1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
18 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
21 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
24 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * Major improvements in DASH support
26 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
27 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
30 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
31 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
32 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
33 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
34 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
35 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
36 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
37 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
38 * Support for more MJPEG streams
41 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
42 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
43 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
46 * new remapping channel filter
47 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
48 * new VSXu visualization plugin
51 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
52 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
55 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
56 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
57 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
58 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
59 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
60 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
63 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
66 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
67 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
68 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
69 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
70 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
73 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs
76 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
77 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
78 VLC's internal volume level
79 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
80 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
81 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
83 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
84 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
85 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
86 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
90 * Partial support for Qt5.0
91 * Menus modifications and improvements
92 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
93 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
97 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
98 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
99 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
100 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
103 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
104 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
105 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
106 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
107 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
109 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
110 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
113 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
114 --------------------------------
117 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
120 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
121 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
124 * Add GateKeeper support
125 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
126 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
127 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
130 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
133 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
134 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
135 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
136 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
137 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
140 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
141 --------------------------------
144 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
145 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
146 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
147 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
148 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
149 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
150 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
151 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
152 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
153 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
154 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
158 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
159 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
160 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
161 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
162 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
163 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
164 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
165 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
166 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
167 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
168 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
169 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
172 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
173 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
175 * Fix MP3 free format support
178 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
179 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
180 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
181 * Fix for DVB channels file support
182 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
185 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
186 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
188 Audio filters and output:
189 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
190 * Fix DirectSound device selection
191 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
192 * Do not apply volume in file output
193 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
194 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
197 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
198 the persistant media library
199 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
200 to the media library or the temporary playlist
201 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
202 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
203 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
204 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
205 press on the Play/Pause button
206 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
207 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
208 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
209 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
210 * Many Fullscreen fixes
211 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
212 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
213 Synchronization panel
214 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
215 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
216 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
217 * Fix crashes on exit
218 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
220 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
221 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
222 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
223 automatically reset on the first launch.
224 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
225 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
226 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
229 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
230 * Fixes for icecast SD
233 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
234 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
235 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
236 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
237 * Fix tags and file names display
238 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
241 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
242 * Fix for key events and focus loss
245 * Fix display of some buttons
246 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
247 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
250 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
251 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
252 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
255 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
256 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
257 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
258 Thai translations update
259 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
262 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
263 --------------------------------
266 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
267 * fix the samba module compilation
268 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
269 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
270 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
271 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
274 * Support for MXPEG files
275 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
276 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
279 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
280 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
281 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
284 * Fix ogm header creation
287 * limit spatializer filter distortions
288 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
291 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
292 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
293 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
294 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
297 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
300 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
301 * allow to hide the sidebar
302 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
303 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
304 * noticebly faster launch time
305 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
306 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
307 * improve track synchronization panel
308 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
309 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
312 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
313 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
314 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
315 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
318 * fix for menus display
319 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
320 * documentation update
323 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
324 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
327 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
328 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
329 * Update Jamendo selections
333 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
334 * fix a crash on VLM close
337 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
338 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
339 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
340 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
343 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
346 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
347 ---------------------------------
350 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
351 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
352 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
353 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
354 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
355 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
356 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
357 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
358 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
359 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
360 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
361 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
362 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
363 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
364 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
365 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
366 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
367 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
368 --http-crl (optional CRL).
369 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
370 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
371 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
372 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
373 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
374 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
375 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
377 Important changes for packagers:
378 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
379 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
380 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
381 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
382 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
383 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
384 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
385 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
386 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
387 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
390 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
391 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
392 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
393 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
394 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
395 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
396 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
399 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
400 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
401 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
402 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
403 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
404 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
405 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
406 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
407 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
408 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
409 * PulseAudio audio input support
410 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
411 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
412 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
413 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
414 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
415 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
416 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
417 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
420 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
421 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
422 are notably concerned.
