3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 * Vastly improved playlist support:
30 * Media library support
32 * Shoutcast TV listings
33 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
36 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
37 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
41 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
42 * MKV USF subtitles support
43 * Flash Screen Video support
46 * Flash Screen Video support
49 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
50 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
51 * New puzzle video output filter
52 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
53 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
54 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
55 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
56 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML tags
59 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
63 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
65 * Improved user interaction
68 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
69 -----------------------------------------------------------
70 Various bugfixes notably:
71 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
72 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
73 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
76 * further usability improvements
79 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
80 ---------------------------------
83 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
86 * Fullscreen controller improvements
89 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
90 --------------------------------
93 * Shoutcast TV listings support
96 * Support for RTSP authentication
97 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
98 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
99 * ATSC support for DVB input
100 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
101 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
102 * Improved support for Flash Video files
105 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
106 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
107 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
108 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
109 * Matroska WavPack support
110 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
111 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
112 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
115 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
116 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
117 * Improved libcaca support
121 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
122 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
124 * Systray support in skins
126 * Support for Apple Remote control
127 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
128 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
129 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
130 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
132 * Notifications using notification-daemon
135 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
137 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
138 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
139 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
140 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
141 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
143 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
144 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
153 * Updates to the libvlc API
154 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
158 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
159 ---------------------------------
162 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
163 * Support for downloading updates
167 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
168 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
169 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
170 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
172 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
173 * Improved subtitles encoding support
174 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
177 * Cook (Real audio) support
179 Playlist / Services discovery:
180 * XSPF playlist support
182 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
185 * New JACK audio output
189 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
190 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
191 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
192 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
193 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
194 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
197 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
200 * System to inform the user and request information
201 - HTTP authentication
205 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
206 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
207 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
210 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
211 - Improved playlist handling
212 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
214 - Embedded Video output
215 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
216 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
217 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
218 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
219 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
221 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
222 - A bunch of new RPN functions
225 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
228 * Mac-Intel compatibility
229 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
230 * Growl "Now playing" support
233 * Ability to log to syslog
234 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
237 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
239 * A bit more automatic testing
241 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
242 ---------------------------------
245 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
246 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
249 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
250 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
253 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
256 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
257 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
263 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
265 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
266 --------------------------------
269 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
273 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
274 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
275 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
278 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
279 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
280 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
281 * GnomeVFS input module
282 * Support for RTP packet reordering
283 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
286 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
287 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
288 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
291 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
292 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
298 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
299 Mixer and Dolby Surround
302 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
303 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
304 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
307 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
309 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
310 - New extended controls panel
311 - New bookmarks window
312 - Fixed playlist sorting
313 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
315 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
316 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
317 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
318 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
322 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
323 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
325 - Include macro to include other files
329 * Should now work outside IE as well
332 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
335 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
336 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
339 The following languages were added:
344 The following languages were re-added:
347 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
348 --------------------------------
351 * Rewrite of the playlist
353 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
354 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
355 * Preferences improvements:
356 - New organization, designed to improve usability
357 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
359 * Core image manipulation support
360 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
361 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
362 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
363 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
364 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
365 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
366 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
367 now separated by ':' instead of ','
368 * Access filter architecture
369 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
370 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
374 * Support for SOCKS proxy
375 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
376 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
377 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
378 * Better support for Kasenna streams
379 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
380 * Massive Matroska improvements
381 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
383 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
384 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
385 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
386 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
387 * Support for FTP over IPv6
390 * Dirac decoder and encoder
391 * PNG decoder/encoder
392 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
393 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
396 * New Record and Timeshift filters
399 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
400 * Brand new SAP module
401 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
402 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
403 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
404 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
405 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
406 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
410 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
413 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
414 * Image file video output (png)
415 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
416 * Improvements to wall video filter
417 * Support for font color and opacity
423 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
424 - Seeking support in VoD streams
425 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
429 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
430 - Improved preferences
431 - Improvements to the wizard
432 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
434 - Redesigned playlist
435 - Improved preferences
437 - Support for multiple actions
440 - Support for the new playlist system
442 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
445 * Screensaver disabling fix
446 * DirectShow tuner configuration
447 * Support for no-decoration windows
450 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
451 * The OpenGL video output is back
452 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
453 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
454 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
455 is not yet available in the new module
456 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
459 * Support for single-buffered overlay
468 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
471 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
474 The following languages were added:
480 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
481 -----------------------------------------------------
484 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
485 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
488 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
489 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
490 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
493 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
496 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
499 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
502 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
503 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
504 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
508 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
510 * Support of playlist group announcement
512 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
513 -----------------------------------------------------
516 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
517 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
518 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
519 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
520 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
521 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
524 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
525 (Stream your desktop)
526 * Improved DVD support:
527 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
528 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
529 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
530 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
531 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
532 (selection of titles/chapters).
