1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
27 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
33 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
34 remove support for previous OS X releases
35 * Major improvements in DASH support
36 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
37 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
38 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
39 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
40 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
41 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
44 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
45 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
46 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
47 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
48 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
49 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
50 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
51 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
52 * Support for more MJPEG streams
53 * Add support for liveleak streams
56 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
57 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
58 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
59 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
60 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
61 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
62 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
63 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
64 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
65 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
68 * new remapping channel filter
69 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
70 * new VSXu visualization plugin
73 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
74 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
75 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
76 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
79 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
80 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
81 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
82 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
83 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
84 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
87 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
88 * Options support for AVIO output module
89 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
90 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
91 * Livehttp stream encryption support
94 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
95 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
96 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
97 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
98 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
99 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
103 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
106 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
107 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
110 * add support for multiple video outputs
111 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
113 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
114 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
115 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
116 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
117 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
118 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
119 VLC's internal volume level
120 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
121 selection and to manage the list of presets
122 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
123 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
124 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
125 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
126 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
127 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
128 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
129 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
131 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
132 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
133 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
134 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
135 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
136 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
137 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
138 3rd party applications
139 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
140 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
141 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
145 * Partial support for Qt5.0
146 * Menus modifications and improvements
147 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
148 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
152 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
153 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
154 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
155 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
156 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
157 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
158 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
161 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
162 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
163 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
164 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
165 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
166 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
168 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
169 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
170 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
173 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
174 --------------------------------
177 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
180 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
181 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
182 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
185 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
186 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
187 * Fix koreus lua parser
188 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
189 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
190 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
191 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
194 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
195 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
198 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
201 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
202 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
203 * Fix Time counter UI look
204 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
207 * Fix https streaming
210 * Fix audio and video track selection:
211 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
212 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
215 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
216 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
217 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
218 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
219 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
222 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
223 --------------------------------
226 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
227 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
228 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
229 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
230 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
231 during playback on Mac OS X
234 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
235 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
236 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
239 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
240 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
241 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
242 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
243 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
246 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
247 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
248 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
249 * Support Youtube live streams
252 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
255 * Fix media info dialog update
256 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
257 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
258 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
259 * Fix album art display at start
262 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
263 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
264 * Fix menus display and behavior
265 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
266 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
267 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
268 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
269 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
270 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
271 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
274 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
275 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
276 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
277 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
278 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
279 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
280 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
281 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
282 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
285 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
286 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
287 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
288 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
289 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
292 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
293 --------------------------------
296 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
299 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
300 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
303 * Add GateKeeper support
304 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
305 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
306 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
309 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
312 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
313 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
314 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
315 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
316 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
319 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
320 --------------------------------
323 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
324 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
325 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
326 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
327 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
328 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
329 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
330 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
331 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
332 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
333 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
337 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
338 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
339 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
340 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
341 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
342 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
343 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
344 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
345 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
346 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
347 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
348 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
351 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
352 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
354 * Fix MP3 free format support
357 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
358 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
359 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
360 * Fix for DVB channels file support
361 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
364 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
365 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
367 Audio filters and output:
368 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
369 * Fix DirectSound device selection
370 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
371 * Do not apply volume in file output
372 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
373 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
376 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
377 the persistant media library
378 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
379 to the media library or the temporary playlist
380 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
381 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
382 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
383 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
384 press on the Play/Pause button
385 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
386 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
387 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
388 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
389 * Many Fullscreen fixes
390 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
391 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
392 Synchronization panel
393 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
394 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
395 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
396 * Fix crashes on exit
397 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
399 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
400 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
401 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
402 automatically reset on the first launch.