423 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
424 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
425 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
426 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
427 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
428 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
429 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
430 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
431 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
432 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
433 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
434 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
435 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
436 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
437 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
440 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
441 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
442 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
443 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
444 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
445 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
446 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
447 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
448 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
449 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
450 * Improved support of tracker files
451 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
454 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
455 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
456 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
457 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
458 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
459 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
460 and important cleanups and optimisations
461 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
462 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
463 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
464 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
465 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
466 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
467 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
468 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
469 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
470 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
471 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
472 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
473 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
474 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
475 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
476 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
477 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
478 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
479 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
480 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
481 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
484 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
485 * New video output for iOS platform
486 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
487 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
488 * Various vmem improvements
489 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
490 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
491 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
492 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
493 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
494 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
496 Audio Output and Filters:
497 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
498 * New audio output in memory (amem)
499 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
500 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
501 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
502 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
503 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
504 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
505 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
506 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
509 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
510 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
511 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
512 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
513 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
514 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
515 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
516 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
517 * New anti-flickering filter
518 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
519 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
520 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
521 blackbox and customizable shadow.
522 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
523 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
524 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
527 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
528 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
529 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
530 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
531 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
532 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
533 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
534 * Major rework of VoD support
535 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
536 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
537 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
538 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
539 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
540 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
541 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
542 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
543 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
544 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
547 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
548 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
551 * New capabilities for libVLC:
552 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
553 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
554 list of available audio and video filters
555 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
556 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
557 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
560 * asademux, subsass: use libass
561 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
562 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
564 * upnp: use upnp_intel
565 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
566 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
567 * removal of the noise filter
568 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
569 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
570 removed in Growl's next release, too.
571 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
574 * Update of translations for most languages.
575 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
578 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
579 ----------------------------------
582 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
583 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
586 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
587 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
590 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
591 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
592 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
595 * Camtasia decoding fix.
598 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
599 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
602 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
605 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
606 ----------------------------------
609 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
610 including support for OS X Lion
611 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
612 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
615 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
618 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
619 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
620 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
623 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
626 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
627 ----------------------------------
630 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
631 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
634 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
635 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
636 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
637 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
638 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
640 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
641 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
642 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
644 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
645 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
648 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
651 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
654 * Fix quitting on Linux
655 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
659 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
662 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
665 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
666 ---------------------------------
668 Windows and Mac OS X:
669 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
672 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
673 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
676 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
679 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
682 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
684 Miscellaneous fixes in:
685 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
687 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
688 * RTP output and XML export
689 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
693 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
694 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
695 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
696 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
699 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
700 --------------------------------
702 Windows and Mac OS X:
703 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
706 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
709 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
710 * Improve Apple Remote handling
711 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
712 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
713 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
714 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
717 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
718 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
722 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
723 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
724 * New Luganda Translation
727 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
728 --------------------------------
731 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
734 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
735 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
736 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
737 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
740 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
742 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
743 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
744 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
745 * mp4 demuxer improvements
746 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
747 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
748 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
749 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
751 Miscellaneous fixes in:
752 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
753 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
754 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
755 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
756 * Configure and build system improvements
757 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
760 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
761 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
762 * New icelandic translation
765 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
773 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
774 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
775 and stability reasons
778 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
782 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
785 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
786 ----------------------------------
789 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
792 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
793 ---------------------------------
796 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
797 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
798 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
799 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
802 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
805 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
806 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
807 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
808 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
811 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
812 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
813 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
815 Subtitles and renderer:
816 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
817 * Mark more freetype options as safe
818 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
819 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
820 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
823 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
824 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
825 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
826 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
829 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
830 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
833 * KDE device solid actions
835 * Transcode integer overflow
836 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
837 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
840 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
841 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
842 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
845 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
846 ----------------------------------
849 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
853 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
856 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
859 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
860 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
861 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
862 * Taglib thread-safety fix
865 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
869 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
872 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
875 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
876 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
878 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
882 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
883 * Miscellaneous fixes
886 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
887 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
889 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
890 * New Asturian translation
893 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
894 ----------------------------------
897 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
899 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
902 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
905 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
906 * Various fixes for Windows
909 * New Armenian translation
910 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
911 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
914 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
915 --------------------------------
918 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
920 * Fix folders opening from the interface
923 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
924 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
927 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
