1 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
11 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
14 * WPL playlist support
15 * ZPL playlist support
18 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
21 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
24 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
25 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
28 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
33 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
34 ---------------------------------
38 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
39 See 'Access:' for more info.
40 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
43 * Instantaneous pausing
44 * Frame-by-Frame playback
46 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
47 * Timeshift for most medias
48 * RTSP trickplay support
49 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
52 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
53 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
54 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
55 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
56 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
57 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
58 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
59 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
60 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
61 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
64 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
65 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
66 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
67 * Metadata for mod files are supported
68 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
69 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
70 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
73 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
74 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
77 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
78 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
79 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
80 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
81 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
82 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
83 * DVB scanning on linux
84 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
85 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
86 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
87 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
88 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
89 * MTP device access on Unix
90 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
91 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
94 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
95 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
99 * Export the playlist in HTML
100 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
101 * Better metadata handling and reading
103 Linux/Windows interface:
104 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
105 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
106 * Recently played items list
107 * Interface toolbar customizations
108 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
111 - Improvements on many dialogs
112 - New dialog for plugins listing
113 - Fixed-size mode for videos
114 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
115 * Better integration in GTK environments
118 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
119 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
120 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
121 * Additional usability improvements
124 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
125 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
126 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
127 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
128 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
131 * New Maemo port with:
132 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
133 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
136 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
139 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
140 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
141 * Support for latest iSight models
144 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
145 * Surround support for PulseAudio
148 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
149 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
150 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
151 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
152 The old image video output has been removed.
153 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
154 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
157 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
160 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
161 ---------------------------------
164 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
165 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
168 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
169 ---------------------------------
172 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
175 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
178 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
179 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
180 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
181 main controller window.
182 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
185 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
190 * Updates of other localizations
193 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
194 * Lots of small bugfixes.
195 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
196 * Telnet fixes on Windows
197 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
199 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
200 ---------------------------------
203 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
205 Bunch of small bugfixes.
208 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
209 --------------------------------
214 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
215 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
218 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
219 --------------------------------
221 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
222 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
225 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
228 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
229 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
232 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
233 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
236 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
237 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
238 * Various fixed in playlist
241 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
244 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
247 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
248 ------------------------------------
250 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
251 * Fixes several memory leaks.
254 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
255 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
256 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
259 * Stability fix for the video output.
262 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
263 --------------------------------
266 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
267 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
268 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
269 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
270 * Fixed update system bugs
271 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
274 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
275 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
276 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
277 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
278 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
279 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
280 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
281 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
282 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
283 modern Mac OS X versions
286 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
287 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
289 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
290 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
293 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
294 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
295 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
296 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
297 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
298 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
301 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
302 --------------------------------
304 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
305 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
309 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
310 --------------------------------
312 * Multiple bug fixes.
315 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
316 ---------------------------------
320 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
321 recent to work correctly
322 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
323 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
324 edit the ".hosts" file.
325 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
326 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
327 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
328 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
329 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
330 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
331 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
332 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
333 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
334 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
335 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
336 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
337 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
338 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
339 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
340 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
341 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
342 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
343 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
344 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
345 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
346 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
347 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
348 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
349 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
350 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
351 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
352 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
353 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
354 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
355 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
356 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
357 and postproc modules.
358 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
359 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
360 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
361 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
363 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
365 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
366 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
368 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
369 * Glide video output module has been removed.
375 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
377 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
378 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
381 * Vastly improved playlist support:
382 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
384 * Shoutcast TV listings
385 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
387 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
388 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
390 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
393 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
394 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
395 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
396 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
397 * JACK audio input support
398 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
399 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
400 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
401 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
402 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
403 * Experimental EyeTV access module
404 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
405 (available as a separate download).
