1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
28 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
31 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
32 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
33 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
34 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
35 * New png image encoder using libpng
38 * New CAF format module
39 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
40 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
41 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
42 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
45 * Basic support for WebVTT
46 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
47 * Support HDPR TS files
48 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
49 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
50 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
51 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
52 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
53 * AVI fixes for uncompressed and indexed bitmaps
54 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
57 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
58 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
60 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4
63 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
64 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
65 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
66 * New Android native window provider module
67 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
68 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
71 * New Oldmovie effect filter
72 * New VHS effect filter
73 * New Freeze effect filter
74 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
75 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
78 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
79 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
82 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
83 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
84 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
85 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
86 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
87 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
88 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
89 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
90 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
92 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
93 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
96 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
97 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
100 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
101 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
104 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
105 * Add record button in Qt menus
106 * Fixes for advanced preferences on OS X
107 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
108 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
111 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
112 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
113 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
116 * ios video output: use ios2
117 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
118 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
121 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
122 --------------------------------
125 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
126 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
129 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
130 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
131 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
134 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
135 by updating codec libraries
136 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
137 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
138 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
141 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
142 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
143 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
144 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
147 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
148 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
151 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
152 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
153 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
154 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
155 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
158 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
159 * Fix record file names
162 * Fix minimal size possible on start
163 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
164 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
165 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
166 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
169 * Fix album art display on Windows
172 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
173 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
174 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
175 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
176 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
177 and Simplified Chinese translations
178 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
181 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
182 --------------------------------
185 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
186 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
187 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
188 audio devices on OS X
189 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
190 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
193 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
194 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
197 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
198 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
201 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
204 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
205 * Improve A-B loop control
206 * Fix album art update when changing media
209 * Add a language option in the interface
210 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
211 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
212 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
213 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
214 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
215 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
216 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
219 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
222 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
223 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
224 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
225 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
228 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
229 --------------------------------
232 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
234 * Fix some subtitles track selection
237 * VP9 support in WebM
238 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
239 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
242 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
243 * Support Speex in ogg files
244 * Fix some .mov playlists support
245 * Support Alac in mkv
246 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
247 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
250 * Fix DVB options parsing
251 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
252 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
255 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
256 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
259 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
260 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
263 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
264 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
265 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
266 * Fix play after drag'n drop
267 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
270 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
271 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
274 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
275 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
278 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
279 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
280 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
281 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
282 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
283 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
284 * Improves interface resizings
287 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
288 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
289 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
290 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
291 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
295 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
296 --------------------------------
299 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
300 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
301 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
302 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
303 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
305 3rd party libraries (contrib):
306 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
309 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
310 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
311 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
312 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
313 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
316 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
317 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
321 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
322 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
323 * Support for Ulead DV audio
324 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
325 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
326 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
327 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
328 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
329 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
330 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
331 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
332 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
333 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
336 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
337 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
338 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
341 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
342 remove support for previous OS X releases
343 * Major improvements in DASH support
344 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
345 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
346 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
347 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
348 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
349 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
350 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
351 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
352 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
353 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
354 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
357 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
358 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
359 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
360 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
361 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
362 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
363 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
364 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
365 * Support for more MJPEG streams
366 * Add support for liveleak streams
367 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
368 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
369 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
372 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
373 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
374 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
375 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
376 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
377 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
378 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
379 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
380 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
381 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
382 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
385 * New remapping channel filter
386 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
387 * New VSXu visualization plugin
388 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
389 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
390 * New gain audio filter
393 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
394 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
395 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
396 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
397 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
398 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
399 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
400 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
401 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
404 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
405 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
406 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
407 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
408 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
409 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
410 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
413 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
414 * Options support for AVIO output module
415 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
416 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
417 * Livehttp stream encryption support
418 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
419 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
422 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
425 * configurable password for the HTTP server
426 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
427 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
428 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
429 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
430 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
431 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
432 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
436 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
439 * Add support for multiple video outputs
440 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
442 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
443 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
444 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
445 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
446 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
447 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
448 VLC's internal volume level
449 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
451 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
452 selection and to manage the list of presets
453 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
454 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
455 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
456 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
457 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
458 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
459 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
460 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
461 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
462 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
464 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
465 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
466 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
467 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
468 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
469 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
470 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
471 3rd party applications
472 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
473 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
474 (system-wide settings)
475 * Add support for the Video Title option
476 * Add support for the Boss Key
477 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
478 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
481 * Partial support for Qt5.0
482 * Menus modifications and improvements
483 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
484 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
485 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
486 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
487 * EPG display fixes and improvements
488 * Add SD pixmap sources
489 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
490 * Display playlist total duration
491 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
492 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
493 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
498 * Extend sliders, offsets options
499 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
500 * Numerous fixes and improvements
501 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
504 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
505 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
506 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
507 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
508 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
509 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
510 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
511 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
512 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
513 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
516 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
517 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
518 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
519 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
520 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
521 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
523 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
524 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
525 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
526 * Broken crop video filter
528 * OSD parser and menu
529 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
530 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
531 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
532 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
536 * Update of all translations
539 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
540 --------------------------------
543 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
544 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
547 * Fix modplug security issues
