1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
15 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
16 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
20 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
21 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
22 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
23 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
24 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
25 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
28 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
29 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
30 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
31 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
32 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
33 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
34 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
35 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
36 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
37 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
38 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
39 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
40 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
41 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
42 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
45 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
46 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
47 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
48 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
49 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
50 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
53 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
54 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
55 * Ogg seeking improvements
56 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
57 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
58 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
61 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
62 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
63 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
64 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
65 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
66 and important cleanups and optimisations
67 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
68 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
69 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
70 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
71 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
72 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
75 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
76 * New video output for iOS platform
77 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
78 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
79 * Various vmem improvements
80 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
84 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
85 * New audio output in memory (amem)
86 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
89 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
90 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
91 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
92 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
93 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
94 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
95 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
96 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
97 * New anti-flickering filter
100 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
103 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
104 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
105 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
106 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
107 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
108 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
109 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
110 * Major rework of VoD support
111 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
112 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
113 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
114 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
115 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
116 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
117 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
118 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
119 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
122 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
123 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
126 * New capabilities for libVLC:
127 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
128 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
129 list of available audio and video filters
130 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
131 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
134 * asademux: use libass only
135 * subsass: use libass
136 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
137 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
139 * upnp: use upnp_intel
140 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
141 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
144 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
145 --------------------------------
147 Windows and Mac OS X:
148 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
151 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
154 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
155 * Improve Apple Remote handling
156 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
157 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
158 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
159 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
162 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
163 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
167 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
168 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
169 * New Luganda Translation
172 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
173 --------------------------------
176 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
179 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
180 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
181 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
182 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
185 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
187 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
188 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
189 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
190 * mp4 demuxer improvements
191 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
192 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
193 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
194 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
196 Miscellaneous fixes in:
197 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
198 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
199 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
200 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
201 * Configure and build system improvements
202 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
205 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
206 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
207 * New icelandic translation
210 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
211 --------------------------------
214 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
218 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
219 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
220 and stability reasons
223 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
227 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
230 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
231 ----------------------------------
234 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
237 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
238 ---------------------------------
241 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
242 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
243 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
244 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
247 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
250 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
251 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
252 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
253 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
256 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
257 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
258 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
260 Subtitles and renderer:
261 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
262 * Mark more freetype options as safe
263 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
264 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
265 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
268 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
269 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
270 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
271 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
274 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
275 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
278 * KDE device solid actions
280 * Transcode integer overflow
281 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
282 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
285 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
286 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
287 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
290 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
291 ----------------------------------
294 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
298 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
301 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
304 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
305 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
306 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
307 * Taglib thread-safety fix
310 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
314 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
317 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
320 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
321 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
323 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
327 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
328 * Miscellaneous fixes
331 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
332 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
334 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
335 * New Asturian translation
338 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
339 ----------------------------------
342 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
344 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
347 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
350 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
351 * Various fixes for Windows
354 * New Armenian translation
355 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
356 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
359 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
360 --------------------------------
363 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
365 * Fix folders opening from the interface
368 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
369 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
372 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
373 --------------------------------
376 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
377 * fix for podcasts parsing
378 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
381 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
382 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
385 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
386 * fix m3u playlists exports
389 * fix video autoresize behaviour
392 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
395 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
398 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
401 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
404 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
405 --------------------------------
408 * Avformat fps displaying fix
409 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
412 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
413 of mono streams, especially on Windows
416 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
417 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
418 * fix console output encoding
420 Interface and extensions:
421 * Youtube and other scripts updates
422 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
425 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
426 --------------------------------
429 * New capabilities for libVLC:
430 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
431 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
432 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
433 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
434 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
435 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
436 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
437 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
438 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
439 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
440 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
441 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
442 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
443 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
444 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
448 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
449 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
450 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
451 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
452 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
455 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
458 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
459 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
460 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
464 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
467 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
468 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
469 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
472 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
473 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
474 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
475 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
478 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
479 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
482 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
483 --------------------------------
485 Important changes for users:
486 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
487 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
489 Important changes for packagers:
490 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
491 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
492 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
493 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
494 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
496 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
498 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
499 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
500 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
501 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
502 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
505 * Support for the sftp protocol
506 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
507 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
508 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
509 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
510 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
513 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
514 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
515 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
517 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
518 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
519 * Invmem module improvements
520 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
521 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
522 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
523 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
524 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
525 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
526 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
527 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
528 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
529 * Support for VP8 codec
530 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
533 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
534 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
535 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
536 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
537 * Various EGP improvements
538 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
539 * Metadata and cover art improvements
542 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
543 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
544 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
545 * Podcast images are now displayed
548 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
549 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
550 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
551 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
552 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
553 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
554 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
555 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
556 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
557 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
558 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
561 * New content extensions lua framework
564 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
565 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
566 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
567 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
568 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
569 * NEON assembly audio converter module
570 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
573 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
574 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
575 * Service discovery based on libudev
576 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
579 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
580 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
581 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
582 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
583 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
584 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
585 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
588 * New smem module, streaming to memory
589 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
590 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
593 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
595 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
596 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
599 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
602 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
603 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
604 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
605 by Andy Matuschak et al.
