1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
43 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
46 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
49 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
52 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
53 * Wayland shell surface window provider
54 * Wayland shared memory video output
55 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
56 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
57 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
58 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
59 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
62 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
63 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
66 * Chromecast output module
67 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
70 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
73 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
74 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
78 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
81 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
82 * Port to Yosemite X.10
85 * Batch convert support
88 * Support key accelerators
91 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
92 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
93 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
94 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
95 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
96 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
97 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
98 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
99 identifier (if there is one available)
102 * Support for the SystemD Journal
103 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
104 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
105 * New Android module for logging
108 * remove langfromtelx
109 * remove ZPL playlist format
112 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
113 --------------------------------
116 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
117 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
120 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
121 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
122 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
123 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
126 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
127 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
128 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
129 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
131 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
132 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
133 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
136 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
137 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
138 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
139 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
140 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
141 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
142 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
143 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
144 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
145 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
146 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
147 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
148 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
149 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
150 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
151 * New jpeg image decoder
152 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
153 * New SVG image decoder
154 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
155 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
156 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
159 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
160 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
161 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
162 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
163 * New png image encoder using libpng
166 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
167 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
168 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
169 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
170 synchronization and tracks exclusion
171 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
172 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
173 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
174 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
175 * Support Opus in MKV
177 * Basic support for WebVTT
178 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
179 * Support HDPR TS files
180 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
181 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
182 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
183 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
184 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
185 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
186 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
187 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
188 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
189 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
190 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
191 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
194 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
195 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
196 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
197 * New Android native window provider module
198 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
199 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
200 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
203 * New Oldmovie effect filter
204 * New VHS effect filter
205 * New Freeze effect filter
206 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
207 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
208 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
211 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
212 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
213 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
214 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
215 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
216 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
219 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
220 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
222 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
225 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
226 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
227 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
228 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
229 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
230 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
231 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
232 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
233 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
235 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
236 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
237 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
240 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
241 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
244 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
245 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
248 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
249 * Add record button in Qt menus
250 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
251 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
252 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
255 * Support for OS X Yosemite
256 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
257 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
258 * Fixes for advanced preferences
259 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
260 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
261 * Option to increase playlist font size
262 * Improved crash log reporting
265 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
266 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
267 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
268 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
271 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
274 * iOS video output: use ios2
275 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
276 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
279 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
280 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
281 * Update of all translations:
282 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
283 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
284 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
285 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
286 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
287 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
288 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
291 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
292 --------------------------------
298 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
299 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
300 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
301 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
302 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
303 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
304 * Fix potential crash in zip access
305 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
308 * Update translations and greek encoding
311 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
312 --------------------------------
315 * Fix compilation on OS/2
318 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
320 Mac OS X audio output:
321 * Fix channel ordering
322 * Increase the buffersize
325 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
326 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
327 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
330 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
333 * Correctly support video-on-top
334 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
335 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
338 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
341 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
342 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
345 * Update British English
348 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
349 --------------------------------
352 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
355 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
358 * Fix DVD playback regression
359 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
360 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
363 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
364 --------------------------------
367 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
368 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
371 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
372 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
373 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
376 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
377 by updating codec libraries
378 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
379 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
380 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
383 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
384 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
385 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
386 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
389 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
390 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
393 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
394 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
395 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
396 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
397 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
400 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
401 * Fix record file names
404 * Fix minimal size possible on start
405 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
406 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
407 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
408 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
411 * Fix album art display on Windows
414 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
415 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
416 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
417 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
418 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
419 and Simplified Chinese translations
420 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
423 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
424 --------------------------------
427 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
428 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
429 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
430 audio devices on OS X
431 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
432 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
435 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
436 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
439 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
440 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
443 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
446 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
447 * Improve A-B loop control
448 * Fix album art update when changing media
451 * Add a language option in the interface
452 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
453 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
454 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
455 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
456 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
457 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
458 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
461 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
464 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
465 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
466 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
467 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
470 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
471 --------------------------------
474 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
476 * Fix some subtitles track selection
479 * VP9 support in WebM
480 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
481 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
484 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
485 * Support Speex in ogg files
486 * Fix some .mov playlists support
487 * Support Alac in mkv
488 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
489 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
492 * Fix DVB options parsing
493 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
494 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
497 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
498 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
501 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
502 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
505 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
506 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
507 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
508 * Fix play after drag'n drop
509 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
512 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
513 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
516 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
517 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
520 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
521 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
522 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
523 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
524 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
525 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
526 * Improves interface resizings
529 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
530 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
531 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
532 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
533 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
537 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
538 --------------------------------
541 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
542 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
543 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
544 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
545 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
547 3rd party libraries (contrib):
548 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
551 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
552 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
553 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
554 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
555 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
558 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
559 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
563 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
564 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
565 * Support for Ulead DV audio
566 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
567 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
568 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
569 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
570 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
571 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
572 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
573 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
574 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
575 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
578 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
579 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
580 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
583 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
584 remove support for previous OS X releases
585 * Major improvements in DASH support
586 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
587 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
588 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
589 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
590 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
591 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
592 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
593 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
594 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
595 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
596 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
599 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
600 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
601 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
602 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
