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10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib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 splitted 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
28 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
31 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
32 * Major improvements in DASH support
33 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
34 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
35 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
36 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
37 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
40 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
41 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
42 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
43 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
44 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
45 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
46 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
47 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
48 * Support for more MJPEG streams
49 * Add support for liveleak streams
52 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
53 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
54 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
55 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
58 * new remapping channel filter
59 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
60 * new VSXu visualization plugin
63 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
64 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
67 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
68 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
69 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
70 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
71 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
72 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
75 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
76 * Options support for AVIO output module
79 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
80 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
81 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
82 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
83 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
84 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
87 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
88 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
91 * add support for multiple video outputs
92 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
94 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
95 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
96 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
97 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
98 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
99 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
100 VLC's internal volume level
101 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
102 selection and to manage the list of presets
103 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
104 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
105 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
106 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
107 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
108 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
109 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
110 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
112 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
113 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
114 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
115 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
119 * Partial support for Qt5.0
120 * Menus modifications and improvements
121 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
122 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
126 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
127 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
128 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
129 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
132 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
133 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
134 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
135 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
136 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
137 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
139 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
140 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
143 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
144 --------------------------------
147 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
148 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
149 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
150 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
151 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
152 during playback on Mac OS X
155 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
156 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
157 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
160 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
161 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
162 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
163 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
164 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
167 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
168 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
169 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
170 * Support Youtube live streams
173 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
176 * Fix media info dialog update
177 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
178 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
179 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
180 * Fix album art display at start
183 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
184 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
185 * Fix menus display and behavior
186 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
187 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
188 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
189 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
190 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
191 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
192 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
195 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
196 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
197 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
198 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
199 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
200 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
201 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
202 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
203 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
206 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
207 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
208 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
209 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
212 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
213 --------------------------------
216 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
219 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
220 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
223 * Add GateKeeper support
224 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
225 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
226 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
229 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
232 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
233 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
234 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
235 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
236 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
239 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
240 --------------------------------
243 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
244 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
245 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
246 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
247 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
248 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
249 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
250 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
251 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
252 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
253 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
257 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
258 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
259 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
260 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
261 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
262 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
263 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
264 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
265 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
266 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
267 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
268 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
271 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
272 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
274 * Fix MP3 free format support
277 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
278 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
279 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
280 * Fix for DVB channels file support
281 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
284 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
285 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
287 Audio filters and output:
288 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
289 * Fix DirectSound device selection
290 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
291 * Do not apply volume in file output
292 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
293 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
296 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
297 the persistant media library
298 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
299 to the media library or the temporary playlist
300 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
301 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
302 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
303 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
304 press on the Play/Pause button
305 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
306 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
307 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
308 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
309 * Many Fullscreen fixes
310 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
311 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
312 Synchronization panel
313 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
314 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
315 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
316 * Fix crashes on exit
317 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
319 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
320 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
321 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
322 automatically reset on the first launch.
323 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
324 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
325 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
328 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
329 * Fixes for icecast SD
332 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
333 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
334 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
335 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
336 * Fix tags and file names display
337 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
340 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
341 * Fix for key events and focus loss
344 * Fix display of some buttons
345 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
346 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
349 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
350 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
351 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
354 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
355 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
356 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
357 Thai translations update
358 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
361 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
362 --------------------------------
365 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
366 * fix the samba module compilation
367 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
368 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
369 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
370 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
373 * Support for MXPEG files
374 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
375 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
378 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
379 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
380 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
383 * Fix ogm header creation
386 * limit spatializer filter distortions
387 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
390 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
391 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
392 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
393 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
396 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
399 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
400 * allow to hide the sidebar
401 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
402 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
403 * noticebly faster launch time
404 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
405 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
406 * improve track synchronization panel
407 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
408 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
411 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
412 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
413 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
414 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
417 * fix for menus display
418 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
419 * documentation update
422 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
423 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
426 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
427 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
428 * Update Jamendo selections
432 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
433 * fix a crash on VLM close
436 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
437 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
438 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
439 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
442 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
445 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
446 ---------------------------------
449 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
450 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
451 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
452 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
453 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
454 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
455 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
456 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
457 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
458 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
459 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
460 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
461 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
462 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
463 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
464 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
465 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
466 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
467 --http-crl (optional CRL).
468 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
469 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
470 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
471 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
472 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
473 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
474 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
476 Important changes for packagers:
477 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
478 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
479 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
480 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
481 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
482 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
483 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
484 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
485 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
486 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
489 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
490 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
491 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
492 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
493 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
494 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
495 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
498 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
499 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
500 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
501 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
502 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
503 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
504 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
505 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
506 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
507 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
508 * PulseAudio audio input support
509 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
510 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
511 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
512 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
513 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
514 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
515 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
516 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
519 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
520 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
521 are notably concerned.
