1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
45 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
48 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
49 * Wayland shell surface window provider
50 * Wayland shared memory video output
51 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
52 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
53 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
56 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
57 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
60 * Chromecast output module
61 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
64 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
67 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
68 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
72 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
75 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
76 * Port to Yosemite X.10
79 * Batch convert support
82 * Support key accelerators
85 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
86 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
87 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
88 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
89 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
90 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
91 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
92 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
93 identifier (if there is one available)
96 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
97 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
100 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
101 --------------------------------
104 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
105 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
108 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
109 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
110 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
111 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
114 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
115 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
116 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
117 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
119 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
120 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
123 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
124 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
125 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
126 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
127 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
128 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
129 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
130 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
131 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
132 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
133 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
134 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
135 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
136 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
137 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
138 * New jpeg image decoder
139 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
140 * New SVG image decoder
141 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
142 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
143 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
146 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
147 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
148 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
149 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
150 * New png image encoder using libpng
153 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
154 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
155 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
156 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
157 synchronization and tracks exclusion
158 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
159 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
160 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
161 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
162 * Support Opus in MKV
164 * Basic support for WebVTT
165 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
166 * Support HDPR TS files
167 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
168 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
169 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
170 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
171 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
172 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
173 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
174 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
175 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
176 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
177 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
178 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
181 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
182 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
183 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
184 * New Android native window provider module
185 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
186 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
187 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
190 * New Oldmovie effect filter
191 * New VHS effect filter
192 * New Freeze effect filter
193 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
194 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
195 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
198 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
199 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
200 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
201 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
202 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
203 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
206 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
207 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
209 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
212 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
213 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
214 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
215 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
216 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
217 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
218 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
219 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
220 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
222 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
223 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
224 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
227 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
228 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
231 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
232 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
235 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
236 * Add record button in Qt menus
237 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
238 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
239 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
242 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
243 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
244 * Fixes for advanced preferences
245 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
246 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
247 * Option to increase playlist font size
248 * Improved crash log reporting
251 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
252 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
253 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
256 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
259 * iOS video output: use ios2
260 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
261 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
264 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
265 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
266 * Update of all translations:
267 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
268 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
269 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
270 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
271 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
272 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
273 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
276 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
277 --------------------------------
280 * Fix compilation on OS/2
283 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
285 Mac OS X audio output:
286 * Fix channel ordering
287 * Increase the buffersize
290 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
291 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
292 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
295 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
298 * Correctly support video-on-top
299 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
300 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
303 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
306 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
307 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
310 * Update British English
313 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
314 --------------------------------
317 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
320 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
323 * Fix DVD playback regression
324 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
325 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
328 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
329 --------------------------------
332 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
333 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
336 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
337 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
338 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
341 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
342 by updating codec libraries
343 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
344 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
345 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
348 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
349 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
350 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
351 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
354 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
355 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
358 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
359 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
360 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
361 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
362 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
365 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
366 * Fix record file names
369 * Fix minimal size possible on start
370 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
371 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
372 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
373 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
376 * Fix album art display on Windows
379 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
380 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
381 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
382 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
383 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
384 and Simplified Chinese translations
385 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
388 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
389 --------------------------------
392 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
393 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
394 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
395 audio devices on OS X
396 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
397 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
400 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
401 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
404 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
405 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
408 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
411 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
412 * Improve A-B loop control
413 * Fix album art update when changing media
416 * Add a language option in the interface
417 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
418 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
419 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
420 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
421 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
422 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
423 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
426 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
429 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
430 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
431 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
432 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
435 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
436 --------------------------------
439 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
441 * Fix some subtitles track selection
444 * VP9 support in WebM
445 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
446 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
449 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
450 * Support Speex in ogg files
451 * Fix some .mov playlists support
452 * Support Alac in mkv
453 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
454 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
457 * Fix DVB options parsing
458 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
459 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
462 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
463 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
466 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
467 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
470 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
471 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
472 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
473 * Fix play after drag'n drop
474 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
477 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
478 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
481 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
482 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
485 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
486 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
487 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
488 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
489 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
490 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
491 * Improves interface resizings
494 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
495 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
496 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
497 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
498 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
502 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
503 --------------------------------
506 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
507 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
508 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
509 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
510 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
512 3rd party libraries (contrib):
513 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
516 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
517 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
518 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
519 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
520 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
523 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
524 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
528 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
529 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
530 * Support for Ulead DV audio
531 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
532 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
533 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
534 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
535 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
536 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
537 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
538 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
539 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
540 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
543 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
544 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
545 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
548 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
549 remove support for previous OS X releases
550 * Major improvements in DASH support
551 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
552 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
553 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
554 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
555 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
556 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
557 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
558 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
559 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
560 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
561 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
564 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
565 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
566 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
567 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
568 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
569 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
570 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
571 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
572 * Support for more MJPEG streams
573 * Add support for liveleak streams
574 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
575 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
576 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
579 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
580 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