928 --------------------------------
931 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
932 * fix for podcasts parsing
933 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
936 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
937 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
940 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
941 * fix m3u playlists exports
944 * fix video autoresize behaviour
947 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
950 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
953 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
956 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
959 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
960 --------------------------------
963 * Avformat fps displaying fix
964 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
967 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
968 of mono streams, especially on Windows
971 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
972 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
973 * fix console output encoding
975 Interface and extensions:
976 * Youtube and other scripts updates
977 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
980 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
981 --------------------------------
984 * New capabilities for libVLC:
985 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
986 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
987 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
988 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
989 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
990 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
991 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
992 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
993 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
994 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
995 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
996 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
997 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
998 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
999 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1003 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1004 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1005 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1006 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1007 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1010 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1013 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1014 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1015 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1019 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1022 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1023 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1024 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1027 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1028 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1029 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1030 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1033 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1034 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1037 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1038 --------------------------------
1040 Important changes for users:
1041 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1042 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1044 Important changes for packagers:
1045 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1046 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1047 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1048 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1049 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1051 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1053 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1054 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1055 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1056 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1057 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1060 * Support for the sftp protocol
1061 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1062 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1063 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1064 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1065 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1068 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1069 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1070 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1072 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1073 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1074 * Invmem module improvements
1075 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1076 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1077 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1078 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1079 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1080 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1081 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1082 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1083 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1084 * Support for VP8 codec
1085 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1088 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1089 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1090 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1091 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1092 * Various EGP improvements
1093 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1094 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1097 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1098 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1099 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1100 * Podcast images are now displayed
1103 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1104 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1105 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1106 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1107 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1108 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1109 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1110 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1111 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1112 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1113 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1116 * New content extensions lua framework
1119 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1120 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1121 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1122 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1123 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1124 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1125 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1128 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1129 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1130 * Service discovery based on libudev
1131 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1134 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1135 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1136 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1137 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1138 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1139 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1140 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1143 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1144 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1145 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1148 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1150 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1151 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1154 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1157 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1158 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1159 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1160 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1161 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1162 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1163 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1166 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1167 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1170 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1171 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1172 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1176 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1177 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1178 * Improved Solaris port
1181 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1182 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1185 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1186 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1187 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1188 * transrate: broken since too long
1189 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1190 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1191 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1192 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1193 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1194 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1195 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1196 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1197 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1198 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1199 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1200 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1201 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1202 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1205 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1206 --------------------------------
1209 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1211 Decoders/Packetizers:
1212 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1215 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1216 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1217 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1218 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1219 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1222 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1223 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1226 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1227 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1230 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1231 and Walloon translations updated
1232 * Sinhala translation started
1235 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1236 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1239 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1240 --------------------------------
1243 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1244 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1247 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1250 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1251 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1254 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1255 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1256 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1257 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1260 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1261 --------------------------------
1264 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1265 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1268 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1269 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1272 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1273 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1276 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1279 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1280 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1283 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1284 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1287 * New Walloon translation
1288 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1291 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1292 --------------------------------
1295 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1296 regressions in most popular drivers
1297 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1300 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1301 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1302 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1305 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1306 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1309 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1310 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1311 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1312 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1313 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1316 * New udev module for linux
1319 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1322 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1325 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1326 --------------------------------
1329 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1330 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1331 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1334 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1335 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1338 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1339 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1342 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1345 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1346 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1347 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1348 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1351 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1352 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1353 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1354 - no support for Goom and SDL
1355 - limited text rendering support
1356 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1359 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1360 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1361 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1362 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1363 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1364 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1365 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1366 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1367 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1371 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1374 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1377 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1378 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1379 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1380 Arabic and French translation updates
1383 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1384 --------------------------------
1387 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1388 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1389 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1390 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1391 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1392 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1395 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1396 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1397 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1400 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1401 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1402 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1405 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1408 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1409 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1412 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1413 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1414 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1415 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1416 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1417 * Fix various crashes
1420 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1422 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1426 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1427 ---------------------------------
1431 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1432 See 'Access:' for more info.
