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1980 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1981 * Improved Solaris port
1984 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1985 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1988 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1989 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1990 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1991 * transrate: broken since too long
1992 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1993 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1994 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1995 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1996 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1997 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1998 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1999 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2000 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2001 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2002 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2003 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2004 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2005 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2008 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2009 --------------------------------
2012 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2014 Decoders/Packetizers:
2015 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2018 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2019 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2020 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2021 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2022 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2025 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2026 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2029 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2030 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2033 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2034 and Walloon translations updated
2035 * Sinhala translation started
2038 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2039 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2042 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2043 --------------------------------
2046 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2047 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2050 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2053 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2054 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2057 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2058 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2059 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2060 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2063 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2064 --------------------------------
2067 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2068 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2071 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2072 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2075 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2076 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2079 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2082 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2083 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2086 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2087 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2090 * New Walloon translation
2091 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2094 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2095 --------------------------------
2098 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2099 regressions in most popular drivers
2100 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2103 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2104 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2105 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2108 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2109 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2112 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2113 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2114 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2115 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2116 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2119 * New udev module for linux
2122 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2125 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2128 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2129 --------------------------------
2132 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2133 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2134 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2137 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2138 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2141 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2142 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2145 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2148 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2149 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2150 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2151 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2154 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2155 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2156 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2157 - no support for Goom and SDL
2158 - limited text rendering support
2159 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2162 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2163 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2164 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2165 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2166 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2167 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2168 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2169 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2170 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2174 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2177 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2180 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2181 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2182 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2183 Arabic and French translation updates
2186 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2187 --------------------------------
2190 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2191 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2192 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2193 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2194 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2195 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2198 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2199 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2200 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2203 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2204 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2205 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2208 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2211 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2212 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2215 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2216 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2217 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2218 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2219 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2220 * Fix various crashes
2223 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2225 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2229 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2230 ---------------------------------
2234 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2235 See 'Access:' for more info.
2236 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2239 * Instantaneous pausing
2240 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2241 * Finer speed control
2242 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2243 * Timeshift for most medias
2244 * RTSP trickplay support
2245 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2248 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2249 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2250 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2251 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2252 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2253 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2254 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2255 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2256 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2257 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2260 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2261 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2262 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2263 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2264 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2265 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2266 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2269 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2270 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2273 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2274 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2275 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2276 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2277 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2278 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2279 * DVB scanning on linux
2280 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2281 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2282 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2283 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2284 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2285 * MTP device access on Unix
2286 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2287 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2290 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2291 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2292 Windows and Mac OS X.
2295 * Export the playlist in HTML
2296 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2297 * Better metadata handling and reading
2299 Linux/Windows interface:
2300 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2301 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2302 * Recently played items list
2303 * Interface toolbar customizations
2304 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2305 - More menus actions
2306 - Finer speed slider
2307 - Improvements on many dialogs
2308 - New dialog for plugins listing
2309 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2310 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2311 * Better integration in GTK environments
2314 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2315 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2316 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2317 * Additional usability improvements
2320 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2321 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2322 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2323 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2324 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2327 * New Maemo port with:
2328 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2329 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2332 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2335 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2336 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2337 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2338 * Support for latest iSight models
2341 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2342 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2345 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2346 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2347 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2348 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2349 The old image video output has been removed.
2350 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2351 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2354 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2362 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2363 --------------------------------------
2369 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2370 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2371 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2372 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2373 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2374 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2375 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2377 Various fixes to the following modules:
2380 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2381 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2382 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2384 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2389 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2390 ---------------------------------
2393 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2394 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2397 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2398 ---------------------------------
2401 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2404 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2407 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2408 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2409 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2410 main controller window.
2411 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2414 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2419 * Updates of other localizations
2422 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2423 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2424 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2425 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2426 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2429 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2430 ---------------------------------
2433 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2435 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2438 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2439 --------------------------------
2444 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2445 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2448 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2449 --------------------------------
2451 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2452 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2455 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2458 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2459 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2462 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2463 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2466 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2467 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2468 * Various fixed in playlist
2471 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2474 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2477 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2478 ------------------------------------
2480 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2481 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2484 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2485 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2486 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2489 * Stability fix for the video output.
