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.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
13 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
14 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
15 * Support for Ulead DV audio
16 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
17 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
18 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
19 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
22 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
25 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
26 * Major improvements in DASH support
27 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
28 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
29 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
32 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
33 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
34 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
35 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
36 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
37 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
38 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
39 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
40 * Support for more MJPEG streams
43 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
44 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
45 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
48 * new remapping channel filter
49 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
50 * new VSXu visualization plugin
53 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
54 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
57 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
58 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
59 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
60 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
61 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
62 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
65 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
68 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
69 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
70 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
71 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
72 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
75 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
76 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
79 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
81 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
82 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
83 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
84 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
85 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
86 VLC's internal volume level
87 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
88 selection and to manage the list of presets
89 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
90 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
91 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
92 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
94 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
95 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
96 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
97 * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while the user
99 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
103 * Partial support for Qt5.0
104 * Menus modifications and improvements
105 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
106 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
110 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
111 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
112 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
113 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
116 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
117 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
118 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
119 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
120 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
121 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
123 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
124 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
127 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
128 --------------------------------
131 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
134 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
135 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
138 * Add GateKeeper support
139 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
140 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
141 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
144 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
147 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
148 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
149 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
150 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
151 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
154 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
155 --------------------------------
158 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
159 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
160 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
161 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
162 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
163 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
164 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
165 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
166 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
167 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
168 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
172 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
173 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
174 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
175 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
176 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
177 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
178 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
179 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
180 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
181 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
182 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
183 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
186 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
187 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
189 * Fix MP3 free format support
192 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
193 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
194 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
195 * Fix for DVB channels file support
196 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
199 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
200 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
202 Audio filters and output:
203 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
204 * Fix DirectSound device selection
205 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
206 * Do not apply volume in file output
207 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
208 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
211 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
212 the persistant media library
213 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
214 to the media library or the temporary playlist
215 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
216 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
217 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
218 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
219 press on the Play/Pause button
220 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
221 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
222 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
223 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
224 * Many Fullscreen fixes
225 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
226 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
227 Synchronization panel
228 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
229 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
230 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
231 * Fix crashes on exit
232 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
234 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
235 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
236 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
237 automatically reset on the first launch.
238 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
239 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
240 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
243 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
244 * Fixes for icecast SD
247 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
248 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
249 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
250 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
251 * Fix tags and file names display
252 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
255 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
256 * Fix for key events and focus loss
259 * Fix display of some buttons
260 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
261 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
264 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
265 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
266 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
269 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
270 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
271 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
272 Thai translations update
273 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
276 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
277 --------------------------------
280 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
281 * fix the samba module compilation
282 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
283 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
284 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
285 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
288 * Support for MXPEG files
289 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
290 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
293 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
294 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
295 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
298 * Fix ogm header creation
301 * limit spatializer filter distortions
302 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
305 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
306 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
307 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
308 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
311 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
314 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
315 * allow to hide the sidebar
316 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
317 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
318 * noticebly faster launch time
319 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
320 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
321 * improve track synchronization panel
322 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
323 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
326 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
327 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
328 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
329 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
332 * fix for menus display
333 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
334 * documentation update
337 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
338 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
341 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
342 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
343 * Update Jamendo selections
347 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
348 * fix a crash on VLM close
351 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
352 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
353 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
354 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
357 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
360 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
361 ---------------------------------
364 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
365 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
366 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
367 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
368 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
369 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
370 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
371 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
372 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
373 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
374 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
375 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
376 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
377 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
378 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
379 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
380 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
381 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
382 --http-crl (optional CRL).
383 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
384 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
385 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
386 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
387 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
388 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
389 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
391 Important changes for packagers:
392 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
393 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
394 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
395 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
396 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
397 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
398 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
399 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
400 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
401 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
404 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
405 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
406 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
407 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
408 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
409 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
410 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
413 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
414 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
415 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
416 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
417 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
418 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
419 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
420 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
421 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
422 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
423 * PulseAudio audio input support
424 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
425 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
426 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
427 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
428 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
429 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
430 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
431 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
434 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
435 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
436 are notably concerned.
