1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
15 * Digital Cinema Package support
18 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
19 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
20 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
21 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
22 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
23 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
24 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
25 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
28 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
29 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
30 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
33 * New CAF format module
34 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
35 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
36 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
37 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
39 * Basic support for WebVTT
40 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
41 * Support HDPR TS files
42 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
43 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
46 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
47 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
50 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
51 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
52 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
53 * New Android native window provider module
56 * New Oldmovie effect filter
57 * New VHS effect filter
58 * New Freeze effect filter
59 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
60 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
63 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
66 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
67 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
68 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
69 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
70 * GSM, VP8, Opus RTP packetization
71 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
74 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
77 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
80 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
83 * ios video output: use ios2
84 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
87 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
88 --------------------------------
91 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
93 * Fix some subtitles track selection
97 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
98 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
101 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
102 * Support Speex in ogg files
103 * Fix some .mov playlists support
104 * Support Alac in mkv
105 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
106 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
109 * Fix DVB options parsing
110 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
111 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
114 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
115 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
118 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
119 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
122 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
123 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
124 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
125 * Fix play after drag'n drop
126 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
129 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
130 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
133 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
134 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
137 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
138 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
139 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
140 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
141 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
142 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
143 * Improves interface resizings
146 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
147 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
148 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
149 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
150 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
154 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
155 --------------------------------
158 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
159 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
160 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
161 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
162 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
164 3rd party libraries (contrib):
165 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
168 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
169 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
170 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
171 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
172 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
175 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
176 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
180 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
181 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
182 * Support for Ulead DV audio
183 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
184 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
185 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
186 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
187 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
188 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
189 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
190 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
191 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
192 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
195 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
196 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
197 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
200 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
201 remove support for previous OS X releases
202 * Major improvements in DASH support
203 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
204 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
205 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
206 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
207 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
208 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
209 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
210 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
211 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
212 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
213 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
216 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
217 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
218 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
219 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
220 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
221 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
222 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
223 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
224 * Support for more MJPEG streams
225 * Add support for liveleak streams
226 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
227 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
228 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
231 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
232 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
233 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
234 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
235 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
236 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
237 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
238 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
239 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
240 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
241 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
244 * New remapping channel filter
245 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
246 * New VSXu visualization plugin
247 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
248 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
249 * New gain audio filter
252 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
253 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
254 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
255 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
256 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
257 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
258 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
259 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
260 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
263 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
264 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
265 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
266 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
267 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
268 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
269 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
272 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
273 * Options support for AVIO output module
274 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
275 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
276 * Livehttp stream encryption support
277 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
278 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
281 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
284 * configurable password for the HTTP server
285 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
286 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
287 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
288 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
289 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
290 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
291 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
295 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
298 * Add support for multiple video outputs
299 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
301 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
302 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
303 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
304 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
305 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
306 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
307 VLC's internal volume level
308 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
310 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
311 selection and to manage the list of presets
312 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
313 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
314 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
315 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
316 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
317 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
318 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
319 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
320 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
321 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
323 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
324 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
325 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
326 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
327 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
328 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
329 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
330 3rd party applications
331 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
332 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
333 (system-wide settings)
334 * Add support for the Video Title option
335 * Add support for the Boss Key
336 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
337 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
340 * Partial support for Qt5.0
341 * Menus modifications and improvements
342 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
343 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
344 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
345 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
346 * EPG display fixes and improvements
347 * Add SD pixmap sources
348 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
349 * Display playlist total duration
350 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
351 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
352 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
357 * Extend sliders, offsets options
358 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
359 * Numerous fixes and improvements
360 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
363 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
364 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
365 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
366 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
367 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
368 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
369 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
370 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
371 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
372 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
375 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
376 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
377 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
378 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
379 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
380 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
382 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
383 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
384 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
385 * Broken crop video filter
387 * OSD parser and menu
388 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
389 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
390 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
391 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
395 * Update of all translations
398 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
399 --------------------------------
402 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
403 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
406 * Fix modplug security issues
409 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
410 --------------------------------
414 * Fix crash in QTsound
415 * Fix screen mouse file location
416 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
419 * Fix use after free in sgimb
420 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
423 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
426 * Fix interface crashes
427 * Fix autostart playback option
428 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
431 * update Welsh translation
432 * New Kannada translation
435 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
436 --------------------------------
439 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
440 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
444 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
447 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
450 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
453 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
457 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
460 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
463 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
464 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
465 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
468 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
469 --------------------------------
472 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
475 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
478 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
479 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
480 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
481 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
482 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
483 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
486 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
487 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
488 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
489 * 3rd party codecs updates
492 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
493 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
494 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
495 in the advanced preferences panel
496 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
497 * Fix crash within the video output code