2492 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2493 --------------------------------
2496 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2497 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2498 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2499 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2500 * Fixed update system bugs
2501 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2504 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2505 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2506 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2507 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2508 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2509 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2510 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2511 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2512 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2513 modern Mac OS X versions
2516 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2517 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2519 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2520 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2523 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2524 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2525 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2526 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2527 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2528 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2531 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2532 --------------------------------
2534 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2535 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2536 * Multiple bugfixes.
2539 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2540 --------------------------------
2542 * Multiple bug fixes.
2545 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2546 ---------------------------------
2550 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2551 recent to work correctly
2552 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2553 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2554 edit the ".hosts" file.
2555 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2556 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2557 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2558 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2559 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2560 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2561 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2562 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2563 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2564 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2565 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2566 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2567 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2568 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2569 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2570 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2571 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2572 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2573 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2574 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2575 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2576 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2577 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2578 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2579 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2580 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2581 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2582 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2583 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2584 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2585 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2586 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2587 and postproc modules.
2588 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2589 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2590 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2591 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2593 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2594 filter. For example:
2595 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2596 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2598 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2599 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2605 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2607 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2608 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2611 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2612 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2614 * Shoutcast TV listings
2615 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2617 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2618 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2620 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2623 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2624 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2625 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2626 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2627 * JACK audio input support
2628 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2629 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2630 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2631 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2632 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2633 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2634 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2635 (available as a separate download).
2636 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2637 * RTMP input support
2638 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2639 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2640 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2642 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2643 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2646 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2647 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2648 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2649 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2651 * APEv1/2 tags support
2652 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2653 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2655 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2656 * TiVo Series 2 support
2657 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2662 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2663 * Flash Screen Video support
2664 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2665 * DosBox Capture support
2666 * Karl Morton's Video support
2667 * limited atrac3 support
2669 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2670 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2671 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2672 * H.264 PAFF support
2673 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2674 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2675 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2676 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2677 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2680 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2681 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2682 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2683 * AQTitle subtitles support
2684 * MKV USF subtitles support
2685 * HTML-based subtitles support
2686 * MPSub subtitles support
2687 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2688 * MPL2 subtitles support
2689 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2690 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2691 * Realtext subtitle support
2692 * DKS subtitle support
2693 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2694 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2697 * Flash Screen Video support
2698 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2700 Video outputs and filters:
2701 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2702 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2703 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2704 * New puzzle video output filter
2705 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2706 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2708 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2709 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2710 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2711 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2712 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2713 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2714 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2715 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2716 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2717 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2718 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2719 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2720 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2721 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2723 Audio outputs and filters:
2724 * Replay gain support
2725 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2726 new scaletempo audio filter)
2727 * New spatializer audio filter
2728 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2731 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2732 * New RTP payload formats:
2733 * Speex voice audio codec
2734 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2735 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2736 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2737 * DCCP transport for RTP
2738 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2743 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2744 end-user suitable way.
2745 * Improved user interaction
2746 * Improved mouse gestures
2747 * Vastly improved Update checker
2748 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2750 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2751 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2753 * Improved video output features
2754 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2755 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2756 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2757 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2758 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2760 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2761 if libncursesw is available.