550 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
551 --------------------------------
555 * Fix crash in QTsound
556 * Fix screen mouse file location
557 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
560 * Fix use after free in sgimb
561 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
564 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
567 * Fix interface crashes
568 * Fix autostart playback option
569 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
572 * update Welsh translation
573 * New Kannada translation
576 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
577 --------------------------------
580 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
581 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
585 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
588 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
591 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
594 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
598 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
601 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
604 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
605 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
606 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
609 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
610 --------------------------------
613 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
616 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
619 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
620 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
621 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
622 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
623 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
624 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
627 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
628 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
629 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
630 * 3rd party codecs updates
633 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
634 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
635 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
636 in the advanced preferences panel
637 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
638 * Fix crash within the video output code
639 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
640 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
641 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
642 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
644 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
647 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
650 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
651 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
654 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
657 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
658 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
659 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
660 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
661 Dutch, Danish, translations
662 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
665 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
666 --------------------------------
669 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
672 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
673 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
674 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
677 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
678 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
679 * Fix koreus lua parser
680 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
681 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
682 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
683 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
686 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
687 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
690 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
693 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
694 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
695 * Fix Time counter UI look
696 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
699 * Fix https streaming
702 * Fix audio and video track selection:
703 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
704 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
707 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
708 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
709 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
710 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
711 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
714 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
715 --------------------------------
718 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
719 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
720 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
721 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
722 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
723 during playback on Mac OS X
726 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
727 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
728 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
731 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
732 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
733 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
734 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
735 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
738 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
739 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
740 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
741 * Support Youtube live streams
744 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
747 * Fix media info dialog update
748 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
749 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
750 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
751 * Fix album art display at start
754 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
755 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
756 * Fix menus display and behavior
757 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
758 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
759 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
760 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
761 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
762 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
763 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
766 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
767 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
768 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
769 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
770 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
771 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
772 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
773 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
774 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
777 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
778 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
779 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
780 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
781 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
784 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
785 --------------------------------
788 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
791 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
792 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
795 * Add GateKeeper support
796 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
797 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
798 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
801 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
804 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
805 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
806 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
807 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
808 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
811 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
812 --------------------------------
815 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
816 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
817 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
818 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
819 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
820 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
821 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
822 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
823 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
824 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
825 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
829 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
830 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
831 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
832 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
833 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
834 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
835 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
836 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
837 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
838 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
839 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
840 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
843 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
844 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
846 * Fix MP3 free format support
849 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
850 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
851 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
852 * Fix for DVB channels file support
853 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
856 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
857 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
859 Audio filters and output:
860 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
861 * Fix DirectSound device selection
862 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
863 * Do not apply volume in file output
864 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
865 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
868 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
869 the persistant media library
870 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
871 to the media library or the temporary playlist
872 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
873 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
874 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
875 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
876 press on the Play/Pause button
877 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
878 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
879 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
880 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
881 * Many Fullscreen fixes
882 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
883 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
884 Synchronization panel
885 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
886 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
887 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
888 * Fix crashes on exit
889 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
891 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
892 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
893 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
894 automatically reset on the first launch.
895 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
896 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
897 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
900 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
901 * Fixes for icecast SD
904 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
905 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
906 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
907 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
908 * Fix tags and file names display
909 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
912 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
913 * Fix for key events and focus loss
916 * Fix display of some buttons
917 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
918 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
921 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
922 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
923 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
926 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
927 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
928 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
929 Thai translations update
930 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
933 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
934 --------------------------------
937 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
938 * fix the samba module compilation
939 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
940 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
941 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
942 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
945 * Support for MXPEG files
946 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
947 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
950 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
951 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
952 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
955 * Fix ogm header creation
958 * limit spatializer filter distortions
959 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
962 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
963 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
964 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
965 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
968 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
971 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
972 * allow to hide the sidebar
973 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
974 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
975 * noticebly faster launch time
976 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
977 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
978 * improve track synchronization panel
979 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
980 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
983 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
984 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
985 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
986 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
989 * fix for menus display
990 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
991 * documentation update
994 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
995 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
998 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
999 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1000 * Update Jamendo selections
1004 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1005 * fix a crash on VLM close
1008 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1009 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1010 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1011 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1014 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1017 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1018 ---------------------------------
1021 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1022 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1023 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1024 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1025 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1026 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1027 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1028 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1029 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1030 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1031 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1032 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1033 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1034 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1035 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1036 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1037 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1038 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1039 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1040 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1041 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1042 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1043 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1044 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1045 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1046 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1048 Important changes for packagers:
1049 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1050 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1051 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1052 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1053 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1054 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1055 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1056 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1057 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1058 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1061 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1062 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1063 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1064 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1065 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1066 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1067 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1070 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1071 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1072 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1073 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1074 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1075 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1076 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1077 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1078 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1079 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1080 * PulseAudio audio input support
1081 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1082 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1083 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1084 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1085 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1086 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1087 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1088 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1091 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1092 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1093 are notably concerned.