606 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
607 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
608 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
611 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
612 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
615 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
616 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
617 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
621 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
622 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
623 * Improved Solaris port
626 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
627 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
630 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
631 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
632 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
633 * transrate: broken since too long
634 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
635 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
636 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
637 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
638 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
639 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
640 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
641 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
642 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
643 * cddax: use cdda instead.
644 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
645 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
646 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
647 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
650 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
651 --------------------------------
654 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
656 Decoders/Packetizers:
657 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
660 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
661 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
662 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
663 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
664 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
667 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
668 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
671 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
672 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
675 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
676 and Walloon translations updated
677 * Sinhala translation started
680 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
681 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
684 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
685 --------------------------------
688 * SubRip extra styles improvements
689 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
692 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
695 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
696 increase performance and fix x264 issues
699 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
700 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
701 Russian, Slovak translation updates
702 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
705 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
706 --------------------------------
709 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
710 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
713 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
714 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
717 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
718 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
721 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
724 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
725 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
728 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
729 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
732 * New Walloon translation
733 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
736 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
737 --------------------------------
740 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
741 regressions in most popular drivers
742 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
745 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
746 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
747 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
750 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
751 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
754 * Update for appletrailers lua script
755 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
756 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
757 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
758 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
761 * New udev module for linux
764 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
767 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
770 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
771 --------------------------------
774 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
775 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
776 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
779 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
780 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
783 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
784 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
787 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
790 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
791 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
792 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
793 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
796 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
797 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
798 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
799 - no support for Goom and SDL
800 - limited text rendering support
801 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
804 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
805 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
806 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
807 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
808 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
809 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
810 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
811 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
812 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
816 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
819 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
822 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
823 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
824 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
825 Arabic and French translation updates
828 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
829 --------------------------------
832 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
833 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
834 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
835 * Fix Dailymotion access script
836 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
837 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
840 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
841 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
844 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
845 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
846 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
849 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
852 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
853 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
856 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
857 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
858 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
859 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
860 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
861 * Fix various crashes
864 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
866 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
869 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
870 ---------------------------------
874 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
875 See 'Access:' for more info.
876 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
879 * Instantaneous pausing
880 * Frame-by-Frame playback
881 * Finer speed control
882 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
883 * Timeshift for most medias
884 * RTSP trickplay support
885 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
888 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
889 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
890 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
891 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
892 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
893 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
894 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
895 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
896 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
897 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
900 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
901 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
902 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
903 * Metadata for mod files are supported
904 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
905 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
906 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
909 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
910 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
913 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
914 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
915 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
916 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
917 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
918 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
919 * DVB scanning on linux
920 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
921 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
922 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
923 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
924 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
925 * MTP device access on Unix
926 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
927 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
930 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
931 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
932 Windows and Mac OS X.
935 * Export the playlist in HTML
936 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
937 * Better metadata handling and reading
939 Linux/Windows interface:
940 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
941 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
942 * Recently played items list
943 * Interface toolbar customizations
944 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
947 - Improvements on many dialogs
948 - New dialog for plugins listing
949 - Fixed-size mode for videos
950 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
951 * Better integration in GTK environments
954 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
955 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
956 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
957 * Additional usability improvements
960 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
961 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
962 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
963 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
964 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
967 * New Maemo port with:
968 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
969 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
972 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
975 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
976 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
977 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
978 * Support for latest iSight models
981 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
982 * Surround support for PulseAudio
985 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
986 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
987 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
988 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
989 The old image video output has been removed.
990 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
991 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
994 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1002 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1003 --------------------------------------
1009 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1010 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1011 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1012 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1013 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1014 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1015 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1017 Various fixes to the following modules:
1020 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1021 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1022 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1024 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1029 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1030 ---------------------------------
1033 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1034 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1037 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1038 ---------------------------------
1041 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1044 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1047 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1048 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1049 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1050 main controller window.