1433 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1436 * Instantaneous pausing
1437 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1438 * Finer speed control
1439 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1440 * Timeshift for most medias
1441 * RTSP trickplay support
1442 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1445 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1446 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1447 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1448 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1449 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1450 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1451 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1452 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1453 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1454 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1457 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1458 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1459 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1460 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1461 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1462 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1463 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1466 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1467 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1470 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1471 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1472 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1473 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1474 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1475 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1476 * DVB scanning on linux
1477 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1478 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1479 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1480 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1481 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1482 * MTP device access on Unix
1483 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1484 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1487 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1488 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1489 Windows and Mac OS X.
1492 * Export the playlist in HTML
1493 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1494 * Better metadata handling and reading
1496 Linux/Windows interface:
1497 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1498 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1499 * Recently played items list
1500 * Interface toolbar customizations
1501 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1502 - More menus actions
1503 - Finer speed slider
1504 - Improvements on many dialogs
1505 - New dialog for plugins listing
1506 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1507 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1508 * Better integration in GTK environments
1511 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1512 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1513 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1514 * Additional usability improvements
1517 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1518 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1519 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1520 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1521 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1524 * New Maemo port with:
1525 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1526 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1529 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1532 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1533 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1534 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1535 * Support for latest iSight models
1538 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1539 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1542 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1543 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1544 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1545 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1546 The old image video output has been removed.
1547 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1548 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1551 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1559 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1560 --------------------------------------
1566 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1567 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1568 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1569 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1570 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1571 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1572 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1574 Various fixes to the following modules:
1577 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1578 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1579 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1581 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1586 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1587 ---------------------------------
1590 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1591 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1594 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1595 ---------------------------------
1598 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1601 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1604 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1605 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1606 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1607 main controller window.
1608 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1611 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1616 * Updates of other localizations
1619 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1620 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1621 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1622 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1623 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1626 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1627 ---------------------------------
1630 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1632 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1635 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1636 --------------------------------
1641 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1642 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1645 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1646 --------------------------------
1648 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1649 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1652 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1655 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1656 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1659 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1660 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1663 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1664 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1665 * Various fixed in playlist
1668 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1671 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1674 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1675 ------------------------------------
1677 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1678 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1681 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1682 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1683 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1686 * Stability fix for the video output.
1689 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1690 --------------------------------
1693 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1694 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1695 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1696 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1697 * Fixed update system bugs
1698 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1701 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1702 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1703 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1704 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1705 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1706 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1707 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1708 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1709 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1710 modern Mac OS X versions
1713 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1714 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1716 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1717 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1720 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1721 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1722 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1723 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1724 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1725 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1728 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1729 --------------------------------
1731 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1732 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1733 * Multiple bugfixes.
1736 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1737 --------------------------------
1739 * Multiple bug fixes.
1742 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1743 ---------------------------------
1747 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1748 recent to work correctly
1749 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1750 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1751 edit the ".hosts" file.
1752 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1753 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1754 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1755 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1756 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1757 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1758 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1759 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1760 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1761 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1762 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1763 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1764 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1765 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1766 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1767 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1768 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1769 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1770 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1771 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1772 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1773 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1774 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1775 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1776 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1777 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1778 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1779 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1780 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1781 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1782 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1783 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1784 and postproc modules.
1785 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1786 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1787 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1788 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1790 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1791 filter. For example:
1792 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1793 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1795 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1796 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1802 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1804 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1805 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1808 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1809 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1811 * Shoutcast TV listings
1812 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1814 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1815 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1817 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1820 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1821 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1822 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1823 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1824 * JACK audio input support
1825 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1826 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1827 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1828 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1829 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1830 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1831 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1832 (available as a separate download).