498 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
499 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
500 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
501 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
503 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
506 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
509 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
510 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
513 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
516 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
517 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
518 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
519 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
520 Dutch, Danish, translations
521 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
524 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
525 --------------------------------
528 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
531 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
532 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
533 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
536 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
537 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
538 * Fix koreus lua parser
539 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
540 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
541 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
542 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
545 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
546 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
549 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
552 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
553 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
554 * Fix Time counter UI look
555 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
558 * Fix https streaming
561 * Fix audio and video track selection:
562 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
563 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
566 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
567 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
568 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
569 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
570 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
573 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
574 --------------------------------
577 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
578 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
579 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
580 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
581 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
582 during playback on Mac OS X
585 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
586 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
587 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
590 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
591 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
592 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
593 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
594 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
597 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
598 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
599 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
600 * Support Youtube live streams
603 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
606 * Fix media info dialog update
607 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
608 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
609 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
610 * Fix album art display at start
613 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
614 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
615 * Fix menus display and behavior
616 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
617 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
618 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
619 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
620 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
621 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
622 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
625 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
626 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
627 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
628 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
629 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
630 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
631 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
632 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
633 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
636 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
637 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
638 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
639 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
640 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
643 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
644 --------------------------------
647 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
650 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
651 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
654 * Add GateKeeper support
655 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
656 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
657 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
660 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
663 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
664 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
665 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
666 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
667 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
670 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
671 --------------------------------
674 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
675 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
676 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
677 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
678 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
679 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
680 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
681 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
682 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
683 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
684 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
688 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
689 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
690 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
691 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
692 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
693 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
694 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
695 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
696 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
697 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
698 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
699 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
702 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
703 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
705 * Fix MP3 free format support
708 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
709 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
710 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
711 * Fix for DVB channels file support
712 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
715 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
716 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
718 Audio filters and output:
719 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
720 * Fix DirectSound device selection
721 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
722 * Do not apply volume in file output
723 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
724 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
727 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
728 the persistant media library
729 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
730 to the media library or the temporary playlist
731 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
732 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
733 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
734 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
735 press on the Play/Pause button
736 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
737 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
738 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
739 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
740 * Many Fullscreen fixes
741 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
742 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
743 Synchronization panel
744 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
745 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
746 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
747 * Fix crashes on exit
748 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
750 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
751 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
752 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
753 automatically reset on the first launch.
754 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
755 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
756 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
759 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
760 * Fixes for icecast SD
763 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
764 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
765 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
766 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
767 * Fix tags and file names display
768 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
771 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
772 * Fix for key events and focus loss
775 * Fix display of some buttons
776 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
777 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
780 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
781 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
782 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
785 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
786 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
787 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
788 Thai translations update
789 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
792 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
793 --------------------------------
796 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
797 * fix the samba module compilation
798 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
799 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
800 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
801 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
804 * Support for MXPEG files
805 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
806 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
809 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
810 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
811 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
814 * Fix ogm header creation
817 * limit spatializer filter distortions
818 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
821 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
822 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
823 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
824 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
827 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
830 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
831 * allow to hide the sidebar
832 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
833 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
834 * noticebly faster launch time
835 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
836 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
837 * improve track synchronization panel
838 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
839 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
842 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
843 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
844 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
845 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
848 * fix for menus display
849 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
850 * documentation update
853 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
854 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
857 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
858 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
859 * Update Jamendo selections
863 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
864 * fix a crash on VLM close
867 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
868 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
869 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
870 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
873 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
876 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
877 ---------------------------------
880 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
881 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
882 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
883 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
884 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
885 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
886 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
887 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
888 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
889 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
890 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
891 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
892 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
893 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
894 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
895 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
896 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
897 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
898 --http-crl (optional CRL).
899 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
900 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
901 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
902 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
903 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
904 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
905 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
907 Important changes for packagers:
908 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
909 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
910 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
911 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
912 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
913 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
914 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
915 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
916 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
917 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
920 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
921 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
922 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
923 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
924 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
925 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
926 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
929 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
930 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
931 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
932 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
933 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
934 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
935 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
936 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
937 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
938 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
939 * PulseAudio audio input support
940 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
941 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
942 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
943 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
944 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
945 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
946 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
947 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
950 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
951 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
952 are notably concerned.