603 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
604 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
605 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
606 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
607 * Support for more MJPEG streams
608 * Add support for liveleak streams
609 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
610 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
611 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
614 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
615 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
616 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
617 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
618 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
619 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
620 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
621 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
622 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
623 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
624 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
627 * New remapping channel filter
628 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
629 * New VSXu visualization plugin
630 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
631 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
632 * New gain audio filter
635 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
636 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
637 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
638 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
639 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
640 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
641 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
642 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
643 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
646 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
647 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
648 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
649 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
650 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
651 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
652 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
655 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
656 * Options support for AVIO output module
657 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
658 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
659 * Livehttp stream encryption support
660 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
661 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
664 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
667 * configurable password for the HTTP server
668 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
669 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
670 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
671 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
672 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
673 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
674 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
678 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
681 * Add support for multiple video outputs
682 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
684 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
685 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
686 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
687 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
688 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
689 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
690 VLC's internal volume level
691 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
693 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
694 selection and to manage the list of presets
695 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
696 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
697 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
698 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
699 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
700 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
701 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
702 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
703 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
704 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
706 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
707 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
708 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
709 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
710 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
711 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
712 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
713 3rd party applications
714 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
715 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
716 (system-wide settings)
717 * Add support for the Video Title option
718 * Add support for the Boss Key
719 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
720 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
723 * Partial support for Qt5.0
724 * Menus modifications and improvements
725 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
726 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
727 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
728 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
729 * EPG display fixes and improvements
730 * Add SD pixmap sources
731 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
732 * Display playlist total duration
733 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
734 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
735 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
740 * Extend sliders, offsets options
741 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
742 * Numerous fixes and improvements
743 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
746 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
747 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
748 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
749 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
750 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
751 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
752 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
753 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
754 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
755 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
758 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
759 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
760 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
761 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
762 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
763 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
765 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
766 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
767 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
768 * Broken crop video filter
770 * OSD parser and menu
771 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
772 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
773 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
774 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
778 * Update of all translations
781 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
782 --------------------------------
785 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
786 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
789 * Fix modplug security issues
792 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
793 --------------------------------
797 * Fix crash in QTsound
798 * Fix screen mouse file location
799 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
802 * Fix use after free in sgimb
803 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
806 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
809 * Fix interface crashes
810 * Fix autostart playback option
811 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
814 * update Welsh translation
815 * New Kannada translation
818 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
819 --------------------------------
822 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
823 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
827 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
830 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
833 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
836 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
840 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
843 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
846 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
847 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
848 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
851 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
852 --------------------------------
855 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
858 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
861 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
862 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
863 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
864 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
865 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
866 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
869 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
870 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
871 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
872 * 3rd party codecs updates
875 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
876 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
877 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
878 in the advanced preferences panel
879 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
880 * Fix crash within the video output code
881 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
882 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
883 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
884 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
886 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
889 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
892 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
893 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
896 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
899 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
900 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
901 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
902 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
903 Dutch, Danish, translations
904 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
907 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
908 --------------------------------
911 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
914 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
915 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
916 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
919 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
920 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
921 * Fix koreus lua parser
922 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
923 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
924 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
925 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
928 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
929 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
932 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
935 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
936 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
937 * Fix Time counter UI look
938 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
941 * Fix https streaming
944 * Fix audio and video track selection:
945 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
946 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
949 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
950 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
951 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
952 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
953 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
956 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
957 --------------------------------
960 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
961 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
962 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
963 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
964 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
965 during playback on Mac OS X
968 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
969 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
970 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
973 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
974 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
975 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
976 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
977 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
980 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
981 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
982 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
983 * Support Youtube live streams
986 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
989 * Fix media info dialog update
990 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
991 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
992 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
993 * Fix album art display at start
996 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
997 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
998 * Fix menus display and behavior
999 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1000 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1001 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1002 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1003 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1004 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1005 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1008 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1009 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1010 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1011 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1012 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1013 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1014 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1015 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1016 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1019 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1020 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1021 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1022 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1023 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1026 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1027 --------------------------------
1030 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1033 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1034 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1037 * Add GateKeeper support
1038 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1039 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1040 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1043 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1046 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1047 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1048 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1049 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1050 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1053 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1058 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1059 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1060 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1061 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1062 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1063 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1064 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1065 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1066 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1067 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1071 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1072 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1073 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1074 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1075 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1076 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1077 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1078 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1079 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1080 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1081 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1082 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1085 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1086 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1088 * Fix MP3 free format support
1091 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1092 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1093 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1094 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1095 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1098 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1099 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1101 Audio filters and output:
1102 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1103 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1104 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1105 * Do not apply volume in file output
1106 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1107 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1110 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1111 the persistant media library
1112 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1113 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1114 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1115 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1116 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1117 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1118 press on the Play/Pause button
1119 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1120 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1121 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1122 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1123 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1124 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1125 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1126 Synchronization panel
1127 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1128 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1129 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1130 * Fix crashes on exit
1131 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1133 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1134 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1135 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1136 automatically reset on the first launch.