406 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
408 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
409 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
410 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
412 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
413 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
416 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
417 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
418 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
419 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
421 * APEv1/2 tags support
422 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
423 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
425 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
426 * TiVo Series 2 support
427 * CD+G karaoke Files support
432 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
433 * Flash Screen Video support
434 * CamStudio Screen Video support
435 * DosBox Capture support
436 * Karl Morton's Video support
437 * limited atrac3 support
439 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
440 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
441 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
443 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
444 * NellyMoser ASAO support
445 * APE (Monkey audio) support
446 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
447 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
450 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
451 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
452 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
453 * AQTitle subtitles support
454 * MKV USF subtitles support
455 * HTML-based subtitles support
456 * MPSub subtitles support
457 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
458 * MPL2 subtitles support
459 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
460 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
461 * Realtext subtitle support
462 * DKS subtitle support
463 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
464 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
467 * Flash Screen Video support
468 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
470 Video outputs and filters:
471 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
472 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
473 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
474 * New puzzle video output filter
475 * Re-written motion detection video filter
476 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
478 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
479 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
480 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
481 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
482 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
483 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
484 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
485 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
486 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
487 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
488 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
489 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
490 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
491 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
493 Audio outputs and filters:
494 * Replay gain support
495 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
496 new scaletempo audio filter)
497 * New spatializer audio filter
498 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
501 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
502 * New RTP payload formats:
503 * Speex voice audio codec
504 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
505 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
506 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
507 * DCCP transport for RTP
508 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
513 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
514 end-user suitable way.
515 * Improved user interaction
516 * Improved mouse gestures
517 * Vastly improved Update checker
518 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
520 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
521 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
523 * Improved video output features
524 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
525 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
526 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
527 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
528 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
530 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
531 if libncursesw is available.
532 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
533 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
534 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
536 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
537 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
538 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
539 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
540 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
541 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
542 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
543 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
546 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
547 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
548 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
551 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
552 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
553 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
554 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
555 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
556 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
559 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
560 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
570 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
571 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
572 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
575 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
576 ----------------------------------
579 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
582 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
583 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
584 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
585 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
586 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
587 * Updated Polish translation
590 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
591 ----------------------------------
594 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
595 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
596 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
599 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
600 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
601 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
602 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
603 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
604 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
605 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
606 to an unexpected application termination
607 * New Serbian translation
608 * Updated Romanian translation
611 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
612 ----------------------------------
615 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
616 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
617 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
618 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
619 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
620 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
621 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
622 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
625 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
626 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
627 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
628 * Fixed AAC resampling
629 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
630 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
633 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
634 ----------------------------------
637 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
638 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
639 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
640 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
641 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
644 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
645 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
646 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
647 * Close MMS access on network timeout
648 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
651 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
652 ----------------------------------
655 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
656 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
659 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
660 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
661 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
662 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
664 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
668 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
671 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
674 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
677 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
680 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
681 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
682 encoding on multi-cpu systems
683 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
684 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
686 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
687 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
688 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
689 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
692 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
695 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
696 ----------------------------------
699 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
700 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
701 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
703 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
704 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
706 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
707 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
710 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
712 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
713 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
714 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
715 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
716 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
717 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
719 * Support for current Ogg file formats
720 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
721 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
724 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
727 * The automatic updating facility was removed
728 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
729 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
730 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
733 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
734 ----------------------------------
736 Various bugfixes, notably:
737 * Windows Vista compatibility
738 * Cropping in Direct3D
739 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
740 * RSS filter string overflow
742 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
744 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
745 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
748 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
749 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
752 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
755 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
758 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
761 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
762 ----------------------------------
764 Various bugfixes, notably:
765 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
766 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
767 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
768 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
769 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
770 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
773 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
774 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
777 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
779 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
780 * Diverse usability improvements
