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
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
30 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
31 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
32 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
33 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
36 * New CAF format module
37 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
38 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
39 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
40 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
43 * Basic support for WebVTT
44 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
45 * Support HDPR TS files
46 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
47 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
48 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
49 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
52 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
53 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
57 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
58 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
59 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
60 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
61 * New Android native window provider module
62 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
63 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
66 * New Oldmovie effect filter
67 * New VHS effect filter
68 * New Freeze effect filter
69 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
70 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
73 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
76 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
77 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
78 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
79 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
80 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
81 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
82 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
85 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
86 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
89 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
90 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
93 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
96 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
99 * ios video output: use ios2
100 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
101 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
104 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
105 --------------------------------
108 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
110 * Fix some subtitles track selection
113 * VP9 support in WebM
114 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
115 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
118 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
119 * Support Speex in ogg files
120 * Fix some .mov playlists support
121 * Support Alac in mkv
122 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
123 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
126 * Fix DVB options parsing
127 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
128 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
131 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
132 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
135 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
136 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
139 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
140 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
141 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
142 * Fix play after drag'n drop
143 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
146 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
147 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
150 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
151 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
154 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
155 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
156 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
157 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
158 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
159 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
160 * Improves interface resizings
163 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
164 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
165 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
166 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
167 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
171 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
172 --------------------------------
175 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
176 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
177 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
178 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
179 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
181 3rd party libraries (contrib):
182 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
185 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
186 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
187 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
188 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
189 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
192 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
193 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
197 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
198 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
199 * Support for Ulead DV audio
200 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
201 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
202 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
203 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
204 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
205 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
206 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
207 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
208 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
209 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
212 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
213 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
214 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
217 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
218 remove support for previous OS X releases
219 * Major improvements in DASH support
220 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
221 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
222 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
223 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
224 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
225 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
226 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
227 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
228 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
229 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
230 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
233 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
234 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
235 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
236 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
237 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
238 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
239 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
240 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
241 * Support for more MJPEG streams
242 * Add support for liveleak streams
243 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
244 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
245 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
248 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
249 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
250 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
251 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
252 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
253 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
254 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
255 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
256 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
257 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
258 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
261 * New remapping channel filter
262 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
263 * New VSXu visualization plugin
264 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
265 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
266 * New gain audio filter
269 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
270 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
271 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
272 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
273 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
274 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
275 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
276 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
277 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
280 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
281 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
282 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
283 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
284 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
285 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
286 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
289 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
290 * Options support for AVIO output module
291 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
292 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
293 * Livehttp stream encryption support
294 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
295 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
298 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
301 * configurable password for the HTTP server
302 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
303 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
304 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
305 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
306 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
307 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
308 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
312 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
315 * Add support for multiple video outputs
316 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
318 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
319 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
320 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
321 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
322 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
323 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
324 VLC's internal volume level
325 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
327 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
328 selection and to manage the list of presets
329 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
330 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
331 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
332 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
333 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
334 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
335 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
336 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
337 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
338 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
340 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
341 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
342 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
343 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
344 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
345 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
346 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
347 3rd party applications
348 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
349 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
350 (system-wide settings)
351 * Add support for the Video Title option
352 * Add support for the Boss Key
353 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
354 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
357 * Partial support for Qt5.0
358 * Menus modifications and improvements
359 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
360 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
361 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
362 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
363 * EPG display fixes and improvements
364 * Add SD pixmap sources
365 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
366 * Display playlist total duration
367 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
368 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
369 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
374 * Extend sliders, offsets options
375 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
376 * Numerous fixes and improvements
377 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
380 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
381 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
382 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
383 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
384 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
385 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
386 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
387 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
388 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
389 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
392 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
393 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
394 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
395 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
396 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
397 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
399 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
400 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
401 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
402 * Broken crop video filter
404 * OSD parser and menu
405 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
406 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
407 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
408 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
412 * Update of all translations
415 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
416 --------------------------------
419 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
420 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
423 * Fix modplug security issues
426 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
427 --------------------------------
431 * Fix crash in QTsound
432 * Fix screen mouse file location
433 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
436 * Fix use after free in sgimb
437 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
440 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
443 * Fix interface crashes
444 * Fix autostart playback option
445 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
448 * update Welsh translation
449 * New Kannada translation
452 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
453 --------------------------------
456 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
457 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
461 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
464 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
467 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
470 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
474 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
477 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
480 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
481 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
482 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
485 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
486 --------------------------------
489 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
492 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
495 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
496 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
497 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
498 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
499 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
500 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
503 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
504 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
505 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
506 * 3rd party codecs updates
509 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
510 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
511 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