522 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
523 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
524 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
525 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
526 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
527 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
528 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
529 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
530 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
531 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
532 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
533 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
534 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
535 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
536 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
539 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
540 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
541 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
542 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
543 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
544 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
545 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
546 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
547 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
548 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
549 * Improved support of tracker files
550 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
553 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
554 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
555 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
556 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
557 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
558 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
559 and important cleanups and optimisations
560 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
561 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
562 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
563 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
564 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
565 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
566 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
567 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
568 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
569 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
570 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
571 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
572 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
573 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
574 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
575 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
576 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
577 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
578 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
579 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
580 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
583 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
584 * New video output for iOS platform
585 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
586 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
587 * Various vmem improvements
588 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
589 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
590 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
591 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
592 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
593 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
595 Audio Output and Filters:
596 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
597 * New audio output in memory (amem)
598 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
599 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
600 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
601 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
602 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
603 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
604 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
605 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
608 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
609 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
610 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
611 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
612 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
613 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
614 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
615 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
616 * New anti-flickering filter
617 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
618 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
619 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
620 blackbox and customizable shadow.
621 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
622 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
623 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
626 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
627 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
628 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
629 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
630 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
631 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
632 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
633 * Major rework of VoD support
634 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
635 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
636 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
637 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
638 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
639 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
640 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
641 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
642 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
643 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
646 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
647 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
650 * New capabilities for libVLC:
651 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
652 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
653 list of available audio and video filters
654 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
655 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
656 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
659 * asademux, subsass: use libass
660 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
661 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
663 * upnp: use upnp_intel
664 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
665 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
666 * removal of the noise filter
667 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
668 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
669 removed in Growl's next release, too.
670 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
673 * Update of translations for most languages.
674 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
677 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
678 ----------------------------------
681 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
682 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
685 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
686 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
689 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
690 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
691 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
694 * Camtasia decoding fix.
697 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
698 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
701 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
704 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
705 ----------------------------------
708 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
709 including support for OS X Lion
710 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
711 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
714 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
717 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
718 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
719 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
722 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
725 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
726 ----------------------------------
729 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
730 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
733 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
734 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
735 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
736 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
737 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
739 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
740 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
741 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
743 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
744 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
747 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
750 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
753 * Fix quitting on Linux
754 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
758 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
761 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
764 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
765 ---------------------------------
767 Windows and Mac OS X:
768 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
771 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
772 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
775 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
778 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
781 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
783 Miscellaneous fixes in:
784 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
786 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
787 * RTP output and XML export
788 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
792 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
793 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
794 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
795 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
798 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
799 --------------------------------
801 Windows and Mac OS X:
802 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
805 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
808 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
809 * Improve Apple Remote handling
810 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
811 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
812 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
813 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
816 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
817 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
821 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
822 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
823 * New Luganda Translation
826 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
827 --------------------------------
830 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
833 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
834 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
835 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
836 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
839 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
841 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
842 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
843 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
844 * mp4 demuxer improvements
845 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
846 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
847 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
848 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
850 Miscellaneous fixes in:
851 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
852 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
853 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
854 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
855 * Configure and build system improvements
856 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
859 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
860 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
861 * New icelandic translation
864 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
865 --------------------------------
868 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
872 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
873 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
874 and stability reasons
877 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
881 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
884 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
885 ----------------------------------
888 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
891 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
892 ---------------------------------
895 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
896 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
897 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
898 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
901 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
904 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
905 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
906 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
907 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
910 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
911 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
912 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
914 Subtitles and renderer:
915 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
916 * Mark more freetype options as safe
917 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
918 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
919 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
922 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
923 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
924 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
925 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
928 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
929 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
932 * KDE device solid actions
934 * Transcode integer overflow
935 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
936 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
939 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
940 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
941 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
944 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
945 ----------------------------------
948 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
952 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
955 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
958 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
959 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
960 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
961 * Taglib thread-safety fix
964 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
968 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
971 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
974 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
975 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
977 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
981 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
982 * Miscellaneous fixes
985 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
986 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
988 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
989 * New Asturian translation
992 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
993 ----------------------------------
996 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
998 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1001 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1004 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1005 * Various fixes for Windows
1008 * New Armenian translation
1009 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1010 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1013 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1014 --------------------------------
1017 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1018 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1019 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1022 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1023 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1026 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1027 --------------------------------
1029 Access and demuxers:
1030 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1031 * fix for podcasts parsing
1032 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1035 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1036 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1039 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1040 * fix m3u playlists exports
1043 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1046 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1049 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1052 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1055 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1058 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1059 --------------------------------
1062 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1063 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1066 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1067 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1070 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1071 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1072 * fix console output encoding
1074 Interface and extensions:
1075 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1076 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1079 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1080 --------------------------------