581 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
582 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
583 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
584 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
585 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
586 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
587 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
588 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
589 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
592 * New remapping channel filter
593 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
594 * New VSXu visualization plugin
595 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
596 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
597 * New gain audio filter
600 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
601 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
602 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
603 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
604 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
605 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
606 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
607 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
608 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
611 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
612 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
613 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
614 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
615 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
616 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
617 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
620 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
621 * Options support for AVIO output module
622 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
623 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
624 * Livehttp stream encryption support
625 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
626 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
629 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
632 * configurable password for the HTTP server
633 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
634 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
635 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
636 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
637 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
638 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
639 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
643 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
646 * Add support for multiple video outputs
647 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
649 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
650 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
651 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
652 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
653 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
654 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
655 VLC's internal volume level
656 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
658 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
659 selection and to manage the list of presets
660 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
661 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
662 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
663 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
664 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
665 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
666 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
667 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
668 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
669 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
671 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
672 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
673 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
674 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
675 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
676 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
677 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
678 3rd party applications
679 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
680 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
681 (system-wide settings)
682 * Add support for the Video Title option
683 * Add support for the Boss Key
684 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
685 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
688 * Partial support for Qt5.0
689 * Menus modifications and improvements
690 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
691 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
692 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
693 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
694 * EPG display fixes and improvements
695 * Add SD pixmap sources
696 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
697 * Display playlist total duration
698 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
699 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
700 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
705 * Extend sliders, offsets options
706 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
707 * Numerous fixes and improvements
708 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
711 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
712 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
713 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
714 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
715 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
716 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
717 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
718 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
719 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
720 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
723 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
724 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
725 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
726 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
727 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
728 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
730 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
731 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
732 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
733 * Broken crop video filter
735 * OSD parser and menu
736 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
737 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
738 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
739 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
743 * Update of all translations
746 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
747 --------------------------------
750 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
751 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
754 * Fix modplug security issues
757 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
758 --------------------------------
762 * Fix crash in QTsound
763 * Fix screen mouse file location
764 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
767 * Fix use after free in sgimb
768 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
771 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
774 * Fix interface crashes
775 * Fix autostart playback option
776 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
779 * update Welsh translation
780 * New Kannada translation
783 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
784 --------------------------------
787 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
788 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
792 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
795 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
798 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
801 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
805 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
808 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
811 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
812 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
813 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
816 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
817 --------------------------------
820 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
823 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
826 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
827 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
828 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
829 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
830 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
831 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
834 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
835 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
836 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
837 * 3rd party codecs updates
840 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
841 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
842 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
843 in the advanced preferences panel
844 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
845 * Fix crash within the video output code
846 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
847 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
848 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
849 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
851 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
854 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
857 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
858 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
861 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
864 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
865 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
866 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
867 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
868 Dutch, Danish, translations
869 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
872 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
873 --------------------------------
876 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
879 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
880 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
881 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
884 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
885 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
886 * Fix koreus lua parser
887 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
888 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
889 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
890 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
893 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
894 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
897 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
900 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
901 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
902 * Fix Time counter UI look
903 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
906 * Fix https streaming
909 * Fix audio and video track selection:
910 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
911 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
914 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
915 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
916 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
917 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
918 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
921 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
922 --------------------------------
925 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
926 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
927 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
928 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
929 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
930 during playback on Mac OS X
933 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
934 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
935 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
938 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
939 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
940 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
941 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
942 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
945 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
946 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
947 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
948 * Support Youtube live streams
951 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
954 * Fix media info dialog update
955 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
956 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
957 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
958 * Fix album art display at start
961 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
962 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
963 * Fix menus display and behavior
964 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
965 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
966 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
967 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
968 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
969 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
970 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
973 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
974 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
975 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
976 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
977 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
978 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
979 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
980 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
981 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
984 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
985 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
986 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
987 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
988 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
991 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
992 --------------------------------
995 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
998 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
999 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1002 * Add GateKeeper support
1003 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1004 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1005 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1008 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1011 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1012 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1013 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1014 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1015 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1018 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1019 --------------------------------
1022 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1023 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1024 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1025 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1026 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1027 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1028 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1029 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1030 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1031 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1032 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1036 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1037 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1038 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1039 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1040 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1041 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1042 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1043 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1044 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1045 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1046 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1047 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1050 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1051 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1053 * Fix MP3 free format support
1056 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1057 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1058 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1059 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1060 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1063 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1064 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1066 Audio filters and output:
1067 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1068 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1069 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1070 * Do not apply volume in file output
1071 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1072 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1075 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1076 the persistant media library
1077 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1078 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1079 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1080 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1081 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1082 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1083 press on the Play/Pause button
1084 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1085 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1086 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1087 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1088 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1089 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1090 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1091 Synchronization panel
1092 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1093 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1094 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1095 * Fix crashes on exit
1096 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1098 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1099 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1100 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1101 automatically reset on the first launch.
