1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
6 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
9 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
12 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
13 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
16 * New Oldmovie effect filter
17 * New VHS effect filter
20 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
23 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
26 * ios video output: use ios2
29 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
30 --------------------------------
33 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
34 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
35 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
36 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
37 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
39 3rd party libraries (contrib):
40 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
44 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
45 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
46 * Partial support for Windows Store App
48 * Add an audio fingerprinter
49 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
52 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
53 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
54 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
55 * Support for Ulead DV audio
56 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
57 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
58 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
59 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
60 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
61 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
62 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
63 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
66 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
67 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
70 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
71 remove support for previous OS X releases
72 * Major improvements in DASH support
73 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
74 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
75 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
76 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
77 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
78 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
79 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
80 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
81 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
82 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
85 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
86 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
87 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
88 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
89 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
90 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
91 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
92 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
93 * Support for more MJPEG streams
94 * Add support for liveleak streams
95 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
96 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
98 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
101 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
102 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
103 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
104 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
105 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
106 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
107 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
108 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
109 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
110 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
111 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
114 * New remapping channel filter
115 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
116 * New VSXu visualization plugin
117 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
118 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
121 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
122 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
123 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
124 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
125 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
126 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
127 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
128 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
131 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
132 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
133 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
134 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
135 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
136 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
137 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
140 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
141 * Options support for AVIO output module
142 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
143 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
144 * Livehttp stream encryption support
145 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
146 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
149 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
152 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
153 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
154 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
155 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
156 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
157 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
161 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
164 * Add support for multiple video outputs
165 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
167 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
168 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
169 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
170 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
171 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
172 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
173 VLC's internal volume level
174 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
176 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
177 selection and to manage the list of presets
178 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
179 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
180 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
181 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
182 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
183 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
184 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
185 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
186 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
187 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
189 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
190 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
191 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
192 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
193 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
194 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
195 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
196 3rd party applications
197 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
198 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
199 (system-wide settings)
200 * Add support for the Video Title option
201 * Add support for the Boss Key
202 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
203 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
206 * Partial support for Qt5.0
207 * Menus modifications and improvements
208 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
209 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
210 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
211 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
212 * EPG display fixes and improvements
213 * Add SD pixmap sources
214 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
215 * Display playlist total duration
216 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
218 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
219 * Remove language preference
220 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
225 * Extend sliders, offsets options
226 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
227 * Numerous fixes and improvements
228 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
231 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
232 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
233 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
234 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
235 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
236 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
237 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
238 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
239 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
240 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
243 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
244 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
245 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
246 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
247 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
248 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
250 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
251 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
252 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
253 * Broken crop video filter
255 * OSD parser and menu
256 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
257 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
258 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
259 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
263 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
264 --------------------------------
267 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
268 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
272 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
275 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
278 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
281 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
285 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
288 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
291 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
292 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
293 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
296 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
297 --------------------------------
300 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
303 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
306 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
307 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
308 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
309 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
310 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
311 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
314 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
315 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
316 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
317 * 3rd party codecs updates
320 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
321 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
322 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
323 in the advanced preferences panel
324 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
325 * Fix crash within the video output code
326 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
327 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
328 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
329 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
331 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
334 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
337 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
338 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
341 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
344 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
345 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
346 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
347 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
348 Dutch, Danish, translations
349 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
352 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
353 --------------------------------
356 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
359 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
360 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
361 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
364 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
365 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
366 * Fix koreus lua parser
367 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
368 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
369 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
370 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
373 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
374 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
377 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
380 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
381 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
382 * Fix Time counter UI look
383 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
386 * Fix https streaming
389 * Fix audio and video track selection:
390 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
391 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
394 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
395 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
396 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
397 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
398 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
401 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
402 --------------------------------
405 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
406 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
407 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
408 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
409 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
410 during playback on Mac OS X
413 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
414 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
415 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
418 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
419 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
420 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
421 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
422 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
425 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
426 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
427 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
428 * Support Youtube live streams
431 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
434 * Fix media info dialog update
435 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
436 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
437 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
438 * Fix album art display at start
441 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
442 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
443 * Fix menus display and behavior
444 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
445 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
446 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
447 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
448 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
449 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
450 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
453 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
454 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
455 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
456 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
457 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
458 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
459 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
460 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
461 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
464 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
465 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
466 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
467 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
468 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
471 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
472 --------------------------------
475 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
478 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
479 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
482 * Add GateKeeper support
483 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
484 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
485 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
488 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
491 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
492 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
493 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
494 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
495 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
498 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
499 --------------------------------
502 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
503 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
504 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
505 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
506 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
507 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
508 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
509 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
510 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
511 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
512 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
516 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
517 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
518 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
519 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
520 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
521 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
522 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
523 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
524 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
525 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
526 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
527 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
530 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
531 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
533 * Fix MP3 free format support
536 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
537 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
538 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
539 * Fix for DVB channels file support
540 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
543 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
544 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
546 Audio filters and output:
547 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
548 * Fix DirectSound device selection
549 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
550 * Do not apply volume in file output
551 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
552 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
555 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
556 the persistant media library
557 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
558 to the media library or the temporary playlist
559 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
560 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
561 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
562 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
563 press on the Play/Pause button
564 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
565 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
566 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
567 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
568 * Many Fullscreen fixes
569 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
570 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
571 Synchronization panel
572 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
573 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
574 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
575 * Fix crashes on exit
576 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
578 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
579 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
580 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
581 automatically reset on the first launch.