512 in the advanced preferences panel
513 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
514 * Fix crash within the video output code
515 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
516 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
517 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
518 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
520 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
523 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
526 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
527 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
530 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
533 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
534 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
535 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
536 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
537 Dutch, Danish, translations
538 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
541 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
542 --------------------------------
545 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
548 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
549 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
550 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
553 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
554 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
555 * Fix koreus lua parser
556 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
557 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
558 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
559 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
562 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
563 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
566 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
569 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
570 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
571 * Fix Time counter UI look
572 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
575 * Fix https streaming
578 * Fix audio and video track selection:
579 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
580 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
583 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
584 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
585 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
586 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
587 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
590 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
591 --------------------------------
594 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
595 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
596 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
597 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
598 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
599 during playback on Mac OS X
602 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
603 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
604 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
607 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
608 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
609 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
610 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
611 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
614 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
615 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
616 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
617 * Support Youtube live streams
620 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
623 * Fix media info dialog update
624 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
625 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
626 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
627 * Fix album art display at start
630 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
631 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
632 * Fix menus display and behavior
633 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
634 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
635 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
636 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
637 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
638 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
639 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
642 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
643 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
644 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
645 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
646 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
647 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
648 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
649 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
650 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
653 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
654 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
655 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
656 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
657 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
660 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
661 --------------------------------
664 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
667 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
668 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
671 * Add GateKeeper support
672 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
673 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
674 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
677 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
680 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
681 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
682 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
683 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
684 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
687 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
688 --------------------------------
691 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
692 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
693 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
694 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
695 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
696 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
697 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
698 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
699 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
700 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
701 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
705 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
706 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
707 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
708 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
709 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
710 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
711 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
712 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
713 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
714 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
715 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
716 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
719 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
720 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
722 * Fix MP3 free format support
725 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
726 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
727 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
728 * Fix for DVB channels file support
729 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
732 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
733 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
735 Audio filters and output:
736 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
737 * Fix DirectSound device selection
738 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
739 * Do not apply volume in file output
740 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
741 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
744 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
745 the persistant media library
746 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
747 to the media library or the temporary playlist
748 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
749 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
750 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
751 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
752 press on the Play/Pause button
753 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
754 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
755 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
756 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
757 * Many Fullscreen fixes
758 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
759 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
760 Synchronization panel
761 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
762 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
763 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
764 * Fix crashes on exit
765 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
767 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
768 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
769 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
770 automatically reset on the first launch.
771 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
772 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
773 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
776 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
777 * Fixes for icecast SD
780 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
781 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
782 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
783 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
784 * Fix tags and file names display
785 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
788 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
789 * Fix for key events and focus loss
792 * Fix display of some buttons
793 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
794 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
797 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
798 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
799 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
802 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
803 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
804 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
805 Thai translations update
806 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
809 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
810 --------------------------------
813 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
814 * fix the samba module compilation
815 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
816 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
817 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
818 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
821 * Support for MXPEG files
822 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
823 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
826 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
827 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
828 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
831 * Fix ogm header creation
834 * limit spatializer filter distortions
835 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
838 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
839 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
840 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
841 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
844 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
847 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
848 * allow to hide the sidebar
849 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
850 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
851 * noticebly faster launch time
852 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
853 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
854 * improve track synchronization panel
855 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
856 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
859 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
860 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
861 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
862 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
865 * fix for menus display
866 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
867 * documentation update
870 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
871 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
874 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
875 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
876 * Update Jamendo selections
880 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
881 * fix a crash on VLM close
884 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
885 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
886 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
887 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
890 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
893 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
894 ---------------------------------
897 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
898 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
899 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
900 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
901 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
902 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
903 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
904 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
905 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
906 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
907 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
908 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
909 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
910 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
911 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
912 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
913 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
914 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
915 --http-crl (optional CRL).
916 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
917 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
918 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
919 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
920 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
921 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
922 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
924 Important changes for packagers:
925 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
926 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
927 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
928 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
929 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
930 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
931 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
932 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
933 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
934 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
937 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
938 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
939 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
940 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
941 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
942 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
943 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
946 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
947 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
948 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
949 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
950 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
951 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
952 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
953 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
954 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
955 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
956 * PulseAudio audio input support
957 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
958 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
959 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
960 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
961 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
962 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
963 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
964 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
967 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
968 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
969 are notably concerned.