1051 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1054 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1059 * Updates of other localizations
1062 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1063 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1064 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1065 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1066 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1069 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1070 ---------------------------------
1073 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1075 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1078 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1079 --------------------------------
1084 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1085 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1088 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1089 --------------------------------
1091 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1092 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1095 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1098 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1099 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1102 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1103 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1106 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1107 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1108 * Various fixed in playlist
1111 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1114 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1117 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1118 ------------------------------------
1120 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1121 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1124 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1125 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1126 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1129 * Stability fix for the video output.
1132 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1137 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1138 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1139 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1140 * Fixed update system bugs
1141 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1144 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1145 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1146 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1147 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1148 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1149 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1150 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1151 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1152 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1153 modern Mac OS X versions
1156 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1157 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1159 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1160 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1163 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1164 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1165 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1166 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1167 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1168 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1171 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1172 --------------------------------
1174 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1175 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1176 * Multiple bugfixes.
1179 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1180 --------------------------------
1182 * Multiple bug fixes.
1185 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1186 ---------------------------------
1190 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1191 recent to work correctly
1192 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1193 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1194 edit the ".hosts" file.
1195 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1196 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1197 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1198 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1199 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1200 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1201 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1202 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1203 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1204 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1205 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1206 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1207 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1208 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1209 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1210 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1211 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1212 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1213 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1214 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1215 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1216 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1217 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1218 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1219 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1220 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1221 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1222 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1223 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1224 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1225 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1226 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1227 and postproc modules.
1228 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1229 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1230 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1231 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1233 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1234 filter. For example:
1235 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1236 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1238 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1239 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1245 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1247 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1248 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1251 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1252 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1254 * Shoutcast TV listings
1255 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1257 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1258 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1260 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1263 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1264 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1265 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1266 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1267 * JACK audio input support
1268 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1269 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1270 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1271 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1272 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1273 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1274 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1275 (available as a separate download).
1276 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1277 * RTMP input support
1278 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1279 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1280 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1282 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1283 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1286 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1287 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1288 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1289 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1291 * APEv1/2 tags support
1292 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1293 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1295 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1296 * TiVo Series 2 support
1297 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1302 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1303 * Flash Screen Video support
1304 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1305 * DosBox Capture support
1306 * Karl Morton's Video support
1307 * limited atrac3 support
1309 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1310 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1311 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1312 * H.264 PAFF support
1313 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1314 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1315 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1316 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1317 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1320 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1321 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1322 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1323 * AQTitle subtitles support
1324 * MKV USF subtitles support
1325 * HTML-based subtitles support
1326 * MPSub subtitles support
1327 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1328 * MPL2 subtitles support
1329 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1330 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1331 * Realtext subtitle support
1332 * DKS subtitle support
1333 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1334 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1337 * Flash Screen Video support
1338 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1340 Video outputs and filters:
1341 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1342 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1343 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1344 * New puzzle video output filter
1345 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1346 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1348 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1349 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1350 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1351 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1352 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1353 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1354 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1355 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1356 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1357 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1358 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1359 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1360 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1361 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1363 Audio outputs and filters:
1364 * Replay gain support
1365 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1366 new scaletempo audio filter)
1367 * New spatializer audio filter
1368 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1371 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1372 * New RTP payload formats:
1373 * Speex voice audio codec
1374 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1375 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1376 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1377 * DCCP transport for RTP
1378 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1383 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1384 end-user suitable way.
1385 * Improved user interaction
1386 * Improved mouse gestures
1387 * Vastly improved Update checker
1388 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1390 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1391 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1393 * Improved video output features
1394 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1395 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1396 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1397 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1398 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1400 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1401 if libncursesw is available.