582 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
583 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
584 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
587 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
588 * Fixes for icecast SD
591 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
592 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
593 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
594 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
595 * Fix tags and file names display
596 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
599 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
600 * Fix for key events and focus loss
603 * Fix display of some buttons
604 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
605 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
608 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
609 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
610 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
613 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
614 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
615 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
616 Thai translations update
617 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
620 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
621 --------------------------------
624 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
625 * fix the samba module compilation
626 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
627 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
628 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
629 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
632 * Support for MXPEG files
633 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
634 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
637 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
638 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
639 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
642 * Fix ogm header creation
645 * limit spatializer filter distortions
646 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
649 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
650 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
651 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
652 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
655 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
658 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
659 * allow to hide the sidebar
660 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
661 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
662 * noticebly faster launch time
663 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
664 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
665 * improve track synchronization panel
666 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
667 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
670 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
671 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
672 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
673 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
676 * fix for menus display
677 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
678 * documentation update
681 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
682 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
685 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
686 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
687 * Update Jamendo selections
691 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
692 * fix a crash on VLM close
695 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
696 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
697 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
698 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
701 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
704 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
705 ---------------------------------
708 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
709 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
710 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
711 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
712 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
713 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
714 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
715 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
716 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
717 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
718 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
719 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
720 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
721 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
722 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
723 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
724 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
725 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
726 --http-crl (optional CRL).
727 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
728 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
729 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
730 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
731 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
732 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
733 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
735 Important changes for packagers:
736 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
737 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
738 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
739 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
740 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
741 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
742 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
743 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
744 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
745 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
748 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
749 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
750 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
751 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
752 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
753 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
754 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
757 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
758 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
759 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
760 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
761 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
762 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
763 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
764 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
765 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
766 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
767 * PulseAudio audio input support
768 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
769 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
770 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
771 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
772 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
773 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
774 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
775 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
778 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
779 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
780 are notably concerned.
781 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
782 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
783 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
784 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
785 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
786 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
787 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
788 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
789 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
790 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
791 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
792 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
793 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
794 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
795 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
798 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
799 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
800 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
801 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
802 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
803 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
804 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
805 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
806 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
807 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
808 * Improved support of tracker files
809 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
812 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
813 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
814 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
815 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
816 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
817 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
818 and important cleanups and optimisations
819 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
820 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
821 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
822 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
823 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
824 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
825 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
826 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
827 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
828 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
829 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
830 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
831 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
832 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
833 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
834 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
835 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
836 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
837 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
838 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
839 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
842 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
843 * New video output for iOS platform
844 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
845 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
846 * Various vmem improvements
847 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
848 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
849 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
850 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
851 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
852 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
854 Audio Output and Filters:
855 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
856 * New audio output in memory (amem)
857 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
858 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
859 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
860 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
861 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
862 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
863 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
864 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
867 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
868 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
869 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
870 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
871 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
872 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
873 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
874 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
875 * New anti-flickering filter
876 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
877 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
878 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
879 blackbox and customizable shadow.
