1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
15 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
16 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
17 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
18 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
19 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
20 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
23 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
24 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
25 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
28 * New CAF format module
29 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
30 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
31 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
32 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
34 * Basic support for WebVTT
35 * Support HDPR TS files
36 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
39 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
40 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
43 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
44 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
45 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
48 * New Oldmovie effect filter
49 * New VHS effect filter
50 * New Freeze effect filter
51 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
52 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
55 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
58 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
59 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
60 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
61 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
62 * GSM, VP8, Opus RTP packetization
63 * Allow setting the first segment number in HLS
65 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
68 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
71 * ios video output: use ios2
72 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
74 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
75 --------------------------------
78 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
80 * Fix some subtitles track selection
84 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
85 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
88 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
89 * Support Speex in ogg files
90 * Fix some .mov playlists support
92 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
93 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
96 * Fix DVB options parsing
97 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
98 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
101 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
102 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
105 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
106 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
109 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
110 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
111 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
112 * Fix play after drag'n drop
113 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
116 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
117 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
120 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
121 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
124 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
125 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
126 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
127 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
128 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
129 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
130 * Improves interface resizings
133 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
134 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
135 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
136 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
137 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
141 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
142 --------------------------------
145 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
146 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
147 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
148 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
149 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
151 3rd party libraries (contrib):
152 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
155 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
156 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
157 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
158 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
159 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
162 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
163 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
167 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
168 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
169 * Support for Ulead DV audio
170 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
171 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
172 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
173 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
174 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
175 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
176 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
177 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
178 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
179 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
182 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
183 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
184 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
187 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
188 remove support for previous OS X releases
189 * Major improvements in DASH support
190 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
191 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
192 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
193 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
194 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
195 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
196 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
197 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
198 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
199 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
200 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
203 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
204 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
205 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
206 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
207 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
208 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
209 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
210 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
211 * Support for more MJPEG streams
212 * Add support for liveleak streams
213 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
214 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
215 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
218 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
219 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
220 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
221 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
222 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
223 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
224 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
225 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
226 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
227 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
228 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
231 * New remapping channel filter
232 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
233 * New VSXu visualization plugin
234 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
235 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
236 * New gain audio filter
239 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
240 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
241 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
242 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
243 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
244 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
245 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
246 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
247 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
250 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
251 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
252 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
253 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
254 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
255 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
256 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
259 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
260 * Options support for AVIO output module
261 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
262 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
263 * Livehttp stream encryption support
264 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
265 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
268 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
271 * configurable password for the HTTP server
272 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
273 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
274 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
275 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
276 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
277 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
278 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
282 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
285 * Add support for multiple video outputs
286 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
288 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
289 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
290 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
291 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
292 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
293 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
294 VLC's internal volume level
295 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
297 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
298 selection and to manage the list of presets
299 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
300 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
301 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
302 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
303 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
304 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
305 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
306 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
307 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
308 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
310 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
311 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
312 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
313 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
314 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
315 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
316 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
317 3rd party applications
318 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
319 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
320 (system-wide settings)
321 * Add support for the Video Title option
322 * Add support for the Boss Key
323 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
324 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
327 * Partial support for Qt5.0
328 * Menus modifications and improvements
329 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
330 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
331 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
332 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
333 * EPG display fixes and improvements
334 * Add SD pixmap sources
335 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
336 * Display playlist total duration
337 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
338 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
339 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
344 * Extend sliders, offsets options
345 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
346 * Numerous fixes and improvements
347 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
350 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
351 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
352 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
353 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
354 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
355 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
356 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
357 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
358 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
359 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
362 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
363 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
364 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
365 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
366 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
367 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
369 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
370 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
371 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
372 * Broken crop video filter
374 * OSD parser and menu
375 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
376 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
377 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
378 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
382 * Update of all translations
385 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
386 --------------------------------
389 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
390 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
393 * Fix modplug security issues
396 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
397 --------------------------------
401 * Fix crash in QTsound
402 * Fix screen mouse file location
403 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
406 * Fix use after free in sgimb
407 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
410 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
413 * Fix interface crashes
414 * Fix autostart playback option
415 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
418 * update Welsh translation
419 * New Kannada translation
422 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
423 --------------------------------
426 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
427 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
431 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
434 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
437 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
440 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
444 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
447 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
450 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
451 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
452 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
455 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
456 --------------------------------
459 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
462 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
465 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
466 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
467 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
468 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
469 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
470 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
473 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
474 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
475 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
476 * 3rd party codecs updates
479 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
480 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
481 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
482 in the advanced preferences panel
483 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
484 * Fix crash within the video output code
485 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
486 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
487 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