953 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
954 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
955 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
956 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
957 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
958 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
959 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
960 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
961 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
962 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
963 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
964 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
965 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
966 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
967 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
970 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
971 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
972 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
973 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
974 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
975 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
976 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
977 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
978 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
979 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
980 * Improved support of tracker files
981 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
984 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
985 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
986 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
987 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
988 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
989 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
990 and important cleanups and optimisations
991 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
992 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
993 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
994 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
995 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
996 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
997 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
998 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
999 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1000 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1001 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1002 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1003 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1004 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1005 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1006 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1007 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1008 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1009 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1010 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1011 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1014 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1015 * New video output for iOS platform
1016 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1017 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1018 * Various vmem improvements
1019 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1020 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1021 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1022 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1023 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1024 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1026 Audio Output and Filters:
1027 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1028 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1029 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1030 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1031 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1032 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1033 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1034 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1035 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1036 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1039 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1040 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1041 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1042 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1043 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1044 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1045 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1046 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1047 * New anti-flickering filter
1048 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1049 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1050 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1051 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1052 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1053 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1054 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1057 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1058 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1059 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1060 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1061 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1062 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1063 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1064 * Major rework of VoD support
1065 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1066 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1067 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1068 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1069 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1070 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1071 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1072 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1073 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1074 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1077 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1078 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1081 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1082 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1083 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1084 list of available audio and video filters
1085 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1086 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1087 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1090 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1091 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1092 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1093 * id3tag: use taglib
1094 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1095 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1096 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1097 * removal of the noise filter
1098 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1099 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1100 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1101 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1104 * Update of translations for most languages.
1105 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1108 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1109 ----------------------------------
1112 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1113 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1116 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1117 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1120 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1121 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1122 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1125 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1128 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1129 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1132 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1135 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1136 ----------------------------------
1139 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1140 including support for OS X Lion
1141 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1142 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1145 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1148 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1149 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1150 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1153 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1156 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1157 ----------------------------------
1160 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1161 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1164 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1165 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1166 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1167 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1168 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1170 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1171 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1172 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1174 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1175 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1178 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1181 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1184 * Fix quitting on Linux
1185 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1189 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1192 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1195 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1196 ---------------------------------
1198 Windows and Mac OS X:
1199 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1202 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1203 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1206 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1209 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1212 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1214 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1215 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1217 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1218 * RTP output and XML export
1219 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1223 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1224 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1225 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1226 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1229 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1230 --------------------------------
1232 Windows and Mac OS X:
1233 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1236 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1239 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1240 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1241 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1242 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1243 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1244 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1247 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1248 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1252 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1253 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1254 * New Luganda Translation
1257 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1258 --------------------------------
1261 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1264 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1265 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1266 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1267 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1270 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1272 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1273 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1274 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1275 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1276 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1277 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1278 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1279 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1281 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1282 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1283 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1284 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1285 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1286 * Configure and build system improvements
1287 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1290 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1291 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1292 * New icelandic translation
1295 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1300 #234484 and #260719.
1303 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1304 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1305 and stability reasons
1308 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1312 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1315 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1316 ----------------------------------
1319 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1322 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1323 ---------------------------------
1326 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1327 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1328 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1329 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1332 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1335 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1336 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1337 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1338 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1341 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1342 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1343 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1345 Subtitles and renderer:
1346 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1347 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1348 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1349 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1350 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1353 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1354 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1355 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1356 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1359 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1360 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1362 Miscellaneous fixes:
1363 * KDE device solid actions
1365 * Transcode integer overflow
1366 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1367 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1370 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1371 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1372 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1375 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1376 ----------------------------------
1379 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1383 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1386 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1389 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1390 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1391 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1392 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1395 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1399 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1402 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1405 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1406 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1408 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1412 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1413 * Miscellaneous fixes
1416 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1417 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1418 French and Ukrainian
1419 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1420 * New Asturian translation
1423 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1424 ----------------------------------
1427 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1429 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1432 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1435 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1436 * Various fixes for Windows
1439 * New Armenian translation
1440 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1441 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1444 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1445 --------------------------------
1448 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1449 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1450 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1453 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1454 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1457 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1458 --------------------------------
1460 Access and demuxers:
1461 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1462 * fix for podcasts parsing
1463 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1466 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1467 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1470 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1471 * fix m3u playlists exports
1474 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1477 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1480 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1483 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1486 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1489 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1490 --------------------------------
1493 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1494 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1497 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1498 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1501 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1502 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1503 * fix console output encoding
1505 Interface and extensions:
1506 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1507 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1510 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1511 --------------------------------