437 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
438 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
439 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
440 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
441 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
442 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
443 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
444 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
445 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
446 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
447 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
448 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
449 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
450 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
451 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
454 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
455 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
456 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
457 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
458 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
459 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
460 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
461 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
462 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
463 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
464 * Improved support of tracker files
465 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
468 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
469 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
470 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
471 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
472 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
473 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
474 and important cleanups and optimisations
475 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
476 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
477 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
478 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
479 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
480 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
481 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
482 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
483 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
484 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
485 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
486 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
487 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
488 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
489 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
490 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
491 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
492 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
493 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
494 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
495 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
498 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
499 * New video output for iOS platform
500 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
501 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
502 * Various vmem improvements
503 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
504 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
505 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
506 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
507 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
508 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
510 Audio Output and Filters:
511 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
512 * New audio output in memory (amem)
513 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
514 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
515 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
516 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
517 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
518 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
519 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
520 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
523 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
524 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
525 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
526 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
527 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
528 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
529 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
530 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
531 * New anti-flickering filter
532 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
533 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
534 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
535 blackbox and customizable shadow.
536 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
537 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
538 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
541 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
542 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
543 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
544 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
545 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
546 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
547 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
548 * Major rework of VoD support
549 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
550 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
551 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
552 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
553 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
554 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
555 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
556 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
557 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
558 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
561 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
562 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
565 * New capabilities for libVLC:
566 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
567 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
568 list of available audio and video filters
569 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
570 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
571 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
574 * asademux, subsass: use libass
575 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
576 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
578 * upnp: use upnp_intel
579 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
580 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
581 * removal of the noise filter
582 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
583 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
584 removed in Growl's next release, too.
585 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
588 * Update of translations for most languages.
589 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
592 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
593 ----------------------------------
596 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
597 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
600 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
601 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
604 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
605 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
606 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
609 * Camtasia decoding fix.
612 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
613 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
616 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
619 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
620 ----------------------------------
623 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
624 including support for OS X Lion
625 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
626 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
629 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
632 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
633 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
634 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
637 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
640 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
641 ----------------------------------
644 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
645 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
648 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
649 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
650 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
651 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
652 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
654 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
655 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
656 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
658 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
659 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
662 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
665 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
668 * Fix quitting on Linux
669 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
673 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
676 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
679 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
680 ---------------------------------
682 Windows and Mac OS X:
683 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
686 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
687 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
690 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
693 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
696 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
698 Miscellaneous fixes in:
699 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
701 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
702 * RTP output and XML export
703 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
707 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
708 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
709 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
710 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
713 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
714 --------------------------------
716 Windows and Mac OS X:
717 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
720 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
723 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
724 * Improve Apple Remote handling
725 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
726 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
727 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
728 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
731 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
732 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
736 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
737 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
738 * New Luganda Translation
741 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
742 --------------------------------
745 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
748 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
749 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
750 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
751 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
754 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
756 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
757 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
758 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
759 * mp4 demuxer improvements
760 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
761 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
762 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
763 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
765 Miscellaneous fixes in:
766 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
767 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
768 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
769 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
770 * Configure and build system improvements
771 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
774 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
775 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
776 * New icelandic translation
779 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
780 --------------------------------
783 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
787 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
788 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
789 and stability reasons
792 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
796 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
799 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
800 ----------------------------------
803 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
806 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
807 ---------------------------------
810 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
811 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
812 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
813 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
816 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
819 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
820 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
821 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
822 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
825 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
826 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
827 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
829 Subtitles and renderer:
830 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
831 * Mark more freetype options as safe
832 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
833 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
834 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
837 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
838 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
839 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
840 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
843 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
844 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
847 * KDE device solid actions
849 * Transcode integer overflow
850 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
851 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
854 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
855 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
856 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
859 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
860 ----------------------------------
863 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
867 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
870 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
873 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
874 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
875 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
876 * Taglib thread-safety fix
879 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
883 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
886 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
889 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
890 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
892 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
896 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
897 * Miscellaneous fixes
900 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
901 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
903 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
904 * New Asturian translation
907 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
908 ----------------------------------
911 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
913 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
916 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
919 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
920 * Various fixes for Windows
923 * New Armenian translation
924 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
925 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
928 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
934 * Fix folders opening from the interface
937 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
938 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
941 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