880 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
881 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
882 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
885 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
886 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
887 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
888 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
889 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
890 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
891 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
892 * Major rework of VoD support
893 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
894 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
895 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
896 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
897 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
898 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
899 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
900 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
901 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
902 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
905 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
906 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
909 * New capabilities for libVLC:
910 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
911 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
912 list of available audio and video filters
913 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
914 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
915 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
918 * asademux, subsass: use libass
919 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
920 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
922 * upnp: use upnp_intel
923 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
924 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
925 * removal of the noise filter
926 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
927 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
928 removed in Growl's next release, too.
929 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
932 * Update of translations for most languages.
933 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
936 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
937 ----------------------------------
940 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
941 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
944 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
945 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
948 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
949 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
950 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
953 * Camtasia decoding fix.
956 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
957 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
960 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
963 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
964 ----------------------------------
967 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
968 including support for OS X Lion
969 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
970 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
973 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
976 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
977 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
978 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
981 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
984 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
985 ----------------------------------
988 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
989 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
992 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
993 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
994 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
995 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
996 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
998 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
999 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1000 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1002 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1003 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1006 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1009 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1012 * Fix quitting on Linux
1013 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1017 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1020 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1023 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1024 ---------------------------------
1026 Windows and Mac OS X:
1027 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1030 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1031 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1034 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1037 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1040 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1042 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1043 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1045 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1046 * RTP output and XML export
1047 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1051 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1052 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1053 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1054 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1057 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1058 --------------------------------
1060 Windows and Mac OS X:
1061 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1064 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1067 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1068 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1069 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1070 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1071 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1072 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1075 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1076 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1080 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1081 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1082 * New Luganda Translation
1085 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1086 --------------------------------
1089 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1092 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1093 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1094 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1095 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1098 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1100 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1101 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1102 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1103 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1104 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1105 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1106 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1107 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1109 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1110 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1111 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1112 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1113 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1114 * Configure and build system improvements
1115 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1118 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1119 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1120 * New icelandic translation
1123 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1124 --------------------------------
1127 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1128 #234484 and #260719.
1131 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1132 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1133 and stability reasons
1136 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1140 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1143 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1144 ----------------------------------
1147 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1150 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1151 ---------------------------------
1154 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1155 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1156 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1157 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1160 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1163 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1164 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1165 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1166 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1169 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1170 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1171 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1173 Subtitles and renderer:
1174 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1175 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1176 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1177 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1178 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1181 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1182 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1183 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1184 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1187 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1188 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1190 Miscellaneous fixes:
1191 * KDE device solid actions
1193 * Transcode integer overflow
1194 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1195 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1198 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1199 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1200 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1203 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1204 ----------------------------------
1207 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1211 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1214 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1217 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1218 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1219 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1220 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1223 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1227 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1230 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1233 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1234 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1236 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1240 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1241 * Miscellaneous fixes
1244 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1245 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1246 French and Ukrainian
1247 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1248 * New Asturian translation
1251 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1252 ----------------------------------
1255 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1257 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1260 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1263 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1264 * Various fixes for Windows
1267 * New Armenian translation
1268 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1269 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1272 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1273 --------------------------------
1276 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1277 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1278 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1281 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1282 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1285 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1286 --------------------------------
1288 Access and demuxers:
1289 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1290 * fix for podcasts parsing
1291 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1294 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1295 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1298 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1299 * fix m3u playlists exports
1302 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1305 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1308 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1311 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1314 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1317 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1318 --------------------------------
1321 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1322 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1325 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1326 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1329 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1330 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1331 * fix console output encoding
1333 Interface and extensions:
1334 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1335 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1338 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1339 --------------------------------
1342 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1343 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1344 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1345 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1346 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1347 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1348 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1349 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1350 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1351 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1352 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1353 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1354 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1355 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1356 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1357 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1361 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1362 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1363 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1364 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1365 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1368 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1371 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1372 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1373 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1377 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1380 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1381 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1382 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1385 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1386 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1387 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1388 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1391 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1392 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1395 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1396 --------------------------------
1398 Important changes for users:
1399 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1400 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1402 Important changes for packagers:
1403 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1404 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1405 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1406 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1407 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1409 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1411 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1412 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1413 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1414 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1415 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1418 * Support for the sftp protocol
1419 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1420 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1421 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1422 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1423 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1426 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1427 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1428 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1430 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1431 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1432 * Invmem module improvements
1433 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1434 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1435 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1436 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1437 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1438 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1439 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1440 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1441 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1442 * Support for VP8 codec