970 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
971 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
972 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
973 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
974 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
975 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
976 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
977 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
978 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
979 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
980 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
981 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
982 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
983 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
984 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
987 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
988 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
989 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
990 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
991 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
992 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
993 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
994 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
995 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
996 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
997 * Improved support of tracker files
998 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1001 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1002 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1003 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1004 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1005 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1006 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1007 and important cleanups and optimisations
1008 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1009 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1010 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1011 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1012 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1013 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1014 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1015 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1016 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1017 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1018 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1019 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1020 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1021 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1022 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1023 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1024 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1025 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1026 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1027 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1028 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1031 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1032 * New video output for iOS platform
1033 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1034 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1035 * Various vmem improvements
1036 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1037 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1038 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1039 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1040 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1041 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1043 Audio Output and Filters:
1044 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1045 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1046 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1047 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1048 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1049 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1050 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1051 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1052 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1053 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1056 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1057 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1058 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1059 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1060 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1061 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1062 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1063 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1064 * New anti-flickering filter
1065 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1066 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1067 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1068 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1069 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1070 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1071 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1074 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1075 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1076 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1077 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1078 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1079 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1080 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1081 * Major rework of VoD support
1082 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1083 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1084 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1085 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1086 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1087 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1088 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1089 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1090 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1091 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1094 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1095 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1098 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1099 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1100 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1101 list of available audio and video filters
1102 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1103 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1104 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1107 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1108 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1109 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1110 * id3tag: use taglib
1111 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1112 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1113 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1114 * removal of the noise filter
1115 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1116 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1117 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1118 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1121 * Update of translations for most languages.
1122 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1125 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1126 ----------------------------------
1129 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1130 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1133 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1134 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1137 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1138 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1139 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1142 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1145 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1146 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1149 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1152 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1153 ----------------------------------
1156 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1157 including support for OS X Lion
1158 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1159 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1162 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1165 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1166 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1167 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1170 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1173 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1174 ----------------------------------
1177 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1178 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1181 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1182 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1183 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1184 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1185 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1187 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1188 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1189 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1191 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1192 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1195 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1198 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1201 * Fix quitting on Linux
1202 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1206 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1209 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1212 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1213 ---------------------------------
1215 Windows and Mac OS X:
1216 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1219 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1220 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1223 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1226 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1229 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1231 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1232 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1234 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1235 * RTP output and XML export
1236 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1240 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1241 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1242 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1243 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1246 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1247 --------------------------------
1249 Windows and Mac OS X:
1250 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1253 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1256 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1257 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1258 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1259 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1260 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1261 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1264 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1265 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1269 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1270 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1271 * New Luganda Translation
1274 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1275 --------------------------------
1278 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1281 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1282 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1283 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1284 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1287 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1289 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1290 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1291 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1292 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1293 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1294 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1295 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1296 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1298 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1299 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1300 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1301 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1302 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1303 * Configure and build system improvements
1304 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1307 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1308 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1309 * New icelandic translation
1312 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1313 --------------------------------
1316 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1317 #234484 and #260719.
1320 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1321 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1322 and stability reasons
1325 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1329 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1332 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1333 ----------------------------------
1336 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1339 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1340 ---------------------------------
1343 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1344 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1345 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1346 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1349 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1352 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1353 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1354 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1355 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1358 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1359 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1360 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1362 Subtitles and renderer:
1363 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1364 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1365 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1366 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1367 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1370 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1371 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1372 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1373 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1376 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1377 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1379 Miscellaneous fixes:
1380 * KDE device solid actions
1382 * Transcode integer overflow
1383 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1384 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1387 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1388 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1389 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1392 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1393 ----------------------------------
1396 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1400 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1403 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1406 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1407 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1408 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1409 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1412 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1416 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1419 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1422 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1423 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1425 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1429 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1430 * Miscellaneous fixes
1433 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1434 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1435 French and Ukrainian
1436 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1437 * New Asturian translation
1440 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1441 ----------------------------------
1444 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1446 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1449 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1452 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1453 * Various fixes for Windows
1456 * New Armenian translation
1457 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1458 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1461 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1462 --------------------------------
1465 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1466 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1467 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1470 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1471 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1474 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1475 --------------------------------
1477 Access and demuxers:
1478 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1479 * fix for podcasts parsing
1480 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1483 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1484 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1487 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1488 * fix m3u playlists exports
1491 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1494 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1497 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1500 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1503 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1506 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1507 --------------------------------
1510 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1511 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1514 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1515 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1518 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1519 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1520 * fix console output encoding
1522 Interface and extensions:
1523 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1524 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1527 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1528 --------------------------------