1102 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1103 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1104 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1107 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1108 * Fixes for icecast SD
1111 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1112 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1113 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1114 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1115 * Fix tags and file names display
1116 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1119 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1120 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1123 * Fix display of some buttons
1124 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1125 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1128 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1129 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1130 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1133 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1134 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1135 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1136 Thai translations update
1137 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1140 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1141 --------------------------------
1144 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1145 * fix the samba module compilation
1146 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1147 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1148 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1149 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1152 * Support for MXPEG files
1153 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1154 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1157 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1158 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1159 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1162 * Fix ogm header creation
1165 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1166 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1169 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1170 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1171 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1172 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1175 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1178 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1179 * allow to hide the sidebar
1180 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1181 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1182 * noticebly faster launch time
1183 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1184 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1185 * improve track synchronization panel
1186 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1187 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1190 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1191 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1192 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1193 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1196 * fix for menus display
1197 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1198 * documentation update
1201 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1202 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1205 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1206 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1207 * Update Jamendo selections
1211 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1212 * fix a crash on VLM close
1215 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1216 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1217 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1218 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1221 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1224 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1225 ---------------------------------
1228 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1229 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1230 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1231 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1232 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1233 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1234 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1235 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1236 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1237 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1238 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1239 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1240 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1241 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1242 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1243 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1244 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1245 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1246 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1247 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1248 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1249 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1250 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1251 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1252 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1253 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1255 Important changes for packagers:
1256 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1257 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1258 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1259 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1260 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1261 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1262 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1263 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1264 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1265 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1268 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1269 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1270 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1271 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1272 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1273 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1274 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1277 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1278 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1279 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1280 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1281 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1282 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1283 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1284 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1285 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1286 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1287 * PulseAudio audio input support
1288 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1289 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1290 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1291 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1292 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1293 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1294 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1295 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1298 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1299 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1300 are notably concerned.
1301 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1302 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1303 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1304 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1305 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1306 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1307 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1308 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1309 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1310 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1311 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1312 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1313 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1314 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1315 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1318 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1319 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1320 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1321 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1322 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1323 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1324 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1325 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1326 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1327 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1328 * Improved support of tracker files
1329 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1332 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1333 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1334 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1335 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1336 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1337 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1338 and important cleanups and optimisations
1339 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1340 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1341 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1342 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1343 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1344 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1345 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1346 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1347 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1348 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1349 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1350 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1351 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1352 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1353 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1354 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1355 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1356 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1357 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1358 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1359 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1362 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1363 * New video output for iOS platform
1364 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1365 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1366 * Various vmem improvements
1367 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1368 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1369 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1370 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1371 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1372 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1374 Audio Output and Filters:
1375 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1376 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1377 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1378 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1379 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1380 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1381 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1382 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1383 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1384 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1387 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1388 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1389 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1390 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1391 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1392 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1393 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1394 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1395 * New anti-flickering filter
1396 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1397 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1398 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1399 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1400 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1401 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1402 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1405 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1406 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1407 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1408 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1409 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1410 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1411 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1412 * Major rework of VoD support
1413 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1414 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1415 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1416 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1417 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1418 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1419 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1420 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1421 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1422 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1425 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1426 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1429 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1430 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1431 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1432 list of available audio and video filters
1433 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1434 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1435 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1438 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1439 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1440 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1441 * id3tag: use taglib
1442 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1443 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1444 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1445 * removal of the noise filter
1446 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1447 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1448 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1449 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1452 * Update of translations for most languages.
1453 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1456 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1457 ----------------------------------
1460 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1461 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1464 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1465 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1468 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1469 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1470 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1473 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1476 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1477 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1480 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1483 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1484 ----------------------------------
1487 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1488 including support for OS X Lion
1489 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1490 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1493 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1496 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1497 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1498 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1501 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1504 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1505 ----------------------------------
1508 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1509 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1512 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1513 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1514 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1515 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1516 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1518 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1519 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1520 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1522 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1523 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1526 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1529 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1532 * Fix quitting on Linux
1533 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1537 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1540 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1543 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1544 ---------------------------------
1546 Windows and Mac OS X:
1547 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1550 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1551 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1554 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1557 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1560 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1562 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1563 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1565 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1566 * RTP output and XML export
1567 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1571 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1572 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1573 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1574 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1577 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1578 --------------------------------
1580 Windows and Mac OS X:
1581 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1584 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1587 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1588 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1589 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1590 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1591 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1592 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1595 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1596 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1600 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1601 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1602 * New Luganda Translation
1605 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1606 --------------------------------
1609 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1612 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1613 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1614 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1615 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1618 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1620 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1621 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1622 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1623 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1624 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1625 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1626 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1627 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1629 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1630 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1631 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1632 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1633 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1634 * Configure and build system improvements
1635 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1638 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1639 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1640 * New icelandic translation
1643 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1644 --------------------------------
1647 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1648 #234484 and #260719.