942 --------------------------------
945 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
946 * fix for podcasts parsing
947 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
950 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
951 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
954 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
955 * fix m3u playlists exports
958 * fix video autoresize behaviour
961 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
964 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
967 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
970 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
973 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
974 --------------------------------
977 * Avformat fps displaying fix
978 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
981 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
982 of mono streams, especially on Windows
985 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
986 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
987 * fix console output encoding
989 Interface and extensions:
990 * Youtube and other scripts updates
991 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
994 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
995 --------------------------------
998 * New capabilities for libVLC:
999 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1000 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1001 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1002 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1003 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1004 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1005 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1006 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1007 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1008 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1009 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1010 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1011 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1012 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1013 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1017 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1018 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1019 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1020 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1021 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1024 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1027 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1028 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1029 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1033 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1036 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1037 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1038 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1041 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1042 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1043 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1044 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1047 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1048 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1051 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1052 --------------------------------
1054 Important changes for users:
1055 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1056 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1058 Important changes for packagers:
1059 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1060 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1061 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1062 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1063 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1065 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1067 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1068 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1069 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1070 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1071 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1074 * Support for the sftp protocol
1075 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1076 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1077 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1078 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1079 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1082 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1083 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1084 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1086 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1087 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1088 * Invmem module improvements
1089 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1090 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1091 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1092 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1093 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1094 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1095 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1096 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1097 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1098 * Support for VP8 codec
1099 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1102 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1103 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1104 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1105 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1106 * Various EGP improvements
1107 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1108 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1111 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1112 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1113 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1114 * Podcast images are now displayed
1117 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1118 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1119 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1120 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1121 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1122 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1123 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1124 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1125 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1126 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1127 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1130 * New content extensions lua framework
1133 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1134 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1135 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1136 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1137 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1138 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1139 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1142 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1143 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1144 * Service discovery based on libudev
1145 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1148 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1149 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1150 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1151 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1152 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1153 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1154 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1157 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1158 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1159 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1162 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1164 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1165 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1168 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1171 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1172 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1173 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1174 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1175 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1176 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1177 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1180 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1181 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1184 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1185 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1186 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1190 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1191 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1192 * Improved Solaris port
1195 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1196 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1199 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1200 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1201 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1202 * transrate: broken since too long
1203 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1204 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1205 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1206 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1207 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1208 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1209 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1210 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1211 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1212 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1213 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1214 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1215 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1216 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1219 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1220 --------------------------------
1223 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1225 Decoders/Packetizers:
1226 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1229 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1230 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1231 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1232 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1233 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1236 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1237 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1240 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1241 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1244 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1245 and Walloon translations updated
1246 * Sinhala translation started
1249 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1250 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1253 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1254 --------------------------------
1257 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1258 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1261 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1264 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1265 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1268 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1269 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1270 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1271 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1274 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1275 --------------------------------
1278 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1279 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1282 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1283 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1286 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1287 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1290 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1293 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1294 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1297 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1298 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1301 * New Walloon translation
1302 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1305 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1306 --------------------------------
1309 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1310 regressions in most popular drivers
1311 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1314 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1315 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1316 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1319 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1320 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1323 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1324 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1325 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1326 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1327 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1330 * New udev module for linux
1333 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1336 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1339 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1340 --------------------------------
1343 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1344 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1345 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1348 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1349 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1352 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1353 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1356 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1359 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1360 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1361 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1362 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1365 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1366 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1367 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1368 - no support for Goom and SDL
1369 - limited text rendering support
1370 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1373 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1374 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1375 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1376 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1377 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1378 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1379 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1380 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1381 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1385 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1388 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1391 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1392 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1393 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1394 Arabic and French translation updates
1397 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1398 --------------------------------
1401 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1402 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1403 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1404 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1405 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1406 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1409 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1410 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1411 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1414 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1415 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1416 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1419 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1422 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1423 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1426 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1427 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1428 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1429 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1430 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1431 * Fix various crashes
1434 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1436 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1440 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1441 ---------------------------------
1445 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1446 See 'Access:' for more info.