2762 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2763 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2764 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2766 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2767 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2768 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2769 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2770 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2771 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2772 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2773 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2776 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2777 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2778 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2781 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2782 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2783 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2784 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2785 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2786 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2789 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2790 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2800 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2801 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2802 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2805 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2806 ----------------------------------
2809 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2812 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2813 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2814 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2815 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2816 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2817 * Updated Polish translation
2820 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2821 ----------------------------------
2824 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2825 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2826 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2829 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2830 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2831 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2832 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2833 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2834 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2835 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2836 to an unexpected application termination
2837 * New Serbian translation
2838 * Updated Romanian translation
2841 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2842 ----------------------------------
2845 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2846 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2847 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2848 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2849 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2850 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2851 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2852 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2855 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2856 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2857 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2858 * Fixed AAC resampling
2859 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2860 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2863 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2864 ----------------------------------
2867 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2868 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2869 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2870 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2871 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2874 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2875 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2876 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2877 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2878 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2881 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2882 ----------------------------------
2885 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2886 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2889 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2890 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2891 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2892 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2894 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2898 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2901 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2904 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2907 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2910 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2911 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2912 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2913 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2914 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2916 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2917 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2918 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2919 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2922 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2925 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2926 ----------------------------------
2929 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2930 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2931 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2933 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2934 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2936 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2937 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2940 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2942 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2943 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2944 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2945 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2946 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2947 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2948 two different movies
2949 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2950 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2951 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2954 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2957 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2958 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2959 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2960 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2963 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2964 ----------------------------------
2966 Various bugfixes, notably:
2967 * Windows Vista compatibility
2968 * Cropping in Direct3D
2969 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2970 * RSS filter string overflow
2972 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2974 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2975 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2978 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2979 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2982 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2985 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2988 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2991 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2992 ----------------------------------
2994 Various bugfixes, notably:
2995 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2996 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2997 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2998 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2999 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3000 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3003 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3004 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3007 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3009 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3010 * Diverse usability improvements
3011 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3012 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3013 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3016 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3017 ---------------------------------
3019 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3020 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3023 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3026 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3027 --------------------------------
3030 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3033 * Support for RTSP authentication
3034 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3035 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3036 * ATSC support for DVB input
3037 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3038 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3039 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3042 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3043 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3044 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3045 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3046 * Matroska WavPack support
3047 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3048 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3049 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3052 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3053 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3054 * Improved libcaca support
3058 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3059 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3061 * Systray support in skins
3063 * Support for Apple Remote control
3064 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3065 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3066 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3067 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3069 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3072 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3073 Windows 9x/ME users:
3074 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3075 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3076 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3077 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3078 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3080 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3081 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3090 * Updates to the libvlc API
3091 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3094 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3095 --------------------------------
3098 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3099 * Support for downloading updates
3103 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3104 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3105 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3106 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3108 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3109 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3110 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3113 * Cook (Real audio) support
3115 Playlist / Services discovery:
3116 * XSPF playlist support
3118 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3121 * New JACK audio output
3124 * New video filters:
3125 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3126 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3127 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3128 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3129 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3130 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3133 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3136 * System to inform the user and request information
3137 - HTTP authentication
3141 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3142 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3143 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3146 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3147 - Improved playlist handling
3148 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3150 - Embedded Video output
3151 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3152 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3153 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3154 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3155 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3157 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3158 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3161 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3164 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3165 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3166 * Growl "Now playing" support
3169 * Ability to log to syslog
3170 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3173 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3175 * A bit more automatic testing
3178 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3179 ---------------------------------
3182 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3183 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3186 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3187 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3190 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3193 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3194 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3200 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3203 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3204 --------------------------------
3207 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3211 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3212 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3213 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3216 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3217 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3218 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3219 * GnomeVFS input module
3220 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3221 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3224 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3225 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3226 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3229 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3230 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3236 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3237 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3240 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3241 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3242 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3245 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3247 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3248 - New extended controls panel
3249 - New bookmarks window
3250 - Fixed playlist sorting
3251 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3253 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3254 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3255 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3256 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3260 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3261 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3263 - Include macro to include other files
3267 * Should now work outside IE as well
3270 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3273 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3274 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3277 The following languages were added:
3281 * Simplified Chinese
3282 The following languages were re-added:
3286 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3287 --------------------------------
3290 * Rewrite of the playlist
3292 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3293 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3294 * Preferences improvements:
3295 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3296 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3298 * Core image manipulation support
3299 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3300 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3301 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3302 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3303 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3304 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3305 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3306 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3307 * Access filter architecture
3308 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3309 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3313 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3314 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3315 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3316 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3317 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3318 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3319 * Massive Matroska improvements
3320 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3322 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3323 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3324 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3325 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3326 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3328 Decoders / Encoders:
3329 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3330 * PNG decoder/encoder
3331 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3332 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3335 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3338 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3339 * Brand new SAP module
3340 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3341 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3342 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3343 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3344 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3345 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3349 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3352 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3353 * Image file video output (png)
3354 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3355 * Improvements to wall video filter
3356 * Support for font color and opacity
3362 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3363 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3364 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3368 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3369 - Improved preferences
3370 - Improvements to the wizard
3371 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3373 - Redesigned playlist
3374 - Improved preferences
3376 - Support for multiple actions
3379 - Support for the new playlist system
3381 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3384 * Screensaver disabling fix
3385 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3386 * Support for no-decoration windows
3389 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3390 * The OpenGL video output is back
3391 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3392 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3393 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3394 is not yet available in the new module
3395 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3398 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3407 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3410 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3413 The following languages were added:
3419 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3420 --------------------------------
3423 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3424 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3427 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3428 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3429 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3432 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3435 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3438 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3441 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3442 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3443 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3447 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3449 * Support of playlist group announcement
3452 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3453 --------------------------------
3456 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3457 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3458 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3459 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3460 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3461 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3464 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3465 (Stream your desktop)
3466 * Improved DVD support:
3467 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3468 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3469 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3470 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3471 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3472 (selection of titles/chapters).