1083 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1084 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1085 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1086 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1087 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1088 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1089 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1090 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1091 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1092 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1093 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1094 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1095 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1096 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1097 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1098 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1102 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1103 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1104 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1105 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1106 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1109 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1112 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1113 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1114 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1118 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1121 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1122 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1123 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1126 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1127 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1128 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1129 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1132 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1133 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1136 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1137 --------------------------------
1139 Important changes for users:
1140 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1141 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1143 Important changes for packagers:
1144 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1145 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1146 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1147 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1148 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1150 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1152 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1153 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1154 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1155 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1156 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1159 * Support for the sftp protocol
1160 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1161 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1162 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1163 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1164 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1167 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1168 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1169 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1171 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1172 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1173 * Invmem module improvements
1174 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1175 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1176 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1177 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1178 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1179 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1180 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1181 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1182 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1183 * Support for VP8 codec
1184 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1187 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1188 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1189 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1190 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1191 * Various EGP improvements
1192 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1193 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1196 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1197 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1198 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1199 * Podcast images are now displayed
1202 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1203 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1204 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1205 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1206 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1207 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1208 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1209 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1210 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1211 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1212 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1215 * New content extensions lua framework
1218 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1219 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1220 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1221 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1222 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1223 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1224 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1227 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1228 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1229 * Service discovery based on libudev
1230 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1233 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1234 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1235 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1236 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1237 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1238 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1239 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1242 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1243 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1244 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1247 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1249 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1250 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1253 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1256 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1257 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1258 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1259 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1260 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1261 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1262 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1265 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1266 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1269 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1270 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1271 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1275 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1276 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1277 * Improved Solaris port
1280 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1281 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1284 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1285 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1286 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1287 * transrate: broken since too long
1288 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1289 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1290 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1291 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1292 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1293 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1294 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1295 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1296 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1297 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1298 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1299 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1300 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1301 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1304 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1305 --------------------------------
1308 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1310 Decoders/Packetizers:
1311 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1314 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1315 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1316 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1317 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1318 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1321 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1322 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1325 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1326 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1329 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1330 and Walloon translations updated
1331 * Sinhala translation started
1334 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1335 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1338 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1339 --------------------------------
1342 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1343 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1346 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1349 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1350 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1353 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1354 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1355 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1356 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1359 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1360 --------------------------------
1363 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1364 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1367 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1368 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1371 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1372 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1375 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1378 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1379 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1382 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1383 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1386 * New Walloon translation
1387 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1390 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1391 --------------------------------
1394 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1395 regressions in most popular drivers
1396 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1399 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1400 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1401 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1404 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1405 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1408 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1409 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1410 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1411 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1412 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1415 * New udev module for linux
1418 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1421 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1424 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1425 --------------------------------
1428 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1429 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1430 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1433 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1434 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1437 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1438 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1441 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1444 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1445 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1446 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1447 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1450 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1451 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1452 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1453 - no support for Goom and SDL
1454 - limited text rendering support
1455 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1458 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1459 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1460 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1461 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1462 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1463 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1464 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1465 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1466 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1470 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1473 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1476 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1477 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1478 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1479 Arabic and French translation updates
1482 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1483 --------------------------------
1486 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1487 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1488 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1489 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1490 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1491 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1494 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1495 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1496 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1499 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1500 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1501 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1504 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1507 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1508 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1511 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1512 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1513 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1514 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1515 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1516 * Fix various crashes
1519 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1521 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1525 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1526 ---------------------------------
1530 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1531 See 'Access:' for more info.
1532 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1535 * Instantaneous pausing
1536 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1537 * Finer speed control
1538 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1539 * Timeshift for most medias
1540 * RTSP trickplay support
1541 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1544 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1545 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1546 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1547 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1548 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1549 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1550 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1551 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1552 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1553 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1556 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1557 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1558 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1559 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1560 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1561 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1562 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1565 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1566 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1569 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1570 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1571 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1572 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1573 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1574 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1575 * DVB scanning on linux
1576 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1577 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1578 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1579 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1580 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1581 * MTP device access on Unix
1582 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1583 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1586 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1587 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1588 Windows and Mac OS X.
1591 * Export the playlist in HTML
1592 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1593 * Better metadata handling and reading
1595 Linux/Windows interface:
1596 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1597 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1598 * Recently played items list
1599 * Interface toolbar customizations
1600 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1601 - More menus actions
1602 - Finer speed slider
1603 - Improvements on many dialogs
1604 - New dialog for plugins listing
1605 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1606 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1607 * Better integration in GTK environments
1610 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1611 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1612 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1613 * Additional usability improvements
1616 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1617 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1618 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1619 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1620 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1623 * New Maemo port with:
1624 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1625 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1628 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1631 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1632 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1633 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1634 * Support for latest iSight models
1637 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1638 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1641 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1642 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1643 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1644 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1645 The old image video output has been removed.