403 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
404 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
405 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
408 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
409 * Fixes for icecast SD
412 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
413 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
414 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
415 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
416 * Fix tags and file names display
417 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
420 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
421 * Fix for key events and focus loss
424 * Fix display of some buttons
425 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
426 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
429 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
430 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
431 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
434 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
435 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
436 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
437 Thai translations update
438 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
441 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
442 --------------------------------
445 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
446 * fix the samba module compilation
447 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
448 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
449 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
450 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
453 * Support for MXPEG files
454 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
455 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
458 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
459 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
460 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
463 * Fix ogm header creation
466 * limit spatializer filter distortions
467 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
470 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
471 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
472 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
473 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
476 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
479 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
480 * allow to hide the sidebar
481 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
482 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
483 * noticebly faster launch time
484 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
485 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
486 * improve track synchronization panel
487 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
488 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
491 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
492 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
493 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
494 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
497 * fix for menus display
498 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
499 * documentation update
502 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
503 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
506 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
507 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
508 * Update Jamendo selections
512 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
513 * fix a crash on VLM close
516 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
517 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
518 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
519 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
522 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
525 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
526 ---------------------------------
529 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
530 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
531 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
532 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
533 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
534 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
535 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
536 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
537 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
538 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
539 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
540 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
541 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
542 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
543 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
544 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
545 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
546 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
547 --http-crl (optional CRL).
548 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
549 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
550 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
551 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
552 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
553 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
554 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
556 Important changes for packagers:
557 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
558 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
559 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
560 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
561 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
562 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
563 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
564 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
565 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
566 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
569 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
570 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
571 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
572 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
573 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
574 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
575 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
578 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
579 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
580 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
581 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
582 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
583 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
584 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
585 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
586 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
587 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
588 * PulseAudio audio input support
589 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
590 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
591 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
592 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
593 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
594 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
595 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
596 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
599 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
600 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
601 are notably concerned.
602 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
603 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
604 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
605 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
606 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
607 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
608 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
609 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
610 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
611 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
612 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
613 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
614 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
615 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
616 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
619 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
620 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
621 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
622 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
623 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
624 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
625 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
626 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
627 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
628 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
629 * Improved support of tracker files
630 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
633 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
634 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
635 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
636 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
637 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
638 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
639 and important cleanups and optimisations
640 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
641 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
642 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
643 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
644 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
645 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
646 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
647 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
648 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
649 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
650 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
651 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
652 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
653 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
654 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
655 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
656 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
657 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
658 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
659 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
660 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
663 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
664 * New video output for iOS platform
665 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
666 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
667 * Various vmem improvements
668 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
669 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
670 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
671 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
672 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
673 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
675 Audio Output and Filters:
676 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
677 * New audio output in memory (amem)
678 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
679 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
680 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
681 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
682 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
683 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
684 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
685 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
688 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
689 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
690 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
691 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
692 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
693 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
694 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
695 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
696 * New anti-flickering filter
697 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
698 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
699 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
700 blackbox and customizable shadow.
701 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
702 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
703 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
706 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
707 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
708 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
709 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
710 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
711 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
712 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
713 * Major rework of VoD support
714 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
715 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
716 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
717 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
718 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
719 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
720 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
721 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
722 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
723 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
726 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
727 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
730 * New capabilities for libVLC:
731 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
732 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
733 list of available audio and video filters
734 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
735 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
736 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
739 * asademux, subsass: use libass
740 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
741 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
743 * upnp: use upnp_intel
744 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
745 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
746 * removal of the noise filter
747 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
748 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
749 removed in Growl's next release, too.
750 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
753 * Update of translations for most languages.
754 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
757 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
758 ----------------------------------
761 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
762 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
765 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
766 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
769 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
770 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
771 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
774 * Camtasia decoding fix.