1137 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1138 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1139 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1142 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1143 * Fixes for icecast SD
1146 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1147 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1148 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1149 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1150 * Fix tags and file names display
1151 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1154 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1155 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1158 * Fix display of some buttons
1159 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1160 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1163 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1164 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1165 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1168 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1169 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1170 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1171 Thai translations update
1172 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1175 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1176 --------------------------------
1179 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1180 * fix the samba module compilation
1181 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1182 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1183 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1184 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1187 * Support for MXPEG files
1188 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1189 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1192 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1193 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1194 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1197 * Fix ogm header creation
1200 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1201 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1204 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1205 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1206 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1207 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1210 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1213 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1214 * allow to hide the sidebar
1215 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1216 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1217 * noticebly faster launch time
1218 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1219 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1220 * improve track synchronization panel
1221 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1222 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1225 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1226 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1227 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1228 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1231 * fix for menus display
1232 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1233 * documentation update
1236 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1237 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1240 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1241 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1242 * Update Jamendo selections
1246 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1247 * fix a crash on VLM close
1250 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1251 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1252 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1253 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1256 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1259 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1260 ---------------------------------
1263 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1264 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1265 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1266 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1267 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1268 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1269 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1270 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1271 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1272 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1273 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1274 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1275 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1276 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1277 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1278 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1279 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1280 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1281 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1282 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1283 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1284 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1285 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1286 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1287 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1288 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1290 Important changes for packagers:
1291 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1292 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1293 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1294 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1295 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1296 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1297 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1298 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1299 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1300 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1303 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1304 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1305 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1306 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1307 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1308 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1309 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1312 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1313 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1314 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1315 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1316 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1317 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1318 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1319 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1320 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1321 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1322 * PulseAudio audio input support
1323 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1324 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1325 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1326 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1327 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1328 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1329 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1330 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1333 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1334 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1335 are notably concerned.
1336 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1337 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1338 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1339 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1340 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1341 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1342 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1343 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1344 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1345 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1346 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1347 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1348 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1349 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1350 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1353 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1354 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1355 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1356 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1357 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1358 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1359 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1360 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1361 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1362 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1363 * Improved support of tracker files
1364 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1367 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1368 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1369 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1370 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1371 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1372 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1373 and important cleanups and optimisations
1374 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1375 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1376 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1377 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1378 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1379 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1380 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1381 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1382 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1383 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1384 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1385 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1386 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1387 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1388 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1389 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1390 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1391 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1392 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1393 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1394 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1397 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1398 * New video output for iOS platform
1399 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1400 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1401 * Various vmem improvements
1402 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1403 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1404 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1405 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1406 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1407 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1409 Audio Output and Filters:
1410 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1411 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1412 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1413 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1414 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1415 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1416 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1417 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1418 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1419 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1422 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1423 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1424 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1425 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1426 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1427 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1428 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1429 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1430 * New anti-flickering filter
1431 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1432 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1433 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1434 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1435 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1436 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1437 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1440 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1441 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1442 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1443 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1444 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1445 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1446 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1447 * Major rework of VoD support
1448 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1449 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1450 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1451 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1452 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1453 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1454 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1455 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1456 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1457 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1460 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1461 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1464 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1465 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1466 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1467 list of available audio and video filters
1468 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1469 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1470 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1473 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1474 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1475 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1476 * id3tag: use taglib
1477 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1478 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1479 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1480 * removal of the noise filter
1481 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1482 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1483 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1484 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1487 * Update of translations for most languages.
1488 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1491 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1492 ----------------------------------
1495 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1496 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1499 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1500 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1503 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1504 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1505 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1508 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1511 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1512 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1515 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1518 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1519 ----------------------------------
1522 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1523 including support for OS X Lion
1524 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1525 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1528 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1531 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1532 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1533 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1536 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1539 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1540 ----------------------------------
1543 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1544 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1547 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1548 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1549 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1550 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1551 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1553 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1554 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1555 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1557 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1558 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1561 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1564 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1567 * Fix quitting on Linux
1568 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1572 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1575 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1578 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1579 ---------------------------------
1581 Windows and Mac OS X:
1582 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1585 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1586 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1589 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1592 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1595 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1597 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1598 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1600 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1601 * RTP output and XML export
1602 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1606 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1607 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1608 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1609 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1612 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1613 --------------------------------
1615 Windows and Mac OS X:
1616 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1619 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1622 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1623 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1624 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1625 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1626 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1627 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1630 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1631 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1635 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1636 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1637 * New Luganda Translation
1640 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1641 --------------------------------
1644 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1647 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1648 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1649 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1650 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1653 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1655 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1656 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1657 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1658 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1659 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1660 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1661 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1662 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1664 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1665 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1666 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1667 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1668 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1669 * Configure and build system improvements
1670 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1673 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1674 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1675 * New icelandic translation
1678 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1679 --------------------------------
1682 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1683 #234484 and #260719.