488 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
490 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
493 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
496 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
497 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
500 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
503 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
504 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
505 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
506 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
507 Dutch, Danish, translations
508 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
511 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
512 --------------------------------
515 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
518 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
519 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
520 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
523 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
524 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
525 * Fix koreus lua parser
526 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
527 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
528 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
529 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
532 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
533 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
536 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
539 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
540 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
541 * Fix Time counter UI look
542 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
545 * Fix https streaming
548 * Fix audio and video track selection:
549 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
550 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
553 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
554 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
555 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
556 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
557 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
560 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
561 --------------------------------
564 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
565 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
566 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
567 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
568 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
569 during playback on Mac OS X
572 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
573 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
574 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
577 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
578 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
579 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
580 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
581 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
584 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
585 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
586 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
587 * Support Youtube live streams
590 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
593 * Fix media info dialog update
594 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
595 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
596 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
597 * Fix album art display at start
600 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
601 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
602 * Fix menus display and behavior
603 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
604 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
605 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
606 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
607 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
608 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
609 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
612 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
613 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
614 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
615 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
616 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
617 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
618 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
619 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
620 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
623 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
624 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
625 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
626 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
627 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
630 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
631 --------------------------------
634 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
637 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
638 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
641 * Add GateKeeper support
642 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
643 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
644 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
647 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
650 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
651 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
652 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
653 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
654 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
657 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
658 --------------------------------
661 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
662 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
663 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
664 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
665 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
666 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
667 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
668 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
669 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
670 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
671 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
675 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
676 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
677 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
678 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
679 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
680 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
681 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
682 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
683 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
684 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
685 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
686 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
689 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
690 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
692 * Fix MP3 free format support
695 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
696 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
697 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
698 * Fix for DVB channels file support
699 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
702 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
703 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
705 Audio filters and output:
706 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
707 * Fix DirectSound device selection
708 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
709 * Do not apply volume in file output
710 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
711 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
714 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
715 the persistant media library
716 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
717 to the media library or the temporary playlist
718 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
719 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
720 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
721 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
722 press on the Play/Pause button
723 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
724 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
725 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
726 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
727 * Many Fullscreen fixes
728 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
729 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
730 Synchronization panel
731 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
732 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
733 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
734 * Fix crashes on exit
735 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
737 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
738 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
739 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
740 automatically reset on the first launch.
741 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
742 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
743 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
746 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
747 * Fixes for icecast SD
750 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
751 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
752 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
753 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
754 * Fix tags and file names display
755 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
758 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
759 * Fix for key events and focus loss
762 * Fix display of some buttons
763 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
764 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
767 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
768 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
769 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
772 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
773 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
774 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
775 Thai translations update
776 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
779 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
780 --------------------------------
783 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
784 * fix the samba module compilation
785 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
786 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
787 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
788 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
791 * Support for MXPEG files
792 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
793 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
796 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
797 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
798 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
801 * Fix ogm header creation
804 * limit spatializer filter distortions
805 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
808 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
809 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
810 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
811 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
814 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
817 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
818 * allow to hide the sidebar
819 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
820 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
821 * noticebly faster launch time
822 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
823 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
824 * improve track synchronization panel
825 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
826 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
829 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
830 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
831 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
832 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
835 * fix for menus display
836 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
837 * documentation update
840 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
841 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
844 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
845 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
846 * Update Jamendo selections
850 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
851 * fix a crash on VLM close
854 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
855 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
856 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
857 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
860 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
863 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
864 ---------------------------------
867 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
868 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
869 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
870 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
871 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
872 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
873 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
874 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
875 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
876 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
877 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
878 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
879 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
880 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
881 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
882 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
883 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
884 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
885 --http-crl (optional CRL).
886 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
887 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
888 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
889 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
890 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
891 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
892 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
894 Important changes for packagers:
895 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
896 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
897 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
898 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
899 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
900 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
901 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
902 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
903 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
904 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
907 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
908 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
909 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
910 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
911 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
912 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
913 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
916 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
917 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
918 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
919 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
920 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
921 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
922 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
923 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
924 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
925 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
926 * PulseAudio audio input support
927 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
928 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
929 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
930 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
931 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
932 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
933 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
934 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
937 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
938 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
939 are notably concerned.