777 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
778 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
781 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
784 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
785 ----------------------------------
788 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
789 including support for OS X Lion
790 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
791 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
794 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
797 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
798 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
799 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
802 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
805 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
806 ----------------------------------
809 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
810 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
813 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
814 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
815 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
816 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
817 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
819 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
820 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
821 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
823 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
824 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
827 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
830 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
833 * Fix quitting on Linux
834 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
838 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
841 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
844 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
845 ---------------------------------
847 Windows and Mac OS X:
848 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
851 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
852 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
855 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
858 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
861 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
863 Miscellaneous fixes in:
864 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
866 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
867 * RTP output and XML export
868 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
872 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
873 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
874 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
875 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
878 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
879 --------------------------------
881 Windows and Mac OS X:
882 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
885 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
888 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
889 * Improve Apple Remote handling
890 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
891 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
892 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
893 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
896 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
897 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
901 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
902 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
903 * New Luganda Translation
906 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
907 --------------------------------
910 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
913 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
914 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
915 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
916 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
919 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
921 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
922 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
923 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
924 * mp4 demuxer improvements
925 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
926 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
927 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
928 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
930 Miscellaneous fixes in:
931 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
932 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
933 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
934 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
935 * Configure and build system improvements
936 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
939 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
940 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
941 * New icelandic translation
944 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
945 --------------------------------
948 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
952 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
953 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
954 and stability reasons
957 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
961 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
964 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
965 ----------------------------------
968 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
971 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
972 ---------------------------------
975 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
976 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
977 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
978 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
981 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
984 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
985 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
986 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
987 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
990 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
991 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
992 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
994 Subtitles and renderer:
995 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
996 * Mark more freetype options as safe
997 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
998 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
999 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1002 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1003 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1004 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1005 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1008 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1009 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1011 Miscellaneous fixes:
1012 * KDE device solid actions
1014 * Transcode integer overflow
1015 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1016 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1019 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1020 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1021 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1024 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1025 ----------------------------------
1028 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1032 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1035 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1038 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1039 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1040 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1041 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1044 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1048 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1051 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1054 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1055 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1057 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1061 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1062 * Miscellaneous fixes
1065 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1066 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1067 French and Ukrainian
1068 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1069 * New Asturian translation
1072 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1073 ----------------------------------
1076 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1078 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1081 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1084 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1085 * Various fixes for Windows
1088 * New Armenian translation
1089 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1090 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1093 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1094 --------------------------------
1097 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1098 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1099 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1102 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1103 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1106 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1107 --------------------------------
1109 Access and demuxers:
1110 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1111 * fix for podcasts parsing
1112 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1115 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1116 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1119 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1120 * fix m3u playlists exports
1123 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1126 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1129 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1132 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1135 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1138 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1139 --------------------------------
1142 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1143 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1146 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1147 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1150 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1151 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1152 * fix console output encoding
1154 Interface and extensions:
1155 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1156 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1159 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1160 --------------------------------
1163 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1164 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1165 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1166 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1167 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1168 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1169 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1170 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1171 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1172 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1173 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1174 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1175 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1176 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1177 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1178 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1182 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1183 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1184 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1185 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1186 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1189 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1192 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1193 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1194 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1198 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1201 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1202 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1203 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1206 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1207 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1208 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1209 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1212 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1213 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1216 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1217 --------------------------------
1219 Important changes for users:
1220 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1221 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1223 Important changes for packagers:
1224 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1225 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1226 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1227 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1228 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1230 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1232 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1233 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1234 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1235 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1236 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1239 * Support for the sftp protocol
1240 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1241 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1242 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1243 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1244 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1247 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1248 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1249 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1251 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1252 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1253 * Invmem module improvements
1254 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1255 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1256 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1257 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1258 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1259 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1260 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1261 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1262 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1263 * Support for VP8 codec
1264 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1267 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1268 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1269 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1270 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1271 * Various EGP improvements
1272 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1273 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1276 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1277 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1278 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1279 * Podcast images are now displayed
1282 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1283 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1284 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1285 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1286 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1287 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1288 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1289 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1290 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1291 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1292 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1295 * New content extensions lua framework
1298 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1299 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1300 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1301 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1302 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1303 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1304 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1307 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1308 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1309 * Service discovery based on libudev
1310 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1313 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1314 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1315 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1316 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1317 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1318 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1319 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1322 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1323 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1324 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1327 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1329 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1330 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1333 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1336 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1337 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1338 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1339 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1340 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1341 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1342 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1345 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1346 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1349 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1350 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1351 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1355 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1356 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1357 * Improved Solaris port
