3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
24 * Vastly improved playlist support:
25 * Media library support
27 * Shoutcast TV listings
28 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
31 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
32 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
33 * New puzzle video output filter
37 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
39 * Improved user interaction
42 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
43 --------------------------------
46 * Shoutcast TV listings support
49 * Support for RTSP authentication
50 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
51 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
52 * ATSC support for DVB input
53 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
54 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
55 * Improved support for Flash Video files
58 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
59 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
60 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
61 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
63 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
64 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
65 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
68 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
69 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
70 * Improved libcaca support
74 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
75 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
77 * Systray support in skins
79 * Support for Apple Remote control
80 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
81 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
82 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
83 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
85 * Notifications using notification-daemon
88 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
90 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
91 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
92 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
93 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
94 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
96 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
97 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
106 * Updates to the libvlc API
107 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
110 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
111 ---------------------------------
114 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
115 * Support for downloading updates
119 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
120 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
121 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
122 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
124 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
125 * Improved subtitles encoding support
126 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
129 * Cook (Real audio) support
131 Playlist / Services discovery:
132 * XSPF playlist support
134 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
137 * New JACK audio output
141 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
142 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
143 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
144 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
145 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
146 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
149 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
152 * System to inform the user and request information
153 - HTTP authentication
157 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
158 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
159 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
162 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
163 - Improved playlist handling
164 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
166 - Embedded Video output
167 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
168 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
169 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
170 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
171 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
173 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
174 - A bunch of new RPN functions
177 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
180 * Mac-Intel compatibility
181 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
182 * Growl "Now playing" support
185 * Ability to log to syslog
186 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
189 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
191 * A bit more automatic testing
193 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
194 ---------------------------------
197 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
198 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
201 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
202 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
205 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
208 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
209 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
215 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
217 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
218 --------------------------------
221 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
225 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
226 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
227 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
230 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
231 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
232 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
233 * GnomeVFS input module
234 * Support for RTP packet reordering
235 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
238 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
239 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
240 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
243 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
244 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
250 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
251 Mixer and Dolby Surround
254 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
255 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
256 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
259 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
261 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
262 - New extended controls panel
263 - New bookmarks window
264 - Fixed playlist sorting
265 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
267 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
268 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
269 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
270 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
274 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
275 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
277 - Include macro to include other files
281 * Should now work outside IE as well
284 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
287 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
288 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
291 The following languages were added:
296 The following languages were re-added:
299 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
300 --------------------------------
303 * Rewrite of the playlist
305 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
306 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
307 * Preferences improvements:
308 - New organization, designed to improve usability
309 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
311 * Core image manipulation support
312 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
313 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
314 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
315 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
316 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
317 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
318 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
319 now separated by ':' instead of ','
320 * Access filter architecture
321 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
322 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
326 * Support for SOCKS proxy
327 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
328 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
329 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
330 * Better support for Kasenna streams
331 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
332 * Massive Matroska improvements
333 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
335 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
336 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
337 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
338 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
339 * Support for FTP over IPv6
342 * Dirac decoder and encoder
343 * PNG decoder/encoder
344 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
345 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
348 * New Record and Timeshift filters
351 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
352 * Brand new SAP module
353 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
354 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
355 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
356 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
357 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
358 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
362 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
365 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
366 * Image file video output (png)
367 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
368 * Improvements to wall video filter
369 * Support for font color and opacity
375 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
376 - Seeking support in VoD streams
377 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
381 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
382 - Improved preferences
383 - Improvements to the wizard
384 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
386 - Redesigned playlist
387 - Improved preferences
389 - Support for multiple actions
392 - Support for the new playlist system
394 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
397 * Screensaver disabling fix
398 * DirectShow tuner configuration
399 * Support for no-decoration windows
402 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
403 * The OpenGL video output is back
404 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
405 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
406 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
407 is not yet available in the new module
408 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
411 * Support for single-buffered overlay
420 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
423 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
426 The following languages were added:
432 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
433 -----------------------------------------------------
436 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
437 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
440 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
441 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
442 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
445 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
448 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
451 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
454 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
455 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
456 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
460 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
462 * Support of playlist group announcement
464 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
465 -----------------------------------------------------
468 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
469 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
470 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
471 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
472 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
473 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
476 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
477 (Stream your desktop)
478 * Improved DVD support:
479 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
480 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
481 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
482 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
483 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
484 (selection of titles/chapters).