781 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
782 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
783 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
786 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
787 ---------------------------------
790 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
793 * Fullscreen controller improvements
796 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
797 --------------------------------
800 * Shoutcast TV listings support
803 * Support for RTSP authentication
804 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
805 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
806 * ATSC support for DVB input
807 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
808 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
809 * Improved support for Flash Video files
812 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
813 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
814 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
815 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
816 * Matroska WavPack support
817 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
818 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
819 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
822 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
823 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
824 * Improved libcaca support
828 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
829 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
831 * Systray support in skins
833 * Support for Apple Remote control
834 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
835 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
836 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
837 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
839 * Notifications using notification-daemon
842 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
844 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
845 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
846 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
847 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
848 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
850 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
851 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
860 * Updates to the libvlc API
861 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
864 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
865 --------------------------------
868 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
869 * Support for downloading updates
873 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
874 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
875 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
876 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
878 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
879 * Improved subtitles encoding support
880 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
883 * Cook (Real audio) support
885 Playlist / Services discovery:
886 * XSPF playlist support
888 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
891 * New JACK audio output
895 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
896 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
897 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
898 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
899 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
900 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
903 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
906 * System to inform the user and request information
907 - HTTP authentication
911 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
912 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
913 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
916 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
917 - Improved playlist handling
918 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
920 - Embedded Video output
921 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
922 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
923 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
924 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
925 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
927 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
928 - A bunch of new RPN functions
931 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
934 * Mac-Intel compatibility
935 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
936 * Growl "Now playing" support
939 * Ability to log to syslog
940 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
943 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
945 * A bit more automatic testing
948 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
949 ---------------------------------
952 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
953 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
956 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
957 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
960 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
963 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
964 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
970 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
973 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
974 --------------------------------
977 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
981 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
982 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
983 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
986 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
987 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
988 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
989 * GnomeVFS input module
990 * Support for RTP packet reordering
991 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
994 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
995 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
996 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
999 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1000 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1006 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1007 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1010 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1011 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1012 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1015 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1017 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1018 - New extended controls panel
1019 - New bookmarks window
1020 - Fixed playlist sorting
1021 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1023 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1024 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1025 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1026 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1030 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1031 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1033 - Include macro to include other files
1037 * Should now work outside IE as well
1040 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1043 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1044 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1047 The following languages were added:
1051 * Simplified Chinese
1052 The following languages were re-added:
1056 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1057 --------------------------------
1060 * Rewrite of the playlist
1062 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1063 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1064 * Preferences improvements:
1065 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1066 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1068 * Core image manipulation support
1069 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1070 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1071 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1072 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1073 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1074 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1075 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1076 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1077 * Access filter architecture
1078 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1079 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1083 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1084 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1085 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1086 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1087 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1088 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1089 * Massive Matroska improvements
1090 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1092 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1093 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1094 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1095 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1096 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1098 Decoders / Encoders:
1099 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1100 * PNG decoder/encoder
1101 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1102 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1105 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1108 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1109 * Brand new SAP module
1110 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1111 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1112 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1113 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1114 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1115 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1119 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1122 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1123 * Image file video output (png)
1124 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1125 * Improvements to wall video filter
1126 * Support for font color and opacity
1132 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1133 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1134 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1138 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1139 - Improved preferences
1140 - Improvements to the wizard
1141 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1143 - Redesigned playlist
1144 - Improved preferences
1146 - Support for multiple actions
1149 - Support for the new playlist system
1151 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1154 * Screensaver disabling fix
1155 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1156 * Support for no-decoration windows
1159 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1160 * The OpenGL video output is back
1161 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1162 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1163 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1164 is not yet available in the new module
1165 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1168 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1177 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1180 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1183 The following languages were added:
1189 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1194 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1197 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1198 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1199 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1202 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1205 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1208 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1211 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1212 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1213 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1217 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1219 * Support of playlist group announcement
1222 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1223 --------------------------------
1226 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1227 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1228 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1229 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1230 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1231 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1234 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1235 (Stream your desktop)
1236 * Improved DVD support:
1237 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1238 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1239 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1240 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1241 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1242 (selection of titles/chapters).