940 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
941 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
942 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
943 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
944 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
945 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
946 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
947 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
948 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
949 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
950 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
951 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
952 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
953 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
954 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
957 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
958 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
959 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
960 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
961 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
962 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
963 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
964 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
965 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
966 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
967 * Improved support of tracker files
968 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
971 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
972 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
973 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
974 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
975 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
976 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
977 and important cleanups and optimisations
978 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
979 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
980 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
981 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
982 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
983 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
984 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
985 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
986 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
987 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
988 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
989 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
990 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
991 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
992 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
993 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
994 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
995 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
996 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
997 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
998 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1001 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1002 * New video output for iOS platform
1003 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1004 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1005 * Various vmem improvements
1006 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1007 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1008 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1009 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1010 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1011 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1013 Audio Output and Filters:
1014 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1015 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1016 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1017 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1018 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1019 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1020 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1021 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1022 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1023 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1026 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1027 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1028 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1029 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1030 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1031 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1032 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1033 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1034 * New anti-flickering filter
1035 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1036 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1037 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1038 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1039 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1040 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1041 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1044 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1045 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1046 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1047 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1048 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1049 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1050 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1051 * Major rework of VoD support
1052 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1053 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1054 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1055 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1056 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1057 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1058 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1059 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1060 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1061 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1064 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1065 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1068 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1069 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1070 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1071 list of available audio and video filters
1072 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1073 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1074 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1077 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1078 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1079 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1080 * id3tag: use taglib
1081 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1082 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1083 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1084 * removal of the noise filter
1085 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1086 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1087 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1088 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1091 * Update of translations for most languages.
1092 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1095 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1096 ----------------------------------
1099 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1100 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1103 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1104 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1107 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1108 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1109 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1112 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1115 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1116 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1119 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1122 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1123 ----------------------------------
1126 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1127 including support for OS X Lion
1128 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1129 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1132 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1135 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1136 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1137 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1140 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1143 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1144 ----------------------------------
1147 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1148 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1151 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1152 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1153 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1154 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1155 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1157 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1158 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1159 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1161 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1162 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1165 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1168 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1171 * Fix quitting on Linux
1172 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1176 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1179 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1182 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1183 ---------------------------------
1185 Windows and Mac OS X:
1186 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1189 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1190 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1193 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1196 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1199 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1201 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1202 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1204 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1205 * RTP output and XML export
1206 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1210 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1211 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1212 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1213 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1216 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1217 --------------------------------
1219 Windows and Mac OS X:
1220 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1223 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1226 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1227 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1228 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1229 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1230 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1231 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1234 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1235 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1239 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1240 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1241 * New Luganda Translation
1244 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1245 --------------------------------
1248 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1251 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1252 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1253 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1254 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1257 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1259 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1260 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1261 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1262 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1263 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1264 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1265 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1266 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1268 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1269 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1270 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1271 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1272 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1273 * Configure and build system improvements
1274 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1277 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1278 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1279 * New icelandic translation
1282 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1283 --------------------------------
1286 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1287 #234484 and #260719.
1290 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1291 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1292 and stability reasons
1295 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1299 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1302 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1303 ----------------------------------
1306 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1309 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1310 ---------------------------------
1313 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1314 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1315 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1316 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1319 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1322 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1323 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1324 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1325 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1328 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1329 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1330 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1332 Subtitles and renderer:
1333 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1334 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1335 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1336 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1337 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1340 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1341 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1342 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1343 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1346 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1347 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1349 Miscellaneous fixes:
1350 * KDE device solid actions
1352 * Transcode integer overflow
1353 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1354 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1357 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1358 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1359 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1362 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1363 ----------------------------------
1366 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1370 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1373 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1376 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1377 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1378 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1379 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1382 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1386 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1389 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1392 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1393 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1395 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1399 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1400 * Miscellaneous fixes
1403 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1404 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1405 French and Ukrainian
1406 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1407 * New Asturian translation
1410 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1411 ----------------------------------
1414 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1416 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1419 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1422 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1423 * Various fixes for Windows
1426 * New Armenian translation
1427 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1428 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1431 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1432 --------------------------------
1435 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1436 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1437 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1440 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1441 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1444 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1445 --------------------------------
1447 Access and demuxers:
1448 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1449 * fix for podcasts parsing
1450 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1453 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1454 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1457 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1458 * fix m3u playlists exports
1461 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1464 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1467 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1470 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1473 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1476 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1477 --------------------------------
1480 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1481 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1484 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1485 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1488 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1489 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1490 * fix console output encoding
1492 Interface and extensions:
1493 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1494 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1497 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1498 --------------------------------