535 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
536 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
537 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
538 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
539 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
540 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
541 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
542 * Improved Ogg demuxer
543 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
544 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
547 * G.726 audio support
548 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
549 * MPEG-4 text support
550 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
551 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
552 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
556 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
557 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
558 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
559 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
560 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
561 * DVB subtitles encoder
562 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
563 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
565 * Text track muxing for mp4
566 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
567 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
568 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
569 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
570 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
573 * H.263 RTP streaming support
574 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
575 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
578 * New audio equalizer filter
579 * Very trivial volume normalizer
580 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
581 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
582 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
585 * Roku HD1000 Video output
586 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
587 with support for effects.
588 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
589 - New filters can be streamed.
590 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
591 - Centralized scaling and blending
593 - "time", to display current time
594 - "marq", to display a marquee
597 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
598 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
599 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
600 * A few skins2 improvements
601 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
602 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
603 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
604 * Improved CORBA control module
607 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
608 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
609 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
612 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
613 * Experimental SVG rendering module
614 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
617 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
618 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
619 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
620 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
621 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
624 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
627 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
628 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
631 * Server/client network synchronization module
632 * VBrick streams fully supported
633 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
636 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
637 --------------------------------
640 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
641 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
642 * Improved HTTP daemon.
643 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
646 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
647 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
648 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
649 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
650 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
651 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
652 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
655 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
656 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
657 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
658 * Improved directory access module.
659 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
660 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
661 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
662 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
663 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
666 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
667 * mmsh streaming fixes.
668 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
671 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
672 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
673 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
676 * Improved session announcement system.
677 * Minimize threads usage by default.
678 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
679 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
680 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
681 * Improved transrater.
682 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
683 * New configuration system.
684 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
687 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
688 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
689 * Supports live streams and VoD.
690 * Supports scheduling.
691 * Telnet interface for vlm.
692 * HTTP interface for vlm.
695 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
696 - Ability to embed video output.
697 - Support for bitmap fonts.
698 - Lots of improvements.
699 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
700 - New design and set of icons.
701 - Ability to embed video output.
702 - Support for hotkeys.
703 - Support for bookmarks.
705 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
706 - Better hotkeys handling.
709 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
710 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
711 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
712 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
715 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
716 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
717 * Improved Windows installer.
723 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
724 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
726 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
727 ---------------------------------
730 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
731 * Playing MOD files is working now.
734 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
735 ---------------------------------
738 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
739 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
742 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
743 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
744 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
745 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
748 * Internal improvments
749 * Improved import/export
752 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
754 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
755 small and strange formats.
757 * New MOD audio demux.
758 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
759 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
760 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
761 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
764 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
765 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
766 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
772 * New opengl video output plugin.
775 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
776 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
778 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
779 ---------------------------------
782 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
783 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
784 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
785 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
786 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
787 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
788 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
789 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
792 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
797 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
798 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
799 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
800 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
801 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
802 * Reworked DVB tuning.
803 * Better Icecast support.
804 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
805 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
808 * Support for Theora video encoding.
809 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
810 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
811 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
812 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
813 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
814 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
817 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
818 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
819 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
820 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
821 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
822 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
823 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
824 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
825 * Preliminary RTP support.
826 * Fixes to SAP announces.
831 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
832 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
834 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
835 - Improvements and help in preferences
836 - New streaming wizard
837 - Revised Disc Open menu
839 - Improvements of the standard pages
840 - Support for new commands
841 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
844 * Many fixes to the SAP module
845 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
848 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
849 * Text subtitles autodetection.
850 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
851 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
852 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
853 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
854 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
855 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
856 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
859 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
861 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
862 * Support for Panther.
863 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
864 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
867 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
868 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
869 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
870 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
871 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
872 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
873 * Multimonitor support (untested).