1833 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1834 * RTMP input support
1835 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1836 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1837 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1839 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1840 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1843 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1844 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1845 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1846 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1848 * APEv1/2 tags support
1849 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1850 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1852 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1853 * TiVo Series 2 support
1854 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1859 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1860 * Flash Screen Video support
1861 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1862 * DosBox Capture support
1863 * Karl Morton's Video support
1864 * limited atrac3 support
1866 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1867 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1868 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1869 * H.264 PAFF support
1870 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1871 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1872 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1873 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1874 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1877 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1878 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1879 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1880 * AQTitle subtitles support
1881 * MKV USF subtitles support
1882 * HTML-based subtitles support
1883 * MPSub subtitles support
1884 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1885 * MPL2 subtitles support
1886 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1887 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1888 * Realtext subtitle support
1889 * DKS subtitle support
1890 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1891 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1894 * Flash Screen Video support
1895 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1897 Video outputs and filters:
1898 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1899 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1900 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1901 * New puzzle video output filter
1902 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1903 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1905 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1906 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1907 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1908 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1909 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1910 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1911 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1912 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1913 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1914 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1915 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1916 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1917 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1918 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1920 Audio outputs and filters:
1921 * Replay gain support
1922 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1923 new scaletempo audio filter)
1924 * New spatializer audio filter
1925 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1928 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1929 * New RTP payload formats:
1930 * Speex voice audio codec
1931 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1932 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1933 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1934 * DCCP transport for RTP
1935 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1940 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1941 end-user suitable way.
1942 * Improved user interaction
1943 * Improved mouse gestures
1944 * Vastly improved Update checker
1945 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1947 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1948 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1950 * Improved video output features
1951 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1952 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1953 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1954 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1955 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1957 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1958 if libncursesw is available.
1959 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1960 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1961 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1963 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1964 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1965 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1966 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1967 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1968 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1969 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1970 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1973 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1974 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1975 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1978 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1979 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1980 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1981 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1982 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1983 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1986 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1987 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1997 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1998 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1999 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2002 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2003 ----------------------------------
2006 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2009 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2010 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2011 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2012 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2013 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2014 * Updated Polish translation
2017 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2018 ----------------------------------
2021 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2022 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2023 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2026 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2027 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2028 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2029 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2030 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2031 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2032 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2033 to an unexpected application termination
2034 * New Serbian translation
2035 * Updated Romanian translation
2038 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2039 ----------------------------------
2042 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2043 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2044 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2045 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2046 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2047 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2048 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2049 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2052 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2053 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2054 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2055 * Fixed AAC resampling
2056 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2057 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2060 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2061 ----------------------------------
2064 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2065 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2066 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2067 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2068 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2071 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2072 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2073 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2074 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2075 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2078 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2079 ----------------------------------
2082 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2083 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2086 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2087 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2088 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2089 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2091 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2095 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2098 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2101 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2104 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2107 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2108 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2109 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2110 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2111 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2113 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2114 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2115 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2116 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2119 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2122 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2123 ----------------------------------
2126 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2127 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2128 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2130 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2131 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2133 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2134 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2137 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2139 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2140 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2141 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2142 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2143 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2144 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2145 two different movies
2146 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2147 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2148 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2151 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2154 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2155 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2156 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2157 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2160 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2161 ----------------------------------
2163 Various bugfixes, notably:
2164 * Windows Vista compatibility
2165 * Cropping in Direct3D
2166 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2167 * RSS filter string overflow
2169 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2171 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2172 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2175 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2176 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2179 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2182 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2185 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2188 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2189 ----------------------------------
2191 Various bugfixes, notably:
2192 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2193 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2194 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2195 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2196 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2197 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2200 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2201 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2204 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2206 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2207 * Diverse usability improvements