1501 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1502 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1503 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1504 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1505 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1506 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1507 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1508 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1509 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1510 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1511 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1512 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1513 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1514 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1515 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1516 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1520 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1521 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1522 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1523 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1524 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1527 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1530 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1531 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1532 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1536 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1539 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1540 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1541 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1544 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1545 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1546 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1547 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1550 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1551 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1554 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1555 --------------------------------
1557 Important changes for users:
1558 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1559 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1561 Important changes for packagers:
1562 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1563 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1564 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1565 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1566 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1568 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1570 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1571 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1572 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1573 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1574 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1577 * Support for the sftp protocol
1578 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1579 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1580 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1581 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1582 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1585 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1586 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1587 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1589 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1590 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1591 * Invmem module improvements
1592 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1593 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1594 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1595 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1596 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1597 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1598 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1599 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1600 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1601 * Support for VP8 codec
1602 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1605 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1606 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1607 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1608 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1609 * Various EGP improvements
1610 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1611 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1614 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1615 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1616 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1617 * Podcast images are now displayed
1620 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1621 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1622 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1623 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1624 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1625 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1626 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1627 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1628 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1629 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1630 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1633 * New content extensions lua framework
1636 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1637 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1638 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1639 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1640 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1641 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1642 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1645 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1646 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1647 * Service discovery based on libudev
1648 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1651 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1652 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1653 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1654 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1655 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1656 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1657 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1660 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1661 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1662 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1665 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1667 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1668 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1671 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1674 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1675 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1676 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1677 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1678 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1679 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1680 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1683 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1684 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1687 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1688 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1689 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1693 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1694 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1695 * Improved Solaris port
1698 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1699 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1702 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1703 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1704 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1705 * transrate: broken since too long
1706 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1707 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1708 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1709 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1710 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1711 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1712 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1713 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1714 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1715 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1716 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1717 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1718 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1719 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1722 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1723 --------------------------------
1726 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1728 Decoders/Packetizers:
1729 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1732 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1733 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1734 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1735 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1736 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1739 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1740 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1743 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1744 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1747 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1748 and Walloon translations updated
1749 * Sinhala translation started
1752 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1753 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1756 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1757 --------------------------------
1760 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1761 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1764 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1767 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1768 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1771 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1772 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1773 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1774 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1777 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1778 --------------------------------
1781 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1782 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1785 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1786 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1789 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1790 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1793 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1796 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1797 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1800 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1801 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1804 * New Walloon translation
1805 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1808 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1809 --------------------------------
1812 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1813 regressions in most popular drivers
1814 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1817 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1818 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1819 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1822 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1823 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1826 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1827 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1828 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1829 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1830 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1833 * New udev module for linux
1836 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1839 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1842 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1843 --------------------------------
1846 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1847 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1848 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1851 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1852 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1855 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1856 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1859 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1862 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1863 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1864 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1865 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1868 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1869 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1870 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1871 - no support for Goom and SDL
1872 - limited text rendering support
1873 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1876 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1877 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1878 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1879 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1880 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1881 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1882 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1883 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1884 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1888 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1891 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1894 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1895 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1896 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1897 Arabic and French translation updates
1900 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1901 --------------------------------
1904 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1905 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1906 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1907 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1908 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1909 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1912 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1913 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1914 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1917 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1918 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1919 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1922 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1925 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1926 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1929 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1930 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1931 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1932 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1933 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1934 * Fix various crashes
1937 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1939 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1943 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1944 ---------------------------------
1948 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1949 See 'Access:' for more info.
1950 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1953 * Instantaneous pausing
1954 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1955 * Finer speed control
1956 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1957 * Timeshift for most medias
1958 * RTSP trickplay support
1959 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1962 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1963 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1964 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1965 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1966 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1967 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1968 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1969 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1970 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1971 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1974 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1975 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1976 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1977 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1978 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1979 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1980 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1983 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1984 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1987 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1988 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1989 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1990 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1991 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1992 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1993 * DVB scanning on linux
1994 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1995 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1996 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1997 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1998 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1999 * MTP device access on Unix
2000 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2001 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2004 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2005 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2006 Windows and Mac OS X.
2009 * Export the playlist in HTML
2010 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2011 * Better metadata handling and reading
2013 Linux/Windows interface:
2014 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2015 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2016 * Recently played items list
2017 * Interface toolbar customizations
2018 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2019 - More menus actions
2020 - Finer speed slider
2021 - Improvements on many dialogs
2022 - New dialog for plugins listing
2023 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2024 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2025 * Better integration in GTK environments
2028 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2029 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2030 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2031 * Additional usability improvements
2034 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2035 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2036 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2037 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2038 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2041 * New Maemo port with:
2042 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2043 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2046 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2049 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2050 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2051 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2052 * Support for latest iSight models
2055 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2056 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2059 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2060 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2061 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2062 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2063 The old image video output has been removed.