3475 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3476 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3477 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3478 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3479 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3480 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3481 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3482 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3483 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3484 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3487 * G.726 audio support
3488 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3489 * MPEG-4 text support
3490 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3491 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3492 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3496 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3497 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3498 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3499 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3500 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3501 * DVB subtitles encoder
3502 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3503 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3505 * Text track muxing for mp4
3506 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3507 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3508 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3509 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3510 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3511 * Improved ASF muxer
3513 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3514 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3515 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3518 * New audio equalizer filter
3519 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3520 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3521 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3522 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3525 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3526 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3527 with support for effects.
3528 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3529 - New filters can be streamed.
3530 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3531 - Centralized scaling and blending
3533 - "time", to display current time
3534 - "marq", to display a marquee
3537 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3538 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3539 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3540 * A few skins2 improvements
3541 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3542 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3543 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3544 * Improved CORBA control module
3547 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3548 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3549 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3552 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3553 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3554 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3557 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3558 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3559 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3560 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3561 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3564 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3567 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3568 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3571 * Server/client network synchronization module
3572 * VBrick streams fully supported
3573 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3577 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3578 --------------------------------
3581 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3582 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3583 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3584 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3587 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3588 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3589 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3590 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3591 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3592 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3593 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3596 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3597 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3598 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3599 * Improved directory access module.
3600 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3601 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3602 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3603 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3604 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3607 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3608 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3609 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3612 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3613 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3614 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3617 * Improved session announcement system.
3618 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3619 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3620 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3621 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3622 * Improved transrater.
3623 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3624 * New configuration system.
3625 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3628 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3629 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3630 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3631 * Supports scheduling.
3632 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3633 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3636 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3637 - Ability to embed video output.
3638 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3639 - Lots of improvements.
3640 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3641 - New design and set of icons.
3642 - Ability to embed video output.
3643 - Support for hotkeys.
3644 - Support for bookmarks.
3646 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3647 - Better hotkeys handling.
3650 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3651 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3652 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3653 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3656 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3657 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3658 * Improved Windows installer.
3664 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3665 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3668 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3669 ---------------------------------
3672 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3673 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3676 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3677 --------------------------------
3680 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3681 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3684 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3685 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3686 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3687 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3690 * Internal improvments
3691 * Improved import/export
3694 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3696 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3697 small and strange formats.
3699 * New MOD audio demux.
3700 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3701 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3702 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3703 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3706 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3707 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3708 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3714 * New opengl video output plugin.
3717 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3718 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3721 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3722 --------------------------------
3725 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3726 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3727 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3728 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3729 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3730 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3731 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3732 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3735 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3740 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3741 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3742 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3743 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3744 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3745 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3746 * Better Icecast support.
3747 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3748 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3751 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3752 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3753 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3754 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3755 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3756 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3757 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3760 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3761 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3762 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3763 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3764 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3765 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3766 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3767 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3768 * Preliminary RTP support.
3769 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3774 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3775 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3777 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3778 - Improvements and help in preferences
3779 - New streaming wizard
3780 - Revised Disc Open menu
3782 - Improvements of the standard pages
3783 - Support for new commands
3784 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3787 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3788 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3791 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3792 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3793 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3794 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3795 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3796 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3797 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3798 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3799 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3802 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3804 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3805 * Support for Panther.