1686 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1687 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1688 and stability reasons
1691 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1695 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1698 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1699 ----------------------------------
1702 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1705 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1706 ---------------------------------
1709 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1710 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1711 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1712 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1715 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1718 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1719 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1720 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1721 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1724 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1725 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1726 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1728 Subtitles and renderer:
1729 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1730 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1731 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1732 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1733 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1736 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1737 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1738 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1739 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1742 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1743 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1745 Miscellaneous fixes:
1746 * KDE device solid actions
1748 * Transcode integer overflow
1749 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1750 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1753 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1754 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1755 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1758 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1759 ----------------------------------
1762 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1766 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1769 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1772 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1773 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1774 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1775 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1778 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1782 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1785 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1788 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1789 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1791 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1795 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1796 * Miscellaneous fixes
1799 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1800 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1801 French and Ukrainian
1802 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1803 * New Asturian translation
1806 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1807 ----------------------------------
1810 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1812 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1815 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1818 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1819 * Various fixes for Windows
1822 * New Armenian translation
1823 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1824 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1827 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1828 --------------------------------
1831 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1832 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1833 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1836 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1837 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1840 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1841 --------------------------------
1843 Access and demuxers:
1844 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1845 * fix for podcasts parsing
1846 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1849 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1850 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1853 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1854 * fix m3u playlists exports
1857 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1860 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1863 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1866 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1869 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1872 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1873 --------------------------------
1876 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1877 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1880 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1881 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1884 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1885 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1886 * fix console output encoding
1888 Interface and extensions:
1889 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1890 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1893 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1894 --------------------------------
1897 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1898 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1899 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1900 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1901 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1902 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1903 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1904 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1905 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1906 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1907 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1908 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1909 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1910 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1911 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1912 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1916 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1917 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1918 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1919 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1920 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1923 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1926 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1927 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1928 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1932 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1935 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1936 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1937 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1940 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1941 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1942 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1943 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1946 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1947 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1950 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1951 --------------------------------
1953 Important changes for users:
1954 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1955 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1957 Important changes for packagers:
1958 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1959 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1960 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1961 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1962 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1964 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1966 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1967 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1968 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1969 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1970 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1973 * Support for the sftp protocol
1974 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1975 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1976 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1977 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1978 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1981 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1982 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1983 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1985 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1986 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1987 * Invmem module improvements
1988 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1989 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1990 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1991 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1992 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1993 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1994 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1995 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1996 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1997 * Support for VP8 codec
1998 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2001 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2002 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2003 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2004 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2005 * Various EGP improvements
2006 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2007 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2010 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2011 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2012 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2013 * Podcast images are now displayed
2016 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2017 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2018 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2019 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2020 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2021 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2022 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2023 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2024 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2025 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2026 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2029 * New content extensions lua framework
2032 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2033 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2034 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2035 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2036 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2037 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2038 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2041 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2042 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2043 * Service discovery based on libudev
2044 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2047 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2048 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2049 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2050 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2051 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2052 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2053 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2056 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2057 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2058 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2061 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2063 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2064 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2067 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2070 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2071 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2072 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2073 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2074 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2075 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2076 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2079 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2080 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2083 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2084 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2085 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2089 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2090 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2091 * Improved Solaris port
2094 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2095 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2098 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2099 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2100 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2101 * transrate: broken since too long
2102 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2103 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2104 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2105 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2106 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2107 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2108 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2109 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2110 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2111 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2112 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2113 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2114 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2115 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2118 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2119 --------------------------------
2122 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2124 Decoders/Packetizers:
2125 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2128 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2129 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2130 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2131 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2132 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2135 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2136 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2139 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2140 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2143 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2144 and Walloon translations updated
2145 * Sinhala translation started
2148 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2149 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2152 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2153 --------------------------------
2156 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2157 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2160 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2163 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2164 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2167 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2168 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2169 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2170 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2173 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2174 --------------------------------
2177 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2178 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2181 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2182 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2185 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2186 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2189 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2192 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2193 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2196 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2197 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2200 * New Walloon translation
2201 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2204 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2205 --------------------------------
2208 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2209 regressions in most popular drivers
2210 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2213 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2214 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2215 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2218 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2219 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2222 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2223 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2224 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2225 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2226 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2229 * New udev module for linux
2232 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2235 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2238 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2239 --------------------------------
2242 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2243 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2244 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2247 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2248 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2251 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2252 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2255 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2258 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2259 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2260 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2261 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2264 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2265 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2266 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2267 - no support for Goom and SDL
2268 - limited text rendering support
2269 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2272 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2273 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2274 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2275 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2276 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2277 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2278 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2279 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2280 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2284 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2287 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2290 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2291 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2292 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2293 Arabic and French translation updates
2296 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2297 --------------------------------
2300 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2301 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2302 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2303 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2304 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2305 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2308 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2309 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2310 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2313 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2314 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2315 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2318 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2321 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2322 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2325 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2326 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2327 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2328 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2329 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2330 * Fix various crashes
2333 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2335 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2339 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2340 ---------------------------------
2344 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2345 See 'Access:' for more info.