1514 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1515 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1516 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1517 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1518 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1519 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1520 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1521 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1522 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1523 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1524 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1525 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1526 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1527 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1528 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1529 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1533 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1534 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1535 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1536 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1537 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1540 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1543 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1544 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1545 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1549 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1552 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1553 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1554 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1557 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1558 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1559 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1560 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1563 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1564 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1567 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1568 --------------------------------
1570 Important changes for users:
1571 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1572 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1574 Important changes for packagers:
1575 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1576 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1577 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1578 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1579 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1581 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1583 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1584 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1585 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1586 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1587 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1590 * Support for the sftp protocol
1591 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1592 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1593 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1594 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1595 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1598 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1599 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1600 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1602 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1603 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1604 * Invmem module improvements
1605 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1606 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1607 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1608 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1609 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1610 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1611 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1612 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1613 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1614 * Support for VP8 codec
1615 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1618 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1619 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1620 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1621 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1622 * Various EGP improvements
1623 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1624 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1627 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1628 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1629 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1630 * Podcast images are now displayed
1633 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1634 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1635 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1636 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1637 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1638 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1639 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1640 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1641 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1642 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1643 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1646 * New content extensions lua framework
1649 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1650 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1651 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1652 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1653 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1654 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1655 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1658 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1659 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1660 * Service discovery based on libudev
1661 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1664 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1665 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1666 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1667 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1668 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1669 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1670 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1673 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1674 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1675 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1678 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1680 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1681 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1684 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1687 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1688 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1689 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1690 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1691 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1692 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1693 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1696 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1697 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1700 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1701 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1702 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1706 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1707 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1708 * Improved Solaris port
1711 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1712 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1715 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1716 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1717 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1718 * transrate: broken since too long
1719 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1720 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1721 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1722 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1723 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1724 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1725 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1726 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1727 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1728 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1729 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1730 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1731 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1732 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1735 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1736 --------------------------------
1739 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1741 Decoders/Packetizers:
1742 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1745 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1746 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1747 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1748 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1749 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1752 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1753 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1756 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1757 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1760 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1761 and Walloon translations updated
1762 * Sinhala translation started
1765 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1766 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1769 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1770 --------------------------------
1773 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1774 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1777 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1780 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1781 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1784 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1785 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1786 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1787 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1790 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1791 --------------------------------
1794 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1795 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1798 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1799 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1802 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1803 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1806 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1809 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1810 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1813 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1814 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1817 * New Walloon translation
1818 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1821 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1822 --------------------------------
1825 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1826 regressions in most popular drivers
1827 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1830 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1831 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1832 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1835 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1836 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1839 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1840 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1841 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1842 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1843 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1846 * New udev module for linux
1849 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1852 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1855 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1856 --------------------------------
1859 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1860 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1861 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1864 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1865 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1868 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1869 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1872 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1875 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1876 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1877 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1878 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1881 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1882 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1883 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1884 - no support for Goom and SDL
1885 - limited text rendering support
1886 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1889 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1890 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1891 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1892 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1893 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1894 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1895 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1896 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1897 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1901 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1904 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1907 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1908 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1909 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1910 Arabic and French translation updates
1913 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1914 --------------------------------
1917 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1918 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1919 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1920 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1921 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1922 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1925 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1926 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1927 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1930 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1931 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1932 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1935 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1938 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1939 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1942 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1943 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1944 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1945 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1946 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1947 * Fix various crashes
1950 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1952 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1956 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1957 ---------------------------------
1961 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1962 See 'Access:' for more info.
1963 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1966 * Instantaneous pausing
1967 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1968 * Finer speed control
1969 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1970 * Timeshift for most medias
1971 * RTSP trickplay support
1972 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1975 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1976 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1977 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1978 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1979 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1980 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1981 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1982 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1983 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1984 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1987 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1988 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1989 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1990 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1991 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1992 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1993 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1996 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1997 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2000 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2001 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2002 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2003 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2004 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2005 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2006 * DVB scanning on linux
2007 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2008 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2009 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2010 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2011 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2012 * MTP device access on Unix
2013 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2014 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2017 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2018 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2019 Windows and Mac OS X.
2022 * Export the playlist in HTML
2023 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2024 * Better metadata handling and reading
2026 Linux/Windows interface:
2027 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2028 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2029 * Recently played items list
2030 * Interface toolbar customizations
2031 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2032 - More menus actions
2033 - Finer speed slider
2034 - Improvements on many dialogs
2035 - New dialog for plugins listing
2036 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2037 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2038 * Better integration in GTK environments
2041 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2042 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2043 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2044 * Additional usability improvements
2047 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2048 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2049 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2050 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2051 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2054 * New Maemo port with:
2055 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2056 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2059 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2062 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2063 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2064 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2065 * Support for latest iSight models
2068 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2069 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2072 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2073 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2074 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2075 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2076 The old image video output has been removed.