1094 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1095 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1096 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1097 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1098 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1099 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1100 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1101 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1102 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1103 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1104 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1105 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1106 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1107 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1108 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1111 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1112 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1113 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1114 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1115 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1116 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1117 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1118 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1119 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1120 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1121 * Improved support of tracker files
1122 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1125 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1126 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1127 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1128 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1129 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1130 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1131 and important cleanups and optimisations
1132 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1133 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1134 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1135 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1136 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1137 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1138 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1139 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1140 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1141 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1142 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1143 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1144 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1145 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1146 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1147 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1148 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1149 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1150 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1151 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1152 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1155 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1156 * New video output for iOS platform
1157 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1158 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1159 * Various vmem improvements
1160 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1161 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1162 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1163 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1164 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1165 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1167 Audio Output and Filters:
1168 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1169 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1170 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1171 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1172 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1173 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1174 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1175 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1176 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1177 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1180 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1181 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1182 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1183 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1184 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1185 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1186 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1187 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1188 * New anti-flickering filter
1189 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1190 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1191 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1192 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1193 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1194 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1195 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1198 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1199 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1200 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1201 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1202 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1203 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1204 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1205 * Major rework of VoD support
1206 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1207 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1208 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1209 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1210 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1211 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1212 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1213 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1214 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1215 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1218 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1219 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1222 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1223 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1224 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1225 list of available audio and video filters
1226 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1227 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1228 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1231 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1232 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1233 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1234 * id3tag: use taglib
1235 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1236 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1237 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1238 * removal of the noise filter
1239 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1240 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1241 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1242 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1245 * Update of translations for most languages.
1246 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1249 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1250 ----------------------------------
1253 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1254 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1257 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1258 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1261 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1262 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1263 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1266 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1269 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1270 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1273 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1276 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1277 ----------------------------------
1280 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1281 including support for OS X Lion
1282 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1283 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1286 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1289 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1290 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1291 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1294 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1297 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1298 ----------------------------------
1301 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1302 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1305 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1306 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1307 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1308 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1309 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1311 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1312 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1313 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1315 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1316 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1319 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1322 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1325 * Fix quitting on Linux
1326 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1330 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1333 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1336 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1337 ---------------------------------
1339 Windows and Mac OS X:
1340 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1343 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1344 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1347 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1350 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1353 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1355 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1356 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1358 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1359 * RTP output and XML export
1360 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1364 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1365 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1366 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1367 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1370 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1371 --------------------------------
1373 Windows and Mac OS X:
1374 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1377 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1380 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1381 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1382 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1383 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1384 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1385 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1388 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1389 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1393 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1394 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1395 * New Luganda Translation
1398 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1399 --------------------------------
1402 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1405 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1406 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1407 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1408 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1411 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1413 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1414 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1415 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1416 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1417 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1418 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1419 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1420 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1422 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1423 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1424 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1425 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1426 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1427 * Configure and build system improvements
1428 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1431 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1432 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1433 * New icelandic translation
1436 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1437 --------------------------------
1440 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1441 #234484 and #260719.