1402 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1403 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1404 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1406 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1407 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1408 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1409 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1410 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1411 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1412 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1413 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1416 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1417 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1418 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1421 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1422 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1423 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1424 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1425 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1426 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1429 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1430 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1440 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1441 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1442 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1445 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1446 ----------------------------------
1449 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1452 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1453 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1454 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1455 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1456 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1457 * Updated Polish translation
1460 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1461 ----------------------------------
1464 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1465 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1466 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1469 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1470 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1471 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1472 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1473 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1474 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1475 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1476 to an unexpected application termination
1477 * New Serbian translation
1478 * Updated Romanian translation
1481 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1482 ----------------------------------
1485 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1486 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1487 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1488 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1489 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1490 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1491 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1492 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1495 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1496 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1497 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1498 * Fixed AAC resampling
1499 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1500 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1503 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1504 ----------------------------------
1507 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1508 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1509 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1510 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1511 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1514 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1515 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1516 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1517 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1518 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1521 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1522 ----------------------------------
1525 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1526 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1529 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1530 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1531 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1532 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1534 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1538 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1541 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1544 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1547 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1550 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1551 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1552 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1553 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1554 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1556 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1557 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1558 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1559 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1562 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1565 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1566 ----------------------------------
1569 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1570 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1571 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1573 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1574 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1576 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1577 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1580 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1582 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1583 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1584 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1585 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1586 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1587 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1588 two different movies
1589 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1590 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1591 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1594 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1597 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1598 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1599 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1600 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1603 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1604 ----------------------------------
1606 Various bugfixes, notably:
1607 * Windows Vista compatibility
1608 * Cropping in Direct3D
1609 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1610 * RSS filter string overflow
1612 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1614 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1615 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1618 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1619 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1622 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1625 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1628 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1631 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1632 ----------------------------------
1634 Various bugfixes, notably:
1635 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1636 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1637 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1638 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1639 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1640 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1643 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1644 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1647 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1649 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1650 * Diverse usability improvements
1651 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1652 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1653 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1656 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1657 ---------------------------------
1659 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1660 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1663 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1666 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1667 --------------------------------
1670 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1673 * Support for RTSP authentication
1674 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1675 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1676 * ATSC support for DVB input
1677 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1678 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1679 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1682 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1683 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1684 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1685 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1686 * Matroska WavPack support
1687 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1688 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1689 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1692 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1693 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1694 * Improved libcaca support
1698 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1699 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1701 * Systray support in skins
1703 * Support for Apple Remote control
1704 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1705 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1706 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1707 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1709 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1712 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1713 Windows 9x/ME users:
1714 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1715 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1716 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1717 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1718 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1720 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1721 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1730 * Updates to the libvlc API
1731 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1734 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1735 --------------------------------
1738 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1739 * Support for downloading updates
1743 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1744 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1745 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1746 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1748 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1749 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1750 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1753 * Cook (Real audio) support
1755 Playlist / Services discovery:
1756 * XSPF playlist support
1758 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1761 * New JACK audio output
1764 * New video filters:
1765 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1766 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1767 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1768 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1769 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1770 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1773 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1776 * System to inform the user and request information
1777 - HTTP authentication
1781 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1782 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1783 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1786 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1787 - Improved playlist handling
1788 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1790 - Embedded Video output
1791 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1792 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1793 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1794 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1795 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1797 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1798 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1801 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1804 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1805 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1806 * Growl "Now playing" support
1809 * Ability to log to syslog
1810 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1813 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1815 * A bit more automatic testing
1818 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1819 ---------------------------------
1822 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1823 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1826 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1827 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1830 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1833 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1834 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1840 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1843 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1844 --------------------------------
1847 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1851 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1852 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1853 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1856 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1857 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1858 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1859 * GnomeVFS input module
1860 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1861 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1864 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1865 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1866 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1869 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1870 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1876 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1877 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1880 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1881 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1882 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1885 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1887 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1888 - New extended controls panel
1889 - New bookmarks window
1890 - Fixed playlist sorting
1891 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1893 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1894 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1895 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1896 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1900 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1901 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1903 - Include macro to include other files
1907 * Should now work outside IE as well
1910 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1913 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1914 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1917 The following languages were added:
1921 * Simplified Chinese
1922 The following languages were re-added:
1926 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1927 --------------------------------
1930 * Rewrite of the playlist
1932 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1933 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1934 * Preferences improvements:
1935 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1936 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1938 * Core image manipulation support
1939 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1940 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1941 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1942 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1943 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1944 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1945 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1946 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1947 * Access filter architecture
1948 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1949 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1953 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1954 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1955 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1956 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1957 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1958 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1959 * Massive Matroska improvements
1960 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1962 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1963 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1964 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1965 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1966 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1968 Decoders / Encoders:
1969 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1970 * PNG decoder/encoder
1971 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1972 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1975 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1978 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1979 * Brand new SAP module
1980 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1981 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1982 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1983 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1984 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1985 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1989 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1992 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1993 * Image file video output (png)
1994 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1995 * Improvements to wall video filter
1996 * Support for font color and opacity
2002 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2003 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2004 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2008 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2009 - Improved preferences
2010 - Improvements to the wizard
2011 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2013 - Redesigned playlist
2014 - Improved preferences
2016 - Support for multiple actions
2019 - Support for the new playlist system
2021 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2024 * Screensaver disabling fix
2025 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2026 * Support for no-decoration windows
2029 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2030 * The OpenGL video output is back
2031 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2032 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2033 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2034 is not yet available in the new module
2035 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2038 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2047 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2050 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2053 The following languages were added:
2059 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2060 --------------------------------
2063 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2064 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2067 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2068 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2069 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2072 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2075 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2078 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2081 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2082 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2083 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2087 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2089 * Support of playlist group announcement
2092 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2093 --------------------------------
2096 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2097 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2098 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2099 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2100 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2101 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2104 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2105 (Stream your desktop)
2106 * Improved DVD support:
2107 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2108 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2109 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2110 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2111 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2112 (selection of titles/chapters).
