1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x splitted files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
29 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
32 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
33 * Major improvements in DASH support
34 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
35 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
36 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
37 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
38 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
41 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
42 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
43 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
44 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
45 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
46 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
47 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
48 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
49 * Support for more MJPEG streams
50 * Add support for liveleak streams
53 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
54 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
55 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
56 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
59 * new remapping channel filter
60 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
61 * new VSXu visualization plugin
64 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
65 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
68 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
69 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
70 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
71 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
72 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
73 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
76 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
77 * Options support for AVIO output module
80 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
81 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
82 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
83 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
84 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
85 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
88 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
89 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
92 * add support for multiple video outputs
93 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
95 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
96 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
97 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
98 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
99 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
100 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
101 VLC's internal volume level
102 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
103 selection and to manage the list of presets
104 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
105 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
106 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
107 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
108 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
109 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
110 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
111 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
113 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
114 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
115 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
116 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
120 * Partial support for Qt5.0
121 * Menus modifications and improvements
122 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
123 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
127 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
128 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
129 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
130 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
133 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
134 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
135 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
136 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
137 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
138 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
140 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
141 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
144 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
145 --------------------------------
148 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
149 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
150 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
151 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
152 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
153 during playback on Mac OS X
156 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
157 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
158 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
161 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
162 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
163 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
164 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
165 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
168 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
169 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
170 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
171 * Support Youtube live streams
174 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
177 * Fix media info dialog update
178 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
179 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
180 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
181 * Fix album art display at start
184 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
185 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
186 * Fix menus display and behavior
187 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
188 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
189 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
190 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
191 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
192 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
193 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
196 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
197 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
198 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
199 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
200 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
201 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
202 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
203 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
204 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
207 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
208 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
209 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
210 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
213 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
214 --------------------------------
217 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
220 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
221 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
224 * Add GateKeeper support
225 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
226 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
227 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
230 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
233 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
234 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
235 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
236 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
237 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
240 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
241 --------------------------------
244 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
245 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
246 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
247 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
248 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
249 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
250 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
251 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
252 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
253 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
254 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
258 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
259 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
260 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
261 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
262 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
263 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
264 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
265 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
266 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
267 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
268 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
269 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
272 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
273 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
275 * Fix MP3 free format support
278 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
279 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
280 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
281 * Fix for DVB channels file support
282 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
285 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
286 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
288 Audio filters and output:
289 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
290 * Fix DirectSound device selection
291 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
292 * Do not apply volume in file output
293 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
294 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
297 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
298 the persistant media library
299 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
300 to the media library or the temporary playlist
301 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
302 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
303 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
304 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
305 press on the Play/Pause button
306 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
307 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
308 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
309 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
310 * Many Fullscreen fixes
311 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
312 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
313 Synchronization panel
314 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
315 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
316 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
317 * Fix crashes on exit
318 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
320 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
321 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
322 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
323 automatically reset on the first launch.
324 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
325 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
326 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
329 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
330 * Fixes for icecast SD
333 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
334 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
335 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
336 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
337 * Fix tags and file names display
338 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
341 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
342 * Fix for key events and focus loss
345 * Fix display of some buttons
346 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
347 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
350 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
351 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
352 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
355 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
356 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
357 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
358 Thai translations update
359 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
362 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
363 --------------------------------
366 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
367 * fix the samba module compilation
368 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
369 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
370 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
371 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
374 * Support for MXPEG files
375 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
376 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
379 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
380 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
381 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
384 * Fix ogm header creation
387 * limit spatializer filter distortions
388 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
391 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
392 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
393 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
394 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
397 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
400 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
401 * allow to hide the sidebar
402 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
403 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
404 * noticebly faster launch time
405 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
406 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
407 * improve track synchronization panel
408 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
409 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
412 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
413 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
414 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
415 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
418 * fix for menus display
419 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
420 * documentation update
423 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
424 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
427 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
428 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
429 * Update Jamendo selections
433 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
434 * fix a crash on VLM close
437 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
438 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
439 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
440 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
443 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
446 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
447 ---------------------------------
450 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
451 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
452 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
453 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
454 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
455 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
456 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
457 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
458 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
459 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
460 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
461 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
462 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
463 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
464 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
465 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
466 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
467 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
468 --http-crl (optional CRL).