1443 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1446 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1447 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1448 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1449 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1450 * Various EGP improvements
1451 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1452 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1455 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1456 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1457 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1458 * Podcast images are now displayed
1461 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1462 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1463 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1464 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1465 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1466 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1467 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1468 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1469 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1470 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1471 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1474 * New content extensions lua framework
1477 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1478 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1479 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1480 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1481 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1482 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1483 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1486 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1487 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1488 * Service discovery based on libudev
1489 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1492 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1493 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1494 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1495 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1496 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1497 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1498 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1501 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1502 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1503 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1506 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1508 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1509 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1512 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1515 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1516 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1517 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1518 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1519 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1520 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1521 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1524 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1525 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1528 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1529 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1530 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1534 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1535 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1536 * Improved Solaris port
1539 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1540 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1543 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1544 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1545 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1546 * transrate: broken since too long
1547 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1548 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1549 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1550 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1551 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1552 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1553 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1554 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1555 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1556 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1557 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1558 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1559 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1560 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1563 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1564 --------------------------------
1567 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1569 Decoders/Packetizers:
1570 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1573 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1574 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1575 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1576 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1577 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1580 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1581 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1584 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1585 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1588 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1589 and Walloon translations updated
1590 * Sinhala translation started
1593 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1594 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1597 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1598 --------------------------------
1601 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1602 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1605 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1608 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1609 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1612 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1613 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1614 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1615 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1618 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1619 --------------------------------
1622 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1623 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1626 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1627 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1630 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1631 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1634 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1637 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1638 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1641 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1642 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1645 * New Walloon translation
1646 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1649 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1650 --------------------------------
1653 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1654 regressions in most popular drivers
1655 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1658 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1659 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1660 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1663 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1664 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1667 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1668 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1669 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1670 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1671 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1674 * New udev module for linux
1677 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1680 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1683 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1684 --------------------------------
1687 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1688 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1689 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1692 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1693 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1696 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1697 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1700 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1703 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1704 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1705 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1706 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1709 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1710 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1711 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1712 - no support for Goom and SDL
1713 - limited text rendering support
1714 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1717 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1718 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1719 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1720 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1721 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1722 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1723 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1724 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1725 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1729 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1732 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1735 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1736 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1737 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1738 Arabic and French translation updates
1741 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1742 --------------------------------
1745 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1746 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1747 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1748 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1749 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1750 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1753 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1754 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1755 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1758 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1759 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1760 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1763 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1766 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1767 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1770 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1771 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1772 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1773 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1774 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1775 * Fix various crashes
1778 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1780 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1784 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1785 ---------------------------------
1789 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1790 See 'Access:' for more info.
1791 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1794 * Instantaneous pausing
1795 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1796 * Finer speed control
1797 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1798 * Timeshift for most medias
1799 * RTSP trickplay support
1800 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1803 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1804 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1805 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1806 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1807 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1808 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1809 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1810 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1811 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1812 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1815 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1816 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1817 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1818 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1819 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1820 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1821 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1824 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1825 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1828 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1829 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1830 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1831 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1832 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1833 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1834 * DVB scanning on linux
1835 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1836 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1837 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1838 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1839 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1840 * MTP device access on Unix
1841 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1842 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1845 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1846 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1847 Windows and Mac OS X.
1850 * Export the playlist in HTML
1851 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1852 * Better metadata handling and reading
1854 Linux/Windows interface:
1855 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1856 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1857 * Recently played items list
1858 * Interface toolbar customizations
1859 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1860 - More menus actions
1861 - Finer speed slider
1862 - Improvements on many dialogs
1863 - New dialog for plugins listing
1864 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1865 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1866 * Better integration in GTK environments
1869 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1870 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1871 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1872 * Additional usability improvements
1875 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1876 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1877 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1878 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1879 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1882 * New Maemo port with:
1883 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1884 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1887 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1890 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1891 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1892 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1893 * Support for latest iSight models
1896 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1897 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1900 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1901 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1902 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1903 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1904 The old image video output has been removed.
1905 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1906 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1909 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1917 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1918 --------------------------------------
1924 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1925 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1926 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1927 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1928 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1929 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1930 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1932 Various fixes to the following modules:
1935 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1936 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1937 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1939 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1944 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1945 ---------------------------------
1948 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1949 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1952 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1953 ---------------------------------
1956 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1959 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1962 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1963 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1964 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1965 main controller window.