1360 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1361 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1364 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1365 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1366 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1367 * transrate: broken since too long
1368 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1369 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1370 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1371 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1372 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1373 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1374 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1375 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1376 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1377 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1378 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1379 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1380 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1381 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1384 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1385 --------------------------------
1388 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1390 Decoders/Packetizers:
1391 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1394 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1395 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1396 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1397 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1398 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1401 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1402 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1405 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1406 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1409 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1410 and Walloon translations updated
1411 * Sinhala translation started
1414 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1415 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1418 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1419 --------------------------------
1422 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1423 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1426 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1429 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1430 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1433 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1434 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1435 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1436 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1439 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1440 --------------------------------
1443 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1444 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1447 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1448 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1451 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1452 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1455 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1458 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1459 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1462 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1463 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1466 * New Walloon translation
1467 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1470 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1471 --------------------------------
1474 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1475 regressions in most popular drivers
1476 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1479 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1480 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1481 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1484 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1485 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1488 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1489 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1490 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1491 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1492 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1495 * New udev module for linux
1498 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1501 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1504 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1505 --------------------------------
1508 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1509 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1510 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1513 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1514 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1517 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1518 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1521 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1524 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1525 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1526 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1527 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1530 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1531 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1532 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1533 - no support for Goom and SDL
1534 - limited text rendering support
1535 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1538 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1539 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1540 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1541 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1542 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1543 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1544 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1545 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1546 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1550 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1553 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1556 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1557 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1558 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1559 Arabic and French translation updates
1562 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1563 --------------------------------
1566 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1567 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1568 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1569 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1570 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1571 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1574 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1575 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1576 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1579 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1580 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1581 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1584 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1587 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1588 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1591 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1592 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1593 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1594 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1595 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1596 * Fix various crashes
1599 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1601 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1605 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1606 ---------------------------------
1610 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1611 See 'Access:' for more info.
1612 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1615 * Instantaneous pausing
1616 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1617 * Finer speed control
1618 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1619 * Timeshift for most medias
1620 * RTSP trickplay support
1621 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1624 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1625 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1626 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1627 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1628 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1629 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1630 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1631 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1632 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1633 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1636 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1637 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1638 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1639 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1640 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1641 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1642 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1645 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1646 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1649 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1650 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1651 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1652 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1653 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1654 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1655 * DVB scanning on linux
1656 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1657 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1658 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1659 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1660 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1661 * MTP device access on Unix
1662 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1663 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1666 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1667 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1668 Windows and Mac OS X.
1671 * Export the playlist in HTML
1672 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1673 * Better metadata handling and reading
1675 Linux/Windows interface:
1676 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1677 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1678 * Recently played items list
1679 * Interface toolbar customizations
1680 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1681 - More menus actions
1682 - Finer speed slider
1683 - Improvements on many dialogs
1684 - New dialog for plugins listing
1685 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1686 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1687 * Better integration in GTK environments
1690 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1691 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1692 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1693 * Additional usability improvements
1696 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1697 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1698 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1699 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1700 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1703 * New Maemo port with:
1704 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1705 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1708 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1711 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1712 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1713 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1714 * Support for latest iSight models
1717 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1718 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1721 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1722 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1723 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1724 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1725 The old image video output has been removed.
1726 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1727 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1730 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1738 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1739 --------------------------------------
1745 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1746 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1747 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1748 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1749 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1750 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1751 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1753 Various fixes to the following modules:
1756 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1757 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1758 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1760 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1765 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1766 ---------------------------------
1769 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1770 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1773 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1774 ---------------------------------
1777 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1780 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1783 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1784 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1785 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1786 main controller window.
1787 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1790 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1795 * Updates of other localizations
1798 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1799 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1800 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1801 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1802 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1805 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1806 ---------------------------------
1809 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1811 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1814 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1815 --------------------------------
1820 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1821 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1824 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1825 --------------------------------
1827 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1828 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1831 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1834 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1835 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1838 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1839 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1842 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1843 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1844 * Various fixed in playlist
1847 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1850 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1853 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1854 ------------------------------------
1856 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1857 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1860 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1861 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1862 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1865 * Stability fix for the video output.
1868 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1869 --------------------------------
1872 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1873 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1874 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1875 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1876 * Fixed update system bugs
1877 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1880 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1881 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1882 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1883 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1884 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1885 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1886 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1887 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1888 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1889 modern Mac OS X versions
1892 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1893 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1895 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1896 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1899 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1900 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1901 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1902 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1903 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1904 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1907 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1908 --------------------------------
1910 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1911 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1912 * Multiple bugfixes.