487 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
488 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
489 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
490 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
491 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
492 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
493 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
494 * Improved Ogg demuxer
495 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
496 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
499 * G.726 audio support
500 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
501 * MPEG-4 text support
502 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
503 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
504 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
508 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
509 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
510 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
511 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
512 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
513 * DVB subtitles encoder
514 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
515 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
517 * Text track muxing for mp4
518 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
519 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
520 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
521 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
522 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
525 * H.263 RTP streaming support
526 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
527 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
530 * New audio equalizer filter
531 * Very trivial volume normalizer
532 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
533 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
534 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
537 * Roku HD1000 Video output
538 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
539 with support for effects.
540 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
541 - New filters can be streamed.
542 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
543 - Centralized scaling and blending
545 - "time", to display current time
546 - "marq", to display a marquee
549 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
550 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
551 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
552 * A few skins2 improvements
553 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
554 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
555 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
556 * Improved CORBA control module
559 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
560 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
561 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
564 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
565 * Experimental SVG rendering module
566 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
569 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
570 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
571 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
572 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
573 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
576 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
579 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
580 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
583 * Server/client network synchronization module
584 * VBrick streams fully supported
585 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
588 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
589 --------------------------------
592 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
593 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
594 * Improved HTTP daemon.
595 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
598 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
599 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
600 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
601 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
602 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
603 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
604 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
607 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
608 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
609 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
610 * Improved directory access module.
611 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
612 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
613 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
614 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
615 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
618 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
619 * mmsh streaming fixes.
620 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
623 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
624 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
625 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
628 * Improved session announcement system.
629 * Minimize threads usage by default.
630 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
631 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
632 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
633 * Improved transrater.
634 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
635 * New configuration system.
636 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
639 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
640 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
641 * Supports live streams and VoD.
642 * Supports scheduling.
643 * Telnet interface for vlm.
644 * HTTP interface for vlm.
647 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
648 - Ability to embed video output.
649 - Support for bitmap fonts.
650 - Lots of improvements.
651 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
652 - New design and set of icons.
653 - Ability to embed video output.
654 - Support for hotkeys.
655 - Support for bookmarks.
657 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
658 - Better hotkeys handling.
661 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
662 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
663 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
664 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
667 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
668 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
669 * Improved Windows installer.
675 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
676 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
678 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
679 ---------------------------------
682 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
683 * Playing MOD files is working now.
686 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
687 ---------------------------------
690 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
691 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
694 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
695 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
696 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
697 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
700 * Internal improvments
701 * Improved import/export
704 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
706 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
707 small and strange formats.
709 * New MOD audio demux.
710 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
711 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
712 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
713 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
716 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
717 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
718 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
724 * New opengl video output plugin.
727 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
728 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
730 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
731 ---------------------------------
734 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
735 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
736 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
737 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
738 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
739 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
740 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
741 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
744 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
749 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
750 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
751 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
752 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
753 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
754 * Reworked DVB tuning.
755 * Better Icecast support.
756 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
757 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
760 * Support for Theora video encoding.
761 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
762 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
763 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
764 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
765 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
766 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
769 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
770 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
771 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
772 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
773 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
774 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
775 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
776 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
777 * Preliminary RTP support.
778 * Fixes to SAP announces.
783 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
784 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
786 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
787 - Improvements and help in preferences
788 - New streaming wizard
789 - Revised Disc Open menu
791 - Improvements of the standard pages
792 - Support for new commands
793 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
796 * Many fixes to the SAP module
797 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
800 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
801 * Text subtitles autodetection.
802 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
803 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
804 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
805 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
806 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
807 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
808 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
811 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
813 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
814 * Support for Panther.
815 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
816 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
819 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
820 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
821 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
822 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
823 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
824 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
825 * Multimonitor support (untested).