2115 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2116 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2117 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2118 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2119 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2120 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2121 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2122 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2123 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2124 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2127 * G.726 audio support
2128 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2129 * MPEG-4 text support
2130 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2131 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2132 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2136 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2137 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2138 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2139 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2140 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2141 * DVB subtitles encoder
2142 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2143 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2145 * Text track muxing for mp4
2146 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2147 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2148 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2149 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2150 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2151 * Improved ASF muxer
2153 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2154 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2155 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2158 * New audio equalizer filter
2159 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2160 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2161 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2162 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2165 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2166 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2167 with support for effects.
2168 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2169 - New filters can be streamed.
2170 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2171 - Centralized scaling and blending
2173 - "time", to display current time
2174 - "marq", to display a marquee
2177 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2178 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2179 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2180 * A few skins2 improvements
2181 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2182 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2183 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2184 * Improved CORBA control module
2187 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2188 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2189 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2192 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2193 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2194 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2197 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2198 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2199 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2200 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2201 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2204 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2207 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2208 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2211 * Server/client network synchronization module
2212 * VBrick streams fully supported
2213 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2217 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2218 --------------------------------
2221 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2222 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2223 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2224 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2227 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2228 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2229 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2230 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2231 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2232 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2233 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2236 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2237 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2238 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2239 * Improved directory access module.
2240 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2241 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2242 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2243 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2244 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2247 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2248 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2249 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2252 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2253 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2254 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2257 * Improved session announcement system.
2258 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2259 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2260 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2261 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2262 * Improved transrater.
2263 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2264 * New configuration system.
2265 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2268 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2269 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2270 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2271 * Supports scheduling.
2272 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2273 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2276 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2277 - Ability to embed video output.
2278 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2279 - Lots of improvements.
2280 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2281 - New design and set of icons.
2282 - Ability to embed video output.
2283 - Support for hotkeys.
2284 - Support for bookmarks.
2286 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2287 - Better hotkeys handling.
2290 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2291 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2292 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2293 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2296 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2297 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2298 * Improved Windows installer.
2304 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2305 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2308 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2309 ---------------------------------
2312 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2313 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2316 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2317 --------------------------------
2320 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2321 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2324 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2325 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2326 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2327 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2330 * Internal improvments
2331 * Improved import/export
2334 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2336 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2337 small and strange formats.
2339 * New MOD audio demux.
2340 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2341 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2342 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2343 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2346 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2347 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2348 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2354 * New opengl video output plugin.
2357 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2358 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2361 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2362 --------------------------------
2365 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2366 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2367 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2368 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2369 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2370 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2371 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2372 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2375 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2380 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2381 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2382 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2383 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2384 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2385 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2386 * Better Icecast support.
2387 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2388 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2391 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2392 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2393 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2394 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2395 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2396 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2397 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2400 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2401 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2402 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2403 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2404 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2405 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2406 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2407 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2408 * Preliminary RTP support.
2409 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2414 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2415 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2417 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2418 - Improvements and help in preferences
2419 - New streaming wizard
2420 - Revised Disc Open menu
2422 - Improvements of the standard pages
2423 - Support for new commands
2424 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2427 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2428 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2431 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2432 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2433 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2434 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2435 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2436 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2437 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2438 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2439 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2442 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2444 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2445 * Support for Panther.