1245 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1246 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1247 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1248 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1249 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1250 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1251 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1252 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1253 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1254 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1257 * G.726 audio support
1258 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1259 * MPEG-4 text support
1260 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1261 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1262 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1266 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1267 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1268 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1269 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1270 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1271 * DVB subtitles encoder
1272 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1273 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1275 * Text track muxing for mp4
1276 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1277 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1278 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1279 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1280 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1281 * Improved ASF muxer
1283 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1284 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1285 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1288 * New audio equalizer filter
1289 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1290 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1291 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1292 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1295 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1296 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1297 with support for effects.
1298 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1299 - New filters can be streamed.
1300 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1301 - Centralized scaling and blending
1303 - "time", to display current time
1304 - "marq", to display a marquee
1307 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1308 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1309 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1310 * A few skins2 improvements
1311 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1312 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1313 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1314 * Improved CORBA control module
1317 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1318 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1319 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1322 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1323 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1324 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1327 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1328 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1329 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1330 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1331 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1334 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1337 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1338 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1341 * Server/client network synchronization module
1342 * VBrick streams fully supported
1343 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1347 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1348 --------------------------------
1351 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1352 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1353 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1354 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1357 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1358 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1359 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1360 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1361 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1362 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1363 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1366 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1367 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1368 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1369 * Improved directory access module.
1370 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1371 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1372 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1373 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1374 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1377 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1378 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1379 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1382 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1383 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1384 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1387 * Improved session announcement system.
1388 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1389 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1390 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1391 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1392 * Improved transrater.
1393 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1394 * New configuration system.
1395 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1398 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1399 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1400 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1401 * Supports scheduling.
1402 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1403 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1406 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1407 - Ability to embed video output.
1408 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1409 - Lots of improvements.
1410 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1411 - New design and set of icons.
1412 - Ability to embed video output.
1413 - Support for hotkeys.
1414 - Support for bookmarks.
1416 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1417 - Better hotkeys handling.
1420 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1421 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1422 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1423 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1426 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1427 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1428 * Improved Windows installer.
1434 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1435 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1438 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1439 ---------------------------------
1442 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1443 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1446 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1447 --------------------------------
1450 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1451 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1454 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1455 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1456 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1457 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1460 * Internal improvments
1461 * Improved import/export
1464 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1466 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1467 small and strange formats.
1469 * New MOD audio demux.
1470 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1471 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1472 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1473 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1476 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1477 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1478 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1484 * New opengl video output plugin.
1487 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1488 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1491 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1492 --------------------------------
1495 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1496 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1497 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1498 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1499 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1500 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1501 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1502 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1505 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1510 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1511 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1512 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1513 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1514 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1515 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1516 * Better Icecast support.
1517 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1518 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1521 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1522 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1523 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1524 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1525 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1526 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1527 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1530 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1531 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1532 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1533 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1534 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1535 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1536 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1537 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1538 * Preliminary RTP support.
1539 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1544 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1545 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1547 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1548 - Improvements and help in preferences
1549 - New streaming wizard
1550 - Revised Disc Open menu
1552 - Improvements of the standard pages
1553 - Support for new commands
1554 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1557 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1558 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1561 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1562 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1563 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1564 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1565 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1566 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1567 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1568 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1569 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1572 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1574 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1575 * Support for Panther.
1576 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1577 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1580 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1581 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1582 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1583 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1584 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1585 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1586 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1587 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1590 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1591 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1592 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1595 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1598 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1599 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1600 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1601 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1604 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1605 --------------------------------
1608 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1611 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1612 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1615 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1616 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1619 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1622 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1623 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1626 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1629 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1632 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1633 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1637 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1642 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1646 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1647 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1648 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1650 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1651 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1654 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1657 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1660 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1661 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1665 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1666 --------------------------------
1669 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1670 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1674 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1675 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1676 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1677 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1678 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1681 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1682 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1683 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1686 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1687 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1688 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1691 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1692 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1693 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1694 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1695 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1698 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1699 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1700 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1703 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1706 * Improved build system.