2346 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2349 * Instantaneous pausing
2350 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2351 * Finer speed control
2352 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2353 * Timeshift for most medias
2354 * RTSP trickplay support
2355 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2358 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2359 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2360 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2361 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2362 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2363 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2364 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2365 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2366 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2367 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2370 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2371 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2372 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2373 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2374 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2375 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2376 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2379 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2380 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2383 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2384 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2385 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2386 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2387 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2388 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2389 * DVB scanning on linux
2390 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2391 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2392 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2393 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2394 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2395 * MTP device access on Unix
2396 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2397 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2400 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2401 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2402 Windows and Mac OS X.
2405 * Export the playlist in HTML
2406 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2407 * Better metadata handling and reading
2409 Linux/Windows interface:
2410 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2411 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2412 * Recently played items list
2413 * Interface toolbar customizations
2414 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2415 - More menus actions
2416 - Finer speed slider
2417 - Improvements on many dialogs
2418 - New dialog for plugins listing
2419 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2420 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2421 * Better integration in GTK environments
2424 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2425 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2426 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2427 * Additional usability improvements
2430 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2431 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2432 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2433 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2434 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2437 * New Maemo port with:
2438 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2439 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2442 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2445 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2446 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2447 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2448 * Support for latest iSight models
2451 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2452 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2455 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2456 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2457 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2458 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2459 The old image video output has been removed.
2460 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2461 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2464 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2472 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2473 --------------------------------------
2479 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2480 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2481 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2482 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2483 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2484 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2485 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2487 Various fixes to the following modules:
2490 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2491 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2492 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2494 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2499 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2500 ---------------------------------
2503 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2504 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2507 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2508 ---------------------------------
2511 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2514 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2517 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2518 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2519 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2520 main controller window.
2521 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2524 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2529 * Updates of other localizations
2532 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2533 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2534 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2535 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2536 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2539 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2540 ---------------------------------
2543 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2545 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2548 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2549 --------------------------------
2554 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2555 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2558 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2559 --------------------------------
2561 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2562 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2565 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2568 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2569 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2572 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2573 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2576 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2577 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2578 * Various fixed in playlist
2581 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2584 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2587 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2588 ------------------------------------
2590 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2591 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2594 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2595 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2596 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2599 * Stability fix for the video output.
2602 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2603 --------------------------------
2606 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2607 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2608 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2609 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2610 * Fixed update system bugs
2611 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2614 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2615 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2616 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2617 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2618 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2619 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2620 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2621 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2622 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2623 modern Mac OS X versions
2626 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2627 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2629 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2630 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2633 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2634 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2635 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2636 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2637 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2638 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2641 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2642 --------------------------------
2644 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2645 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2646 * Multiple bugfixes.
2649 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2650 --------------------------------
2652 * Multiple bug fixes.
2655 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2656 ---------------------------------
2660 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2661 recent to work correctly
2662 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2663 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2664 edit the ".hosts" file.
2665 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2666 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2667 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2668 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2669 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2670 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2671 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2672 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2673 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2674 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2675 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2676 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2677 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2678 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2679 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2680 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2681 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2682 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2683 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2684 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2685 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2686 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2687 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2688 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2689 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2690 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2691 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2692 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2693 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2694 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2695 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2696 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2697 and postproc modules.
2698 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2699 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2700 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2701 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2703 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2704 filter. For example:
2705 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2706 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2708 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2709 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2715 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2717 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2718 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2721 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2722 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2724 * Shoutcast TV listings
2725 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2727 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2728 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2730 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2733 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2734 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2735 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2736 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2737 * JACK audio input support
2738 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2739 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2740 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2741 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2742 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2743 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2744 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2745 (available as a separate download).
2746 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2747 * RTMP input support
2748 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2749 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2750 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2752 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2753 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2756 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2757 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2758 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2759 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2761 * APEv1/2 tags support
2762 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2763 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2765 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2766 * TiVo Series 2 support
2767 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2772 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2773 * Flash Screen Video support
2774 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2775 * DosBox Capture support
2776 * Karl Morton's Video support
2777 * limited atrac3 support
2779 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2780 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2781 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2782 * H.264 PAFF support
2783 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2784 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2785 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2786 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2787 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2790 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2791 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2792 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2793 * AQTitle subtitles support
2794 * MKV USF subtitles support
2795 * HTML-based subtitles support
2796 * MPSub subtitles support
2797 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2798 * MPL2 subtitles support
2799 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2800 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2801 * Realtext subtitle support
2802 * DKS subtitle support
2803 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2804 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2807 * Flash Screen Video support
2808 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2810 Video outputs and filters:
2811 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2812 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2813 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2814 * New puzzle video output filter
2815 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2816 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2818 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2819 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2820 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2821 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2822 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2823 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2824 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2825 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2826 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2827 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2828 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2829 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2830 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2831 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2833 Audio outputs and filters:
2834 * Replay gain support
2835 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2836 new scaletempo audio filter)
2837 * New spatializer audio filter
2838 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2841 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2842 * New RTP payload formats:
2843 * Speex voice audio codec
2844 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2845 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2846 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2847 * DCCP transport for RTP
2848 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2853 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2854 end-user suitable way.