1651 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1652 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1653 and stability reasons
1656 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1660 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1663 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1664 ----------------------------------
1667 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1670 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1671 ---------------------------------
1674 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1675 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1676 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1677 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1680 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1683 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1684 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1685 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1686 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1689 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1690 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1691 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1693 Subtitles and renderer:
1694 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1695 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1696 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1697 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1698 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1701 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1702 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1703 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1704 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1707 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1708 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1710 Miscellaneous fixes:
1711 * KDE device solid actions
1713 * Transcode integer overflow
1714 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1715 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1718 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1719 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1720 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1723 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1724 ----------------------------------
1727 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1731 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1734 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1737 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1738 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1739 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1740 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1743 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1747 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1750 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1753 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1754 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1756 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1760 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1761 * Miscellaneous fixes
1764 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1765 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1766 French and Ukrainian
1767 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1768 * New Asturian translation
1771 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1772 ----------------------------------
1775 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1777 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1780 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1783 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1784 * Various fixes for Windows
1787 * New Armenian translation
1788 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1789 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1792 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1793 --------------------------------
1796 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1797 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1798 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1801 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1802 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1805 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1806 --------------------------------
1808 Access and demuxers:
1809 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1810 * fix for podcasts parsing
1811 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1814 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1815 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1818 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1819 * fix m3u playlists exports
1822 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1825 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1828 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1831 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1834 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1837 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1838 --------------------------------
1841 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1842 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1845 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1846 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1849 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1850 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1851 * fix console output encoding
1853 Interface and extensions:
1854 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1855 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1858 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1859 --------------------------------
1862 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1863 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1864 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1865 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1866 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1867 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1868 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1869 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1870 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1871 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1872 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1873 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1874 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1875 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1876 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1877 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1881 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1882 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1883 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1884 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1885 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1888 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1891 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1892 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1893 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1897 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1900 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1901 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1902 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1905 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1906 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1907 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1908 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1911 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1912 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1915 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1916 --------------------------------
1918 Important changes for users:
1919 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1920 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1922 Important changes for packagers:
1923 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1924 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1925 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1926 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1927 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1929 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1931 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1932 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1933 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1934 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1935 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1938 * Support for the sftp protocol
1939 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1940 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1941 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1942 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1943 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1946 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1947 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1948 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1950 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1951 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1952 * Invmem module improvements
1953 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1954 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1955 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1956 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1957 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1958 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1959 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1960 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1961 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1962 * Support for VP8 codec
1963 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1966 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1967 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1968 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1969 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1970 * Various EGP improvements
1971 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1972 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1975 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1976 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1977 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1978 * Podcast images are now displayed
1981 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1982 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1983 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1984 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1985 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1986 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1987 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1988 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1989 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1990 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1991 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1994 * New content extensions lua framework
1997 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1998 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1999 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2000 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2001 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2002 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2003 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2006 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2007 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2008 * Service discovery based on libudev
2009 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2012 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2013 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2014 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2015 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2016 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2017 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2018 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2021 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2022 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2023 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2026 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2028 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2029 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2032 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2035 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2036 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2037 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2038 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2039 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2040 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2041 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2044 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2045 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2048 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2049 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2050 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2054 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2055 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2056 * Improved Solaris port
2059 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2060 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2063 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2064 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2065 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2066 * transrate: broken since too long
2067 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2068 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2069 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2070 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2071 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2072 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2073 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2074 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2075 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2076 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2077 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2078 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2079 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2080 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2083 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2084 --------------------------------
2087 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2089 Decoders/Packetizers:
2090 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2093 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2094 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2095 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2096 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2097 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2100 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2101 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2104 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2105 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2108 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2109 and Walloon translations updated
2110 * Sinhala translation started
2113 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2114 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2117 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2122 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2125 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2128 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2129 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2132 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2133 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2134 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2135 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2138 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2139 --------------------------------
2142 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2143 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2146 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2147 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2150 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2151 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2154 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2157 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2158 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2161 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2162 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2165 * New Walloon translation
2166 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2169 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2170 --------------------------------
2173 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2174 regressions in most popular drivers
2175 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2178 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2179 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2180 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2183 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2184 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2187 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2188 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2189 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2190 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2191 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2194 * New udev module for linux
2197 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2200 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2203 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2204 --------------------------------
2207 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2208 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2209 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2212 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2213 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2216 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2217 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2220 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2223 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2224 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2225 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2226 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2229 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2230 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2231 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2232 - no support for Goom and SDL
2233 - limited text rendering support
2234 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2237 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2238 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2239 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2240 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2241 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2242 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2243 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2244 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2245 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2249 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2252 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2255 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2256 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2257 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2258 Arabic and French translation updates
2261 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2262 --------------------------------
2265 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2266 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2267 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2268 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2269 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2270 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2273 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2274 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2275 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2278 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2279 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2280 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2283 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2286 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2287 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2290 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2291 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2292 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2293 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2294 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2295 * Fix various crashes
2298 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2300 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2304 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2305 ---------------------------------
2309 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2310 See 'Access:' for more info.