469 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
470 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
471 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
472 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
473 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
474 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
475 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
477 Important changes for packagers:
478 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
479 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
480 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
481 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
482 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
483 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
484 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
485 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
486 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
487 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
490 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
491 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
492 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
493 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
494 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
495 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
496 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
499 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
500 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
501 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
502 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
503 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
504 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
505 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
506 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
507 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
508 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
509 * PulseAudio audio input support
510 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
511 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
512 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
513 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
514 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
515 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
516 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
517 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
520 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
521 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
522 are notably concerned.
523 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
524 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
525 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
526 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
527 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
528 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
529 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
530 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
531 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
532 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
533 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
534 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
535 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
536 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
537 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
540 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
541 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
542 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
543 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
544 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
545 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
546 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
547 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
548 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
549 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
550 * Improved support of tracker files
551 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
554 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
555 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
556 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
557 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
558 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
559 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
560 and important cleanups and optimisations
561 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
562 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
563 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
564 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
565 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
566 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
567 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
568 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
569 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
570 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
571 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
572 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
573 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
574 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
575 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
576 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
577 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
578 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
579 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
580 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
581 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
584 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
585 * New video output for iOS platform
586 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
587 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
588 * Various vmem improvements
589 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
590 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
591 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
592 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
593 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
594 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
596 Audio Output and Filters:
597 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
598 * New audio output in memory (amem)
599 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
600 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
601 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
602 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
603 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
604 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
605 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
606 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
609 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
610 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
611 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
612 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
613 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
614 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
615 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
616 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
617 * New anti-flickering filter
618 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
619 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
620 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
621 blackbox and customizable shadow.
622 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
623 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
624 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
627 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
628 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
629 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
630 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
631 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
632 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
633 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
634 * Major rework of VoD support
635 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
636 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
637 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
638 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
639 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
640 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
641 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
642 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
643 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
644 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
647 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
648 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
651 * New capabilities for libVLC:
652 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
653 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
654 list of available audio and video filters
655 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
656 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
657 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
660 * asademux, subsass: use libass
661 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
662 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
664 * upnp: use upnp_intel
665 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
666 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
667 * removal of the noise filter
668 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
669 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
670 removed in Growl's next release, too.
671 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
674 * Update of translations for most languages.
675 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
678 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
679 ----------------------------------
682 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
683 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
686 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
687 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
690 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
691 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
692 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
695 * Camtasia decoding fix.
698 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
699 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
702 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
705 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
706 ----------------------------------
709 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
710 including support for OS X Lion
711 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
712 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
715 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
718 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
719 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
720 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
723 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
726 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
727 ----------------------------------
730 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
731 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
734 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
735 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
736 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
737 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
738 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
740 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
741 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
742 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
744 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
745 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
748 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
751 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
754 * Fix quitting on Linux
755 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
759 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
762 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
765 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
766 ---------------------------------
768 Windows and Mac OS X:
769 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
772 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
773 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
776 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
779 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
782 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
784 Miscellaneous fixes in:
785 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
787 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
788 * RTP output and XML export
789 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
793 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
794 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
795 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
796 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
799 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
800 --------------------------------
802 Windows and Mac OS X:
803 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
806 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
809 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
810 * Improve Apple Remote handling
811 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
812 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
813 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
814 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
817 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
818 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
822 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
823 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
824 * New Luganda Translation
827 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
828 --------------------------------
831 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
834 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
835 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
836 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
837 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
840 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
842 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
843 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
844 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
845 * mp4 demuxer improvements
846 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
847 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
848 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
849 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
851 Miscellaneous fixes in:
852 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
853 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
854 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
855 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
856 * Configure and build system improvements
857 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
860 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
861 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
862 * New icelandic translation
865 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
866 --------------------------------
869 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
873 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
874 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
875 and stability reasons
878 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
882 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
885 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
886 ----------------------------------
889 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
892 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
893 ---------------------------------
896 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
897 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
898 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
899 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
902 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
905 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
906 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
907 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
908 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
911 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
912 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
913 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
915 Subtitles and renderer:
916 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
917 * Mark more freetype options as safe
918 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
919 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
920 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
923 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
924 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
925 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
926 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
929 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
930 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
933 * KDE device solid actions
935 * Transcode integer overflow
936 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
937 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
940 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
941 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
942 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
945 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
946 ----------------------------------
949 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
953 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
956 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
959 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
960 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
961 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
962 * Taglib thread-safety fix
965 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
969 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
972 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
975 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