2208 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2209 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2210 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2213 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2214 ---------------------------------
2216 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2217 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2220 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2223 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2224 --------------------------------
2227 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2230 * Support for RTSP authentication
2231 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2232 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2233 * ATSC support for DVB input
2234 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2235 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2236 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2239 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2240 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2241 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2242 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2243 * Matroska WavPack support
2244 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2245 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2246 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2249 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2250 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2251 * Improved libcaca support
2255 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2256 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2258 * Systray support in skins
2260 * Support for Apple Remote control
2261 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2262 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2263 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2264 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2266 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2269 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2270 Windows 9x/ME users:
2271 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2272 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2273 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2274 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2275 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2277 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2278 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2287 * Updates to the libvlc API
2288 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2291 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2292 --------------------------------
2295 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2296 * Support for downloading updates
2300 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2301 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2302 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2303 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2305 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2306 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2307 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2310 * Cook (Real audio) support
2312 Playlist / Services discovery:
2313 * XSPF playlist support
2315 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2318 * New JACK audio output
2321 * New video filters:
2322 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2323 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2324 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2325 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2326 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2327 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2330 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2333 * System to inform the user and request information
2334 - HTTP authentication
2338 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2339 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2340 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2343 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2344 - Improved playlist handling
2345 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2347 - Embedded Video output
2348 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2349 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2350 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2351 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2352 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2354 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2355 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2358 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2361 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2362 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2363 * Growl "Now playing" support
2366 * Ability to log to syslog
2367 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2370 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2372 * A bit more automatic testing
2375 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2376 ---------------------------------
2379 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2380 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2383 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2384 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2387 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2390 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2391 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2397 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2400 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2401 --------------------------------
2404 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2408 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2409 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2410 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2413 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2414 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2415 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2416 * GnomeVFS input module
2417 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2418 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2421 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2422 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2423 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2426 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2427 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2433 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2434 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2437 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2438 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2439 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2442 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2444 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2445 - New extended controls panel
2446 - New bookmarks window
2447 - Fixed playlist sorting
2448 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2450 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2451 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2452 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2453 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2457 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2458 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2460 - Include macro to include other files
2464 * Should now work outside IE as well
2467 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2470 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2471 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2474 The following languages were added:
2478 * Simplified Chinese
2479 The following languages were re-added:
2483 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2484 --------------------------------
2487 * Rewrite of the playlist
2489 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2490 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2491 * Preferences improvements:
2492 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2493 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2495 * Core image manipulation support
2496 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2497 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2498 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2499 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2500 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2501 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2502 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2503 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2504 * Access filter architecture
2505 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2506 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2510 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2511 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2512 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2513 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2514 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2515 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2516 * Massive Matroska improvements
2517 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2519 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2520 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2521 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2522 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2523 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2525 Decoders / Encoders:
2526 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2527 * PNG decoder/encoder
2528 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2529 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2532 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2535 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2536 * Brand new SAP module
2537 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2538 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2539 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2540 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2541 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2542 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2546 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2549 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2550 * Image file video output (png)
2551 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2552 * Improvements to wall video filter
2553 * Support for font color and opacity
2559 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2560 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2561 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2565 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2566 - Improved preferences
2567 - Improvements to the wizard
2568 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2570 - Redesigned playlist
2571 - Improved preferences
2573 - Support for multiple actions
2576 - Support for the new playlist system
2578 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2581 * Screensaver disabling fix
2582 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2583 * Support for no-decoration windows
2586 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2587 * The OpenGL video output is back
2588 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2589 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2590 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2591 is not yet available in the new module
2592 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2595 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2604 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2607 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2610 The following languages were added:
2616 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2617 --------------------------------
2620 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2621 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2624 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2625 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2626 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2629 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2632 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2635 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2638 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2639 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2640 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2644 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2646 * Support of playlist group announcement
2649 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2650 --------------------------------
2653 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2654 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2655 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2656 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2657 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2658 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2661 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2662 (Stream your desktop)
2663 * Improved DVD support:
2664 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2665 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2666 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2667 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2668 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2669 (selection of titles/chapters).