826 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
829 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
830 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
831 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
834 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
837 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
838 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
839 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
840 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
842 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
843 ---------------------------------
846 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
849 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
850 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
853 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
854 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
857 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
860 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
861 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
864 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
867 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
870 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
871 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
874 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
875 ---------------------------------
878 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
879 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
883 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
884 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
885 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
887 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
888 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
891 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
894 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
897 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
898 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
901 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
902 ---------------------------------
905 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
906 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
910 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
911 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
912 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
913 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
914 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
917 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
918 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
919 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
922 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
923 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
924 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
927 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
928 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
929 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
930 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
931 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
934 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
935 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
936 * A new CORBA control plugin.
939 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
942 * Improved build system.
943 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
944 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
945 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
946 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
949 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
950 ---------------------------------
953 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
956 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
957 * Fixed large file support on Windows
958 * Video 4 Linux support
959 * CD Digital Audio support
960 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
963 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
964 * Support for OpenDML avi files
965 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
966 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
969 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
970 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
971 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
972 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
973 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
974 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
975 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
978 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
979 * New HTTP remote control interface
982 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
983 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
984 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
985 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
988 * New reset option for the preferences
989 * You can set your language in the prefences
990 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
991 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
992 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
993 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
996 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
997 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
998 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1001 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1002 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1003 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1004 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1005 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1006 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1007 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1008 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1009 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1010 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1013 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1014 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1015 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1016 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1017 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1018 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1019 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1022 * Interface localization
1023 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1024 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1025 * New full-featured Preferences window
1027 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1028 ---------------------------------
1031 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1032 * support for skins at the interface level
1033 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1034 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1035 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1036 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1037 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1040 * fixed HTTP redirects
1041 * support for opening an entire directory
1042 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1043 * new video4linux access plug-in
1044 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1047 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1048 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1049 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1052 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1053 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1054 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1055 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1056 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1057 * new codec for raw I420 video
1058 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1061 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1062 (although it still misses some important features)
1063 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1066 * new HTTP output support
1067 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1068 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1071 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1074 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1077 * reorderable playlist
1078 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1079 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1080 * support for mono audio output devices
1081 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1082 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1083 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1084 * the messages window remembers more lines
1085 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1086 * http and ogg stream output options
1087 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1090 * new skinnable interface
1091 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1093 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1094 * support for FLAC audio format
1095 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1097 * network tab in the interface
1098 * "apply" handling in preferences
1101 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1102 ---------------------------------
1105 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1106 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1107 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1108 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1110 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1111 * DTS S/PDIF support
1114 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1115 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1116 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1117 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1120 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1121 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1124 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1127 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1130 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1132 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1133 * rc interface is now fully useable
1134 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1137 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1138 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1139 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1140 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1141 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1143 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1144 * support for mouse gestures
1145 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1148 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1149 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1152 * improved ID3 tag detection
1153 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1154 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1155 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1157 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1160 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1161 ---------------------------------
1164 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1165 English was set as the preferred language
1168 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1169 --------------------------------
1172 * new mouse gesture interface
1173 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1177 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1178 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1179 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1182 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1183 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1187 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1190 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1191 without the user consent
1194 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1196 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1197 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1198 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1201 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1202 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1203 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1204 * playlist enhancements
1205 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1206 * new step forward/step backward commands
1207 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1208 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1209 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1212 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1213 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1214 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1217 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1218 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1221 * native video output is working again
1222 * only commandline interface support
1223 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1226 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1227 --------------------------------
1230 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1231 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1232 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1233 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1234 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1235 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1236 and A/52 streams are supported)
1237 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1242 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1243 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1244 * VCD entry points support
1245 * VCD image file support
1248 * support for *.asf format
1249 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1250 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1251 * support for ogg encapsulation
1252 * support for raw DV format
1253 * support for *.wav format
1254 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1257 Stream discovery & playlists:
1258 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1259 * support for .m3u file format
1260 * support for .asx file format
1261 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1264 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1265 (only available with the .avi demux)
1266 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1267 * support for raw PCM data
1268 * support for Cinepak video codec
1269 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1270 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1271 * support for Xvid codec
1272 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1273 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1274 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1276 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1278 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1281 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1284 * new WxWindows interface
1285 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1286 device and the channels configuration
1287 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1288 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1289 format that VLC can play
1290 * new swedish translation
1291 * enhancements of the playlist window
1292 * new messages window to see debug info
1293 * fixed a few crashes
1296 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1297 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1298 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1299 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working