976 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
978 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
982 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
983 * Miscellaneous fixes
986 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
987 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
989 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
990 * New Asturian translation
993 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
994 ----------------------------------
997 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
999 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1002 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1005 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1006 * Various fixes for Windows
1009 * New Armenian translation
1010 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1011 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1014 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1015 --------------------------------
1018 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1019 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1020 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1023 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1024 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1027 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1028 --------------------------------
1030 Access and demuxers:
1031 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1032 * fix for podcasts parsing
1033 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1036 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1037 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1040 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1041 * fix m3u playlists exports
1044 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1047 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1050 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1053 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1056 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1059 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1060 --------------------------------
1063 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1064 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1067 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1068 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1071 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1072 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1073 * fix console output encoding
1075 Interface and extensions:
1076 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1077 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1080 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1081 --------------------------------
1084 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1085 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1086 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1087 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1088 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1089 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1090 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1091 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1092 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1093 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1094 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1095 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1096 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1097 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1098 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1099 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1103 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1104 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1105 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1106 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1107 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1110 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1113 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1114 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1115 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1119 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1122 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1123 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1124 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1127 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1128 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1129 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1130 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1133 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1134 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1137 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1138 --------------------------------
1140 Important changes for users:
1141 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1142 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1144 Important changes for packagers:
1145 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1146 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1147 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1148 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1149 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1151 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1153 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1154 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1155 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1156 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1157 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1160 * Support for the sftp protocol
1161 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1162 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1163 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1164 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1165 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1168 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1169 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1170 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1172 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1173 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1174 * Invmem module improvements
1175 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1176 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1177 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1178 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1179 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1180 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1181 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1182 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1183 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1184 * Support for VP8 codec
1185 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1188 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1189 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1190 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1191 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1192 * Various EGP improvements
1193 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1194 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1197 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1198 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1199 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1200 * Podcast images are now displayed
1203 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1204 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1205 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1206 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1207 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1208 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1209 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1210 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1211 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1212 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1213 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1216 * New content extensions lua framework
1219 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1220 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1221 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1222 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1223 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1224 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1225 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1228 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1229 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1230 * Service discovery based on libudev
1231 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1234 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1235 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1236 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1237 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1238 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1239 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1240 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1243 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1244 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1245 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1248 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1250 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1251 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1254 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1257 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1258 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1259 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1260 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1261 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1262 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1263 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1266 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1267 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1270 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1271 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1272 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1276 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1277 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1278 * Improved Solaris port
1281 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1282 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1285 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1286 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1287 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1288 * transrate: broken since too long
1289 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1290 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1291 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1292 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1293 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1294 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1295 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1296 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1297 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1298 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1299 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1300 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1301 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1302 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1305 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1306 --------------------------------
1309 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1311 Decoders/Packetizers:
1312 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1315 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1316 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1317 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1318 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1319 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1322 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1323 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1326 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1327 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1330 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1331 and Walloon translations updated
1332 * Sinhala translation started
1335 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1336 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1339 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1340 --------------------------------
1343 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1344 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1347 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1350 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1351 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1354 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1355 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1356 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1357 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1360 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1361 --------------------------------
1364 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1365 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1368 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1369 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1372 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1373 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1376 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1379 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1380 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1383 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1384 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1387 * New Walloon translation
1388 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1391 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1392 --------------------------------
1395 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1396 regressions in most popular drivers
1397 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1400 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1401 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1402 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1405 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1406 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1409 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1410 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1411 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1412 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1413 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1416 * New udev module for linux
1419 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1422 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1425 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1426 --------------------------------
1429 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1430 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1431 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1434 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1435 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1438 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1439 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1442 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1445 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1446 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1447 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1448 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1451 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1452 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1453 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1454 - no support for Goom and SDL
1455 - limited text rendering support
1456 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1459 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1460 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1461 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1462 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1463 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1464 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1465 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1466 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1467 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1471 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1474 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1477 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1478 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1479 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1480 Arabic and French translation updates
1483 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1484 --------------------------------
1487 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1488 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1489 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1490 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1491 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1492 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1495 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1496 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1497 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1500 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1501 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1502 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1505 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1508 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1509 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1512 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1513 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1514 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1515 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1516 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1517 * Fix various crashes
1520 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1522 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1526 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1527 ---------------------------------
1531 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1532 See 'Access:' for more info.