2672 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2673 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2674 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2675 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2676 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2677 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2678 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2679 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2680 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2681 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2684 * G.726 audio support
2685 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2686 * MPEG-4 text support
2687 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2688 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2689 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2693 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2694 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2695 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2696 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2697 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2698 * DVB subtitles encoder
2699 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2700 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2702 * Text track muxing for mp4
2703 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2704 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2705 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2706 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2707 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2708 * Improved ASF muxer
2710 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2711 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2712 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2715 * New audio equalizer filter
2716 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2717 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2718 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2719 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2722 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2723 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2724 with support for effects.
2725 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2726 - New filters can be streamed.
2727 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2728 - Centralized scaling and blending
2730 - "time", to display current time
2731 - "marq", to display a marquee
2734 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2735 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2736 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2737 * A few skins2 improvements
2738 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2739 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2740 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2741 * Improved CORBA control module
2744 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2745 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2746 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2749 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2750 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2751 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2754 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2755 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2756 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2757 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2758 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2761 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2764 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2765 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2768 * Server/client network synchronization module
2769 * VBrick streams fully supported
2770 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2774 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2775 --------------------------------
2778 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2779 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2780 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2781 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2784 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2785 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2786 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2787 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2788 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2789 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2790 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2793 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2794 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2795 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2796 * Improved directory access module.
2797 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2798 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2799 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2800 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2801 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2804 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2805 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2806 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2809 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2810 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2811 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2814 * Improved session announcement system.
2815 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2816 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2817 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2818 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2819 * Improved transrater.
2820 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2821 * New configuration system.
2822 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2825 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2826 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2827 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2828 * Supports scheduling.
2829 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2830 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2833 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2834 - Ability to embed video output.
2835 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2836 - Lots of improvements.
2837 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2838 - New design and set of icons.
2839 - Ability to embed video output.
2840 - Support for hotkeys.
2841 - Support for bookmarks.
2843 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2844 - Better hotkeys handling.
2847 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2848 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2849 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2850 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2853 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2854 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2855 * Improved Windows installer.
2861 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2862 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2865 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2866 ---------------------------------
2869 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2870 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2873 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2874 --------------------------------
2877 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2878 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2881 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2882 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2883 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2884 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2887 * Internal improvments
2888 * Improved import/export
2891 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2893 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2894 small and strange formats.
2896 * New MOD audio demux.
2897 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2898 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2899 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2900 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2903 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2904 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2905 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2911 * New opengl video output plugin.
2914 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2915 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2918 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2919 --------------------------------
2922 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2923 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2924 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2925 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2926 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2927 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2928 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2929 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2932 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2937 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2938 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2939 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2940 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2941 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2942 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2943 * Better Icecast support.
2944 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2945 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2948 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2949 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2950 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2951 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2952 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2953 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2954 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2957 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2958 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2959 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2960 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2961 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2962 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2963 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2964 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2965 * Preliminary RTP support.
2966 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2971 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2972 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2974 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2975 - Improvements and help in preferences
2976 - New streaming wizard
2977 - Revised Disc Open menu
2979 - Improvements of the standard pages
2980 - Support for new commands
2981 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2984 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2985 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2988 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2989 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2990 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2991 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2992 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2993 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2994 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2995 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2996 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2999 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3001 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3002 * Support for Panther.
3003 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3004 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3007 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3008 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3009 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3010 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3011 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3012 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3013 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3014 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3017 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3018 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3019 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3022 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3025 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3026 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3027 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3028 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3031 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3032 --------------------------------
3035 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3038 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3039 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3042 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3043 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3046 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3049 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3050 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3053 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3056 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3059 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3060 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3064 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3065 --------------------------------
3068 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3069 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3073 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3074 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3075 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3077 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3078 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3081 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3084 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3087 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3088 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3092 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3093 --------------------------------
3096 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3097 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3101 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3102 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3103 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3104 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3105 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3108 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3109 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3110 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3113 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3114 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3115 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3118 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3119 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3120 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3121 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3122 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3125 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3126 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3127 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3130 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3133 * Improved build system.