1966 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1969 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1974 * Updates of other localizations
1977 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1978 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1979 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1980 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1981 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1984 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1985 ---------------------------------
1988 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1990 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1993 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1994 --------------------------------
1999 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2000 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2003 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2004 --------------------------------
2006 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2007 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2010 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2013 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2014 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2017 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2018 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2021 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2022 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2023 * Various fixed in playlist
2026 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2029 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2032 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2033 ------------------------------------
2035 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2036 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2039 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2040 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2041 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2044 * Stability fix for the video output.
2047 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2048 --------------------------------
2051 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2052 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2053 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2054 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2055 * Fixed update system bugs
2056 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2059 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2060 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2061 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2062 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2063 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2064 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2065 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2066 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2067 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2068 modern Mac OS X versions
2071 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2072 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2074 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2075 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2078 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2079 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2080 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2081 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2082 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2083 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2086 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2087 --------------------------------
2089 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2090 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2091 * Multiple bugfixes.
2094 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2095 --------------------------------
2097 * Multiple bug fixes.
2100 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2101 ---------------------------------
2105 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2106 recent to work correctly
2107 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2108 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2109 edit the ".hosts" file.
2110 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2111 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2112 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2113 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2114 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2115 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2116 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2117 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2118 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2119 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2120 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2121 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2122 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2123 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2124 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2125 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2126 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2127 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2128 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2129 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2130 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2131 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2132 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2133 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2134 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2135 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2136 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2137 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2138 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2139 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2140 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2141 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2142 and postproc modules.
2143 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2144 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2145 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2146 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2148 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2149 filter. For example:
2150 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2151 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2153 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2154 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2160 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2162 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2163 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2166 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2167 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2169 * Shoutcast TV listings
2170 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2172 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2173 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2175 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2178 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2179 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2180 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2181 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2182 * JACK audio input support
2183 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2184 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2185 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2186 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2187 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2188 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2189 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2190 (available as a separate download).
2191 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2192 * RTMP input support
2193 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2194 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2195 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2197 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2198 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2201 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2202 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2203 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2204 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2206 * APEv1/2 tags support
2207 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2208 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2210 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2211 * TiVo Series 2 support
2212 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2217 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2218 * Flash Screen Video support
2219 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2220 * DosBox Capture support
2221 * Karl Morton's Video support
2222 * limited atrac3 support
2224 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2225 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2226 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2227 * H.264 PAFF support
2228 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2229 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2230 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2231 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2232 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2235 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2236 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2237 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2238 * AQTitle subtitles support
2239 * MKV USF subtitles support
2240 * HTML-based subtitles support
2241 * MPSub subtitles support
2242 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2243 * MPL2 subtitles support
2244 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2245 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2246 * Realtext subtitle support
2247 * DKS subtitle support
2248 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2249 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2252 * Flash Screen Video support
2253 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2255 Video outputs and filters:
2256 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2257 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2258 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2259 * New puzzle video output filter
2260 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2261 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2263 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2264 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2265 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2266 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2267 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2268 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2269 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2270 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2271 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2272 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2273 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2274 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2275 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2276 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2278 Audio outputs and filters:
2279 * Replay gain support
2280 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2281 new scaletempo audio filter)
2282 * New spatializer audio filter
2283 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2286 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2287 * New RTP payload formats:
2288 * Speex voice audio codec
2289 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2290 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2291 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2292 * DCCP transport for RTP
2293 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2298 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2299 end-user suitable way.
2300 * Improved user interaction
2301 * Improved mouse gestures
2302 * Vastly improved Update checker
2303 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2305 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2306 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2308 * Improved video output features
2309 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2310 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2311 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2312 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2313 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2315 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2316 if libncursesw is available.