1533 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1536 * Instantaneous pausing
1537 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1538 * Finer speed control
1539 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1540 * Timeshift for most medias
1541 * RTSP trickplay support
1542 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1545 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1546 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1547 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1548 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1549 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1550 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1551 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1552 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1553 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1554 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1557 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1558 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1559 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1560 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1561 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1562 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1563 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1566 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1567 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1570 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1571 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1572 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1573 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1574 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1575 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1576 * DVB scanning on linux
1577 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1578 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1579 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1580 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1581 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1582 * MTP device access on Unix
1583 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1584 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1587 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1588 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1589 Windows and Mac OS X.
1592 * Export the playlist in HTML
1593 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1594 * Better metadata handling and reading
1596 Linux/Windows interface:
1597 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1598 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1599 * Recently played items list
1600 * Interface toolbar customizations
1601 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1602 - More menus actions
1603 - Finer speed slider
1604 - Improvements on many dialogs
1605 - New dialog for plugins listing
1606 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1607 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1608 * Better integration in GTK environments
1611 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1612 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1613 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1614 * Additional usability improvements
1617 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1618 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1619 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1620 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1621 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1624 * New Maemo port with:
1625 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1626 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1629 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1632 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1633 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1634 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1635 * Support for latest iSight models
1638 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1639 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1642 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1643 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1644 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1645 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1646 The old image video output has been removed.
1647 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1648 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1651 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1659 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1660 --------------------------------------
1666 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1667 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1668 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1669 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1670 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1671 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1672 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1674 Various fixes to the following modules:
1677 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1678 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1679 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1681 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1686 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1687 ---------------------------------
1690 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1691 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1694 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1695 ---------------------------------
1698 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1701 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1704 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1705 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1706 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1707 main controller window.
1708 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1711 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1716 * Updates of other localizations
1719 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1720 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1721 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1722 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1723 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1726 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1727 ---------------------------------
1730 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1732 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1735 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1736 --------------------------------
1741 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1742 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1745 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1746 --------------------------------
1748 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1749 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1752 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1755 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1756 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1759 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1760 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1763 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1764 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1765 * Various fixed in playlist
1768 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1771 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1774 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1775 ------------------------------------
1777 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1778 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1781 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1782 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1783 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1786 * Stability fix for the video output.
1789 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1790 --------------------------------
1793 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1794 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1795 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1796 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1797 * Fixed update system bugs
1798 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1801 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1802 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1803 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1804 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1805 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1806 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1807 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1808 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1809 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1810 modern Mac OS X versions
1813 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1814 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1816 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1817 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1820 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1821 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1822 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1823 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1824 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1825 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1828 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1829 --------------------------------
1831 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1832 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1833 * Multiple bugfixes.
1836 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1837 --------------------------------
1839 * Multiple bug fixes.
1842 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1843 ---------------------------------
1847 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1848 recent to work correctly
1849 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1850 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1851 edit the ".hosts" file.
1852 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1853 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1854 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1855 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1856 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1857 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1858 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1859 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1860 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1861 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1862 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1863 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1864 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1865 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1866 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1867 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1868 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1869 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1870 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1871 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1872 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1873 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1874 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1875 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1876 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1877 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1878 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1879 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1880 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1881 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1882 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1883 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1884 and postproc modules.