2064 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2065 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2068 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2076 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2077 --------------------------------------
2083 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2084 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2085 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2086 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2087 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2088 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2089 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2091 Various fixes to the following modules:
2094 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2095 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2096 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2098 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2103 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2104 ---------------------------------
2107 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2108 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2111 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2112 ---------------------------------
2115 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2118 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2121 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2122 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2123 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2124 main controller window.
2125 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2128 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2133 * Updates of other localizations
2136 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2137 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2138 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2139 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2140 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2143 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2144 ---------------------------------
2147 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2149 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2152 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2153 --------------------------------
2158 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2159 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2162 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2163 --------------------------------
2165 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2166 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2169 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2172 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2173 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2176 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2177 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2180 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2181 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2182 * Various fixed in playlist
2185 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2188 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2191 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2192 ------------------------------------
2194 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2195 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2198 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2199 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2200 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2203 * Stability fix for the video output.
2206 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2207 --------------------------------
2210 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2211 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2212 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2213 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2214 * Fixed update system bugs
2215 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2218 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2219 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2220 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2221 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2222 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2223 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2224 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2225 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2226 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2227 modern Mac OS X versions
2230 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2231 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2233 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2234 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2237 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2238 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2239 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2240 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2241 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2242 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2245 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2246 --------------------------------
2248 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2249 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2250 * Multiple bugfixes.
2253 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2254 --------------------------------
2256 * Multiple bug fixes.
2259 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2260 ---------------------------------
2264 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2265 recent to work correctly
2266 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2267 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2268 edit the ".hosts" file.
2269 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2270 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2271 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2272 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2273 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2274 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2275 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2276 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2277 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2278 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2279 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2280 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2281 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2282 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2283 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2284 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2285 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2286 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2287 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2288 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2289 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2290 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2291 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2292 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2293 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2294 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2295 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2296 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2297 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2298 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2299 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2300 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2301 and postproc modules.
2302 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2303 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2304 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2305 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2307 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2308 filter. For example:
2309 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2310 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2312 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2313 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2319 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2321 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2322 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2325 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2326 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2328 * Shoutcast TV listings
2329 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2331 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2332 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2334 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2337 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2338 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2339 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2340 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2341 * JACK audio input support
2342 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2343 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2344 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2345 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2346 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2347 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2348 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2349 (available as a separate download).
2350 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2351 * RTMP input support
2352 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2353 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2354 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2356 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2357 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2360 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2361 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2362 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2363 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2365 * APEv1/2 tags support
2366 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2367 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2369 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2370 * TiVo Series 2 support
2371 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2376 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2377 * Flash Screen Video support
2378 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2379 * DosBox Capture support
2380 * Karl Morton's Video support
2381 * limited atrac3 support
2383 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2384 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2385 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2386 * H.264 PAFF support
2387 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2388 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2389 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2390 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2391 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2394 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2395 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2396 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2397 * AQTitle subtitles support
2398 * MKV USF subtitles support
2399 * HTML-based subtitles support
2400 * MPSub subtitles support
2401 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2402 * MPL2 subtitles support
2403 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2404 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2405 * Realtext subtitle support
2406 * DKS subtitle support
2407 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2408 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2411 * Flash Screen Video support
2412 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2414 Video outputs and filters:
2415 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2416 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2417 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2418 * New puzzle video output filter
2419 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2420 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2422 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2423 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2424 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2425 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2426 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2427 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2428 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2429 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2430 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2431 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2432 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2433 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2434 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2435 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2437 Audio outputs and filters:
2438 * Replay gain support
2439 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2440 new scaletempo audio filter)
2441 * New spatializer audio filter
2442 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2445 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2446 * New RTP payload formats:
2447 * Speex voice audio codec
2448 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2449 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2450 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2451 * DCCP transport for RTP
2452 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2457 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2458 end-user suitable way.
2459 * Improved user interaction
2460 * Improved mouse gestures
2461 * Vastly improved Update checker
2462 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2464 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2465 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2467 * Improved video output features
2468 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2469 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2470 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2471 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2472 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2474 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2475 if libncursesw is available.