2077 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2078 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2081 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2089 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2090 --------------------------------------
2096 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2097 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2098 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2099 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2100 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2101 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2102 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2104 Various fixes to the following modules:
2107 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2108 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2109 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2111 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2116 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2117 ---------------------------------
2120 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2121 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2124 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2125 ---------------------------------
2128 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2131 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2134 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2135 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2136 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2137 main controller window.
2138 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2141 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2146 * Updates of other localizations
2149 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2150 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2151 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2152 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2153 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2156 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2157 ---------------------------------
2160 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2162 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2165 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2166 --------------------------------
2171 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2172 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2175 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2176 --------------------------------
2178 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2179 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2182 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2185 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2186 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2189 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2190 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2193 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2194 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2195 * Various fixed in playlist
2198 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2201 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2204 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2205 ------------------------------------
2207 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2208 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2211 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2212 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2213 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2216 * Stability fix for the video output.
2219 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2220 --------------------------------
2223 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2224 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2225 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2226 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2227 * Fixed update system bugs
2228 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2231 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2232 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2233 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2234 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2235 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2236 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2237 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2238 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2239 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2240 modern Mac OS X versions
2243 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2244 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2246 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2247 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2250 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2251 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2252 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2253 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2254 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2255 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2258 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2259 --------------------------------
2261 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2262 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2263 * Multiple bugfixes.
2266 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2267 --------------------------------
2269 * Multiple bug fixes.
2272 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2273 ---------------------------------
2277 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2278 recent to work correctly
2279 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2280 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2281 edit the ".hosts" file.
2282 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2283 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2284 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2285 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2286 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2287 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2288 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2289 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2290 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2291 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2292 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2293 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2294 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2295 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2296 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2297 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2298 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2299 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2300 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2301 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2302 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2303 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2304 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2305 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2306 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2307 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2308 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2309 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2310 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2311 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2312 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2313 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2314 and postproc modules.
2315 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2316 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2317 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2318 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2320 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2321 filter. For example:
2322 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2323 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2325 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2326 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2332 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2334 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2335 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2338 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2339 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2341 * Shoutcast TV listings
2342 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2344 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2345 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2347 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2350 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2351 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2352 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2353 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2354 * JACK audio input support
2355 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2356 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2357 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2358 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2359 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2360 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2361 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2362 (available as a separate download).
2363 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2364 * RTMP input support
2365 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2366 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2367 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2369 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2370 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2373 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2374 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2375 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2376 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2378 * APEv1/2 tags support
2379 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2380 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2382 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2383 * TiVo Series 2 support
2384 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2389 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2390 * Flash Screen Video support
2391 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2392 * DosBox Capture support
2393 * Karl Morton's Video support
2394 * limited atrac3 support
2396 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2397 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2398 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2399 * H.264 PAFF support
2400 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2401 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2402 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2403 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2404 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2407 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2408 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2409 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2410 * AQTitle subtitles support
2411 * MKV USF subtitles support
2412 * HTML-based subtitles support
2413 * MPSub subtitles support
2414 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2415 * MPL2 subtitles support
2416 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2417 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2418 * Realtext subtitle support
2419 * DKS subtitle support
2420 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2421 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2424 * Flash Screen Video support
2425 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2427 Video outputs and filters:
2428 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2429 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2430 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2431 * New puzzle video output filter
2432 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2433 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2435 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2436 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2437 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2438 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2439 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2440 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2441 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2442 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2443 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2444 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2445 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2446 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2447 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2448 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2450 Audio outputs and filters:
2451 * Replay gain support
2452 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2453 new scaletempo audio filter)
2454 * New spatializer audio filter
2455 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2458 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2459 * New RTP payload formats:
2460 * Speex voice audio codec
2461 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2462 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2463 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2464 * DCCP transport for RTP
2465 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2470 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2471 end-user suitable way.
2472 * Improved user interaction
2473 * Improved mouse gestures
2474 * Vastly improved Update checker
2475 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2477 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2478 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2480 * Improved video output features
2481 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2482 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2483 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2484 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2485 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2487 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2488 if libncursesw is available.