1885 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1886 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1887 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1888 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1890 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1891 filter. For example:
1892 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1893 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1895 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1896 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1902 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1904 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1905 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1908 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1909 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1911 * Shoutcast TV listings
1912 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1914 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1915 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1917 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1920 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1921 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1922 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1923 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1924 * JACK audio input support
1925 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1926 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1927 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1928 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1929 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1930 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1931 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1932 (available as a separate download).
1933 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1934 * RTMP input support
1935 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1936 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1937 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1939 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1940 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1943 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1944 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1945 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1946 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1948 * APEv1/2 tags support
1949 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1950 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1952 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1953 * TiVo Series 2 support
1954 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1959 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1960 * Flash Screen Video support
1961 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1962 * DosBox Capture support
1963 * Karl Morton's Video support
1964 * limited atrac3 support
1966 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1967 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1968 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1969 * H.264 PAFF support
1970 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1971 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1972 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1973 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1974 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1977 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1978 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1979 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1980 * AQTitle subtitles support
1981 * MKV USF subtitles support
1982 * HTML-based subtitles support
1983 * MPSub subtitles support
1984 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1985 * MPL2 subtitles support
1986 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1987 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1988 * Realtext subtitle support
1989 * DKS subtitle support
1990 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1991 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1994 * Flash Screen Video support
1995 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1997 Video outputs and filters:
1998 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1999 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2000 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2001 * New puzzle video output filter
2002 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2003 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2005 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2006 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2007 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2008 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2009 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2010 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2011 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2012 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2013 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2014 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2015 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2016 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2017 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2018 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2020 Audio outputs and filters:
2021 * Replay gain support
2022 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2023 new scaletempo audio filter)
2024 * New spatializer audio filter
2025 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2028 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2029 * New RTP payload formats:
2030 * Speex voice audio codec
2031 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2032 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2033 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2034 * DCCP transport for RTP
2035 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2040 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2041 end-user suitable way.
2042 * Improved user interaction
2043 * Improved mouse gestures
2044 * Vastly improved Update checker
2045 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2047 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2048 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2050 * Improved video output features
2051 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2052 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2053 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2054 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2055 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2057 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2058 if libncursesw is available.
2059 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2060 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2061 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2063 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2064 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2065 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2066 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2067 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2068 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2069 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2070 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2073 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2074 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2075 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2078 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2079 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2080 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2081 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2082 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2083 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2086 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2087 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2097 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2098 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2099 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2102 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2103 ----------------------------------
2106 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2109 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2110 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2111 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2112 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2113 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2114 * Updated Polish translation
2117 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2118 ----------------------------------
2121 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2122 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2123 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2126 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2127 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2128 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2129 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2130 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2131 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2132 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2133 to an unexpected application termination
2134 * New Serbian translation
2135 * Updated Romanian translation
2138 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2139 ----------------------------------
2142 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2143 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2144 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2145 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2146 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2147 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2148 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2149 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2152 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2153 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2154 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2155 * Fixed AAC resampling
2156 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2157 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2160 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2161 ----------------------------------
2164 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2165 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2166 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2167 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2168 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2171 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2172 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2173 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2174 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2175 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2178 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2179 ----------------------------------
2182 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2183 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2186 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2187 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2188 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2189 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2191 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2195 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2198 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2201 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2204 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2207 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2208 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2209 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2210 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2211 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2213 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2214 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2215 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2216 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2219 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2222 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2223 ----------------------------------
2226 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2227 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2228 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2230 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2231 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2233 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2234 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2237 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2239 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2240 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2241 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2242 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2243 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2244 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2245 two different movies
2246 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2247 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2248 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2251 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2254 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2255 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2256 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2257 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2260 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2261 ----------------------------------
2263 Various bugfixes, notably:
2264 * Windows Vista compatibility
2265 * Cropping in Direct3D
2266 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2267 * RSS filter string overflow
2269 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2271 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2272 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2275 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2276 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2279 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2282 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2285 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2288 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2289 ----------------------------------