874 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
877 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
878 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
879 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
882 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
885 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
886 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
887 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
888 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
890 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
891 ---------------------------------
894 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
897 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
898 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
901 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
902 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
905 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
908 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
909 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
912 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
915 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
918 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
919 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
922 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
923 ---------------------------------
926 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
927 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
931 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
932 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
933 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
935 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
936 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
939 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
942 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
945 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
946 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
949 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
950 ---------------------------------
953 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
954 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
958 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
959 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
960 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
961 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
962 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
965 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
966 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
967 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
970 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
971 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
972 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
975 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
976 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
977 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
978 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
979 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
982 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
983 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
984 * A new CORBA control plugin.
987 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
990 * Improved build system.
991 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
992 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
993 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
994 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
997 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
998 ---------------------------------
1001 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1004 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1005 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1006 * Video 4 Linux support
1007 * CD Digital Audio support
1008 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1011 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1012 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1013 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1014 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1017 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1018 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1019 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1020 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1021 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1022 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1023 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1026 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1027 * New HTTP remote control interface
1030 * 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.
1031 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1032 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1033 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1036 * New reset option for the preferences
1037 * You can set your language in the prefences
1038 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1039 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1040 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1041 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1044 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1045 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1046 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1049 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1050 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1051 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1052 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1053 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1054 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1055 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1056 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1057 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1058 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1061 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1062 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1063 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1064 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1065 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1066 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1067 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1070 * Interface localization
1071 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1072 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1073 * New full-featured Preferences window
1075 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1076 ---------------------------------
1079 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1080 * support for skins at the interface level
1081 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1082 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1083 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1084 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1085 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1088 * fixed HTTP redirects
1089 * support for opening an entire directory
1090 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1091 * new video4linux access plug-in
1092 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1095 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1096 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1097 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1100 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1101 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1102 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1103 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1104 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1105 * new codec for raw I420 video
1106 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1109 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1110 (although it still misses some important features)
1111 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1114 * new HTTP output support
1115 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1116 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1119 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1122 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1125 * reorderable playlist
1126 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1127 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1128 * support for mono audio output devices
1129 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1130 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1131 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1132 * the messages window remembers more lines
1133 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1134 * http and ogg stream output options
1135 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1138 * new skinnable interface
1139 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1141 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1142 * support for FLAC audio format
1143 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1145 * network tab in the interface
1146 * "apply" handling in preferences
1149 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1150 ---------------------------------
1153 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1154 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1155 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1156 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1158 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1159 * DTS S/PDIF support
1162 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1163 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1164 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1165 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1168 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1169 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1172 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1175 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1178 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1180 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1181 * rc interface is now fully useable
1182 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1185 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1186 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1187 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1188 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1189 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1191 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1192 * support for mouse gestures
1193 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1196 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1197 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1200 * improved ID3 tag detection
1201 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1202 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1203 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1205 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1208 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1209 ---------------------------------
1212 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1213 English was set as the preferred language
1216 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1217 --------------------------------
1220 * new mouse gesture interface
1221 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1225 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1226 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1227 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1230 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1231 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1235 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1238 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1239 without the user consent
1242 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1244 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1245 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1246 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1249 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1250 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1251 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1252 * playlist enhancements
1253 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1254 * new step forward/step backward commands
1255 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1256 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1257 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1260 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1261 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1262 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1265 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1266 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1269 * native video output is working again
1270 * only commandline interface support
1271 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1274 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1275 --------------------------------
1278 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1279 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1280 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1281 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1282 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1283 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1284 and A/52 streams are supported)
1285 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1290 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1291 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1292 * VCD entry points support
1293 * VCD image file support
1296 * support for *.asf format
1297 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1298 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1299 * support for ogg encapsulation
1300 * support for raw DV format
1301 * support for *.wav format
1302 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1305 Stream discovery & playlists:
1306 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1307 * support for .m3u file format
1308 * support for .asx file format
1309 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1312 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1313 (only available with the .avi demux)
1314 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1315 * support for raw PCM data
1316 * support for Cinepak video codec
1317 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1318 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1319 * support for Xvid codec
1320 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1321 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1322 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1324 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1326 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1329 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1332 * new WxWindows interface
1333 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1334 device and the channels configuration
1335 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1336 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1337 format that VLC can play
1338 * new swedish translation
1339 * enhancements of the playlist window
1340 * new messages window to see debug info
1341 * fixed a few crashes
1344 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1345 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1346 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1347 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working