3134 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3135 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3136 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3137 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3140 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3141 --------------------------------
3144 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3147 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3148 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3149 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3150 * Video 4 Linux support
3151 * CD Digital Audio support
3152 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3155 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3156 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3157 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3158 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3161 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3162 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3163 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3164 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3165 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3166 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3167 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3170 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3171 * New HTTP remote control interface
3174 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3175 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3176 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3177 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3178 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3181 * New reset option for the preferences
3182 * You can set your language in the prefences
3183 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3184 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3185 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3186 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3189 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3190 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3191 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3194 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3195 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3196 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3197 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3198 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3199 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3200 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3201 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3202 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3203 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3206 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3207 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3208 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3209 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3210 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3211 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3212 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3215 * Interface localization
3216 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3217 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3218 * New full-featured Preferences window
3221 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3222 --------------------------------
3225 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3226 * support for skins at the interface level
3227 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3228 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3229 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3230 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3231 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3234 * fixed HTTP redirects
3235 * support for opening an entire directory
3236 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3237 * new video4linux access plug-in
3238 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3241 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3242 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3243 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3246 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3247 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3248 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3249 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3250 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3251 * new codec for raw I420 video
3252 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3255 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3256 (although it still misses some important features)
3257 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3260 * new HTTP output support
3261 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3262 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3265 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3268 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3271 * reorderable playlist
3272 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3273 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3274 * support for mono audio output devices
3275 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3276 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3277 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3278 * the messages window remembers more lines
3279 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3280 * http and ogg stream output options
3281 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3284 * new skinnable interface
3285 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3287 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3288 * support for FLAC audio format
3289 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3291 * network tab in the interface
3292 * "apply" handling in preferences
3295 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3296 ---------------------------------
3299 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3300 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3301 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3302 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3304 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3305 * DTS S/PDIF support
3308 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3309 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3310 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3311 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3314 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3315 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3318 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3321 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3324 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3326 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3327 * rc interface is now fully useable
3328 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3331 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3332 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3333 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3334 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3335 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3337 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3338 * support for mouse gestures
3339 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3342 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3343 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3346 * improved ID3 tag detection
3347 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3348 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3349 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3351 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3354 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3355 ---------------------------------
3358 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3359 English was set as the preferred language
3362 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3363 --------------------------------
3366 * new mouse gesture interface
3367 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3371 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3372 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3373 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3376 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3377 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3381 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3384 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3385 without the user consent
3388 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3390 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3391 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3392 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3395 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3396 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3397 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3398 * playlist enhancements
3399 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3400 * new step forward/step backward commands
3401 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3402 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3403 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3406 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3407 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3408 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3411 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3412 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3415 * native video output is working again
3416 * only commandline interface support
3417 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3420 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3421 --------------------------------
3424 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3425 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3426 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3427 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3428 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3429 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3430 and A/52 streams are supported)
3431 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3436 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3437 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3438 * VCD entry points support
3439 * VCD image file support
3442 * support for *.asf format
3443 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3444 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3445 * support for ogg encapsulation
3446 * support for raw DV format
3447 * support for *.wav format
3448 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3451 Stream discovery & playlists:
3452 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3453 * support for .m3u file format
3454 * support for .asx file format
3455 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3458 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3459 (only available with the .avi demux)
3460 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3461 * support for raw PCM data
3462 * support for Cinepak video codec
3463 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3464 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3465 * support for Xvid codec
3466 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3467 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3468 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3470 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3472 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3475 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3478 * new WxWindows interface
3479 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3480 device and the channels configuration
3481 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3482 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3483 format that VLC can play
3484 * new swedish translation
3485 * enhancements of the playlist window
3486 * new messages window to see debug info
3487 * fixed a few crashes
3490 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3491 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3492 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3493 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working