2291 Various bugfixes, notably:
2292 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2293 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2294 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2295 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2296 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2297 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2300 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2301 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2304 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2306 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2307 * Diverse usability improvements
2308 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2309 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2310 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2313 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2314 ---------------------------------
2316 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2317 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2320 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2323 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2324 --------------------------------
2327 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2330 * Support for RTSP authentication
2331 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2332 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2333 * ATSC support for DVB input
2334 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2335 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2336 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2339 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2340 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2341 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2342 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2343 * Matroska WavPack support
2344 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2345 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2346 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2349 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2350 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2351 * Improved libcaca support
2355 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2356 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2358 * Systray support in skins
2360 * Support for Apple Remote control
2361 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2362 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2363 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2364 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2366 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2369 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2370 Windows 9x/ME users:
2371 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2372 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2373 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2374 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2375 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2377 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2378 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2387 * Updates to the libvlc API
2388 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2391 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2392 --------------------------------
2395 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2396 * Support for downloading updates
2400 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2401 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2402 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2403 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2405 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2406 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2407 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2410 * Cook (Real audio) support
2412 Playlist / Services discovery:
2413 * XSPF playlist support
2415 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2418 * New JACK audio output
2421 * New video filters:
2422 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2423 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2424 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2425 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2426 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2427 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2430 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2433 * System to inform the user and request information
2434 - HTTP authentication
2438 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2439 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2440 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2443 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2444 - Improved playlist handling
2445 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2447 - Embedded Video output
2448 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2449 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2450 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2451 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2452 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2454 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2455 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2458 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2461 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2462 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2463 * Growl "Now playing" support
2466 * Ability to log to syslog
2467 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2470 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2472 * A bit more automatic testing
2475 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2476 ---------------------------------
2479 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2480 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2483 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2484 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2487 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2490 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2491 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2497 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2500 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2501 --------------------------------
2504 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2508 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2509 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2510 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2513 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2514 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2515 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2516 * GnomeVFS input module
2517 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2518 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2521 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2522 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2523 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2526 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2527 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2533 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2534 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2537 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2538 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2539 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2542 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2544 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2545 - New extended controls panel
2546 - New bookmarks window
2547 - Fixed playlist sorting
2548 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2550 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2551 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2552 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2553 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2557 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2558 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2560 - Include macro to include other files
2564 * Should now work outside IE as well
2567 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2570 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2571 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2574 The following languages were added:
2578 * Simplified Chinese
2579 The following languages were re-added:
2583 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2584 --------------------------------
2587 * Rewrite of the playlist
2589 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2590 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2591 * Preferences improvements:
2592 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2593 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2595 * Core image manipulation support
2596 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2597 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2598 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2599 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2600 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2601 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2602 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2603 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2604 * Access filter architecture
2605 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2606 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2610 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2611 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2612 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2613 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2614 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2615 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2616 * Massive Matroska improvements
2617 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2619 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2620 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2621 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2622 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2623 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2625 Decoders / Encoders:
2626 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2627 * PNG decoder/encoder
2628 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2629 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2632 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2635 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2636 * Brand new SAP module
2637 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2638 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2639 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2640 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2641 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2642 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2646 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2649 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2650 * Image file video output (png)
2651 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2652 * Improvements to wall video filter
2653 * Support for font color and opacity
2659 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2660 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2661 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2665 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2666 - Improved preferences
2667 - Improvements to the wizard
2668 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2670 - Redesigned playlist
2671 - Improved preferences
2673 - Support for multiple actions
2676 - Support for the new playlist system
2678 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2681 * Screensaver disabling fix
2682 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2683 * Support for no-decoration windows
2686 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2687 * The OpenGL video output is back
2688 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2689 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2690 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2691 is not yet available in the new module
2692 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2695 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2704 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2707 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2710 The following languages were added:
2716 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2717 --------------------------------
2720 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2721 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2724 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2725 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2726 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2729 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2732 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2735 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2738 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2739 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2740 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2744 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2746 * Support of playlist group announcement
2749 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2750 --------------------------------
2753 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2754 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2755 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2756 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2757 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2758 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2761 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2762 (Stream your desktop)
2763 * Improved DVD support:
2764 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2765 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2766 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2767 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2768 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2769 (selection of titles/chapters).