1447 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1450 * Instantaneous pausing
1451 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1452 * Finer speed control
1453 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1454 * Timeshift for most medias
1455 * RTSP trickplay support
1456 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1459 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1460 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1461 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1462 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1463 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1464 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1465 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1466 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1467 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1468 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1471 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1472 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1473 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1474 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1475 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1476 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1477 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1480 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1481 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1484 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1485 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1486 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1487 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1488 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1489 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1490 * DVB scanning on linux
1491 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1492 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1493 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1494 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1495 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1496 * MTP device access on Unix
1497 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1498 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1501 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1502 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1503 Windows and Mac OS X.
1506 * Export the playlist in HTML
1507 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1508 * Better metadata handling and reading
1510 Linux/Windows interface:
1511 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1512 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1513 * Recently played items list
1514 * Interface toolbar customizations
1515 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1516 - More menus actions
1517 - Finer speed slider
1518 - Improvements on many dialogs
1519 - New dialog for plugins listing
1520 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1521 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1522 * Better integration in GTK environments
1525 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1526 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1527 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1528 * Additional usability improvements
1531 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1532 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1533 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1534 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1535 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1538 * New Maemo port with:
1539 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1540 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1543 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1546 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1547 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1548 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1549 * Support for latest iSight models
1552 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1553 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1556 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1557 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1558 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1559 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1560 The old image video output has been removed.
1561 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1562 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1565 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1573 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1574 --------------------------------------
1580 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1581 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1582 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1583 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1584 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1585 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1586 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1588 Various fixes to the following modules:
1591 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1592 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1593 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1595 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1600 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1601 ---------------------------------
1604 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1605 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1608 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1609 ---------------------------------
1612 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1615 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1618 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1619 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1620 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1621 main controller window.
1622 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1625 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1630 * Updates of other localizations
1633 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1634 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1635 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1636 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1637 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1640 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1641 ---------------------------------
1644 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1646 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1649 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1650 --------------------------------
1655 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1656 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1659 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1660 --------------------------------
1662 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1663 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1666 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1669 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1670 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1673 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1674 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1677 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1678 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1679 * Various fixed in playlist
1682 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1685 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1688 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1689 ------------------------------------
1691 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1692 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1695 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1696 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1697 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1700 * Stability fix for the video output.
1703 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1704 --------------------------------
1707 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1708 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1709 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1710 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1711 * Fixed update system bugs
1712 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1715 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1716 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1717 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1718 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1719 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1720 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1721 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1722 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1723 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1724 modern Mac OS X versions
1727 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1728 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1730 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1731 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1734 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1735 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1736 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1737 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1738 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1739 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1742 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1743 --------------------------------
1745 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1746 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1747 * Multiple bugfixes.
1750 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1751 --------------------------------
1753 * Multiple bug fixes.
1756 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1757 ---------------------------------
1761 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1762 recent to work correctly
1763 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1764 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1765 edit the ".hosts" file.
1766 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1767 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1768 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1769 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1770 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1771 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1772 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1773 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1774 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1775 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1776 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1777 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1778 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1779 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1780 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1781 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1782 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1783 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1784 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1785 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1786 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1787 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1788 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1789 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1790 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1791 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1792 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1793 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1794 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1795 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1796 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1797 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1798 and postproc modules.