2311 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2314 * Instantaneous pausing
2315 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2316 * Finer speed control
2317 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2318 * Timeshift for most medias
2319 * RTSP trickplay support
2320 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2323 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2324 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2325 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2326 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2327 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2328 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2329 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2330 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2331 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2332 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2335 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2336 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2337 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2338 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2339 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2340 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2341 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2344 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2345 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2348 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2349 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2350 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2351 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2352 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2353 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2354 * DVB scanning on linux
2355 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2356 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2357 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2358 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2359 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2360 * MTP device access on Unix
2361 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2362 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2365 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2366 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2367 Windows and Mac OS X.
2370 * Export the playlist in HTML
2371 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2372 * Better metadata handling and reading
2374 Linux/Windows interface:
2375 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2376 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2377 * Recently played items list
2378 * Interface toolbar customizations
2379 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2380 - More menus actions
2381 - Finer speed slider
2382 - Improvements on many dialogs
2383 - New dialog for plugins listing
2384 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2385 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2386 * Better integration in GTK environments
2389 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2390 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2391 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2392 * Additional usability improvements
2395 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2396 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2397 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2398 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2399 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2402 * New Maemo port with:
2403 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2404 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2407 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2410 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2411 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2412 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2413 * Support for latest iSight models
2416 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2417 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2420 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2421 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2422 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2423 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2424 The old image video output has been removed.
2425 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2426 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2429 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2437 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2438 --------------------------------------
2444 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2445 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2446 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2447 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2448 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2449 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2450 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2452 Various fixes to the following modules:
2455 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2456 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2457 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2459 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2464 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2465 ---------------------------------
2468 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2469 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2472 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2473 ---------------------------------
2476 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2479 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2482 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2483 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2484 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2485 main controller window.
2486 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2489 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2494 * Updates of other localizations
2497 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2498 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2499 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2500 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2501 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2504 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2505 ---------------------------------
2508 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2510 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2513 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2514 --------------------------------
2519 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2520 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2523 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2524 --------------------------------
2526 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2527 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2530 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2533 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2534 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2537 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2538 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2541 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2542 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2543 * Various fixed in playlist
2546 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2549 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2552 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2553 ------------------------------------
2555 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2556 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2559 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2560 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2561 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2564 * Stability fix for the video output.
2567 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2568 --------------------------------
2571 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2572 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2573 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2574 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2575 * Fixed update system bugs
2576 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2579 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2580 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2581 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2582 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2583 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2584 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2585 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2586 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2587 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2588 modern Mac OS X versions
2591 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2592 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2594 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2595 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2598 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2599 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2600 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2601 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2602 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2603 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2606 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2607 --------------------------------
2609 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2610 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2611 * Multiple bugfixes.
2614 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2615 --------------------------------
2617 * Multiple bug fixes.
2620 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2621 ---------------------------------
2625 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2626 recent to work correctly
2627 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2628 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2629 edit the ".hosts" file.
2630 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2631 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2632 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2633 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2634 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2635 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2636 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2637 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2638 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2639 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2640 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2641 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2642 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2643 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2644 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2645 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2646 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2647 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2648 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2649 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2650 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2651 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2652 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2653 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2654 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2655 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2656 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2657 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2658 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2659 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2660 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2661 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2662 and postproc modules.
2663 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2664 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2665 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2666 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2668 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2669 filter. For example:
2670 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2671 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2673 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2674 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2680 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2682 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2683 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2686 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2687 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2689 * Shoutcast TV listings
2690 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2692 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2693 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2695 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2698 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2699 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2700 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2701 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2702 * JACK audio input support
2703 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2704 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2705 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2706 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2707 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2708 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2709 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2710 (available as a separate download).
2711 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2712 * RTMP input support
2713 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2714 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2715 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2717 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2718 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2721 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2722 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2723 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2724 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2726 * APEv1/2 tags support
2727 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2728 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2730 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2731 * TiVo Series 2 support
2732 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2737 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2738 * Flash Screen Video support
2739 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2740 * DosBox Capture support
2741 * Karl Morton's Video support
2742 * limited atrac3 support
2744 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2745 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2746 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2747 * H.264 PAFF support
2748 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2749 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2750 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2751 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2752 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2755 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2756 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2757 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2758 * AQTitle subtitles support
2759 * MKV USF subtitles support
2760 * HTML-based subtitles support
2761 * MPSub subtitles support
2762 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2763 * MPL2 subtitles support
2764 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2765 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2766 * Realtext subtitle support
2767 * DKS subtitle support
2768 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2769 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2772 * Flash Screen Video support
2773 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2775 Video outputs and filters:
2776 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2777 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2778 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2779 * New puzzle video output filter
2780 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2781 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2783 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2784 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2785 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2786 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2787 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2788 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2789 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2790 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2791 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2792 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2793 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2794 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2795 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2796 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2798 Audio outputs and filters:
2799 * Replay gain support
2800 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2801 new scaletempo audio filter)
2802 * New spatializer audio filter
2803 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2806 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2807 * New RTP payload formats:
2808 * Speex voice audio codec
2809 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2810 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2811 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2812 * DCCP transport for RTP
2813 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2818 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2819 end-user suitable way.