2489 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2490 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2491 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2493 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2494 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2495 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2496 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2497 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2498 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2499 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2500 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2503 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2504 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2505 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2508 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2509 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2510 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2511 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2512 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2513 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2516 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2517 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2527 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2528 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2529 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2532 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2533 ----------------------------------
2536 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2539 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2540 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2541 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2542 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2543 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2544 * Updated Polish translation
2547 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2548 ----------------------------------
2551 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2552 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2553 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2556 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2557 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2558 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2559 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2560 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2561 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2562 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2563 to an unexpected application termination
2564 * New Serbian translation
2565 * Updated Romanian translation
2568 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2569 ----------------------------------
2572 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2573 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2574 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2575 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2576 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2577 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2578 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2579 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2582 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2583 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2584 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2585 * Fixed AAC resampling
2586 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2587 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2590 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2591 ----------------------------------
2594 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2595 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2596 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2597 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2598 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2601 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2602 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2603 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2604 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2605 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2608 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2609 ----------------------------------
2612 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2613 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2616 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2617 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2618 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2619 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2621 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2625 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2628 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2631 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2634 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2637 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2638 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2639 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2640 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2641 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2643 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2644 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2645 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2646 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2649 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2652 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2653 ----------------------------------
2656 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2657 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2658 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2660 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2661 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2663 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2664 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2667 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2669 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2670 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2671 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2672 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2673 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2674 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2675 two different movies
2676 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2677 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2678 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2681 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2684 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2685 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2686 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2687 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2690 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2691 ----------------------------------
2693 Various bugfixes, notably:
2694 * Windows Vista compatibility
2695 * Cropping in Direct3D
2696 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2697 * RSS filter string overflow
2699 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2701 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2702 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2705 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2706 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2709 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2712 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2715 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2718 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2719 ----------------------------------
2721 Various bugfixes, notably:
2722 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2723 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2724 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2725 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2726 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2727 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2730 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2731 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2734 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2736 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2737 * Diverse usability improvements
2738 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2739 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2740 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2743 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2744 ---------------------------------
2746 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2747 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2750 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2753 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2754 --------------------------------
2757 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2760 * Support for RTSP authentication
2761 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2762 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2763 * ATSC support for DVB input
2764 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2765 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2766 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2769 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2770 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2771 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2772 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2773 * Matroska WavPack support
2774 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2775 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2776 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2779 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2780 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2781 * Improved libcaca support
2785 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2786 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2788 * Systray support in skins
2790 * Support for Apple Remote control
2791 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2792 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2793 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2794 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2796 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2799 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2800 Windows 9x/ME users:
2801 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2802 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2803 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2804 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2805 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2807 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2808 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2817 * Updates to the libvlc API
2818 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2821 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2822 --------------------------------
2825 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2826 * Support for downloading updates
2830 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2831 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2832 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2833 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2835 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2836 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2837 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2840 * Cook (Real audio) support
2842 Playlist / Services discovery:
2843 * XSPF playlist support
2845 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2848 * New JACK audio output
2851 * New video filters:
2852 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2853 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2854 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2855 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2856 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2857 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2860 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2863 * System to inform the user and request information
2864 - HTTP authentication
2868 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2869 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2870 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2873 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2874 - Improved playlist handling
2875 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2877 - Embedded Video output
2878 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2879 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2880 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2881 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2882 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2884 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2885 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2888 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2891 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2892 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2893 * Growl "Now playing" support
2896 * Ability to log to syslog
2897 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2900 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2902 * A bit more automatic testing
2905 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2906 ---------------------------------
2909 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2910 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2913 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2914 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2917 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2920 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2921 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2927 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2930 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2931 --------------------------------
2934 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2938 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2939 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2940 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2943 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2944 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2945 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2946 * GnomeVFS input module
2947 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2948 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2951 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2952 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2953 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2956 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2957 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2963 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2964 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2967 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2968 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2969 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2972 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2974 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2975 - New extended controls panel
2976 - New bookmarks window
2977 - Fixed playlist sorting
2978 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2980 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2981 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2982 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2983 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2987 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2988 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2990 - Include macro to include other files
2994 * Should now work outside IE as well
2997 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3000 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3001 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3004 The following languages were added:
3008 * Simplified Chinese
3009 The following languages were re-added:
3013 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3014 --------------------------------
3017 * Rewrite of the playlist
3019 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3020 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3021 * Preferences improvements:
3022 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3023 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3025 * Core image manipulation support
3026 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3027 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3028 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3029 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3030 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3031 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3032 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3033 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3034 * Access filter architecture
3035 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3036 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3040 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3041 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3042 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3043 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3044 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3045 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3046 * Massive Matroska improvements
3047 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3049 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3050 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3051 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3052 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3053 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3055 Decoders / Encoders:
3056 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3057 * PNG decoder/encoder
3058 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3059 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3062 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3065 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3066 * Brand new SAP module
3067 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3068 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3069 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3070 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3071 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3072 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3076 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3079 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3080 * Image file video output (png)
3081 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3082 * Improvements to wall video filter
3083 * Support for font color and opacity
3089 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3090 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3091 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3095 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3096 - Improved preferences
3097 - Improvements to the wizard
3098 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3100 - Redesigned playlist
3101 - Improved preferences
3103 - Support for multiple actions
3106 - Support for the new playlist system
3108 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3111 * Screensaver disabling fix
3112 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3113 * Support for no-decoration windows
3116 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3117 * The OpenGL video output is back
3118 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3119 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3120 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3121 is not yet available in the new module
3122 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3125 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3134 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3137 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3140 The following languages were added:
3146 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3147 --------------------------------
3150 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3151 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3154 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3155 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3156 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3159 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3162 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3165 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3168 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3169 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3170 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3174 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3176 * Support of playlist group announcement
3179 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3180 --------------------------------
3183 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3184 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3185 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3186 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3187 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3188 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3191 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3192 (Stream your desktop)
3193 * Improved DVD support:
3194 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3195 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3196 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3197 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3198 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3199 (selection of titles/chapters).