1799 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1800 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1801 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1802 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1804 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1805 filter. For example:
1806 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1807 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1809 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1810 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1816 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1818 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1819 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1822 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1823 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1825 * Shoutcast TV listings
1826 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1828 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1829 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1831 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1834 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1835 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1836 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1837 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1838 * JACK audio input support
1839 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1840 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1841 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1842 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1843 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1844 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1845 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1846 (available as a separate download).
1847 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1848 * RTMP input support
1849 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1850 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1851 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1853 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1854 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1857 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1858 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1859 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1860 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1862 * APEv1/2 tags support
1863 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1864 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1866 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1867 * TiVo Series 2 support
1868 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1873 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1874 * Flash Screen Video support
1875 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1876 * DosBox Capture support
1877 * Karl Morton's Video support
1878 * limited atrac3 support
1880 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1881 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1882 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1883 * H.264 PAFF support
1884 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1885 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1886 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1887 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1888 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1891 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1892 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1893 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1894 * AQTitle subtitles support
1895 * MKV USF subtitles support
1896 * HTML-based subtitles support
1897 * MPSub subtitles support
1898 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1899 * MPL2 subtitles support
1900 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1901 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1902 * Realtext subtitle support
1903 * DKS subtitle support
1904 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1905 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1908 * Flash Screen Video support
1909 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1911 Video outputs and filters:
1912 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1913 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1914 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1915 * New puzzle video output filter
1916 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1917 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1919 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1920 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1921 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1922 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1923 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1924 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1925 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1926 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1927 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1928 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1929 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1930 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1931 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1932 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1934 Audio outputs and filters:
1935 * Replay gain support
1936 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1937 new scaletempo audio filter)
1938 * New spatializer audio filter
1939 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1942 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1943 * New RTP payload formats:
1944 * Speex voice audio codec
1945 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1946 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1947 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1948 * DCCP transport for RTP
1949 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1954 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1955 end-user suitable way.
1956 * Improved user interaction
1957 * Improved mouse gestures
1958 * Vastly improved Update checker
1959 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1961 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1962 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1964 * Improved video output features
1965 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1966 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1967 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1968 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1969 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1971 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1972 if libncursesw is available.
1973 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1974 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1975 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1977 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1978 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1979 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1980 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1981 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1982 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1983 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1984 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1987 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1988 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1989 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1992 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1993 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1994 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1995 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1996 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1997 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2000 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2001 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2011 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2012 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2013 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2016 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2017 ----------------------------------
2020 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2023 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2024 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2025 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2026 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2027 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2028 * Updated Polish translation
2031 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2032 ----------------------------------
2035 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2036 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2037 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2040 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2041 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2042 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2043 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2044 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2045 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2046 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2047 to an unexpected application termination
2048 * New Serbian translation
2049 * Updated Romanian translation
2052 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2053 ----------------------------------
2056 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2057 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2058 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2059 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2060 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2061 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2062 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2063 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2066 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2067 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2068 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2069 * Fixed AAC resampling
2070 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2071 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2074 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2075 ----------------------------------
2078 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2079 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2080 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2081 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2082 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2085 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2086 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2087 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2088 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2089 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2092 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2093 ----------------------------------
2096 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2097 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2100 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2101 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2102 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2103 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2105 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2109 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2112 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2115 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2118 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2121 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2122 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2123 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2124 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2125 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2127 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2128 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2129 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2130 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2133 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2136 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2137 ----------------------------------
2140 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2141 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2142 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2144 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2145 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2147 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2148 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2151 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2153 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2154 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2155 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2156 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2157 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2158 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2159 two different movies
2160 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2161 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2162 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2165 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2168 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2169 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2170 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2171 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2174 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2175 ----------------------------------
2177 Various bugfixes, notably:
2178 * Windows Vista compatibility
2179 * Cropping in Direct3D
2180 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2181 * RSS filter string overflow
2183 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2185 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2186 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2189 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2190 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2193 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2196 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2199 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2202 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2203 ----------------------------------