2820 * Improved user interaction
2821 * Improved mouse gestures
2822 * Vastly improved Update checker
2823 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2825 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2826 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2828 * Improved video output features
2829 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2830 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2831 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2832 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2833 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2835 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2836 if libncursesw is available.
2837 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2838 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2839 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2841 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2842 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2843 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2844 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2845 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2846 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2847 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2848 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2851 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2852 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2853 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2856 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2857 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2858 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2859 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2860 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2861 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2864 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2865 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2875 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2876 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2877 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2880 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2881 ----------------------------------
2884 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2887 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2888 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2889 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2890 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2891 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2892 * Updated Polish translation
2895 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2896 ----------------------------------
2899 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2900 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2901 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2904 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2905 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2906 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2907 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2908 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2909 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2910 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2911 to an unexpected application termination
2912 * New Serbian translation
2913 * Updated Romanian translation
2916 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2917 ----------------------------------
2920 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2921 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2922 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2923 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2924 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2925 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2926 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2927 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2930 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2931 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2932 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2933 * Fixed AAC resampling
2934 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2935 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2938 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2939 ----------------------------------
2942 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2943 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2944 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2945 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2946 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2949 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2950 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2951 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2952 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2953 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2956 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2957 ----------------------------------
2960 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2961 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2964 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2965 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2966 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2967 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2969 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2973 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2976 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2979 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2982 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2985 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2986 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2987 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2988 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2989 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2991 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2992 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2993 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2994 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2997 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3000 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3001 ----------------------------------
3004 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3005 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3006 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3008 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3009 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3011 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3012 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3015 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3017 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3018 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3019 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3020 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3021 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3022 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3023 two different movies
3024 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3025 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3026 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3029 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3032 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3033 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3034 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3035 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3038 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3039 ----------------------------------
3041 Various bugfixes, notably:
3042 * Windows Vista compatibility
3043 * Cropping in Direct3D
3044 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3045 * RSS filter string overflow
3047 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3049 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3050 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3053 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3054 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3057 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3060 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3063 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3066 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3067 ----------------------------------
3069 Various bugfixes, notably:
3070 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3071 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3072 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3073 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3074 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3075 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3078 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3079 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3082 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3084 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3085 * Diverse usability improvements
3086 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3087 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3088 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3091 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3092 ---------------------------------
3094 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3095 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3098 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3101 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3102 --------------------------------
3105 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3108 * Support for RTSP authentication
3109 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3110 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3111 * ATSC support for DVB input
3112 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3113 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3114 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3117 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3118 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3119 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3120 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3121 * Matroska WavPack support
3122 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3123 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3124 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3127 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3128 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3129 * Improved libcaca support
3133 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3134 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3136 * Systray support in skins
3138 * Support for Apple Remote control
3139 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3140 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3141 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3142 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3144 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3147 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3148 Windows 9x/ME users:
3149 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3150 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3151 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3152 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3153 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3155 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3156 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3165 * Updates to the libvlc API
3166 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3169 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3170 --------------------------------
3173 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3174 * Support for downloading updates
3178 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3179 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3180 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3181 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3183 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3184 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3185 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3188 * Cook (Real audio) support
3190 Playlist / Services discovery:
3191 * XSPF playlist support
3193 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3196 * New JACK audio output
3199 * New video filters:
3200 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3201 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3202 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3203 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3204 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3205 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3208 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3211 * System to inform the user and request information
3212 - HTTP authentication
3216 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3217 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3218 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3221 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3222 - Improved playlist handling
3223 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3225 - Embedded Video output
3226 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3227 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3228 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3229 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3230 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3232 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3233 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3236 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3239 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3240 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3241 * Growl "Now playing" support
3244 * Ability to log to syslog
3245 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3248 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3250 * A bit more automatic testing
3253 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3254 ---------------------------------
3257 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3258 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3261 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3262 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3265 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3268 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3269 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3275 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3278 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3279 --------------------------------
3282 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3286 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3287 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3288 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3291 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3292 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3293 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3294 * GnomeVFS input module
3295 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3296 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3299 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3300 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3301 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3304 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3305 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3311 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3312 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3315 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3316 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3317 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3320 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3322 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3323 - New extended controls panel
3324 - New bookmarks window
3325 - Fixed playlist sorting
3326 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3328 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3329 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3330 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3331 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3335 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3336 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3338 - Include macro to include other files
3342 * Should now work outside IE as well