2476 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2477 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2478 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2480 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2481 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2482 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2483 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2484 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2485 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2486 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2487 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2490 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2491 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2492 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2495 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2496 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2497 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2498 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2499 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2500 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2503 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2504 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2514 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2515 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2516 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2519 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2520 ----------------------------------
2523 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2526 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2527 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2528 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2529 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2530 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2531 * Updated Polish translation
2534 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2535 ----------------------------------
2538 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2539 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2540 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2543 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2544 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2545 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2546 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2547 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2548 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2549 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2550 to an unexpected application termination
2551 * New Serbian translation
2552 * Updated Romanian translation
2555 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2556 ----------------------------------
2559 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2560 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2561 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2562 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2563 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2564 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2565 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2566 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2569 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2570 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2571 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2572 * Fixed AAC resampling
2573 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2574 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2577 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2578 ----------------------------------
2581 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2582 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2583 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2584 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2585 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2588 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2589 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2590 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2591 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2592 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2595 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2596 ----------------------------------
2599 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2600 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2603 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2604 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2605 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2606 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2608 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2612 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2615 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2618 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2621 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2624 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2625 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2626 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2627 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2628 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2630 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2631 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2632 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2633 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2636 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2639 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2640 ----------------------------------
2643 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2644 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2645 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2647 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2648 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2650 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2651 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2654 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2656 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2657 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2658 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2659 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2660 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2661 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2662 two different movies
2663 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2664 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2665 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2668 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2671 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2672 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2673 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2674 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2677 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2678 ----------------------------------
2680 Various bugfixes, notably:
2681 * Windows Vista compatibility
2682 * Cropping in Direct3D
2683 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2684 * RSS filter string overflow
2686 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2688 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2689 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2692 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2693 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2696 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2699 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2702 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2705 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2706 ----------------------------------
2708 Various bugfixes, notably:
2709 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2710 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2711 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2712 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2713 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2714 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2717 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2718 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2721 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2723 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2724 * Diverse usability improvements
2725 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2726 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2727 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2730 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2731 ---------------------------------
2733 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2734 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2737 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2740 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2741 --------------------------------
2744 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2747 * Support for RTSP authentication
2748 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2749 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2750 * ATSC support for DVB input
2751 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2752 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2753 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2756 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2757 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2758 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2759 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2760 * Matroska WavPack support
2761 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2762 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2763 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2766 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2767 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2768 * Improved libcaca support
2772 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2773 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2775 * Systray support in skins
2777 * Support for Apple Remote control
2778 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2779 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2780 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2781 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2783 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2786 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2787 Windows 9x/ME users:
2788 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2789 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2790 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2791 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2792 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2794 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2795 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2804 * Updates to the libvlc API
2805 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2808 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2809 --------------------------------
2812 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2813 * Support for downloading updates
2817 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2818 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2819 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2820 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2822 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2823 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2824 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2827 * Cook (Real audio) support
2829 Playlist / Services discovery:
2830 * XSPF playlist support
2832 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2835 * New JACK audio output
2838 * New video filters:
2839 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2840 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2841 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2842 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2843 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2844 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2847 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2850 * System to inform the user and request information
2851 - HTTP authentication
2855 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2856 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2857 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2860 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2861 - Improved playlist handling
2862 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2864 - Embedded Video output
2865 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2866 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2867 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2868 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2869 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2871 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2872 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2875 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2878 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2879 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2880 * Growl "Now playing" support
2883 * Ability to log to syslog
2884 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2887 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2889 * A bit more automatic testing
2892 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2893 ---------------------------------
2896 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2897 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2900 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2901 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2904 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2907 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2908 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2914 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2917 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2918 --------------------------------
2921 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2925 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2926 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2927 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2930 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2931 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2932 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2933 * GnomeVFS input module
2934 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2935 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2938 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2939 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2940 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2943 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2944 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2950 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2951 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2954 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2955 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2956 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2959 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2961 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2962 - New extended controls panel
2963 - New bookmarks window
2964 - Fixed playlist sorting
2965 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2967 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2968 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2969 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2970 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2974 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2975 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2977 - Include macro to include other files
2981 * Should now work outside IE as well
2984 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2987 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2988 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2991 The following languages were added:
2995 * Simplified Chinese
2996 The following languages were re-added:
3000 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3001 --------------------------------
3004 * Rewrite of the playlist
3006 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3007 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3008 * Preferences improvements:
3009 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3010 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3012 * Core image manipulation support
3013 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3014 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3015 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3016 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3017 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3018 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3019 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3020 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3021 * Access filter architecture
3022 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3023 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3027 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3028 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3029 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3030 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3031 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3032 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3033 * Massive Matroska improvements
3034 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3036 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3037 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3038 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3039 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3040 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3042 Decoders / Encoders:
3043 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3044 * PNG decoder/encoder
3045 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3046 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3049 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3052 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3053 * Brand new SAP module
3054 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3055 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3056 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3057 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3058 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3059 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3063 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3066 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3067 * Image file video output (png)
3068 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3069 * Improvements to wall video filter
3070 * Support for font color and opacity
3076 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3077 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3078 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3082 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3083 - Improved preferences
3084 - Improvements to the wizard
3085 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3087 - Redesigned playlist
3088 - Improved preferences
3090 - Support for multiple actions
3093 - Support for the new playlist system
3095 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3098 * Screensaver disabling fix
3099 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3100 * Support for no-decoration windows
3103 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3104 * The OpenGL video output is back
3105 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3106 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3107 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3108 is not yet available in the new module
3109 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3112 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3121 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3124 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3127 The following languages were added:
3133 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3134 --------------------------------
3137 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3138 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3141 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3142 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3143 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3146 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3149 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3152 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3155 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3156 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3157 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3161 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3163 * Support of playlist group announcement
3166 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3167 --------------------------------
3170 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3171 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3172 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3173 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3174 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3175 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3178 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3179 (Stream your desktop)
3180 * Improved DVD support:
3181 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3182 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3183 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3184 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3185 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3186 (selection of titles/chapters).