3202 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3203 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3204 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3205 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3206 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3207 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3208 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3209 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3210 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3211 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3214 * G.726 audio support
3215 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3216 * MPEG-4 text support
3217 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3218 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3219 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3223 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3224 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3225 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3226 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3227 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3228 * DVB subtitles encoder
3229 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3230 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3232 * Text track muxing for mp4
3233 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3234 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3235 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3236 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3237 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3238 * Improved ASF muxer
3240 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3241 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3242 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3245 * New audio equalizer filter
3246 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3247 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3248 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3249 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3252 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3253 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3254 with support for effects.
3255 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3256 - New filters can be streamed.
3257 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3258 - Centralized scaling and blending
3260 - "time", to display current time
3261 - "marq", to display a marquee
3264 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3265 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3266 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3267 * A few skins2 improvements
3268 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3269 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3270 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3271 * Improved CORBA control module
3274 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3275 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3276 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3279 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3280 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3281 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3284 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3285 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3286 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3287 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3288 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3291 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3294 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3295 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3298 * Server/client network synchronization module
3299 * VBrick streams fully supported
3300 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3304 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3305 --------------------------------
3308 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3309 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3310 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3311 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3314 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3315 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3316 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3317 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3318 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3319 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3320 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3323 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3324 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3325 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3326 * Improved directory access module.
3327 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3328 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3329 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3330 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3331 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3334 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3335 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3336 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3339 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3340 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3341 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3344 * Improved session announcement system.
3345 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3346 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3347 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3348 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3349 * Improved transrater.
3350 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3351 * New configuration system.
3352 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3355 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3356 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3357 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3358 * Supports scheduling.
3359 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3360 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3363 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3364 - Ability to embed video output.
3365 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3366 - Lots of improvements.
3367 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3368 - New design and set of icons.
3369 - Ability to embed video output.
3370 - Support for hotkeys.
3371 - Support for bookmarks.
3373 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3374 - Better hotkeys handling.
3377 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3378 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3379 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3380 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3383 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3384 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3385 * Improved Windows installer.
3391 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3392 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3395 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3396 ---------------------------------
3399 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3400 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3403 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3404 --------------------------------
3407 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3408 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3411 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3412 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3413 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3414 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3417 * Internal improvments
3418 * Improved import/export
3421 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3423 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3424 small and strange formats.
3426 * New MOD audio demux.
3427 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3428 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3429 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3430 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3433 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3434 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3435 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3441 * New opengl video output plugin.
3444 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3445 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3448 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3449 --------------------------------
3452 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3453 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3454 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3455 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3456 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3457 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3458 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3459 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3462 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3467 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3468 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3469 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3470 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3471 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3472 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3473 * Better Icecast support.
3474 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3475 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3478 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3479 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3480 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3481 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3482 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3483 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3484 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3487 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3488 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3489 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3490 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3491 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3492 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3493 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3494 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3495 * Preliminary RTP support.
3496 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3501 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3502 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3504 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3505 - Improvements and help in preferences
3506 - New streaming wizard
3507 - Revised Disc Open menu
3509 - Improvements of the standard pages
3510 - Support for new commands
3511 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3514 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3515 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3518 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3519 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3520 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3521 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3522 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3523 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3524 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3525 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3526 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3529 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3531 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3532 * Support for Panther.