2317 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2318 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2319 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2321 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2322 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2323 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2324 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2325 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2326 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2327 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2328 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2331 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2332 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2333 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2336 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2337 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2338 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2339 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2340 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2341 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2344 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2345 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2355 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2356 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2357 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2360 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2361 ----------------------------------
2364 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2367 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2368 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2369 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2370 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2371 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2372 * Updated Polish translation
2375 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2376 ----------------------------------
2379 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2380 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2381 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2384 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2385 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2386 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2387 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2388 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2389 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2390 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2391 to an unexpected application termination
2392 * New Serbian translation
2393 * Updated Romanian translation
2396 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2397 ----------------------------------
2400 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2401 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2402 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2403 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2404 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2405 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2406 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2407 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2410 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2411 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2412 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2413 * Fixed AAC resampling
2414 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2415 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2418 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2419 ----------------------------------
2422 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2423 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2424 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2425 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2426 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2429 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2430 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2431 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2432 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2433 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2436 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2437 ----------------------------------
2440 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2441 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2444 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2445 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2446 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2447 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2449 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2453 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2456 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2459 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2462 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2465 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2466 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2467 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2468 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2469 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2471 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2472 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2473 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2474 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2477 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2480 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2481 ----------------------------------
2484 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2485 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2486 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2488 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2489 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2491 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2492 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2495 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2497 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2498 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2499 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2500 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2501 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2502 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2503 two different movies
2504 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2505 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2506 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2509 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2512 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2513 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2514 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2515 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2518 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2519 ----------------------------------
2521 Various bugfixes, notably:
2522 * Windows Vista compatibility
2523 * Cropping in Direct3D
2524 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2525 * RSS filter string overflow
2527 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2529 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2530 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2533 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2534 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2537 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2540 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2543 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2546 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2547 ----------------------------------
2549 Various bugfixes, notably:
2550 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2551 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2552 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2553 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2554 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2555 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2558 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2559 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2562 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2564 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2565 * Diverse usability improvements
2566 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2567 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2568 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2571 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2572 ---------------------------------
2574 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2575 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2578 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2581 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2582 --------------------------------
2585 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2588 * Support for RTSP authentication
2589 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2590 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2591 * ATSC support for DVB input
2592 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2593 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2594 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2597 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2598 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2599 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2600 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2601 * Matroska WavPack support
2602 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2603 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2604 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2607 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2608 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2609 * Improved libcaca support
2613 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2614 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2616 * Systray support in skins
2618 * Support for Apple Remote control
2619 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2620 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2621 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2622 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2624 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2627 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2628 Windows 9x/ME users:
2629 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2630 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2631 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2632 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2633 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2635 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2636 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2645 * Updates to the libvlc API
2646 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2649 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2650 --------------------------------
2653 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2654 * Support for downloading updates
2658 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2659 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2660 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2661 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2663 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2664 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2665 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2668 * Cook (Real audio) support
2670 Playlist / Services discovery:
2671 * XSPF playlist support
2673 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2676 * New JACK audio output
2679 * New video filters:
2680 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2681 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2682 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2683 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2684 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2685 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2688 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2691 * System to inform the user and request information
2692 - HTTP authentication
2696 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2697 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2698 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2701 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2702 - Improved playlist handling
2703 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2705 - Embedded Video output
2706 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2707 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2708 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2709 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2710 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2712 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2713 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2716 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2719 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2720 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2721 * Growl "Now playing" support
2724 * Ability to log to syslog
2725 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2728 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2730 * A bit more automatic testing
2733 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2734 ---------------------------------
2737 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2738 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2741 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2742 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2745 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2748 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2749 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2755 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2758 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2759 --------------------------------
2762 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2766 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2767 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2768 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2771 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2772 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2773 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2774 * GnomeVFS input module
2775 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2776 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2779 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2780 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2781 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2784 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2785 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2791 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2792 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2795 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2796 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2797 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2800 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2802 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2803 - New extended controls panel
2804 - New bookmarks window
2805 - Fixed playlist sorting
2806 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2808 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2809 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2810 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2811 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2815 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2816 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2818 - Include macro to include other files
2822 * Should now work outside IE as well
2825 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2828 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2829 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2832 The following languages were added:
2836 * Simplified Chinese
2837 The following languages were re-added:
2841 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2842 --------------------------------
2845 * Rewrite of the playlist
2847 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2848 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2849 * Preferences improvements:
2850 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2851 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2853 * Core image manipulation support
2854 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2855 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2856 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2857 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2858 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2859 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2860 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2861 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2862 * Access filter architecture
2863 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2864 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2868 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2869 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2870 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2871 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2872 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2873 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2874 * Massive Matroska improvements
2875 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2877 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2878 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2879 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2880 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2881 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2883 Decoders / Encoders:
2884 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2885 * PNG decoder/encoder
2886 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2887 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2890 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2893 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2894 * Brand new SAP module
2895 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2896 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2897 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2898 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2899 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2900 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2904 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2907 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2908 * Image file video output (png)
2909 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2910 * Improvements to wall video filter
2911 * Support for font color and opacity
2917 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2918 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2919 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2923 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2924 - Improved preferences
2925 - Improvements to the wizard
2926 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2928 - Redesigned playlist
2929 - Improved preferences
2931 - Support for multiple actions
2934 - Support for the new playlist system
2936 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2939 * Screensaver disabling fix
2940 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2941 * Support for no-decoration windows
2944 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2945 * The OpenGL video output is back
2946 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2947 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2948 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2949 is not yet available in the new module
2950 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2953 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2962 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2965 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2968 The following languages were added:
2974 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2975 --------------------------------
2978 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2979 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2982 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2983 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2984 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2987 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2990 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2993 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2996 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2997 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2998 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3002 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3004 * Support of playlist group announcement
3007 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3008 --------------------------------
3011 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3012 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3013 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3014 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3015 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3016 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3019 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3020 (Stream your desktop)
3021 * Improved DVD support:
3022 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3023 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3024 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3025 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3026 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3027 (selection of titles/chapters).