3189 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3190 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3191 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3192 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3193 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3194 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3195 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3196 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3197 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3198 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3201 * G.726 audio support
3202 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3203 * MPEG-4 text support
3204 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3205 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3206 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3210 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3211 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3212 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3213 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3214 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3215 * DVB subtitles encoder
3216 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3217 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3219 * Text track muxing for mp4
3220 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3221 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3222 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3223 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3224 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3225 * Improved ASF muxer
3227 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3228 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3229 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3232 * New audio equalizer filter
3233 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3234 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3235 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3236 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3239 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3240 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3241 with support for effects.
3242 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3243 - New filters can be streamed.
3244 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3245 - Centralized scaling and blending
3247 - "time", to display current time
3248 - "marq", to display a marquee
3251 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3252 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3253 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3254 * A few skins2 improvements
3255 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3256 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3257 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3258 * Improved CORBA control module
3261 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3262 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3263 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3266 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3267 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3268 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3271 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3272 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3273 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3274 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3275 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3278 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3281 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3282 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3285 * Server/client network synchronization module
3286 * VBrick streams fully supported
3287 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3291 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3292 --------------------------------
3295 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3296 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3297 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3298 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3301 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3302 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3303 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3304 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3305 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3306 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3307 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3310 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3311 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3312 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3313 * Improved directory access module.
3314 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3315 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3316 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3317 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3318 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3321 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3322 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3323 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3326 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3327 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3328 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3331 * Improved session announcement system.
3332 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3333 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3334 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3335 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3336 * Improved transrater.
3337 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3338 * New configuration system.
3339 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3342 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3343 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3344 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3345 * Supports scheduling.
3346 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3347 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3350 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3351 - Ability to embed video output.
3352 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3353 - Lots of improvements.
3354 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3355 - New design and set of icons.
3356 - Ability to embed video output.
3357 - Support for hotkeys.
3358 - Support for bookmarks.
3360 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3361 - Better hotkeys handling.
3364 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3365 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3366 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3367 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3370 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3371 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3372 * Improved Windows installer.
3378 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3379 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3382 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3383 ---------------------------------
3386 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3387 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3390 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3391 --------------------------------
3394 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3395 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3398 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3399 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3400 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3401 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3404 * Internal improvments
3405 * Improved import/export
3408 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3410 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3411 small and strange formats.
3413 * New MOD audio demux.
3414 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3415 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3416 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3417 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3420 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3421 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3422 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3428 * New opengl video output plugin.
3431 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3432 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3435 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3436 --------------------------------
3439 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3440 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3441 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3442 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3443 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3444 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3445 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3446 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3449 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3454 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3455 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3456 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3457 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3458 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3459 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3460 * Better Icecast support.
3461 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3462 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3465 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3466 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3467 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3468 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3469 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3470 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3471 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3474 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3475 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3476 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3477 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3478 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3479 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3480 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3481 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3482 * Preliminary RTP support.
3483 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3488 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3489 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3491 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3492 - Improvements and help in preferences
3493 - New streaming wizard
3494 - Revised Disc Open menu
3496 - Improvements of the standard pages
3497 - Support for new commands
3498 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3501 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3502 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3505 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3506 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3507 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3508 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3509 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3510 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3511 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3512 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3513 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3516 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3518 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3519 * Support for Panther.