1444 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1445 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1446 and stability reasons
1449 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1453 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1456 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1457 ----------------------------------
1460 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1463 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1464 ---------------------------------
1467 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1468 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1469 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1470 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1473 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1476 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1477 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1478 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1479 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1482 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1483 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1484 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1486 Subtitles and renderer:
1487 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1488 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1489 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1490 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1491 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1494 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1495 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1496 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1497 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1500 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1501 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1503 Miscellaneous fixes:
1504 * KDE device solid actions
1506 * Transcode integer overflow
1507 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1508 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1511 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1512 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1513 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1516 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1517 ----------------------------------
1520 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1524 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1527 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1530 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1531 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1532 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1533 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1536 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1540 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1543 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1546 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1547 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1549 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1553 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1554 * Miscellaneous fixes
1557 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1558 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1559 French and Ukrainian
1560 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1561 * New Asturian translation
1564 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1565 ----------------------------------
1568 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1570 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1573 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1576 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1577 * Various fixes for Windows
1580 * New Armenian translation
1581 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1582 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1585 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1586 --------------------------------
1589 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1590 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1591 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1594 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1595 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1598 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1599 --------------------------------
1601 Access and demuxers:
1602 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1603 * fix for podcasts parsing
1604 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1607 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1608 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1611 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1612 * fix m3u playlists exports
1615 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1618 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1621 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1624 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1627 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1630 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1631 --------------------------------
1634 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1635 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1638 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1639 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1642 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1643 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1644 * fix console output encoding
1646 Interface and extensions:
1647 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1648 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1651 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1652 --------------------------------
1655 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1656 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1657 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1658 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1659 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1660 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1661 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1662 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1663 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1664 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1665 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1666 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1667 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1668 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1669 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1670 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1674 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1675 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1676 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1677 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1678 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1681 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1684 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1685 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1686 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1690 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1693 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1694 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1695 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1698 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1699 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1700 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1701 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1704 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1705 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1708 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1709 --------------------------------
1711 Important changes for users:
1712 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1713 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1715 Important changes for packagers:
1716 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1717 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1718 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1719 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1720 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1722 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1724 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1725 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1726 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1727 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1728 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1731 * Support for the sftp protocol
1732 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1733 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1734 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1735 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1736 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1739 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1740 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1741 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1743 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1744 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1745 * Invmem module improvements
1746 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1747 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1748 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1749 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1750 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1751 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1752 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1753 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1754 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1755 * Support for VP8 codec
1756 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1759 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1760 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1761 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1762 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1763 * Various EGP improvements
1764 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1765 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1768 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1769 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1770 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1771 * Podcast images are now displayed
1774 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1775 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1776 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1777 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1778 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1779 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1780 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1781 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1782 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1783 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1784 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1787 * New content extensions lua framework
1790 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1791 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1792 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1793 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1794 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1795 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1796 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1799 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1800 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1801 * Service discovery based on libudev
1802 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1805 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1806 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1807 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1808 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1809 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1810 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1811 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1814 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1815 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1816 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1819 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1821 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1822 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1825 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1828 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1829 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1830 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1831 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1832 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1833 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1834 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1837 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1838 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1841 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1842 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1843 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1847 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1848 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1849 * Improved Solaris port
1852 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1853 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1856 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1857 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1858 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1859 * transrate: broken since too long
1860 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1861 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1862 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1863 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1864 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1865 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1866 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1867 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1868 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1869 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1870 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1871 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1872 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1873 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1876 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1877 --------------------------------
1880 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1882 Decoders/Packetizers:
1883 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1886 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1887 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1888 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1889 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1890 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1893 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1894 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1897 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1898 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1901 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1902 and Walloon translations updated
1903 * Sinhala translation started
1906 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1907 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1910 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1911 --------------------------------
1914 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1915 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1918 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1921 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1922 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1925 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1926 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1927 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1928 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1931 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1932 --------------------------------
1935 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1936 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1939 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1940 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1943 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1944 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1947 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1950 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1951 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1954 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1955 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1958 * New Walloon translation
1959 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1962 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1963 --------------------------------
1966 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1967 regressions in most popular drivers
1968 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1971 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1972 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1973 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1976 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1977 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1980 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1981 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1982 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1983 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1984 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1987 * New udev module for linux
1990 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1993 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1996 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1997 --------------------------------
2000 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2001 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2002 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2005 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2006 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2009 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2010 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2013 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2016 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2017 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2018 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2019 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2022 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2023 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2024 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2025 - no support for Goom and SDL
2026 - limited text rendering support
2027 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2030 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2031 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2032 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2033 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2034 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2035 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2036 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2037 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2038 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2042 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2045 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2048 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2049 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2050 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2051 Arabic and French translation updates
2054 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2055 --------------------------------
2058 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2059 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2060 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2061 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2062 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2063 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2066 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2067 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2068 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2071 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2072 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2073 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2076 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2079 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2080 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2083 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2084 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2085 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2086 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2087 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2088 * Fix various crashes
2091 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2093 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2097 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2098 ---------------------------------
2102 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2103 See 'Access:' for more info.
2104 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2107 * Instantaneous pausing
2108 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2109 * Finer speed control
2110 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2111 * Timeshift for most medias
2112 * RTSP trickplay support
2113 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2116 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2117 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2118 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2119 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2120 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2121 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2122 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2123 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2124 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2125 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2128 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2129 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2130 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2131 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2132 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2133 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2134 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2137 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2138 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2141 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2142 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2143 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2144 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2145 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2146 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2147 * DVB scanning on linux
2148 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2149 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2150 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2151 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2152 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2153 * MTP device access on Unix
2154 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2155 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2158 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2159 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2160 Windows and Mac OS X.