2855 * Improved user interaction
2856 * Improved mouse gestures
2857 * Vastly improved Update checker
2858 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2860 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2861 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2863 * Improved video output features
2864 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2865 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2866 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2867 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2868 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2870 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2871 if libncursesw is available.
2872 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2873 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2874 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2876 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2877 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2878 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2879 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2880 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2881 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2882 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2883 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2886 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2887 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2888 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2891 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2892 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2893 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2894 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2895 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2896 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2899 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2900 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2910 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2911 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2912 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2915 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2916 ----------------------------------
2919 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2922 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2923 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2924 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2925 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2926 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2927 * Updated Polish translation
2930 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2931 ----------------------------------
2934 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2935 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2936 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2939 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2940 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2941 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2942 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2943 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2944 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2945 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2946 to an unexpected application termination
2947 * New Serbian translation
2948 * Updated Romanian translation
2951 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2952 ----------------------------------
2955 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2956 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2957 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2958 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2959 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2960 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2961 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2962 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2965 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2966 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2967 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2968 * Fixed AAC resampling
2969 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2970 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2973 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2974 ----------------------------------
2977 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2978 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2979 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2980 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2981 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2984 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2985 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2986 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2987 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2988 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2991 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2992 ----------------------------------
2995 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2996 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2999 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3000 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3001 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3002 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3004 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3008 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3011 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3014 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3017 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3020 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3021 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3022 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3023 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3024 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3026 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3027 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3028 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3029 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3032 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3035 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3036 ----------------------------------
3039 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3040 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3041 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3043 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3044 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3046 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3047 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3050 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3052 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3053 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3054 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3055 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3056 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3057 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3058 two different movies
3059 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3060 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3061 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3064 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3067 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3068 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3069 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3070 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3073 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3074 ----------------------------------
3076 Various bugfixes, notably:
3077 * Windows Vista compatibility
3078 * Cropping in Direct3D
3079 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3080 * RSS filter string overflow
3082 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3084 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3085 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3088 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3089 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3092 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3095 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3098 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3101 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3102 ----------------------------------
3104 Various bugfixes, notably:
3105 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3106 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3107 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3108 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3109 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3110 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3113 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3114 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3117 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3119 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3120 * Diverse usability improvements
3121 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3122 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3123 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3126 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3127 ---------------------------------
3129 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3130 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3133 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3136 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3137 --------------------------------
3140 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3143 * Support for RTSP authentication
3144 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3145 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3146 * ATSC support for DVB input
3147 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3148 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3149 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3152 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3153 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3154 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3155 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3156 * Matroska WavPack support
3157 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3158 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3159 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3162 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3163 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3164 * Improved libcaca support
3168 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3169 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3171 * Systray support in skins
3173 * Support for Apple Remote control
3174 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3175 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3176 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3177 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3179 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3182 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3183 Windows 9x/ME users:
3184 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3185 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3186 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3187 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3188 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3190 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3191 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3200 * Updates to the libvlc API
3201 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3204 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3205 --------------------------------
3208 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3209 * Support for downloading updates
3213 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3214 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3215 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3216 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3218 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3219 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3220 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3223 * Cook (Real audio) support
3225 Playlist / Services discovery:
3226 * XSPF playlist support
3228 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3231 * New JACK audio output
3234 * New video filters:
3235 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3236 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3237 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3238 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3239 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3240 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3243 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3246 * System to inform the user and request information
3247 - HTTP authentication
3251 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3252 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3253 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3256 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3257 - Improved playlist handling
3258 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3260 - Embedded Video output
3261 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3262 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3263 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3264 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3265 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3267 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3268 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3271 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3274 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3275 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3276 * Growl "Now playing" support
3279 * Ability to log to syslog
3280 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3283 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3285 * A bit more automatic testing
3288 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3289 ---------------------------------
3292 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3293 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3296 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3297 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3300 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3303 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3304 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3310 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3313 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3314 --------------------------------
3317 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3321 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3322 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3323 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3326 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3327 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3328 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3329 * GnomeVFS input module
3330 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3331 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3334 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3335 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3336 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3339 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3340 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3346 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3347 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3350 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3351 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3352 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3355 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3357 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3358 - New extended controls panel
3359 - New bookmarks window
3360 - Fixed playlist sorting
3361 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3363 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3364 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3365 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3366 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3370 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3371 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3373 - Include macro to include other files
3377 * Should now work outside IE as well