2205 Various bugfixes, notably:
2206 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2207 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2208 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2209 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2210 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2211 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2214 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2215 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2218 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2220 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2221 * Diverse usability improvements
2222 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2223 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2224 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2227 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2228 ---------------------------------
2230 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2231 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2234 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2237 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2238 --------------------------------
2241 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2244 * Support for RTSP authentication
2245 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2246 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2247 * ATSC support for DVB input
2248 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2249 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2250 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2253 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2254 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2255 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2256 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2257 * Matroska WavPack support
2258 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2259 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2260 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2263 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2264 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2265 * Improved libcaca support
2269 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2270 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2272 * Systray support in skins
2274 * Support for Apple Remote control
2275 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2276 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2277 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2278 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2280 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2283 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2284 Windows 9x/ME users:
2285 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2286 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2287 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2288 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2289 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2291 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2292 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2301 * Updates to the libvlc API
2302 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2305 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2306 --------------------------------
2309 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2310 * Support for downloading updates
2314 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2315 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2316 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2317 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2319 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2320 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2321 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2324 * Cook (Real audio) support
2326 Playlist / Services discovery:
2327 * XSPF playlist support
2329 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2332 * New JACK audio output
2335 * New video filters:
2336 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2337 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2338 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2339 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2340 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2341 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2344 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2347 * System to inform the user and request information
2348 - HTTP authentication
2352 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2353 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2354 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2357 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2358 - Improved playlist handling
2359 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2361 - Embedded Video output
2362 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2363 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2364 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2365 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2366 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2368 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2369 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2372 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2375 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2376 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2377 * Growl "Now playing" support
2380 * Ability to log to syslog
2381 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2384 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2386 * A bit more automatic testing
2389 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2390 ---------------------------------
2393 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2394 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2397 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2398 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2401 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2404 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2405 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2411 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2414 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2415 --------------------------------
2418 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2422 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2423 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2424 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2427 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2428 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2429 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2430 * GnomeVFS input module
2431 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2432 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2435 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2436 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2437 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2440 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2441 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2447 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2448 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2451 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2452 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2453 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2456 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2458 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2459 - New extended controls panel
2460 - New bookmarks window
2461 - Fixed playlist sorting
2462 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2464 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2465 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2466 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2467 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2471 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2472 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2474 - Include macro to include other files
2478 * Should now work outside IE as well
2481 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2484 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2485 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2488 The following languages were added:
2492 * Simplified Chinese
2493 The following languages were re-added:
2497 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2498 --------------------------------
2501 * Rewrite of the playlist
2503 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2504 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2505 * Preferences improvements:
2506 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2507 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2509 * Core image manipulation support
2510 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2511 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2512 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2513 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2514 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2515 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2516 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2517 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2518 * Access filter architecture
2519 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2520 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2524 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2525 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2526 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2527 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2528 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2529 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2530 * Massive Matroska improvements
2531 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2533 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2534 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2535 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2536 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2537 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2539 Decoders / Encoders:
2540 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2541 * PNG decoder/encoder
2542 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2543 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2546 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2549 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2550 * Brand new SAP module
2551 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2552 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2553 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2554 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2555 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2556 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2560 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2563 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2564 * Image file video output (png)
2565 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2566 * Improvements to wall video filter
2567 * Support for font color and opacity
2573 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2574 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2575 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2579 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2580 - Improved preferences
2581 - Improvements to the wizard
2582 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2584 - Redesigned playlist
2585 - Improved preferences
2587 - Support for multiple actions
2590 - Support for the new playlist system
2592 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2595 * Screensaver disabling fix
2596 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2597 * Support for no-decoration windows
2600 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2601 * The OpenGL video output is back
2602 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2603 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2604 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2605 is not yet available in the new module
2606 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2609 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2618 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2621 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2624 The following languages were added:
2630 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2631 --------------------------------
2634 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2635 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2638 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2639 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2640 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2643 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2646 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2649 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2652 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2653 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2654 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2658 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2660 * Support of playlist group announcement
2663 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2664 --------------------------------
2667 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2668 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2669 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2670 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2671 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2672 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2675 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2676 (Stream your desktop)
2677 * Improved DVD support:
2678 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2679 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2680 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2681 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2682 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2683 (selection of titles/chapters).