2163 * Export the playlist in HTML
2164 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2165 * Better metadata handling and reading
2167 Linux/Windows interface:
2168 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2169 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2170 * Recently played items list
2171 * Interface toolbar customizations
2172 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2173 - More menus actions
2174 - Finer speed slider
2175 - Improvements on many dialogs
2176 - New dialog for plugins listing
2177 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2178 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2179 * Better integration in GTK environments
2182 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2183 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2184 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2185 * Additional usability improvements
2188 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2189 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2190 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2191 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2192 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2195 * New Maemo port with:
2196 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2197 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2200 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2203 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2204 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2205 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2206 * Support for latest iSight models
2209 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2210 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2213 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2214 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2215 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2216 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2217 The old image video output has been removed.
2218 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2219 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2222 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2230 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2231 --------------------------------------
2237 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2238 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2239 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2240 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2241 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2242 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2243 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2245 Various fixes to the following modules:
2248 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2249 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2250 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2252 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2257 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2258 ---------------------------------
2261 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2262 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2265 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2266 ---------------------------------
2269 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2272 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2275 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2276 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2277 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2278 main controller window.
2279 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2282 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2287 * Updates of other localizations
2290 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2291 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2292 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2293 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2294 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2297 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2298 ---------------------------------
2301 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2303 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2306 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2307 --------------------------------
2312 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2313 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2316 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2317 --------------------------------
2319 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2320 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2323 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2326 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2327 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2330 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2331 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2334 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2335 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2336 * Various fixed in playlist
2339 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2342 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2345 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2346 ------------------------------------
2348 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2349 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2352 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2353 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2354 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2357 * Stability fix for the video output.
2360 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2361 --------------------------------
2364 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2365 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2366 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2367 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2368 * Fixed update system bugs
2369 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2372 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2373 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2374 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2375 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2376 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2377 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2378 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2379 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2380 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2381 modern Mac OS X versions
2384 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2385 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2387 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2388 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2391 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2392 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2393 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2394 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2395 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2396 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2399 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2400 --------------------------------
2402 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2403 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2404 * Multiple bugfixes.
2407 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2408 --------------------------------
2410 * Multiple bug fixes.
2413 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2414 ---------------------------------
2418 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2419 recent to work correctly
2420 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2421 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2422 edit the ".hosts" file.
2423 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2424 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2425 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2426 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2427 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2428 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2429 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2430 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2431 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2432 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2433 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2434 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2435 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2436 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2437 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2438 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2439 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2440 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2441 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2442 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2443 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2444 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2445 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2446 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2447 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2448 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2449 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2450 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2451 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2452 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2453 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2454 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2455 and postproc modules.
2456 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2457 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2458 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2459 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2461 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2462 filter. For example:
2463 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2464 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2466 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2467 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2473 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2475 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2476 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2479 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2480 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2482 * Shoutcast TV listings
2483 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2485 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2486 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2488 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2491 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2492 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2493 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2494 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2495 * JACK audio input support
2496 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2497 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2498 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2499 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2500 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2501 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2502 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2503 (available as a separate download).
2504 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2505 * RTMP input support
2506 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2507 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2508 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2510 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2511 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2514 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2515 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2516 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2517 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2519 * APEv1/2 tags support
2520 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2521 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2523 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2524 * TiVo Series 2 support
2525 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2530 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2531 * Flash Screen Video support
2532 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2533 * DosBox Capture support
2534 * Karl Morton's Video support
2535 * limited atrac3 support
2537 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2538 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2539 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2540 * H.264 PAFF support
2541 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2542 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2543 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2544 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2545 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2548 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2549 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2550 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2551 * AQTitle subtitles support
2552 * MKV USF subtitles support
2553 * HTML-based subtitles support
2554 * MPSub subtitles support
2555 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2556 * MPL2 subtitles support
2557 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2558 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2559 * Realtext subtitle support
2560 * DKS subtitle support
2561 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2562 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2565 * Flash Screen Video support
2566 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2568 Video outputs and filters:
2569 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2570 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2571 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2572 * New puzzle video output filter
2573 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2574 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2576 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2577 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2578 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2579 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2580 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2581 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2582 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2583 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2584 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2585 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2586 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2587 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2588 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2589 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2591 Audio outputs and filters:
2592 * Replay gain support
2593 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2594 new scaletempo audio filter)
2595 * New spatializer audio filter
2596 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2599 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2600 * New RTP payload formats:
2601 * Speex voice audio codec
2602 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2603 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2604 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2605 * DCCP transport for RTP
2606 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2611 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2612 end-user suitable way.