1531 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1532 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1533 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1534 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1535 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1536 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1537 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1538 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1539 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1540 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1541 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1542 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1543 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1544 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1545 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1546 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1550 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1551 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1552 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1553 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1554 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1557 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1560 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1561 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1562 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1566 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1569 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1570 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1571 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1574 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1575 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1576 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1577 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1580 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1581 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1584 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1585 --------------------------------
1587 Important changes for users:
1588 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1589 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1591 Important changes for packagers:
1592 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1593 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1594 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1595 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1596 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1598 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1600 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1601 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1602 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1603 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1604 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1607 * Support for the sftp protocol
1608 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1609 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1610 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1611 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1612 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1615 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1616 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1617 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1619 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1620 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1621 * Invmem module improvements
1622 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1623 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1624 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1625 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1626 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1627 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1628 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1629 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1630 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1631 * Support for VP8 codec
1632 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1635 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1636 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1637 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1638 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1639 * Various EGP improvements
1640 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1641 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1644 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1645 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1646 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1647 * Podcast images are now displayed
1650 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1651 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1652 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1653 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1654 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1655 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1656 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1657 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1658 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1659 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1660 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1663 * New content extensions lua framework
1666 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1667 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1668 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1669 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1670 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1671 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1672 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1675 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1676 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1677 * Service discovery based on libudev
1678 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1681 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1682 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1683 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1684 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1685 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1686 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1687 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1690 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1691 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1692 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1695 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1697 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1698 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1701 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1704 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1705 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1706 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1707 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1708 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1709 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1710 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1713 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1714 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1717 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1718 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1719 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1723 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1724 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1725 * Improved Solaris port
1728 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1729 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1732 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1733 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1734 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1735 * transrate: broken since too long
1736 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1737 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1738 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1739 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1740 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1741 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1742 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1743 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1744 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1745 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1746 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1747 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1748 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1749 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1752 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1753 --------------------------------
1756 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1758 Decoders/Packetizers:
1759 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1762 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1763 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1764 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1765 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1766 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1769 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1770 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1773 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1774 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1777 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1778 and Walloon translations updated
1779 * Sinhala translation started
1782 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1783 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1786 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1787 --------------------------------
1790 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1791 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1794 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1797 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1798 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1801 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1802 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1803 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1804 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1807 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1808 --------------------------------
1811 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1812 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1815 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1816 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1819 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1820 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1823 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1826 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1827 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1830 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1831 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1834 * New Walloon translation
1835 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1838 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1839 --------------------------------
1842 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1843 regressions in most popular drivers
1844 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1847 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1848 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1849 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1852 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1853 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1856 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1857 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1858 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1859 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1860 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1863 * New udev module for linux
1866 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1869 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1872 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1873 --------------------------------
1876 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1877 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1878 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1881 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1882 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1885 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1886 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1889 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1892 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1893 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1894 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1895 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1898 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1899 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1900 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1901 - no support for Goom and SDL
1902 - limited text rendering support
1903 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1906 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1907 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1908 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1909 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1910 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1911 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1912 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1913 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1914 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1918 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1921 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1924 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1925 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1926 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1927 Arabic and French translation updates
1930 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1931 --------------------------------
1934 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1935 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1936 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1937 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1938 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1939 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1942 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1943 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1944 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1947 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1948 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1949 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1952 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1955 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1956 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1959 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1960 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1961 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1962 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1963 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1964 * Fix various crashes
1967 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1969 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1973 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1974 ---------------------------------
1978 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1979 See 'Access:' for more info.
1980 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1983 * Instantaneous pausing
1984 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1985 * Finer speed control
1986 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1987 * Timeshift for most medias
1988 * RTSP trickplay support
1989 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1992 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1993 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1994 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1995 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1996 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1997 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1998 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1999 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2000 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2001 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2004 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2005 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2006 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2007 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2008 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2009 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2010 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2013 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2014 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2017 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2018 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2019 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2020 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2021 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2022 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2023 * DVB scanning on linux
2024 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2025 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2026 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2027 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2028 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2029 * MTP device access on Unix
2030 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2031 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2034 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2035 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2036 Windows and Mac OS X.
2039 * Export the playlist in HTML
2040 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2041 * Better metadata handling and reading
2043 Linux/Windows interface:
2044 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2045 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2046 * Recently played items list
2047 * Interface toolbar customizations
2048 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2049 - More menus actions
2050 - Finer speed slider
2051 - Improvements on many dialogs
2052 - New dialog for plugins listing
2053 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2054 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2055 * Better integration in GTK environments
2058 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2059 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2060 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2061 * Additional usability improvements
2064 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2065 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2066 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2067 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2068 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2071 * New Maemo port with:
2072 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2073 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2076 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2079 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2080 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2081 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2082 * Support for latest iSight models
2085 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2086 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2089 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2090 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2091 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2092 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2093 The old image video output has been removed.