1915 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1916 --------------------------------
1918 * Multiple bug fixes.
1921 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1922 ---------------------------------
1926 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1927 recent to work correctly
1928 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1929 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1930 edit the ".hosts" file.
1931 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1932 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1933 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1934 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1935 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1936 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1937 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1938 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1939 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1940 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1941 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1942 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1943 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1944 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1945 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1946 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1947 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1948 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1949 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1950 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1951 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1952 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1953 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1954 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1955 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1956 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1957 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1958 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1959 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1960 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1961 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1962 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1963 and postproc modules.
1964 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1965 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1966 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1967 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1969 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1970 filter. For example:
1971 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1972 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1974 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1975 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1981 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1983 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1984 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1987 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1988 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1990 * Shoutcast TV listings
1991 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1993 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1994 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1996 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1999 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2000 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2001 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2002 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2003 * JACK audio input support
2004 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2005 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2006 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2007 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2008 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2009 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2010 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2011 (available as a separate download).
2012 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2013 * RTMP input support
2014 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2015 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2016 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2018 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2019 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2022 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2023 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2024 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2025 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2027 * APEv1/2 tags support
2028 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2029 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2031 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2032 * TiVo Series 2 support
2033 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2038 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2039 * Flash Screen Video support
2040 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2041 * DosBox Capture support
2042 * Karl Morton's Video support
2043 * limited atrac3 support
2045 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2046 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2047 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2048 * H.264 PAFF support
2049 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2050 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2051 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2052 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2053 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2056 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2057 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2058 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2059 * AQTitle subtitles support
2060 * MKV USF subtitles support
2061 * HTML-based subtitles support
2062 * MPSub subtitles support
2063 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2064 * MPL2 subtitles support
2065 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2066 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2067 * Realtext subtitle support
2068 * DKS subtitle support
2069 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2070 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2073 * Flash Screen Video support
2074 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2076 Video outputs and filters:
2077 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2078 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2079 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2080 * New puzzle video output filter
2081 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2082 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2084 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2085 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2086 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2087 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2088 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2089 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2090 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2091 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2092 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2093 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2094 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2095 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2096 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2097 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2099 Audio outputs and filters:
2100 * Replay gain support
2101 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2102 new scaletempo audio filter)
2103 * New spatializer audio filter
2104 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2107 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2108 * New RTP payload formats:
2109 * Speex voice audio codec
2110 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2111 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2112 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2113 * DCCP transport for RTP
2114 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2119 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2120 end-user suitable way.
2121 * Improved user interaction
2122 * Improved mouse gestures
2123 * Vastly improved Update checker
2124 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2126 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2127 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2129 * Improved video output features
2130 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2131 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2132 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2133 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2134 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2136 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2137 if libncursesw is available.
2138 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2139 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2140 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2142 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2143 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2144 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2145 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2146 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2147 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2148 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2149 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2152 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2153 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2154 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2157 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2158 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2159 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2160 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2161 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2162 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2165 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2166 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2176 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2177 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2178 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2181 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2182 ----------------------------------
2185 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2188 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2189 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2190 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2191 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2192 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2193 * Updated Polish translation
2196 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2197 ----------------------------------
2200 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2201 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2202 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2205 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2206 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2207 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2208 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2209 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2210 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2211 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2212 to an unexpected application termination
2213 * New Serbian translation
2214 * Updated Romanian translation
2217 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2218 ----------------------------------
2221 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2222 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2223 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2224 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2225 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2226 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2227 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2228 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2231 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2232 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2233 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2234 * Fixed AAC resampling
2235 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2236 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2239 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2240 ----------------------------------
2243 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2244 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2245 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2246 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2247 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2250 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2251 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2252 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2253 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2254 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2257 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2258 ----------------------------------
2261 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2262 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2265 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2266 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2267 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2268 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2270 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2274 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2277 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2280 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2283 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2286 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2287 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2288 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2289 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2290 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2292 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2293 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2294 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2295 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2298 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2301 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2302 ----------------------------------
2305 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2306 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2307 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2309 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2310 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2312 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2313 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2316 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2318 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2319 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2320 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2321 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2322 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2323 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2324 two different movies