2613 * Improved user interaction
2614 * Improved mouse gestures
2615 * Vastly improved Update checker
2616 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2618 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2619 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2621 * Improved video output features
2622 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2623 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2624 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2625 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2626 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2628 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2629 if libncursesw is available.
2630 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2631 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2632 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2634 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2635 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2636 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2637 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2638 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2639 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2640 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2641 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2644 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2645 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2646 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2649 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2650 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2651 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2652 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2653 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2654 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2657 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2658 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2668 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2669 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2670 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2673 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2674 ----------------------------------
2677 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2680 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2681 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2682 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2683 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2684 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2685 * Updated Polish translation
2688 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2689 ----------------------------------
2692 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2693 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2694 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2697 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2698 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2699 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2700 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2701 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2702 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2703 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2704 to an unexpected application termination
2705 * New Serbian translation
2706 * Updated Romanian translation
2709 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2710 ----------------------------------
2713 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2714 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2715 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2716 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2717 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2718 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2719 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2720 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2723 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2724 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2725 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2726 * Fixed AAC resampling
2727 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2728 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2731 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2732 ----------------------------------
2735 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2736 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2737 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2738 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2739 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2742 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2743 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2744 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2745 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2746 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2749 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2750 ----------------------------------
2753 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2754 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2757 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2758 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2759 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2760 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2762 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2766 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2769 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2772 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2775 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2778 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2779 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2780 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2781 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2782 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2784 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2785 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2786 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2787 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2790 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2793 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2794 ----------------------------------
2797 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2798 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2799 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2801 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2802 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2804 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2805 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2808 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2810 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2811 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2812 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2813 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2814 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2815 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2816 two different movies
2817 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2818 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2819 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2822 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2825 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2826 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2827 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2828 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2831 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2832 ----------------------------------
2834 Various bugfixes, notably:
2835 * Windows Vista compatibility
2836 * Cropping in Direct3D
2837 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2838 * RSS filter string overflow
2840 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2842 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2843 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2846 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2847 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2850 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2853 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2856 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2859 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2860 ----------------------------------
2862 Various bugfixes, notably:
2863 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2864 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2865 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2866 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2867 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2868 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2871 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2872 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2875 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2877 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2878 * Diverse usability improvements
2879 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2880 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2881 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2884 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2885 ---------------------------------
2887 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2888 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2891 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2894 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2895 --------------------------------
2898 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2901 * Support for RTSP authentication
2902 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2903 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2904 * ATSC support for DVB input
2905 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2906 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2907 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2910 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2911 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2912 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2913 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2914 * Matroska WavPack support
2915 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2916 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2917 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2920 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2921 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2922 * Improved libcaca support
2926 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2927 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2929 * Systray support in skins
2931 * Support for Apple Remote control
2932 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2933 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2934 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2935 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2937 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2940 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2941 Windows 9x/ME users:
2942 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2943 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2944 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2945 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2946 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2948 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2949 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2958 * Updates to the libvlc API
2959 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2962 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2963 --------------------------------
2966 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2967 * Support for downloading updates
2971 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2972 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2973 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2974 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2976 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2977 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2978 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2981 * Cook (Real audio) support
2983 Playlist / Services discovery:
2984 * XSPF playlist support
2986 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2989 * New JACK audio output
2992 * New video filters:
2993 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2994 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2995 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2996 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2997 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2998 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3001 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3004 * System to inform the user and request information
3005 - HTTP authentication
3009 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3010 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3011 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3014 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3015 - Improved playlist handling
3016 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3018 - Embedded Video output
3019 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3020 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3021 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3022 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3023 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3025 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3026 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3029 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3032 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3033 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3034 * Growl "Now playing" support
3037 * Ability to log to syslog
3038 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3041 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3043 * A bit more automatic testing
3046 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3047 ---------------------------------
3050 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3051 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3054 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3055 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3058 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3061 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3062 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3068 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3071 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3072 --------------------------------
3075 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3079 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3080 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3081 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3084 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3085 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3086 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3087 * GnomeVFS input module
3088 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3089 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3092 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3093 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3094 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3097 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3098 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3104 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3105 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3108 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3109 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3110 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3113 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3115 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3116 - New extended controls panel
3117 - New bookmarks window
3118 - Fixed playlist sorting
3119 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3121 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3122 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3123 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3124 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3128 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3129 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3131 - Include macro to include other files
3135 * Should now work outside IE as well
3138 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3141 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3142 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3145 The following languages were added:
3149 * Simplified Chinese
3150 The following languages were re-added:
3154 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3155 --------------------------------
3158 * Rewrite of the playlist
3160 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3161 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3162 * Preferences improvements:
3163 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3164 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3166 * Core image manipulation support
3167 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3168 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3169 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3170 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3171 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3172 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3173 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3174 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3175 * Access filter architecture
3176 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3177 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3181 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3182 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3183 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3184 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3185 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3186 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3187 * Massive Matroska improvements
3188 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3190 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3191 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3192 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3193 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3194 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3196 Decoders / Encoders:
3197 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3198 * PNG decoder/encoder
3199 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3200 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3203 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3206 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3207 * Brand new SAP module
3208 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3209 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3210 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3211 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3212 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3213 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3217 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3220 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3221 * Image file video output (png)
3222 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3223 * Improvements to wall video filter
3224 * Support for font color and opacity
3230 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3231 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3232 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3236 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3237 - Improved preferences
3238 - Improvements to the wizard
3239 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3241 - Redesigned playlist
3242 - Improved preferences
3244 - Support for multiple actions
3247 - Support for the new playlist system
3249 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3252 * Screensaver disabling fix
3253 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3254 * Support for no-decoration windows
3257 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3258 * The OpenGL video output is back
3259 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3260 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3261 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3262 is not yet available in the new module
3263 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3266 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3275 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3278 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3281 The following languages were added:
3287 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3288 --------------------------------
3291 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3292 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3295 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3296 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3297 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3300 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3303 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3306 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3309 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3310 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3311 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3315 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3317 * Support of playlist group announcement
3320 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3321 --------------------------------
3324 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3325 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3326 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3327 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3328 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3329 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3332 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3333 (Stream your desktop)
3334 * Improved DVD support:
3335 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3336 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3337 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3338 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3339 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3340 (selection of titles/chapters).
3343 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3344 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3345 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3346 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3347 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3348 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3349 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3350 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3351 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3352 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3355 * G.726 audio support
3356 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3357 * MPEG-4 text support
3358 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3359 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3360 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3364 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3365 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3366 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3367 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3368 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3369 * DVB subtitles encoder
3370 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3371 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3373 * Text track muxing for mp4
3374 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3375 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3376 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3377 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3378 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3379 * Improved ASF muxer
3381 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3382 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3383 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3386 * New audio equalizer filter
3387 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3388 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3389 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3390 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3393 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3394 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3395 with support for effects.
3396 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3397 - New filters can be streamed.
3398 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3399 - Centralized scaling and blending
3401 - "time", to display current time
3402 - "marq", to display a marquee
3405 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3406 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3407 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3408 * A few skins2 improvements
3409 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3410 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3411 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3412 * Improved CORBA control module
3415 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3416 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3417 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3420 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3421 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3422 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3425 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3426 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3427 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3428 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3429 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3432 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3435 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3436 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3439 * Server/client network synchronization module
3440 * VBrick streams fully supported
3441 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3445 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3446 --------------------------------
3449 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3450 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3451 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3452 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3455 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3456 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3457 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3458 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3459 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3460 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3461 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3464 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3465 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3466 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3467 * Improved directory access module.
3468 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3469 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3470 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3471 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3472 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3475 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3476 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3477 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3480 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3481 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3482 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3485 * Improved session announcement system.
3486 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3487 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3488 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3489 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3490 * Improved transrater.
3491 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3492 * New configuration system.
3493 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3496 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3497 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3498 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3499 * Supports scheduling.
3500 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3501 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3504 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3505 - Ability to embed video output.
3506 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3507 - Lots of improvements.
3508 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3509 - New design and set of icons.
3510 - Ability to embed video output.
3511 - Support for hotkeys.
3512 - Support for bookmarks.
3514 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3515 - Better hotkeys handling.
3518 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3519 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3520 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3521 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3524 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3525 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3526 * Improved Windows installer.
3532 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3533 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3536 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3537 ---------------------------------
3540 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3541 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3544 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3545 --------------------------------
3548 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3549 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3552 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3553 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3554 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3555 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3558 * Internal improvments
3559 * Improved import/export
3562 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3564 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3565 small and strange formats.
3567 * New MOD audio demux.
3568 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3569 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3570 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3571 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3574 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3575 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3576 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3582 * New opengl video output plugin.
3585 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3586 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3589 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3590 --------------------------------
3593 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3594 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3595 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3596 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3597 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3598 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3599 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3600 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3603 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3608 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3609 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3610 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3611 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3612 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3613 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3614 * Better Icecast support.
3615 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3616 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3619 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3620 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3621 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3622 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3623 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3624 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3625 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3628 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3629 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3630 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3631 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3632 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3633 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3634 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3635 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3636 * Preliminary RTP support.
3637 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3642 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3643 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3645 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3646 - Improvements and help in preferences
3647 - New streaming wizard
3648 - Revised Disc Open menu
3650 - Improvements of the standard pages
3651 - Support for new commands
3652 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3655 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3656 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3659 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3660 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3661 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3662 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3663 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3664 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3665 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3666 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3667 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3670 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3672 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3673 * Support for Panther.