2094 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2095 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2098 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2106 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2107 --------------------------------------
2113 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2114 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2115 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2116 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2117 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2118 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2119 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2121 Various fixes to the following modules:
2124 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2125 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2126 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2128 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2133 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2134 ---------------------------------
2137 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2138 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2141 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2142 ---------------------------------
2145 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2148 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2151 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2152 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2153 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2154 main controller window.
2155 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2158 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2163 * Updates of other localizations
2166 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2167 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2168 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2169 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2170 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2173 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2174 ---------------------------------
2177 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2179 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2182 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2183 --------------------------------
2188 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2189 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2192 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2193 --------------------------------
2195 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2196 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2199 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2202 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2203 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2206 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2207 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2210 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2211 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2212 * Various fixed in playlist
2215 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2218 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2221 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2222 ------------------------------------
2224 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2225 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2228 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2229 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2230 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2233 * Stability fix for the video output.
2236 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2237 --------------------------------
2240 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2241 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2242 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2243 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2244 * Fixed update system bugs
2245 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2248 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2249 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2250 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2251 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2252 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2253 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2254 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2255 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2256 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2257 modern Mac OS X versions
2260 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2261 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2263 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2264 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2267 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2268 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2269 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2270 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2271 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2272 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2275 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2276 --------------------------------
2278 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2279 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2280 * Multiple bugfixes.
2283 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2284 --------------------------------
2286 * Multiple bug fixes.
2289 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2290 ---------------------------------
2294 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2295 recent to work correctly
2296 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2297 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2298 edit the ".hosts" file.
2299 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2300 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2301 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2302 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2303 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2304 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2305 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2306 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2307 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2308 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2309 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2310 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2311 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2312 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2313 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2314 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2315 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2316 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2317 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2318 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2319 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2320 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2321 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2322 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2323 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2324 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2325 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2326 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2327 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2328 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2329 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2330 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2331 and postproc modules.
2332 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2333 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2334 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2335 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2337 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2338 filter. For example:
2339 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2340 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2342 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2343 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2349 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2351 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2352 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2355 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2356 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2358 * Shoutcast TV listings
2359 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2361 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2362 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2364 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2367 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2368 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2369 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2370 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2371 * JACK audio input support
2372 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2373 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2374 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2375 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2376 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2377 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2378 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2379 (available as a separate download).
2380 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2381 * RTMP input support
2382 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2383 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2384 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2386 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2387 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2390 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2391 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2392 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2393 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2395 * APEv1/2 tags support
2396 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2397 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2399 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2400 * TiVo Series 2 support
2401 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2406 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2407 * Flash Screen Video support
2408 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2409 * DosBox Capture support
2410 * Karl Morton's Video support
2411 * limited atrac3 support
2413 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2414 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2415 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2416 * H.264 PAFF support
2417 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2418 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2419 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2420 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2421 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2424 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2425 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2426 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2427 * AQTitle subtitles support
2428 * MKV USF subtitles support
2429 * HTML-based subtitles support
2430 * MPSub subtitles support
2431 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2432 * MPL2 subtitles support
2433 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2434 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2435 * Realtext subtitle support
2436 * DKS subtitle support
2437 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2438 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2441 * Flash Screen Video support
2442 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2444 Video outputs and filters:
2445 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2446 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2447 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2448 * New puzzle video output filter
2449 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2450 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2452 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2453 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2454 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2455 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2456 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2457 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2458 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2459 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2460 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2461 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2462 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2463 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2464 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2465 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2467 Audio outputs and filters:
2468 * Replay gain support
2469 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2470 new scaletempo audio filter)
2471 * New spatializer audio filter
2472 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2475 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2476 * New RTP payload formats:
2477 * Speex voice audio codec
2478 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2479 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2480 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2481 * DCCP transport for RTP
2482 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2487 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2488 end-user suitable way.
2489 * Improved user interaction
2490 * Improved mouse gestures
2491 * Vastly improved Update checker
2492 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2494 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2495 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2497 * Improved video output features
2498 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2499 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2500 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2501 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2502 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2504 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2505 if libncursesw is available.