2686 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2687 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2688 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2689 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2690 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2691 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2692 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2693 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2694 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2695 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2698 * G.726 audio support
2699 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2700 * MPEG-4 text support
2701 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2702 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2703 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2707 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2708 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2709 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2710 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2711 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2712 * DVB subtitles encoder
2713 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2714 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2716 * Text track muxing for mp4
2717 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2718 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2719 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2720 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2721 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2722 * Improved ASF muxer
2724 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2725 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2726 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2729 * New audio equalizer filter
2730 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2731 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2732 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2733 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2736 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2737 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2738 with support for effects.
2739 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2740 - New filters can be streamed.
2741 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2742 - Centralized scaling and blending
2744 - "time", to display current time
2745 - "marq", to display a marquee
2748 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2749 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2750 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2751 * A few skins2 improvements
2752 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2753 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2754 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2755 * Improved CORBA control module
2758 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2759 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2760 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2763 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2764 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2765 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2768 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2769 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2770 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2771 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2772 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2775 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2778 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2779 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2782 * Server/client network synchronization module
2783 * VBrick streams fully supported
2784 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2788 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2789 --------------------------------
2792 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2793 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2794 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2795 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2798 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2799 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2800 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2801 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2802 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2803 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2804 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2807 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2808 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2809 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2810 * Improved directory access module.
2811 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2812 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2813 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2814 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2815 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2818 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2819 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2820 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2823 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2824 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2825 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2828 * Improved session announcement system.
2829 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2830 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2831 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2832 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2833 * Improved transrater.
2834 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2835 * New configuration system.
2836 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2839 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2840 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2841 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2842 * Supports scheduling.
2843 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2844 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2847 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2848 - Ability to embed video output.
2849 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2850 - Lots of improvements.
2851 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2852 - New design and set of icons.
2853 - Ability to embed video output.
2854 - Support for hotkeys.
2855 - Support for bookmarks.
2857 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2858 - Better hotkeys handling.
2861 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2862 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2863 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2864 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2867 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2868 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2869 * Improved Windows installer.
2875 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2876 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2879 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2880 ---------------------------------
2883 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2884 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2887 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2888 --------------------------------
2891 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2892 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2895 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2896 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2897 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2898 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2901 * Internal improvments
2902 * Improved import/export
2905 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2907 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2908 small and strange formats.
2910 * New MOD audio demux.
2911 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2912 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2913 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2914 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2917 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2918 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2919 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2925 * New opengl video output plugin.
2928 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2929 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2932 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2933 --------------------------------
2936 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2937 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2938 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2939 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2940 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2941 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2942 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2943 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2946 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2951 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2952 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2953 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2954 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2955 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2956 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2957 * Better Icecast support.
2958 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2959 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2962 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2963 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2964 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2965 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2966 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2967 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2968 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2971 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2972 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2973 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2974 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2975 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2976 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2977 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2978 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2979 * Preliminary RTP support.
2980 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2985 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2986 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2988 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2989 - Improvements and help in preferences
2990 - New streaming wizard
2991 - Revised Disc Open menu
2993 - Improvements of the standard pages
2994 - Support for new commands
2995 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2998 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2999 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3002 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3003 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3004 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3005 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3006 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3007 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3008 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3009 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3010 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3013 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3015 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3016 * Support for Panther.
3017 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3018 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3021 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3022 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3023 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3024 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3025 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3026 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3027 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3028 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3031 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3032 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3033 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3036 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3039 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3040 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3041 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3042 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3045 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3046 --------------------------------
3049 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3052 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3053 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3056 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3057 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3060 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3063 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3064 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3067 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3070 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3073 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3074 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3078 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3079 --------------------------------
3082 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3083 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3087 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3088 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3089 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3091 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3092 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3095 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3098 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3101 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3102 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3106 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3107 --------------------------------
3110 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3111 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3115 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3116 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3117 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3118 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3119 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3122 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3123 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3124 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3127 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3128 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3129 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3132 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3133 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3134 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3135 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3136 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3139 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3140 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3141 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3144 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3147 * Improved build system.