1707 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1708 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1709 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1710 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1713 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1714 --------------------------------
1717 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1720 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1721 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1722 * Video 4 Linux support
1723 * CD Digital Audio support
1724 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1727 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1728 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1729 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1730 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1733 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1734 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1735 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1736 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1737 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1738 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1739 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1742 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1743 * New HTTP remote control interface
1746 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1747 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1748 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1749 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1752 * New reset option for the preferences
1753 * You can set your language in the prefences
1754 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1755 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1756 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1757 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1760 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1761 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1762 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1765 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1766 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1767 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1768 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1769 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1770 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1771 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1772 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1773 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1774 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1777 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1778 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1779 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1780 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1781 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1782 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1783 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1786 * Interface localization
1787 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1788 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1789 * New full-featured Preferences window
1792 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1793 --------------------------------
1796 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1797 * support for skins at the interface level
1798 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1799 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1800 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1801 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1802 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1805 * fixed HTTP redirects
1806 * support for opening an entire directory
1807 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1808 * new video4linux access plug-in
1809 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1812 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1813 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1814 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1817 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1818 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1819 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1820 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1821 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1822 * new codec for raw I420 video
1823 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1826 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1827 (although it still misses some important features)
1828 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1831 * new HTTP output support
1832 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1833 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1836 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1839 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1842 * reorderable playlist
1843 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1844 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1845 * support for mono audio output devices
1846 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1847 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1848 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1849 * the messages window remembers more lines
1850 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1851 * http and ogg stream output options
1852 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1855 * new skinnable interface
1856 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1858 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1859 * support for FLAC audio format
1860 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1862 * network tab in the interface
1863 * "apply" handling in preferences
1866 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1867 ---------------------------------
1870 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1871 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1872 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1873 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1875 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1876 * DTS S/PDIF support
1879 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1880 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1881 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1882 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1885 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1886 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1889 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1892 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1895 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1897 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1898 * rc interface is now fully useable
1899 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1902 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1903 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1904 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1905 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1906 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1908 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1909 * support for mouse gestures
1910 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1913 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1914 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1917 * improved ID3 tag detection
1918 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1919 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1920 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1922 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1925 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1926 ---------------------------------
1929 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1930 English was set as the preferred language
1933 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1934 --------------------------------
1937 * new mouse gesture interface
1938 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1942 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1943 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1944 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1947 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1948 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1952 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1955 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1956 without the user consent
1959 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1961 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1962 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1963 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1966 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1967 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1968 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1969 * playlist enhancements
1970 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1971 * new step forward/step backward commands
1972 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1973 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1974 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1977 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1978 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1979 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1982 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1983 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1986 * native video output is working again
1987 * only commandline interface support
1988 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1991 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1992 --------------------------------
1995 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1996 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1997 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1998 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1999 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2000 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2001 and A/52 streams are supported)
2002 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2007 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2008 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2009 * VCD entry points support
2010 * VCD image file support
2013 * support for *.asf format
2014 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2015 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2016 * support for ogg encapsulation
2017 * support for raw DV format
2018 * support for *.wav format
2019 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2022 Stream discovery & playlists:
2023 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2024 * support for .m3u file format
2025 * support for .asx file format
2026 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2029 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2030 (only available with the .avi demux)
2031 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2032 * support for raw PCM data
2033 * support for Cinepak video codec
2034 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2035 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2036 * support for Xvid codec
2037 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2038 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2039 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2041 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2043 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2046 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2049 * new WxWindows interface
2050 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2051 device and the channels configuration
2052 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2053 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2054 format that VLC can play
2055 * new swedish translation
2056 * enhancements of the playlist window
2057 * new messages window to see debug info
2058 * fixed a few crashes
2061 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2062 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2063 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2064 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working