3533 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3534 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3537 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3538 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3539 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3540 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3541 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3542 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3543 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3544 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3547 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3548 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3549 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3552 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3555 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3556 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3557 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3558 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3561 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3562 --------------------------------
3565 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3568 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3569 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3572 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3573 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3576 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3579 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3580 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3583 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3586 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3589 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3590 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3594 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3595 --------------------------------
3598 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3599 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3603 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3604 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3605 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3607 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3608 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3611 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3614 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3617 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3618 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3622 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3623 --------------------------------
3626 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3627 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3631 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3632 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3633 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3634 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3635 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3638 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3639 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3640 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3643 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3644 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3645 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3648 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3649 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3650 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3651 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3652 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3655 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3656 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3657 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3660 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3663 * Improved build system.
3664 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3665 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3666 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3667 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3670 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3671 --------------------------------
3674 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3677 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3678 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3679 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3680 * Video 4 Linux support
3681 * CD Digital Audio support
3682 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3685 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3686 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3687 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3688 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3691 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3692 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3693 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3694 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3695 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3696 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3697 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3700 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3701 * New HTTP remote control interface
3704 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3705 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3706 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3707 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3708 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3711 * New reset option for the preferences
3712 * You can set your language in the prefences
3713 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3714 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3715 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3716 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3719 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3720 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3721 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3724 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3725 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3726 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3727 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3728 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3729 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3730 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3731 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3732 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3733 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3736 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3737 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3738 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3739 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3740 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3741 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3742 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3745 * Interface localization
3746 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3747 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3748 * New full-featured Preferences window
3751 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3752 --------------------------------
3755 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3756 * support for skins at the interface level
3757 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3758 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3759 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3760 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3761 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3764 * fixed HTTP redirects
3765 * support for opening an entire directory
3766 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3767 * new video4linux access plug-in
3768 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3771 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3772 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3773 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3776 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3777 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3778 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3779 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3780 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3781 * new codec for raw I420 video
3782 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3785 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3786 (although it still misses some important features)
3787 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3790 * new HTTP output support
3791 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3792 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3795 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3798 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3801 * reorderable playlist
3802 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3803 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3804 * support for mono audio output devices
3805 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3806 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3807 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3808 * the messages window remembers more lines
3809 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3810 * http and ogg stream output options
3811 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3814 * new skinnable interface
3815 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3817 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3818 * support for FLAC audio format
3819 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3821 * network tab in the interface
3822 * "apply" handling in preferences
3825 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3826 ---------------------------------
3829 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3830 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3831 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3832 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3834 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3835 * DTS S/PDIF support
3838 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3839 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3840 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3841 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3844 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3845 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3848 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3851 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3854 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3856 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3857 * rc interface is now fully useable
3858 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3861 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3862 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3863 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3864 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3865 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3867 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3868 * support for mouse gestures
3869 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3872 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3873 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3876 * improved ID3 tag detection
3877 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3878 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3879 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3881 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3884 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3885 ---------------------------------
3888 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3889 English was set as the preferred language
3892 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3893 --------------------------------
3896 * new mouse gesture interface
3897 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3901 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3902 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3903 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3906 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3907 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3911 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3914 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3915 without the user consent
3918 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3920 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3921 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3922 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3925 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3926 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3927 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3928 * playlist enhancements
3929 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3930 * new step forward/step backward commands
3931 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3932 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3933 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3936 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3937 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3938 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3941 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3942 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3945 * native video output is working again
3946 * only commandline interface support
3947 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3950 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3951 --------------------------------
3954 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3955 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3956 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3957 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3958 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3959 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3960 and A/52 streams are supported)
3961 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3966 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3967 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3968 * VCD entry points support
3969 * VCD image file support
3972 * support for *.asf format
3973 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3974 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3975 * support for ogg encapsulation
3976 * support for raw DV format
3977 * support for *.wav format
3978 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3981 Stream discovery & playlists:
3982 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3983 * support for .m3u file format
3984 * support for .asx file format
3985 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3988 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3989 (only available with the .avi demux)
3990 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3991 * support for raw PCM data
3992 * support for Cinepak video codec
3993 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3994 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3995 * support for Xvid codec
3996 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3997 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3998 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4000 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4002 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4005 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4008 * new WxWindows interface
4009 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4010 device and the channels configuration
4011 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4012 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4013 format that VLC can play
4014 * new swedish translation
4015 * enhancements of the playlist window
4016 * new messages window to see debug info
4017 * fixed a few crashes
4020 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4021 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4022 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4023 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working