3806 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3807 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3810 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3811 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3812 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3813 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3814 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3815 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3816 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3817 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3820 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3821 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3822 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3825 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3828 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3829 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3830 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3831 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3834 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3835 --------------------------------
3838 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3841 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3842 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3845 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3846 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3849 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3852 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3853 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3856 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3859 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3862 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3863 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3867 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3868 --------------------------------
3871 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3872 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3876 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3877 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3878 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3880 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3881 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3884 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3887 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3890 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3891 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3895 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3896 --------------------------------
3899 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3900 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3904 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3905 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3906 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3907 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3908 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3911 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3912 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3913 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3916 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3917 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3918 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3921 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3922 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3923 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3924 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3925 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3928 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3929 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3930 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3933 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3936 * Improved build system.
3937 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3938 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3939 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3940 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3943 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3944 --------------------------------
3947 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3950 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3951 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3952 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3953 * Video 4 Linux support
3954 * CD Digital Audio support
3955 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3958 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3959 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3960 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3961 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3964 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3965 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3966 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3967 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3968 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3969 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3970 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3973 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3974 * New HTTP remote control interface
3977 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3978 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3979 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3980 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3981 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3984 * New reset option for the preferences
3985 * You can set your language in the prefences
3986 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3987 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3988 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3989 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3992 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3993 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3994 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3997 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3998 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3999 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4000 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4001 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4002 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4003 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4004 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4005 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4006 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4009 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4010 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4011 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4012 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4013 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4014 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4015 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4018 * Interface localization
4019 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4020 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4021 * New full-featured Preferences window
4024 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4025 --------------------------------
4028 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4029 * support for skins at the interface level
4030 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4031 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4032 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4033 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4034 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4037 * fixed HTTP redirects
4038 * support for opening an entire directory
4039 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4040 * new video4linux access plug-in
4041 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4044 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4045 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4046 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4049 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4050 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4051 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4052 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4053 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4054 * new codec for raw I420 video
4055 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4058 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4059 (although it still misses some important features)
4060 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4063 * new HTTP output support
4064 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4065 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4068 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4071 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4074 * reorderable playlist
4075 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4076 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4077 * support for mono audio output devices
4078 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4079 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4080 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4081 * the messages window remembers more lines
4082 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4083 * http and ogg stream output options
4084 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4087 * new skinnable interface
4088 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4090 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4091 * support for FLAC audio format
4092 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4094 * network tab in the interface
4095 * "apply" handling in preferences
4098 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4099 ---------------------------------
4102 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4103 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4104 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4105 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4107 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4108 * DTS S/PDIF support
4111 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4112 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4113 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4114 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4117 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4118 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4121 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4124 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4127 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4129 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4130 * rc interface is now fully useable
4131 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4134 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4135 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4136 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4137 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4138 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4140 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4141 * support for mouse gestures
4142 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4145 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4146 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4149 * improved ID3 tag detection
4150 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4151 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4152 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4154 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4157 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4158 ---------------------------------
4161 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4162 English was set as the preferred language
4165 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4166 --------------------------------
4169 * new mouse gesture interface
4170 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4174 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4175 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4176 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4179 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4180 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4184 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4187 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4188 without the user consent
4191 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4193 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4194 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4195 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4198 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4199 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4200 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4201 * playlist enhancements
4202 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4203 * new step forward/step backward commands
4204 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4205 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4206 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4209 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4210 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4211 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4214 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4215 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4218 * native video output is working again
4219 * only commandline interface support
4220 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4223 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4224 --------------------------------
4227 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4228 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4229 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4230 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4231 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4232 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4233 and A/52 streams are supported)
4234 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4239 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4240 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4241 * VCD entry points support
4242 * VCD image file support
4245 * support for *.asf format
4246 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4247 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4248 * support for ogg encapsulation
4249 * support for raw DV format
4250 * support for *.wav format
4251 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4254 Stream discovery & playlists:
4255 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4256 * support for .m3u file format
4257 * support for .asx file format
4258 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4261 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4262 (only available with the .avi demux)
4263 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4264 * support for raw PCM data
4265 * support for Cinepak video codec
4266 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4267 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4268 * support for Xvid codec
4269 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4270 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4271 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4273 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4275 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4278 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4281 * new WxWindows interface
4282 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4283 device and the channels configuration
4284 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4285 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4286 format that VLC can play
4287 * new swedish translation
4288 * enhancements of the playlist window
4289 * new messages window to see debug info
4290 * fixed a few crashes
4293 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4294 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4295 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4296 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working