2325 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2326 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2327 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2330 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2333 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2334 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2335 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2336 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2339 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2340 ----------------------------------
2342 Various bugfixes, notably:
2343 * Windows Vista compatibility
2344 * Cropping in Direct3D
2345 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2346 * RSS filter string overflow
2348 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2350 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2351 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2354 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2355 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2358 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2361 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2364 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2367 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2368 ----------------------------------
2370 Various bugfixes, notably:
2371 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2372 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2373 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2374 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2375 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2376 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2379 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2380 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2383 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2385 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2386 * Diverse usability improvements
2387 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2388 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2389 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2392 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2393 ---------------------------------
2395 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2396 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2399 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2402 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2403 --------------------------------
2406 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2409 * Support for RTSP authentication
2410 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2411 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2412 * ATSC support for DVB input
2413 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2414 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2415 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2418 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2419 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2420 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2421 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2422 * Matroska WavPack support
2423 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2424 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2425 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2428 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2429 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2430 * Improved libcaca support
2434 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2435 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2437 * Systray support in skins
2439 * Support for Apple Remote control
2440 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2441 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2442 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2443 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2445 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2448 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2449 Windows 9x/ME users:
2450 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2451 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2452 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2453 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2454 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2456 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2457 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2466 * Updates to the libvlc API
2467 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2470 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2471 --------------------------------
2474 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2475 * Support for downloading updates
2479 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2480 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2481 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2482 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2484 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2485 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2486 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2489 * Cook (Real audio) support
2491 Playlist / Services discovery:
2492 * XSPF playlist support
2494 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2497 * New JACK audio output
2500 * New video filters:
2501 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2502 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2503 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2504 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2505 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2506 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2509 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2512 * System to inform the user and request information
2513 - HTTP authentication
2517 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2518 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2519 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2522 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2523 - Improved playlist handling
2524 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2526 - Embedded Video output
2527 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2528 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2529 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2530 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2531 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2533 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2534 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2537 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2540 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2541 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2542 * Growl "Now playing" support
2545 * Ability to log to syslog
2546 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2549 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2551 * A bit more automatic testing
2554 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2555 ---------------------------------
2558 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2559 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2562 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2563 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2566 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2569 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2570 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2576 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2579 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2580 --------------------------------
2583 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2587 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2588 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2589 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2592 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2593 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2594 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2595 * GnomeVFS input module
2596 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2597 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2600 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2601 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2602 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2605 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2606 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2612 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2613 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2616 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2617 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2618 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2621 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2623 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2624 - New extended controls panel
2625 - New bookmarks window
2626 - Fixed playlist sorting
2627 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2629 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2630 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2631 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2632 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2636 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2637 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2639 - Include macro to include other files
2643 * Should now work outside IE as well
2646 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2649 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2650 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2653 The following languages were added:
2657 * Simplified Chinese
2658 The following languages were re-added:
2662 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2663 --------------------------------
2666 * Rewrite of the playlist
2668 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2669 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2670 * Preferences improvements:
2671 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2672 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2674 * Core image manipulation support
2675 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2676 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2677 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2678 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2679 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2680 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2681 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2682 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2683 * Access filter architecture
2684 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2685 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2689 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2690 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2691 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2692 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2693 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2694 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2695 * Massive Matroska improvements
2696 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2698 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2699 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2700 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2701 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2702 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2704 Decoders / Encoders:
2705 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2706 * PNG decoder/encoder
2707 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2708 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2711 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2714 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2715 * Brand new SAP module
2716 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2717 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2718 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2719 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2720 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2721 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2725 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2728 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2729 * Image file video output (png)
2730 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2731 * Improvements to wall video filter
2732 * Support for font color and opacity
2738 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2739 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2740 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2744 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2745 - Improved preferences
2746 - Improvements to the wizard
2747 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2749 - Redesigned playlist
2750 - Improved preferences
2752 - Support for multiple actions
2755 - Support for the new playlist system
2757 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2760 * Screensaver disabling fix
2761 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2762 * Support for no-decoration windows
2765 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2766 * The OpenGL video output is back
2767 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2768 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2769 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2770 is not yet available in the new module
2771 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2774 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2783 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2786 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2789 The following languages were added:
2795 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2796 --------------------------------
2799 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2800 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2803 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2804 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2805 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2808 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2811 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2814 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2817 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2818 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2819 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2823 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2825 * Support of playlist group announcement
2828 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2829 --------------------------------
2832 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2833 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2834 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2835 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2836 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2837 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2840 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2841 (Stream your desktop)
2842 * Improved DVD support:
2843 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2844 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2845 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2846 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2847 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2848 (selection of titles/chapters).