3030 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3031 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3032 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3033 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3034 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3035 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3036 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3037 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3038 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3039 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3042 * G.726 audio support
3043 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3044 * MPEG-4 text support
3045 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3046 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3047 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3051 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3052 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3053 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3054 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3055 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3056 * DVB subtitles encoder
3057 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3058 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3060 * Text track muxing for mp4
3061 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3062 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3063 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3064 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3065 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3066 * Improved ASF muxer
3068 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3069 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3070 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3073 * New audio equalizer filter
3074 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3075 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3076 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3077 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3080 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3081 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3082 with support for effects.
3083 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3084 - New filters can be streamed.
3085 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3086 - Centralized scaling and blending
3088 - "time", to display current time
3089 - "marq", to display a marquee
3092 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3093 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3094 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3095 * A few skins2 improvements
3096 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3097 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3098 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3099 * Improved CORBA control module
3102 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3103 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3104 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3107 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3108 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3109 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3112 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3113 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3114 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3115 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3116 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3119 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3122 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3123 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3126 * Server/client network synchronization module
3127 * VBrick streams fully supported
3128 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3132 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3133 --------------------------------
3136 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3137 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3138 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3139 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3142 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3143 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3144 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3145 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3146 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3147 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3148 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3151 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3152 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3153 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3154 * Improved directory access module.
3155 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3156 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3157 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3158 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3159 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3162 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3163 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3164 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3167 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3168 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3169 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3172 * Improved session announcement system.
3173 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3174 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3175 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3176 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3177 * Improved transrater.
3178 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3179 * New configuration system.
3180 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3183 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3184 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3185 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3186 * Supports scheduling.
3187 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3188 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3191 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3192 - Ability to embed video output.
3193 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3194 - Lots of improvements.
3195 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3196 - New design and set of icons.
3197 - Ability to embed video output.
3198 - Support for hotkeys.
3199 - Support for bookmarks.
3201 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3202 - Better hotkeys handling.
3205 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3206 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3207 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3208 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3211 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3212 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3213 * Improved Windows installer.
3219 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3220 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3223 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3224 ---------------------------------
3227 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3228 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3231 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3232 --------------------------------
3235 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3236 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3239 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3240 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3241 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3242 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3245 * Internal improvments
3246 * Improved import/export
3249 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3251 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3252 small and strange formats.
3254 * New MOD audio demux.
3255 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3256 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3257 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3258 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3261 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3262 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3263 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3269 * New opengl video output plugin.
3272 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3273 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3276 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3277 --------------------------------
3280 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3281 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3282 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3283 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3284 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3285 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3286 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3287 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3290 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3295 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3296 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3297 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3298 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3299 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3300 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3301 * Better Icecast support.
3302 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3303 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3306 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3307 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3308 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3309 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3310 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3311 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3312 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3315 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3316 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3317 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3318 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3319 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3320 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3321 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3322 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3323 * Preliminary RTP support.
3324 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3329 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3330 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3332 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3333 - Improvements and help in preferences
3334 - New streaming wizard
3335 - Revised Disc Open menu
3337 - Improvements of the standard pages
3338 - Support for new commands
3339 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3342 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3343 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3346 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3347 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3348 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3349 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3350 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3351 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3352 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3353 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3354 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3357 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3359 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3360 * Support for Panther.