3345 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3348 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3349 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3352 The following languages were added:
3356 * Simplified Chinese
3357 The following languages were re-added:
3361 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3362 --------------------------------
3365 * Rewrite of the playlist
3367 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3368 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3369 * Preferences improvements:
3370 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3371 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3373 * Core image manipulation support
3374 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3375 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3376 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3377 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3378 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3379 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3380 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3381 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3382 * Access filter architecture
3383 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3384 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3388 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3389 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3390 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3391 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3392 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3393 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3394 * Massive Matroska improvements
3395 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3397 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3398 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3399 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3400 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3401 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3403 Decoders / Encoders:
3404 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3405 * PNG decoder/encoder
3406 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3407 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3410 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3413 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3414 * Brand new SAP module
3415 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3416 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3417 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3418 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3419 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3420 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3424 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3427 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3428 * Image file video output (png)
3429 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3430 * Improvements to wall video filter
3431 * Support for font color and opacity
3437 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3438 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3439 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3443 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3444 - Improved preferences
3445 - Improvements to the wizard
3446 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3448 - Redesigned playlist
3449 - Improved preferences
3451 - Support for multiple actions
3454 - Support for the new playlist system
3456 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3459 * Screensaver disabling fix
3460 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3461 * Support for no-decoration windows
3464 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3465 * The OpenGL video output is back
3466 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3467 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3468 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3469 is not yet available in the new module
3470 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3473 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3482 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3485 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3488 The following languages were added:
3494 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3495 --------------------------------
3498 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3499 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3502 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3503 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3504 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3507 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3510 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3513 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3516 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3517 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3518 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3522 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3524 * Support of playlist group announcement
3527 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3528 --------------------------------
3531 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3532 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3533 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3534 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3535 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3536 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3539 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3540 (Stream your desktop)
3541 * Improved DVD support:
3542 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3543 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3544 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3545 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3546 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3547 (selection of titles/chapters).
3550 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3551 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3552 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3553 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3554 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3555 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3556 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3557 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3558 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3559 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3562 * G.726 audio support
3563 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3564 * MPEG-4 text support
3565 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3566 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3567 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3571 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3572 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3573 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3574 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3575 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3576 * DVB subtitles encoder
3577 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3578 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3580 * Text track muxing for mp4
3581 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3582 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3583 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3584 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3585 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3586 * Improved ASF muxer
3588 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3589 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3590 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3593 * New audio equalizer filter
3594 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3595 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3596 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3597 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3600 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3601 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3602 with support for effects.
3603 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3604 - New filters can be streamed.
3605 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3606 - Centralized scaling and blending
3608 - "time", to display current time
3609 - "marq", to display a marquee
3612 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3613 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3614 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3615 * A few skins2 improvements
3616 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3617 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3618 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3619 * Improved CORBA control module
3622 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3623 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3624 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3627 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3628 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3629 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3632 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3633 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3634 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3635 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3636 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3639 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3642 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3643 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3646 * Server/client network synchronization module
3647 * VBrick streams fully supported
3648 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3652 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3653 --------------------------------
3656 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3657 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3658 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3659 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3662 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3663 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3664 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3665 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3666 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3667 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3668 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3671 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3672 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3673 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3674 * Improved directory access module.
3675 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3676 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3677 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3678 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3679 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3682 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3683 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3684 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3687 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3688 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3689 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3692 * Improved session announcement system.
3693 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3694 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3695 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3696 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3697 * Improved transrater.
3698 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3699 * New configuration system.
3700 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3703 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3704 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3705 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3706 * Supports scheduling.
3707 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3708 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3711 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3712 - Ability to embed video output.
3713 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3714 - Lots of improvements.
3715 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3716 - New design and set of icons.
3717 - Ability to embed video output.
3718 - Support for hotkeys.
3719 - Support for bookmarks.
3721 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3722 - Better hotkeys handling.
3725 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3726 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3727 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3728 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3731 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3732 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3733 * Improved Windows installer.
3739 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3740 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3743 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3744 ---------------------------------
3747 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3748 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3751 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3752 --------------------------------
3755 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3756 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3759 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3760 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3761 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3762 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3765 * Internal improvments
3766 * Improved import/export
3769 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3771 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3772 small and strange formats.
3774 * New MOD audio demux.
3775 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3776 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3777 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3778 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3781 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3782 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3783 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3789 * New opengl video output plugin.
3792 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3793 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3796 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3797 --------------------------------
3800 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3801 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3802 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3803 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3804 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3805 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3806 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3807 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3810 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3815 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3816 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3817 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3818 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3819 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3820 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3821 * Better Icecast support.
3822 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3823 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3826 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3827 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3828 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3829 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3830 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3831 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3832 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3835 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3836 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3837 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3838 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3839 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3840 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3841 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3842 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3843 * Preliminary RTP support.