2851 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2852 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2853 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2854 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2855 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2856 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2857 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2858 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2859 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2860 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2863 * G.726 audio support
2864 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2865 * MPEG-4 text support
2866 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2867 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2868 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2872 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2873 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2874 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2875 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2876 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2877 * DVB subtitles encoder
2878 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2879 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2881 * Text track muxing for mp4
2882 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2883 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2884 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2885 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2886 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2887 * Improved ASF muxer
2889 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2890 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2891 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2894 * New audio equalizer filter
2895 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2896 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2897 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2898 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2901 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2902 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2903 with support for effects.
2904 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2905 - New filters can be streamed.
2906 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2907 - Centralized scaling and blending
2909 - "time", to display current time
2910 - "marq", to display a marquee
2913 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2914 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2915 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2916 * A few skins2 improvements
2917 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2918 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2919 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2920 * Improved CORBA control module
2923 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2924 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2925 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2928 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2929 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2930 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2933 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2934 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2935 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2936 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2937 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2940 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2943 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2944 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2947 * Server/client network synchronization module
2948 * VBrick streams fully supported
2949 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2953 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2954 --------------------------------
2957 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2958 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2959 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2960 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2963 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2964 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2965 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2966 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2967 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2968 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2969 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2972 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2973 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2974 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2975 * Improved directory access module.
2976 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2977 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2978 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2979 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2980 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2983 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2984 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2985 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2988 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2989 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2990 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2993 * Improved session announcement system.
2994 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2995 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2996 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2997 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2998 * Improved transrater.
2999 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3000 * New configuration system.
3001 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3004 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3005 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3006 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3007 * Supports scheduling.
3008 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3009 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3012 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3013 - Ability to embed video output.
3014 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3015 - Lots of improvements.
3016 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3017 - New design and set of icons.
3018 - Ability to embed video output.
3019 - Support for hotkeys.
3020 - Support for bookmarks.
3022 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3023 - Better hotkeys handling.
3026 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3027 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3028 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3029 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3032 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3033 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3034 * Improved Windows installer.
3040 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3041 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3044 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3045 ---------------------------------
3048 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3049 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3052 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3053 --------------------------------
3056 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3057 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3060 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3061 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3062 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3063 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3066 * Internal improvments
3067 * Improved import/export
3070 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3072 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3073 small and strange formats.
3075 * New MOD audio demux.
3076 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3077 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3078 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3079 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3082 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3083 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3084 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3090 * New opengl video output plugin.
3093 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3094 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3097 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3098 --------------------------------
3101 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3102 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3103 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3104 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3105 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3106 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3107 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3108 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3111 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3116 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3117 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3118 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3119 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3120 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3121 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3122 * Better Icecast support.
3123 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3124 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3127 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3128 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3129 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3130 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3131 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3132 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3133 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3136 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3137 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3138 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3139 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3140 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3141 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3142 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3143 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3144 * Preliminary RTP support.
3145 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3150 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3151 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3153 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3154 - Improvements and help in preferences
3155 - New streaming wizard
3156 - Revised Disc Open menu
3158 - Improvements of the standard pages
3159 - Support for new commands
3160 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3163 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3164 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3167 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3168 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3169 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3170 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3171 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3172 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3173 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3174 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3175 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3178 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3180 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3181 * Support for Panther.