2506 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2507 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2508 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2510 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2511 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2512 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2513 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2514 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2515 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2516 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2517 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2520 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2521 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2522 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2525 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2526 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2527 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2528 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2529 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2530 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2533 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2534 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2544 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2545 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2546 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2549 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2550 ----------------------------------
2553 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2556 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2557 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2558 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2559 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2560 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2561 * Updated Polish translation
2564 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2565 ----------------------------------
2568 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2569 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2570 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2573 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2574 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2575 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2576 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2577 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2578 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2579 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2580 to an unexpected application termination
2581 * New Serbian translation
2582 * Updated Romanian translation
2585 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2586 ----------------------------------
2589 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2590 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2591 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2592 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2593 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2594 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2595 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2596 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2599 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2600 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2601 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2602 * Fixed AAC resampling
2603 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2604 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2607 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2608 ----------------------------------
2611 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2612 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2613 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2614 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2615 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2618 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2619 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2620 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2621 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2622 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2625 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2626 ----------------------------------
2629 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2630 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2633 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2634 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2635 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2636 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2638 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2642 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2645 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2648 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2651 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2654 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2655 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2656 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2657 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2658 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2660 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2661 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2662 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2663 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2666 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2669 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2670 ----------------------------------
2673 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2674 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2675 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2677 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2678 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2680 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2681 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2684 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2686 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2687 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2688 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2689 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2690 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2691 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2692 two different movies
2693 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2694 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2695 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2698 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2701 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2702 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2703 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2704 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2707 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2708 ----------------------------------
2710 Various bugfixes, notably:
2711 * Windows Vista compatibility
2712 * Cropping in Direct3D
2713 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2714 * RSS filter string overflow
2716 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2718 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2719 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2722 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2723 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2726 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2729 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2732 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2735 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2736 ----------------------------------
2738 Various bugfixes, notably:
2739 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2740 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2741 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2742 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2743 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2744 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2747 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2748 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2751 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2753 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2754 * Diverse usability improvements
2755 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2756 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2757 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2760 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2761 ---------------------------------
2763 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2764 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2767 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2770 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2771 --------------------------------
2774 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2777 * Support for RTSP authentication
2778 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2779 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2780 * ATSC support for DVB input
2781 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2782 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2783 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2786 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2787 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2788 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2789 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2790 * Matroska WavPack support
2791 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2792 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2793 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2796 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2797 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2798 * Improved libcaca support
2802 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2803 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2805 * Systray support in skins
2807 * Support for Apple Remote control
2808 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2809 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2810 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2811 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2813 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2816 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2817 Windows 9x/ME users:
2818 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2819 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2820 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2821 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2822 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2824 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2825 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2834 * Updates to the libvlc API
2835 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2838 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2839 --------------------------------
2842 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2843 * Support for downloading updates
2847 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2848 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2849 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2850 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2852 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2853 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2854 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2857 * Cook (Real audio) support
2859 Playlist / Services discovery:
2860 * XSPF playlist support
2862 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2865 * New JACK audio output
2868 * New video filters:
2869 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2870 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2871 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2872 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2873 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2874 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2877 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2880 * System to inform the user and request information
2881 - HTTP authentication
2885 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2886 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2887 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2890 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2891 - Improved playlist handling
2892 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2894 - Embedded Video output
2895 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2896 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2897 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2898 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2899 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2901 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2902 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2905 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2908 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2909 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2910 * Growl "Now playing" support
2913 * Ability to log to syslog
2914 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2917 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2919 * A bit more automatic testing
2922 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2923 ---------------------------------
2926 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2927 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2930 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2931 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2934 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2937 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2938 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2944 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2947 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2948 --------------------------------
2951 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2955 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2956 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2957 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2960 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2961 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2962 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2963 * GnomeVFS input module
2964 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2965 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2968 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2969 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2970 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2973 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2974 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2980 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2981 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2984 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2985 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2986 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2989 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2991 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2992 - New extended controls panel
2993 - New bookmarks window
2994 - Fixed playlist sorting
2995 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2997 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2998 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2999 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3000 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3004 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3005 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3007 - Include macro to include other files
3011 * Should now work outside IE as well
3014 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3017 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3018 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3021 The following languages were added:
3025 * Simplified Chinese
3026 The following languages were re-added:
3030 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3031 --------------------------------
3034 * Rewrite of the playlist
3036 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3037 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3038 * Preferences improvements:
3039 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3040 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3042 * Core image manipulation support
3043 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3044 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3045 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3046 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3047 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3048 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3049 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3050 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3051 * Access filter architecture
3052 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3053 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3057 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3058 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3059 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3060 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3061 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3062 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3063 * Massive Matroska improvements
3064 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3066 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3067 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3068 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3069 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3070 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3072 Decoders / Encoders:
3073 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3074 * PNG decoder/encoder
3075 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3076 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3079 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3082 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3083 * Brand new SAP module
3084 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3085 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3086 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3087 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3088 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3089 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3093 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3096 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3097 * Image file video output (png)
3098 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3099 * Improvements to wall video filter
3100 * Support for font color and opacity
3106 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3107 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3108 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3112 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3113 - Improved preferences
3114 - Improvements to the wizard
3115 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3117 - Redesigned playlist
3118 - Improved preferences
3120 - Support for multiple actions
3123 - Support for the new playlist system
3125 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3128 * Screensaver disabling fix
3129 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3130 * Support for no-decoration windows
3133 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3134 * The OpenGL video output is back
3135 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3136 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3137 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3138 is not yet available in the new module
3139 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3142 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3151 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3154 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3157 The following languages were added:
3163 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3164 --------------------------------
3167 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3168 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3171 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3172 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3173 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3176 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3179 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3182 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3185 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3186 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3187 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3191 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3193 * Support of playlist group announcement
3196 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3197 --------------------------------
3200 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3201 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3202 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3203 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3204 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3205 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3208 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3209 (Stream your desktop)
3210 * Improved DVD support:
3211 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3212 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3213 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3214 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3215 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3216 (selection of titles/chapters).