2772 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2773 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2774 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2775 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2776 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2777 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2778 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2779 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2780 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2781 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2784 * G.726 audio support
2785 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2786 * MPEG-4 text support
2787 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2788 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2789 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2793 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2794 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2795 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2796 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2797 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2798 * DVB subtitles encoder
2799 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2800 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2802 * Text track muxing for mp4
2803 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2804 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2805 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2806 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2807 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2808 * Improved ASF muxer
2810 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2811 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2812 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2815 * New audio equalizer filter
2816 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2817 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2818 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2819 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2822 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2823 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2824 with support for effects.
2825 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2826 - New filters can be streamed.
2827 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2828 - Centralized scaling and blending
2830 - "time", to display current time
2831 - "marq", to display a marquee
2834 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2835 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2836 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2837 * A few skins2 improvements
2838 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2839 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2840 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2841 * Improved CORBA control module
2844 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2845 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2846 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2849 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2850 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2851 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2854 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2855 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2856 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2857 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2858 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2861 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2864 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2865 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2868 * Server/client network synchronization module
2869 * VBrick streams fully supported
2870 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2874 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2875 --------------------------------
2878 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2879 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2880 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2881 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2884 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2885 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2886 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2887 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2888 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2889 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2890 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2893 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2894 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2895 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2896 * Improved directory access module.
2897 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2898 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2899 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2900 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2901 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2904 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2905 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2906 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2909 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2910 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2911 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2914 * Improved session announcement system.
2915 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2916 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2917 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2918 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2919 * Improved transrater.
2920 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2921 * New configuration system.
2922 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2925 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2926 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2927 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2928 * Supports scheduling.
2929 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2930 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2933 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2934 - Ability to embed video output.
2935 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2936 - Lots of improvements.
2937 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2938 - New design and set of icons.
2939 - Ability to embed video output.
2940 - Support for hotkeys.
2941 - Support for bookmarks.
2943 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2944 - Better hotkeys handling.
2947 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2948 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2949 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2950 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2953 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2954 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2955 * Improved Windows installer.
2961 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2962 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2965 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2966 ---------------------------------
2969 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2970 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2973 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2974 --------------------------------
2977 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2978 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2981 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2982 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2983 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2984 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2987 * Internal improvments
2988 * Improved import/export
2991 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2993 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2994 small and strange formats.
2996 * New MOD audio demux.
2997 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2998 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2999 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3000 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3003 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3004 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3005 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3011 * New opengl video output plugin.
3014 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3015 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3018 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3019 --------------------------------
3022 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3023 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3024 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3025 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3026 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3027 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3028 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3029 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3032 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3037 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3038 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3039 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3040 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3041 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3042 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3043 * Better Icecast support.
3044 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3045 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3048 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3049 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3050 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3051 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3052 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3053 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3054 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3057 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3058 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3059 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3060 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3061 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3062 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3063 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3064 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3065 * Preliminary RTP support.
3066 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3071 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3072 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3074 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3075 - Improvements and help in preferences
3076 - New streaming wizard
3077 - Revised Disc Open menu
3079 - Improvements of the standard pages
3080 - Support for new commands
3081 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3084 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3085 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3088 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3089 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3090 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3091 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3092 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3093 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3094 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3095 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3096 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3099 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3101 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3102 * Support for Panther.
3103 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3104 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3107 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3108 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3109 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3110 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3111 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3112 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3113 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3114 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3117 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3118 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3119 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3122 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3125 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3126 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3127 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3128 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3131 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3132 --------------------------------
3135 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3138 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3139 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3142 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3143 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3146 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3149 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3150 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3153 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3156 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3159 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3160 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3164 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3165 --------------------------------
3168 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3169 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3173 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3174 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3175 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3177 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3178 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3181 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3184 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3187 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3188 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3192 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3193 --------------------------------
3196 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3197 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3201 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3202 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3203 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3204 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3205 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3208 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3209 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3210 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3213 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3214 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3215 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3218 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3219 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3220 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3221 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3222 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3225 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3226 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3227 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3230 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3233 * Improved build system.