3361 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3362 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3365 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3366 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3367 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3368 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3369 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3370 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3371 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3372 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3375 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3376 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3377 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3380 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3383 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3384 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3385 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3386 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3389 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3390 --------------------------------
3393 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3396 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3397 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3400 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3401 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3404 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3407 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3408 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3411 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3414 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3417 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3418 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3422 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3423 --------------------------------
3426 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3427 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3431 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3432 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3433 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3435 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3436 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3439 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3442 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3445 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3446 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3450 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3451 --------------------------------
3454 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3455 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3459 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3460 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3461 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3462 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3463 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3466 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3467 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3468 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3471 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3472 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3473 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3476 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3477 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3478 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3479 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3480 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3483 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3484 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3485 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3488 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3491 * Improved build system.
3492 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3493 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3494 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3495 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3498 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3499 --------------------------------
3502 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3505 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3506 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3507 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3508 * Video 4 Linux support
3509 * CD Digital Audio support
3510 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3513 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3514 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3515 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3516 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3519 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3520 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3521 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3522 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3523 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3524 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3525 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3528 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3529 * New HTTP remote control interface
3532 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3533 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3534 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3535 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3536 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3539 * New reset option for the preferences
3540 * You can set your language in the prefences
3541 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3542 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3543 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3544 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3547 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3548 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3549 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3552 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3553 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3554 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3555 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3556 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3557 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3558 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3559 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3560 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3561 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3564 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3565 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3566 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3567 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3568 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3569 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3570 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3573 * Interface localization
3574 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3575 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3576 * New full-featured Preferences window
3579 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3580 --------------------------------
3583 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3584 * support for skins at the interface level
3585 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3586 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3587 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3588 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3589 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3592 * fixed HTTP redirects
3593 * support for opening an entire directory
3594 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3595 * new video4linux access plug-in
3596 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3599 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3600 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3601 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3604 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3605 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3606 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3607 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3608 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3609 * new codec for raw I420 video
3610 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3613 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3614 (although it still misses some important features)
3615 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3618 * new HTTP output support
3619 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3620 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3623 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3626 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3629 * reorderable playlist
3630 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3631 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3632 * support for mono audio output devices
3633 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3634 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3635 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3636 * the messages window remembers more lines
3637 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3638 * http and ogg stream output options
3639 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3642 * new skinnable interface
3643 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3645 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3646 * support for FLAC audio format
3647 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3649 * network tab in the interface
3650 * "apply" handling in preferences
3653 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3654 ---------------------------------
3657 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3658 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3659 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3660 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3662 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3663 * DTS S/PDIF support
3666 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3667 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3668 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3669 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3672 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3673 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3676 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3679 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3682 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3684 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3685 * rc interface is now fully useable
3686 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3689 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3690 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3691 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3692 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3693 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3695 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3696 * support for mouse gestures
3697 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3700 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3701 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3704 * improved ID3 tag detection
3705 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3706 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3707 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3709 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3712 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3713 ---------------------------------
3716 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3717 English was set as the preferred language
3720 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3721 --------------------------------
3724 * new mouse gesture interface
3725 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3729 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3730 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3731 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3734 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3735 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3739 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3742 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3743 without the user consent
3746 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3748 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3749 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3750 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3753 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3754 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3755 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3756 * playlist enhancements
3757 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3758 * new step forward/step backward commands
3759 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3760 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3761 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3764 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3765 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3766 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3769 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3770 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3773 * native video output is working again
3774 * only commandline interface support
3775 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3778 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3779 --------------------------------
3782 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3783 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3784 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3785 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3786 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3787 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3788 and A/52 streams are supported)
3789 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3794 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3795 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3796 * VCD entry points support
3797 * VCD image file support
3800 * support for *.asf format
3801 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3802 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3803 * support for ogg encapsulation
3804 * support for raw DV format
3805 * support for *.wav format
3806 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3809 Stream discovery & playlists:
3810 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3811 * support for .m3u file format
3812 * support for .asx file format
3813 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3816 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3817 (only available with the .avi demux)
3818 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3819 * support for raw PCM data
3820 * support for Cinepak video codec
3821 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3822 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3823 * support for Xvid codec
3824 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3825 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3826 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3828 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3830 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3833 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3836 * new WxWindows interface
3837 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3838 device and the channels configuration
3839 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3840 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3841 format that VLC can play
3842 * new swedish translation
3843 * enhancements of the playlist window
3844 * new messages window to see debug info
3845 * fixed a few crashes
3848 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3849 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3850 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3851 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working