3380 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3383 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3384 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3387 The following languages were added:
3391 * Simplified Chinese
3392 The following languages were re-added:
3396 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3397 --------------------------------
3400 * Rewrite of the playlist
3402 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3403 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3404 * Preferences improvements:
3405 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3406 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3408 * Core image manipulation support
3409 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3410 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3411 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3412 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3413 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3414 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3415 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3416 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3417 * Access filter architecture
3418 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3419 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3423 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3424 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3425 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3426 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3427 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3428 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3429 * Massive Matroska improvements
3430 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3432 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3433 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3434 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3435 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3436 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3438 Decoders / Encoders:
3439 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3440 * PNG decoder/encoder
3441 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3442 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3445 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3448 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3449 * Brand new SAP module
3450 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3451 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3452 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3453 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3454 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3455 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3459 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3462 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3463 * Image file video output (png)
3464 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3465 * Improvements to wall video filter
3466 * Support for font color and opacity
3472 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3473 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3474 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3478 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3479 - Improved preferences
3480 - Improvements to the wizard
3481 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3483 - Redesigned playlist
3484 - Improved preferences
3486 - Support for multiple actions
3489 - Support for the new playlist system
3491 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3494 * Screensaver disabling fix
3495 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3496 * Support for no-decoration windows
3499 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3500 * The OpenGL video output is back
3501 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3502 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3503 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3504 is not yet available in the new module
3505 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3508 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3517 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3520 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3523 The following languages were added:
3529 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3530 --------------------------------
3533 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3534 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3537 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3538 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3539 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3542 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3545 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3548 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3551 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3552 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3553 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3557 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3559 * Support of playlist group announcement
3562 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3563 --------------------------------
3566 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3567 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3568 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3569 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3570 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3571 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3574 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3575 (Stream your desktop)
3576 * Improved DVD support:
3577 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3578 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3579 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3580 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3581 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3582 (selection of titles/chapters).
3585 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3586 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3587 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3588 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3589 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3590 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3591 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3592 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3593 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3594 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3597 * G.726 audio support
3598 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3599 * MPEG-4 text support
3600 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3601 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3602 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3606 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3607 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3608 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3609 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3610 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3611 * DVB subtitles encoder
3612 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3613 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3615 * Text track muxing for mp4
3616 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3617 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3618 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3619 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3620 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3621 * Improved ASF muxer
3623 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3624 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3625 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3628 * New audio equalizer filter
3629 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3630 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3631 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3632 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3635 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3636 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3637 with support for effects.
3638 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3639 - New filters can be streamed.
3640 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3641 - Centralized scaling and blending
3643 - "time", to display current time
3644 - "marq", to display a marquee
3647 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3648 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3649 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3650 * A few skins2 improvements
3651 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3652 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3653 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3654 * Improved CORBA control module
3657 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3658 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3659 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3662 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3663 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3664 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3667 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3668 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3669 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3670 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3671 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3674 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3677 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3678 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3681 * Server/client network synchronization module
3682 * VBrick streams fully supported
3683 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3687 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3688 --------------------------------
3691 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3692 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3693 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3694 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3697 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3698 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3699 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3700 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3701 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3702 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3703 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3706 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3707 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3708 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3709 * Improved directory access module.
3710 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3711 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3712 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3713 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3714 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3717 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3718 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3719 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3722 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3723 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3724 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3727 * Improved session announcement system.
3728 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3729 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3730 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3731 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3732 * Improved transrater.
3733 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3734 * New configuration system.
3735 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3738 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3739 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3740 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3741 * Supports scheduling.
3742 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3743 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3746 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3747 - Ability to embed video output.
3748 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3749 - Lots of improvements.
3750 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3751 - New design and set of icons.
3752 - Ability to embed video output.
3753 - Support for hotkeys.
3754 - Support for bookmarks.
3756 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3757 - Better hotkeys handling.
3760 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3761 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3762 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3763 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3766 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3767 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3768 * Improved Windows installer.
3774 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3775 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3778 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3779 ---------------------------------
3782 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3783 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3786 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3787 --------------------------------
3790 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3791 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3794 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3795 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3796 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3797 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3800 * Internal improvments
3801 * Improved import/export
3804 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3806 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3807 small and strange formats.
3809 * New MOD audio demux.
3810 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3811 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3812 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3813 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3816 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3817 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3818 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3824 * New opengl video output plugin.
3827 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3828 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3831 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3832 --------------------------------
3835 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3836 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3837 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3838 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3839 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3840 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3841 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3842 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3845 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3850 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3851 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3852 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3853 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3854 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3855 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3856 * Better Icecast support.
3857 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3858 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3861 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3862 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3863 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3864 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3865 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3866 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3867 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3870 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3871 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3872 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3873 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3874 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3875 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3876 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3877 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3878 * Preliminary RTP support.