2446 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2447 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2450 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2451 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2452 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2453 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2454 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2455 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2456 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2457 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2460 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2461 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2462 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2465 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2468 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2469 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2470 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2471 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2474 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2475 --------------------------------
2478 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2481 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2482 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2485 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2486 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2489 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2492 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2493 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2496 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2499 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2502 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2503 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2507 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2508 --------------------------------
2511 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2512 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2516 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2517 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2518 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2520 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2521 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2524 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2527 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2530 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2531 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2535 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2536 --------------------------------
2539 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2540 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2544 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2545 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2546 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2547 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2548 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2551 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2552 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2553 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2556 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2557 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2558 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2561 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2562 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2563 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2564 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2565 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2568 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2569 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2570 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2573 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2576 * Improved build system.
2577 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2578 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2579 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2580 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2583 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2584 --------------------------------
2587 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2590 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2591 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2592 * Video 4 Linux support
2593 * CD Digital Audio support
2594 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2597 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2598 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2599 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2600 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2603 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2604 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2605 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2606 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2607 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2608 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2609 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2612 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2613 * New HTTP remote control interface
2616 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2617 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2618 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2619 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2622 * New reset option for the preferences
2623 * You can set your language in the prefences
2624 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2625 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2626 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2627 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2630 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2631 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2632 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2635 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2636 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2637 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2638 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2639 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2640 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2641 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2642 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2643 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2644 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2647 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2648 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2649 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2650 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2651 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2652 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2653 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2656 * Interface localization
2657 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2658 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2659 * New full-featured Preferences window
2662 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2663 --------------------------------
2666 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2667 * support for skins at the interface level
2668 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2669 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2670 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2671 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2672 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2675 * fixed HTTP redirects
2676 * support for opening an entire directory
2677 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2678 * new video4linux access plug-in
2679 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2682 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2683 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2684 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2687 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2688 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2689 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2690 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2691 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2692 * new codec for raw I420 video
2693 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2696 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2697 (although it still misses some important features)
2698 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2701 * new HTTP output support
2702 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2703 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2706 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2709 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2712 * reorderable playlist
2713 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2714 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2715 * support for mono audio output devices
2716 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2717 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2718 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2719 * the messages window remembers more lines
2720 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2721 * http and ogg stream output options
2722 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2725 * new skinnable interface
2726 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2728 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2729 * support for FLAC audio format
2730 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2732 * network tab in the interface
2733 * "apply" handling in preferences
2736 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2737 ---------------------------------
2740 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2741 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2742 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2743 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2745 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2746 * DTS S/PDIF support
2749 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2750 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2751 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2752 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2755 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2756 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2759 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2762 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2765 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2767 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2768 * rc interface is now fully useable
2769 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2772 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2773 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2774 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2775 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2776 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2778 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2779 * support for mouse gestures
2780 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2783 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2784 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2787 * improved ID3 tag detection
2788 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2789 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2790 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2792 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2795 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2796 ---------------------------------
2799 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2800 English was set as the preferred language
2803 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2804 --------------------------------
2807 * new mouse gesture interface
2808 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2812 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2813 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2814 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2817 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2818 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2822 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2825 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2826 without the user consent
2829 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2831 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2832 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2833 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2836 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2837 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2838 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2839 * playlist enhancements
2840 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2841 * new step forward/step backward commands
2842 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2843 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2844 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2847 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2848 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2849 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2852 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2853 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2856 * native video output is working again
2857 * only commandline interface support
2858 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2861 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2862 --------------------------------
2865 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2866 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2867 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2868 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2869 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2870 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2871 and A/52 streams are supported)
2872 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2877 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2878 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2879 * VCD entry points support
2880 * VCD image file support
2883 * support for *.asf format
2884 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2885 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2886 * support for ogg encapsulation
2887 * support for raw DV format
2888 * support for *.wav format
2889 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2892 Stream discovery & playlists:
2893 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2894 * support for .m3u file format
2895 * support for .asx file format
2896 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2899 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2900 (only available with the .avi demux)
2901 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2902 * support for raw PCM data
2903 * support for Cinepak video codec
2904 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2905 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2906 * support for Xvid codec
2907 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2908 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2909 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2911 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2913 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2916 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2919 * new WxWindows interface
2920 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2921 device and the channels configuration
2922 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2923 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2924 format that VLC can play
2925 * new swedish translation
2926 * enhancements of the playlist window
2927 * new messages window to see debug info
2928 * fixed a few crashes
2931 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2932 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2933 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2934 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working