3148 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3149 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3150 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3151 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3154 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3155 --------------------------------
3158 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3161 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3162 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3163 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3164 * Video 4 Linux support
3165 * CD Digital Audio support
3166 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3169 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3170 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3171 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3172 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3175 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3176 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3177 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3178 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3179 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3180 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3181 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3184 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3185 * New HTTP remote control interface
3188 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3189 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3190 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3191 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3192 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3195 * New reset option for the preferences
3196 * You can set your language in the prefences
3197 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3198 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3199 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3200 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3203 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3204 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3205 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3208 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3209 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3210 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3211 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3212 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3213 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3214 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3215 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3216 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3217 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3220 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3221 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3222 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3223 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3224 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3225 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3226 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3229 * Interface localization
3230 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3231 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3232 * New full-featured Preferences window
3235 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3236 --------------------------------
3239 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3240 * support for skins at the interface level
3241 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3242 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3243 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3244 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3245 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3248 * fixed HTTP redirects
3249 * support for opening an entire directory
3250 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3251 * new video4linux access plug-in
3252 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3255 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3256 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3257 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3260 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3261 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3262 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3263 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3264 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3265 * new codec for raw I420 video
3266 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3269 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3270 (although it still misses some important features)
3271 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3274 * new HTTP output support
3275 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3276 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3279 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3282 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3285 * reorderable playlist
3286 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3287 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3288 * support for mono audio output devices
3289 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3290 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3291 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3292 * the messages window remembers more lines
3293 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3294 * http and ogg stream output options
3295 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3298 * new skinnable interface
3299 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3301 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3302 * support for FLAC audio format
3303 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3305 * network tab in the interface
3306 * "apply" handling in preferences
3309 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3310 ---------------------------------
3313 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3314 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3315 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3316 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3318 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3319 * DTS S/PDIF support
3322 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3323 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3324 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3325 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3328 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3329 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3332 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3335 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3338 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3340 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3341 * rc interface is now fully useable
3342 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3345 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3346 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3347 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3348 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3349 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3351 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3352 * support for mouse gestures
3353 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3356 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3357 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3360 * improved ID3 tag detection
3361 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3362 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3363 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3365 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3368 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3369 ---------------------------------
3372 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3373 English was set as the preferred language
3376 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3377 --------------------------------
3380 * new mouse gesture interface
3381 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3385 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3386 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3387 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3390 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3391 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3395 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3398 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3399 without the user consent
3402 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3404 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3405 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3406 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3409 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3410 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3411 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3412 * playlist enhancements
3413 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3414 * new step forward/step backward commands
3415 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3416 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3417 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3420 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3421 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3422 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3425 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3426 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3429 * native video output is working again
3430 * only commandline interface support
3431 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3434 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3435 --------------------------------
3438 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3439 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3440 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3441 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3442 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3443 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3444 and A/52 streams are supported)
3445 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3450 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3451 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3452 * VCD entry points support
3453 * VCD image file support
3456 * support for *.asf format
3457 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3458 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3459 * support for ogg encapsulation
3460 * support for raw DV format
3461 * support for *.wav format
3462 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3465 Stream discovery & playlists:
3466 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3467 * support for .m3u file format
3468 * support for .asx file format
3469 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3472 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3473 (only available with the .avi demux)
3474 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3475 * support for raw PCM data
3476 * support for Cinepak video codec
3477 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3478 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3479 * support for Xvid codec
3480 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3481 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3482 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3484 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3486 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3489 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3492 * new WxWindows interface
3493 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3494 device and the channels configuration
3495 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3496 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3497 format that VLC can play
3498 * new swedish translation
3499 * enhancements of the playlist window
3500 * new messages window to see debug info
3501 * fixed a few crashes
3504 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3505 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3506 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3507 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working