3879 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3884 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3885 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3887 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3888 - Improvements and help in preferences
3889 - New streaming wizard
3890 - Revised Disc Open menu
3892 - Improvements of the standard pages
3893 - Support for new commands
3894 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3897 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3898 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3901 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3902 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3903 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3904 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3905 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3906 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3907 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3908 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3909 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3912 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3914 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3915 * Support for Panther.
3916 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3917 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3920 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3921 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3922 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3923 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3924 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3925 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3926 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3927 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3930 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3931 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3932 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3935 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3938 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3939 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3940 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3941 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3944 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3945 --------------------------------
3948 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3951 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3952 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3955 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3956 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3959 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3962 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3963 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3966 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3969 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3972 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3973 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3977 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3978 --------------------------------
3981 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3982 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3986 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3987 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3988 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3990 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3991 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3994 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3997 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4000 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4001 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4005 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4006 --------------------------------
4009 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4010 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4014 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4015 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4016 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4017 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4018 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4021 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4022 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4023 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4026 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4027 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4028 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4031 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4032 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4033 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4034 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4035 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4038 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4039 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4040 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4043 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4046 * Improved build system.
4047 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4048 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4049 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4050 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4053 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4054 --------------------------------
4057 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4060 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4061 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4062 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4063 * Video 4 Linux support
4064 * CD Digital Audio support
4065 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4068 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4069 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4070 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4071 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4074 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4075 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4076 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4077 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4078 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4079 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4080 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4083 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4084 * New HTTP remote control interface
4087 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4088 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4089 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4090 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4091 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4094 * New reset option for the preferences
4095 * You can set your language in the prefences
4096 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4097 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4098 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4099 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4102 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4103 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4104 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4107 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4108 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4109 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4110 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4111 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4112 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4113 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4114 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4115 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4116 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4119 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4120 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4121 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4122 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4123 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4124 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4125 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4128 * Interface localization
4129 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4130 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4131 * New full-featured Preferences window
4134 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4135 --------------------------------
4138 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4139 * support for skins at the interface level
4140 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4141 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4142 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4143 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4144 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4147 * fixed HTTP redirects
4148 * support for opening an entire directory
4149 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4150 * new video4linux access plug-in
4151 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4154 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4155 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4156 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4159 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4160 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4161 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4162 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4163 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4164 * new codec for raw I420 video
4165 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4168 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4169 (although it still misses some important features)
4170 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4173 * new HTTP output support
4174 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4175 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4178 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4181 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4184 * reorderable playlist
4185 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4186 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4187 * support for mono audio output devices
4188 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4189 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4190 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4191 * the messages window remembers more lines
4192 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4193 * http and ogg stream output options
4194 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4197 * new skinnable interface
4198 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4200 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4201 * support for FLAC audio format
4202 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4204 * network tab in the interface
4205 * "apply" handling in preferences
4208 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4209 ---------------------------------
4212 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4213 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4214 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4215 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4217 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4218 * DTS S/PDIF support
4221 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4222 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4223 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4224 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4227 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4228 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4231 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4234 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4237 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4239 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4240 * rc interface is now fully useable
4241 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4244 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4245 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4246 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4247 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4248 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4250 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4251 * support for mouse gestures
4252 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4255 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4256 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4259 * improved ID3 tag detection
4260 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4261 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4262 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4264 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4267 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4268 ---------------------------------
4271 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4272 English was set as the preferred language
4275 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4276 --------------------------------
4279 * new mouse gesture interface
4280 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4284 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4285 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4286 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4289 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4290 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4294 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4297 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4298 without the user consent
4301 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4303 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4304 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4305 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4308 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4309 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4310 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4311 * playlist enhancements
4312 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4313 * new step forward/step backward commands
4314 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4315 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4316 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4319 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4320 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4321 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4324 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4325 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4328 * native video output is working again
4329 * only commandline interface support
4330 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4333 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4334 --------------------------------
4337 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4338 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4339 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4340 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4341 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4342 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4343 and A/52 streams are supported)
4344 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4349 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4350 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4351 * VCD entry points support
4352 * VCD image file support
4355 * support for *.asf format
4356 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4357 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4358 * support for ogg encapsulation
4359 * support for raw DV format
4360 * support for *.wav format
4361 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4364 Stream discovery & playlists:
4365 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4366 * support for .m3u file format
4367 * support for .asx file format
4368 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4371 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4372 (only available with the .avi demux)
4373 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4374 * support for raw PCM data
4375 * support for Cinepak video codec
4376 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4377 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4378 * support for Xvid codec
4379 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4380 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4381 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4383 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4385 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4388 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4391 * new WxWindows interface
4392 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4393 device and the channels configuration
4394 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4395 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4396 format that VLC can play
4397 * new swedish translation
4398 * enhancements of the playlist window
4399 * new messages window to see debug info
4400 * fixed a few crashes
4403 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4404 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4405 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4406 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working