3674 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3675 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3678 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3679 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3680 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3681 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3682 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3683 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3684 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3685 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3688 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3689 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3690 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3693 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3696 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3697 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3698 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3699 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3702 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3703 --------------------------------
3706 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3709 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3710 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3713 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3714 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3717 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3720 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3721 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3724 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3727 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3730 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3731 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3735 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3736 --------------------------------
3739 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3740 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3744 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3745 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3746 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3748 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3749 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3752 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3755 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3758 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3759 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3763 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3764 --------------------------------
3767 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3768 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3772 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3773 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3774 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3775 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3776 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3779 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3780 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3781 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3784 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3785 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3786 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3789 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3790 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3791 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3792 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3793 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3796 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3797 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3798 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3801 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3804 * Improved build system.
3805 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3806 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3807 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3808 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3811 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3812 --------------------------------
3815 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3818 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3819 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3820 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3821 * Video 4 Linux support
3822 * CD Digital Audio support
3823 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3826 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3827 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3828 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3829 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3832 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3833 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3834 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3835 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3836 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3837 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3838 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3841 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3842 * New HTTP remote control interface
3845 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3846 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3847 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3848 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3849 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3852 * New reset option for the preferences
3853 * You can set your language in the prefences
3854 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3855 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3856 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3857 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3860 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3861 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3862 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3865 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3866 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3867 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3868 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3869 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3870 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3871 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3872 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3873 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3874 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3877 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3878 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3879 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3880 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3881 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3882 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3883 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3886 * Interface localization
3887 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3888 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3889 * New full-featured Preferences window
3892 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3893 --------------------------------
3896 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3897 * support for skins at the interface level
3898 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3899 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3900 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3901 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3902 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3905 * fixed HTTP redirects
3906 * support for opening an entire directory
3907 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3908 * new video4linux access plug-in
3909 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3912 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3913 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3914 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3917 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3918 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3919 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3920 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3921 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3922 * new codec for raw I420 video
3923 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3926 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3927 (although it still misses some important features)
3928 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3931 * new HTTP output support
3932 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3933 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3936 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3939 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3942 * reorderable playlist
3943 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3944 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3945 * support for mono audio output devices
3946 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3947 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3948 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3949 * the messages window remembers more lines
3950 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3951 * http and ogg stream output options
3952 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3955 * new skinnable interface
3956 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3958 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3959 * support for FLAC audio format
3960 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3962 * network tab in the interface
3963 * "apply" handling in preferences
3966 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3967 ---------------------------------
3970 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3971 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3972 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3973 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3975 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3976 * DTS S/PDIF support
3979 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3980 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3981 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3982 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3985 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3986 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3989 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3992 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3995 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3997 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3998 * rc interface is now fully useable
3999 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4002 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4003 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4004 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4005 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4006 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4008 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4009 * support for mouse gestures
4010 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4013 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4014 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4017 * improved ID3 tag detection
4018 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4019 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4020 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4022 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4025 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4026 ---------------------------------
4029 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4030 English was set as the preferred language
4033 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4034 --------------------------------
4037 * new mouse gesture interface
4038 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4042 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4043 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4044 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4047 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4048 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4052 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4055 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4056 without the user consent
4059 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4061 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4062 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4063 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4066 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4067 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4068 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4069 * playlist enhancements
4070 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4071 * new step forward/step backward commands
4072 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4073 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4074 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4077 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4078 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4079 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4082 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4083 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4086 * native video output is working again
4087 * only commandline interface support
4088 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4091 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4092 --------------------------------
4095 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4096 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4097 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4098 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4099 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4100 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4101 and A/52 streams are supported)
4102 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4107 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4108 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4109 * VCD entry points support
4110 * VCD image file support
4113 * support for *.asf format
4114 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4115 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4116 * support for ogg encapsulation
4117 * support for raw DV format
4118 * support for *.wav format
4119 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4122 Stream discovery & playlists:
4123 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4124 * support for .m3u file format
4125 * support for .asx file format
4126 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4129 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4130 (only available with the .avi demux)
4131 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4132 * support for raw PCM data
4133 * support for Cinepak video codec
4134 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4135 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4136 * support for Xvid codec
4137 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4138 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4139 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4141 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4143 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4146 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4149 * new WxWindows interface
4150 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4151 device and the channels configuration
4152 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4153 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4154 format that VLC can play
4155 * new swedish translation
4156 * enhancements of the playlist window
4157 * new messages window to see debug info
4158 * fixed a few crashes
4161 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4162 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4163 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4164 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working