3844 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3849 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3850 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3852 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3853 - Improvements and help in preferences
3854 - New streaming wizard
3855 - Revised Disc Open menu
3857 - Improvements of the standard pages
3858 - Support for new commands
3859 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3862 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3863 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3866 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3867 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3868 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3869 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3870 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3871 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3872 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3873 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3874 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3877 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3879 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3880 * Support for Panther.
3881 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3882 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3885 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3886 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3887 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3888 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3889 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3890 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3891 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3892 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3895 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3896 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3897 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3900 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3903 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3904 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3905 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3906 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3909 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3910 --------------------------------
3913 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3916 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3917 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3920 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3921 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3924 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3927 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3928 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3931 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3934 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3937 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3938 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3942 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3943 --------------------------------
3946 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3947 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3951 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3952 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3953 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3955 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3956 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3959 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3962 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3965 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3966 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3970 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3971 --------------------------------
3974 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3975 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3979 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3980 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3981 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3982 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3983 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3986 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3987 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3988 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3991 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3992 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3993 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3996 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3997 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3998 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3999 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4000 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4003 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4004 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4005 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4008 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4011 * Improved build system.
4012 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4013 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4014 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4015 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4018 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4019 --------------------------------
4022 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4025 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4026 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4027 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4028 * Video 4 Linux support
4029 * CD Digital Audio support
4030 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4033 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4034 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4035 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4036 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4039 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4040 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4041 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4042 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4043 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4044 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4045 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4048 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4049 * New HTTP remote control interface
4052 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4053 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4054 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4055 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4056 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4059 * New reset option for the preferences
4060 * You can set your language in the prefences
4061 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4062 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4063 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4064 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4067 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4068 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4069 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4072 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4073 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4074 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4075 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4076 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4077 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4078 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4079 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4080 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4081 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4084 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4085 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4086 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4087 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4088 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4089 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4090 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4093 * Interface localization
4094 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4095 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4096 * New full-featured Preferences window
4099 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4100 --------------------------------
4103 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4104 * support for skins at the interface level
4105 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4106 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4107 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4108 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4109 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4112 * fixed HTTP redirects
4113 * support for opening an entire directory
4114 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4115 * new video4linux access plug-in
4116 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4119 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4120 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4121 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4124 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4125 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4126 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4127 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4128 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4129 * new codec for raw I420 video
4130 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4133 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4134 (although it still misses some important features)
4135 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4138 * new HTTP output support
4139 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4140 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4143 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4146 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4149 * reorderable playlist
4150 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4151 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4152 * support for mono audio output devices
4153 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4154 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4155 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4156 * the messages window remembers more lines
4157 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4158 * http and ogg stream output options
4159 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4162 * new skinnable interface
4163 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4165 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4166 * support for FLAC audio format
4167 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4169 * network tab in the interface
4170 * "apply" handling in preferences
4173 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4174 ---------------------------------
4177 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4178 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4179 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4180 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4182 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4183 * DTS S/PDIF support
4186 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4187 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4188 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4189 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4192 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4193 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4196 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4199 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4202 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4204 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4205 * rc interface is now fully useable
4206 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4209 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4210 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4211 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4212 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4213 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4215 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4216 * support for mouse gestures
4217 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4220 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4221 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4224 * improved ID3 tag detection
4225 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4226 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4227 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4229 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4232 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4233 ---------------------------------
4236 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4237 English was set as the preferred language
4240 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4241 --------------------------------
4244 * new mouse gesture interface
4245 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4249 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4250 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4251 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4254 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4255 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4259 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4262 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4263 without the user consent
4266 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4268 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4269 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4270 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4273 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4274 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4275 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4276 * playlist enhancements
4277 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4278 * new step forward/step backward commands
4279 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4280 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4281 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4284 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4285 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4286 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4289 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4290 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4293 * native video output is working again
4294 * only commandline interface support
4295 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4298 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4299 --------------------------------
4302 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4303 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4304 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4305 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4306 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4307 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4308 and A/52 streams are supported)
4309 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4314 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4315 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4316 * VCD entry points support
4317 * VCD image file support
4320 * support for *.asf format
4321 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4322 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4323 * support for ogg encapsulation
4324 * support for raw DV format
4325 * support for *.wav format
4326 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4329 Stream discovery & playlists:
4330 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4331 * support for .m3u file format
4332 * support for .asx file format
4333 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4336 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4337 (only available with the .avi demux)
4338 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4339 * support for raw PCM data
4340 * support for Cinepak video codec
4341 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4342 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4343 * support for Xvid codec
4344 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4345 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4346 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4348 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4350 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4353 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4356 * new WxWindows interface
4357 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4358 device and the channels configuration
4359 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4360 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4361 format that VLC can play
4362 * new swedish translation
4363 * enhancements of the playlist window
4364 * new messages window to see debug info
4365 * fixed a few crashes
4368 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4369 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4370 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4371 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working