3219 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3220 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3221 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3222 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3223 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3224 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3225 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3226 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3227 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3228 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3231 * G.726 audio support
3232 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3233 * MPEG-4 text support
3234 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3235 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3236 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3240 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3241 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3242 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3243 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3244 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3245 * DVB subtitles encoder
3246 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3247 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3249 * Text track muxing for mp4
3250 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3251 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3252 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3253 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3254 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3255 * Improved ASF muxer
3257 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3258 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3259 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3262 * New audio equalizer filter
3263 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3264 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3265 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3266 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3269 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3270 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3271 with support for effects.
3272 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3273 - New filters can be streamed.
3274 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3275 - Centralized scaling and blending
3277 - "time", to display current time
3278 - "marq", to display a marquee
3281 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3282 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3283 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3284 * A few skins2 improvements
3285 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3286 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3287 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3288 * Improved CORBA control module
3291 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3292 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3293 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3296 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3297 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3298 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3301 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3302 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3303 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3304 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3305 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3308 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3311 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3312 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3315 * Server/client network synchronization module
3316 * VBrick streams fully supported
3317 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3321 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3322 --------------------------------
3325 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3326 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3327 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3328 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3331 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3332 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3333 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3334 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3335 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3336 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3337 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3340 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3341 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3342 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3343 * Improved directory access module.
3344 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3345 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3346 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3347 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3348 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3351 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3352 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3353 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3356 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3357 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3358 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3361 * Improved session announcement system.
3362 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3363 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3364 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3365 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3366 * Improved transrater.
3367 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3368 * New configuration system.
3369 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3372 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3373 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3374 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3375 * Supports scheduling.
3376 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3377 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3380 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3381 - Ability to embed video output.
3382 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3383 - Lots of improvements.
3384 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3385 - New design and set of icons.
3386 - Ability to embed video output.
3387 - Support for hotkeys.
3388 - Support for bookmarks.
3390 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3391 - Better hotkeys handling.
3394 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3395 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3396 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3397 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3400 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3401 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3402 * Improved Windows installer.
3408 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3409 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3412 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3413 ---------------------------------
3416 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3417 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3420 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3421 --------------------------------
3424 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3425 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3428 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3429 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3430 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3431 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3434 * Internal improvments
3435 * Improved import/export
3438 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3440 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3441 small and strange formats.
3443 * New MOD audio demux.
3444 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3445 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3446 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3447 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3450 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3451 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3452 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3458 * New opengl video output plugin.
3461 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3462 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3465 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3466 --------------------------------
3469 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3470 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3471 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3472 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3473 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3474 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3475 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3476 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3479 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3484 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3485 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3486 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3487 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3488 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3489 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3490 * Better Icecast support.
3491 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3492 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3495 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3496 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3497 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3498 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3499 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3500 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3501 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3504 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3505 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3506 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3507 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3508 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3509 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3510 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3511 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3512 * Preliminary RTP support.
3513 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3518 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3519 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3521 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3522 - Improvements and help in preferences
3523 - New streaming wizard
3524 - Revised Disc Open menu
3526 - Improvements of the standard pages
3527 - Support for new commands
3528 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3531 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3532 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3535 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3536 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3537 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3538 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3539 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3540 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3541 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3542 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3543 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3546 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3548 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3549 * Support for Panther.