3234 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3235 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3236 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3237 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3240 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3241 --------------------------------
3244 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3247 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3248 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3249 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3250 * Video 4 Linux support
3251 * CD Digital Audio support
3252 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3255 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3256 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3257 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3258 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3261 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3262 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3263 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3264 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3265 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3266 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3267 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3270 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3271 * New HTTP remote control interface
3274 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3275 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3276 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3277 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3278 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3281 * New reset option for the preferences
3282 * You can set your language in the prefences
3283 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3284 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3285 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3286 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3289 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3290 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3291 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3294 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3295 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3296 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3297 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3298 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3299 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3300 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3301 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3302 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3303 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3306 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3307 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3308 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3309 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3310 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3311 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3312 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3315 * Interface localization
3316 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3317 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3318 * New full-featured Preferences window
3321 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3322 --------------------------------
3325 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3326 * support for skins at the interface level
3327 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3328 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3329 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3330 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3331 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3334 * fixed HTTP redirects
3335 * support for opening an entire directory
3336 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3337 * new video4linux access plug-in
3338 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3341 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3342 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3343 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3346 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3347 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3348 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3349 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3350 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3351 * new codec for raw I420 video
3352 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3355 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3356 (although it still misses some important features)
3357 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3360 * new HTTP output support
3361 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3362 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3365 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3368 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3371 * reorderable playlist
3372 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3373 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3374 * support for mono audio output devices
3375 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3376 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3377 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3378 * the messages window remembers more lines
3379 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3380 * http and ogg stream output options
3381 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3384 * new skinnable interface
3385 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3387 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3388 * support for FLAC audio format
3389 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3391 * network tab in the interface
3392 * "apply" handling in preferences
3395 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3396 ---------------------------------
3399 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3400 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3401 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3402 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3404 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3405 * DTS S/PDIF support
3408 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3409 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3410 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3411 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3414 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3415 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3418 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3421 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3424 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3426 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3427 * rc interface is now fully useable
3428 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3431 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3432 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3433 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3434 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3435 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3437 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3438 * support for mouse gestures
3439 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3442 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3443 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3446 * improved ID3 tag detection
3447 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3448 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3449 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3451 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3454 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3455 ---------------------------------
3458 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3459 English was set as the preferred language
3462 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3463 --------------------------------
3466 * new mouse gesture interface
3467 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3471 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3472 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3473 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3476 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3477 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3481 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3484 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3485 without the user consent
3488 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3490 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3491 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3492 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3495 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3496 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3497 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3498 * playlist enhancements
3499 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3500 * new step forward/step backward commands
3501 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3502 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3503 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3506 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3507 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3508 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3511 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3512 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3515 * native video output is working again
3516 * only commandline interface support
3517 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3520 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3521 --------------------------------
3524 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3525 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3526 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3527 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3528 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3529 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3530 and A/52 streams are supported)
3531 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3536 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3537 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3538 * VCD entry points support
3539 * VCD image file support
3542 * support for *.asf format
3543 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3544 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3545 * support for ogg encapsulation
3546 * support for raw DV format
3547 * support for *.wav format
3548 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3551 Stream discovery & playlists:
3552 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3553 * support for .m3u file format
3554 * support for .asx file format
3555 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3558 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3559 (only available with the .avi demux)
3560 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3561 * support for raw PCM data
3562 * support for Cinepak video codec
3563 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3564 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3565 * support for Xvid codec
3566 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3567 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3568 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3570 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3572 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3575 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3578 * new WxWindows interface
3579 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3580 device and the channels configuration
3581 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3582 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3583 format that VLC can play
3584 * new swedish translation
3585 * enhancements of the playlist window
3586 * new messages window to see debug info
3587 * fixed a few crashes
3590 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3591 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3592 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3593 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working