3520 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3521 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3524 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3525 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3526 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3527 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3528 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3529 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3530 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3531 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3534 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3535 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3536 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3539 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3542 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3543 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3544 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3545 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3548 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3549 --------------------------------
3552 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3555 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3556 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3559 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3560 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3563 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3566 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3567 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3570 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3573 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3576 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3577 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3581 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3582 --------------------------------
3585 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3586 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3590 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3591 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3592 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3594 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3595 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3598 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3601 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3604 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3605 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3609 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3610 --------------------------------
3613 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3614 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3618 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3619 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3620 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3621 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3622 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3625 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3626 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3627 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3630 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3631 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3632 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3635 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3636 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3637 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3638 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3639 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3642 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3643 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3644 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3647 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3650 * Improved build system.
3651 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3652 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3653 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3654 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3657 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3658 --------------------------------
3661 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3664 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3665 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3666 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3667 * Video 4 Linux support
3668 * CD Digital Audio support
3669 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3672 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3673 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3674 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3675 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3678 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3679 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3680 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3681 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3682 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3683 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3684 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3687 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3688 * New HTTP remote control interface
3691 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3692 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3693 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3694 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3695 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3698 * New reset option for the preferences
3699 * You can set your language in the prefences
3700 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3701 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3702 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3703 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3706 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3707 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3708 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3711 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3712 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3713 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3714 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3715 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3716 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3717 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3718 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3719 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3720 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3723 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3724 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3725 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3726 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3727 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3728 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3729 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3732 * Interface localization
3733 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3734 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3735 * New full-featured Preferences window
3738 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3739 --------------------------------
3742 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3743 * support for skins at the interface level
3744 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3745 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3746 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3747 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3748 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3751 * fixed HTTP redirects
3752 * support for opening an entire directory
3753 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3754 * new video4linux access plug-in
3755 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3758 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3759 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3760 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3763 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3764 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3765 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3766 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3767 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3768 * new codec for raw I420 video
3769 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3772 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3773 (although it still misses some important features)
3774 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3777 * new HTTP output support
3778 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3779 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3782 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3785 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3788 * reorderable playlist
3789 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3790 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3791 * support for mono audio output devices
3792 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3793 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3794 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3795 * the messages window remembers more lines
3796 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3797 * http and ogg stream output options
3798 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3801 * new skinnable interface
3802 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3804 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3805 * support for FLAC audio format
3806 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3808 * network tab in the interface
3809 * "apply" handling in preferences
3812 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3813 ---------------------------------
3816 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3817 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3818 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3819 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3821 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3822 * DTS S/PDIF support
3825 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3826 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3827 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3828 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3831 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3832 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3835 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3838 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3841 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3843 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3844 * rc interface is now fully useable
3845 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3848 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3849 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3850 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3851 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3852 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3854 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3855 * support for mouse gestures
3856 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3859 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3860 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3863 * improved ID3 tag detection
3864 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3865 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3866 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3868 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3871 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3872 ---------------------------------
3875 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3876 English was set as the preferred language
3879 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3880 --------------------------------
3883 * new mouse gesture interface
3884 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3888 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3889 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3890 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3893 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3894 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3898 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3901 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3902 without the user consent
3905 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3907 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3908 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3909 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3912 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3913 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3914 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3915 * playlist enhancements
3916 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3917 * new step forward/step backward commands
3918 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3919 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3920 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3923 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3924 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3925 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3928 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3929 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3932 * native video output is working again
3933 * only commandline interface support
3934 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3937 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3938 --------------------------------
3941 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3942 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3943 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3944 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3945 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3946 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3947 and A/52 streams are supported)
3948 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3953 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3954 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3955 * VCD entry points support
3956 * VCD image file support
3959 * support for *.asf format
3960 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3961 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3962 * support for ogg encapsulation
3963 * support for raw DV format
3964 * support for *.wav format
3965 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3968 Stream discovery & playlists:
3969 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3970 * support for .m3u file format
3971 * support for .asx file format
3972 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3975 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3976 (only available with the .avi demux)
3977 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3978 * support for raw PCM data
3979 * support for Cinepak video codec
3980 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3981 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3982 * support for Xvid codec
3983 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3984 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3985 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3987 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3989 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3992 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3995 * new WxWindows interface
3996 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3997 device and the channels configuration
3998 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3999 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4000 format that VLC can play
4001 * new swedish translation
4002 * enhancements of the playlist window
4003 * new messages window to see debug info
4004 * fixed a few crashes
4007 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4008 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4009 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4010 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working