3182 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3183 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3186 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3187 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3188 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3189 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3190 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3191 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3192 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3193 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3196 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3197 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3198 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3201 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3204 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3205 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3206 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3207 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3210 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3211 --------------------------------
3214 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3217 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3218 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3221 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3222 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3225 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3228 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3229 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3232 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3235 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3238 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3239 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3243 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3244 --------------------------------
3247 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3248 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3252 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3253 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3254 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3256 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3257 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3260 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3263 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3266 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3267 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3271 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3272 --------------------------------
3275 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3276 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3280 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3281 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3282 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3283 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3284 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3287 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3288 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3289 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3292 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3293 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3294 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3297 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3298 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3299 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3300 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3301 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3304 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3305 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3306 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3309 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3312 * Improved build system.
3313 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3314 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3315 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3316 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3319 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3320 --------------------------------
3323 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3326 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3327 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3328 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3329 * Video 4 Linux support
3330 * CD Digital Audio support
3331 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3334 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3335 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3336 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3337 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3340 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3341 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3342 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3343 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3344 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3345 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3346 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3349 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3350 * New HTTP remote control interface
3353 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3354 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3355 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3356 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3357 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3360 * New reset option for the preferences
3361 * You can set your language in the prefences
3362 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3363 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3364 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3365 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3368 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3369 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3370 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3373 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3374 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3375 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3376 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3377 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3378 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3379 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3380 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3381 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3382 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3385 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3386 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3387 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3388 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3389 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3390 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3391 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3394 * Interface localization
3395 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3396 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3397 * New full-featured Preferences window
3400 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3401 --------------------------------
3404 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3405 * support for skins at the interface level
3406 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3407 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3408 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3409 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3410 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3413 * fixed HTTP redirects
3414 * support for opening an entire directory
3415 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3416 * new video4linux access plug-in
3417 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3420 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3421 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3422 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3425 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3426 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3427 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3428 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3429 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3430 * new codec for raw I420 video
3431 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3434 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3435 (although it still misses some important features)
3436 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3439 * new HTTP output support
3440 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3441 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3444 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3447 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3450 * reorderable playlist
3451 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3452 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3453 * support for mono audio output devices
3454 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3455 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3456 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3457 * the messages window remembers more lines
3458 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3459 * http and ogg stream output options
3460 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3463 * new skinnable interface
3464 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3466 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3467 * support for FLAC audio format
3468 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3470 * network tab in the interface
3471 * "apply" handling in preferences
3474 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3475 ---------------------------------
3478 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3479 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3480 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3481 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3483 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3484 * DTS S/PDIF support
3487 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3488 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3489 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3490 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3493 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3494 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3497 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3500 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3503 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3505 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3506 * rc interface is now fully useable
3507 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3510 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3511 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3512 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3513 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3514 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3516 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3517 * support for mouse gestures
3518 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3521 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3522 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3525 * improved ID3 tag detection
3526 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3527 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3528 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3530 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3533 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3534 ---------------------------------
3537 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3538 English was set as the preferred language
3541 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3542 --------------------------------
3545 * new mouse gesture interface
3546 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3550 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3551 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3552 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3555 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3556 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3560 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3563 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3564 without the user consent
3567 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3569 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3570 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3571 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3574 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3575 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3576 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3577 * playlist enhancements
3578 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3579 * new step forward/step backward commands
3580 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3581 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3582 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3585 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3586 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3587 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3590 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3591 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3594 * native video output is working again
3595 * only commandline interface support
3596 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3599 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3600 --------------------------------
3603 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3604 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3605 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3606 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3607 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3608 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3609 and A/52 streams are supported)
3610 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3615 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3616 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3617 * VCD entry points support
3618 * VCD image file support
3621 * support for *.asf format
3622 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3623 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3624 * support for ogg encapsulation
3625 * support for raw DV format
3626 * support for *.wav format
3627 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3630 Stream discovery & playlists:
3631 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3632 * support for .m3u file format
3633 * support for .asx file format
3634 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3637 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3638 (only available with the .avi demux)
3639 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3640 * support for raw PCM data
3641 * support for Cinepak video codec
3642 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3643 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3644 * support for Xvid codec
3645 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3646 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3647 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3649 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3651 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3654 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3657 * new WxWindows interface
3658 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3659 device and the channels configuration
3660 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3661 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3662 format that VLC can play
3663 * new swedish translation
3664 * enhancements of the playlist window
3665 * new messages window to see debug info
3666 * fixed a few crashes
3669 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3670 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3671 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3672 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working