3550 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3551 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3554 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3555 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3556 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3557 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3558 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3559 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3560 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3561 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3564 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3565 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3566 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3569 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3572 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3573 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3574 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3575 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3578 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3579 --------------------------------
3582 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3585 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3586 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3589 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3590 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3593 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3596 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3597 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3600 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3603 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3606 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3607 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3611 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3612 --------------------------------
3615 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3616 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3620 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3621 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3622 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3624 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3625 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3628 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3631 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3634 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3635 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3639 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3640 --------------------------------
3643 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3644 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3648 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3649 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3650 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3651 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3652 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3655 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3656 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3657 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3660 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3661 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3662 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3665 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3666 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3667 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3668 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3669 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3672 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3673 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3674 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3677 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3680 * Improved build system.
3681 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3682 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3683 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3684 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3687 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3688 --------------------------------
3691 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3694 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3695 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3696 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3697 * Video 4 Linux support
3698 * CD Digital Audio support
3699 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3702 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3703 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3704 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3705 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3708 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3709 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3710 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3711 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3712 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3713 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3714 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3717 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3718 * New HTTP remote control interface
3721 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3722 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3723 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3724 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3725 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3728 * New reset option for the preferences
3729 * You can set your language in the prefences
3730 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3731 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3732 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3733 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3736 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3737 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3738 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3741 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3742 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3743 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3744 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3745 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3746 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3747 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3748 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3749 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3750 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3753 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3754 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3755 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3756 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3757 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3758 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3759 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3762 * Interface localization
3763 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3764 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3765 * New full-featured Preferences window
3768 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3769 --------------------------------
3772 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3773 * support for skins at the interface level
3774 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3775 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3776 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3777 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3778 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3781 * fixed HTTP redirects
3782 * support for opening an entire directory
3783 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3784 * new video4linux access plug-in
3785 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3788 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3789 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3790 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3793 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3794 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3795 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3796 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3797 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3798 * new codec for raw I420 video
3799 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3802 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3803 (although it still misses some important features)
3804 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3807 * new HTTP output support
3808 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3809 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3812 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3815 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3818 * reorderable playlist
3819 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3820 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3821 * support for mono audio output devices
3822 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3823 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3824 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3825 * the messages window remembers more lines
3826 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3827 * http and ogg stream output options
3828 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3831 * new skinnable interface
3832 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3834 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3835 * support for FLAC audio format
3836 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3838 * network tab in the interface
3839 * "apply" handling in preferences
3842 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3843 ---------------------------------
3846 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3847 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3848 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3849 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3851 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3852 * DTS S/PDIF support
3855 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3856 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3857 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3858 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3861 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3862 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3865 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3868 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3871 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3873 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3874 * rc interface is now fully useable
3875 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3878 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3879 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3880 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3881 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3882 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3884 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3885 * support for mouse gestures
3886 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3889 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3890 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3893 * improved ID3 tag detection
3894 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3895 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3896 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3898 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3901 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3902 ---------------------------------
3905 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3906 English was set as the preferred language
3909 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3910 --------------------------------
3913 * new mouse gesture interface
3914 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3918 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3919 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3920 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3923 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3924 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3928 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3931 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3932 without the user consent
3935 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3937 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3938 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3939 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3942 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3943 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3944 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3945 * playlist enhancements
3946 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3947 * new step forward/step backward commands
3948 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3949 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3950 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3953 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3954 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3955 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3958 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3959 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3962 * native video output is working again
3963 * only commandline interface support
3964 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3967 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3968 --------------------------------
3971 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3972 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3973 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3974 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3975 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3976 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3977 and A/52 streams are supported)
3978 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3983 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3984 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3985 * VCD entry points support
3986 * VCD image file support
3989 * support for *.asf format
3990 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3991 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3992 * support for ogg encapsulation
3993 * support for raw DV format
3994 * support for *.wav format
3995 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3998 Stream discovery & playlists:
3999 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4000 * support for .m3u file format
4001 * support for .asx file format
4002 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4005 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4006 (only available with the .avi demux)
4007 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4008 * support for raw PCM data
4009 * support for Cinepak video codec
4010 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4011 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4012 * support for Xvid codec
4013 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4014 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4015 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4017 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4019 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4022 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4025 * new WxWindows interface
4026 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4027 device and the channels configuration
4028 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4029 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4030 format that VLC can play
4031 * new swedish translation
4032 * enhancements of the playlist window
4033 * new messages window to see debug info
4034 * fixed a few crashes
4037 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4038 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4039 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4040 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working