1646 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1647 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1650 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1658 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1659 --------------------------------------
1665 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1666 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1667 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1668 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1669 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1670 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1671 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1673 Various fixes to the following modules:
1676 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1677 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1678 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1680 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1685 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1686 ---------------------------------
1689 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1690 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1693 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1694 ---------------------------------
1697 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1700 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1703 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1704 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1705 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1706 main controller window.
1707 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1710 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1715 * Updates of other localizations
1718 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1719 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1720 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1721 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1722 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1725 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1726 ---------------------------------
1729 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1731 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1734 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1735 --------------------------------
1740 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1741 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1744 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1745 --------------------------------
1747 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1748 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1751 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1754 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1755 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1758 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1759 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1762 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1763 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1764 * Various fixed in playlist
1767 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1770 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1773 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1774 ------------------------------------
1776 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1777 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1780 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1781 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1782 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1785 * Stability fix for the video output.
1788 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1789 --------------------------------
1792 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1793 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1794 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1795 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1796 * Fixed update system bugs
1797 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1800 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1801 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1802 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1803 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1804 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1805 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1806 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1807 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1808 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1809 modern Mac OS X versions
1812 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1813 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1815 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1816 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1819 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1820 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1821 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1822 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1823 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1824 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1827 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1828 --------------------------------
1830 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1831 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1832 * Multiple bugfixes.
1835 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1836 --------------------------------
1838 * Multiple bug fixes.
1841 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1842 ---------------------------------
1846 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1847 recent to work correctly
1848 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1849 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1850 edit the ".hosts" file.
1851 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1852 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1853 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1854 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1855 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1856 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1857 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1858 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1859 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1860 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1861 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1862 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1863 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1864 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1865 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1866 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1867 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1868 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1869 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1870 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1871 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1872 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1873 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1874 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1875 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1876 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1877 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1878 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1879 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1880 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1881 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1882 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1883 and postproc modules.
1884 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1885 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1886 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1887 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1889 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1890 filter. For example:
1891 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1892 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1894 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1895 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1901 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1903 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1904 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1907 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1908 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1910 * Shoutcast TV listings
1911 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1913 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1914 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1916 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1919 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1920 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1921 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1922 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1923 * JACK audio input support
1924 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1925 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1926 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1927 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1928 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1929 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1930 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1931 (available as a separate download).
1932 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1933 * RTMP input support
1934 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1935 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1936 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1938 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1939 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1942 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1943 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1944 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1945 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1947 * APEv1/2 tags support
1948 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1949 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1951 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1952 * TiVo Series 2 support
1953 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1958 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1959 * Flash Screen Video support
1960 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1961 * DosBox Capture support
1962 * Karl Morton's Video support
1963 * limited atrac3 support
1965 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1966 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1967 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1968 * H.264 PAFF support
1969 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1970 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1971 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1972 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1973 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1976 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1977 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1978 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1979 * AQTitle subtitles support
1980 * MKV USF subtitles support
1981 * HTML-based subtitles support
1982 * MPSub subtitles support
1983 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1984 * MPL2 subtitles support
1985 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1986 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1987 * Realtext subtitle support
1988 * DKS subtitle support
1989 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1990 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1993 * Flash Screen Video support
1994 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1996 Video outputs and filters:
1997 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1998 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1999 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2000 * New puzzle video output filter
2001 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2002 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2004 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2005 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2006 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2007 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2008 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2009 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2010 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2011 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2012 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2013 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2014 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2015 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2016 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2017 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2019 Audio outputs and filters:
2020 * Replay gain support
2021 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2022 new scaletempo audio filter)
2023 * New spatializer audio filter
2024 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2027 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2028 * New RTP payload formats:
2029 * Speex voice audio codec
2030 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2031 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2032 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2033 * DCCP transport for RTP
2034 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2039 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2040 end-user suitable way.
2041 * Improved user interaction
2042 * Improved mouse gestures
2043 * Vastly improved Update checker
2044 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2046 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2047 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2049 * Improved video output features
2050 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2051 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2052 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2053 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2054 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2056 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2057 if libncursesw is available.
2058 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2059 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2060 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2062 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2063 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2064 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2065 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2066 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2067 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2068 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2069 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2072 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2073 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2074 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2077 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2078 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2079 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2080 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2081 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2082 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2085 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2086 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2096 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2097 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2098 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2101 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2102 ----------------------------------
2105 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2108 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2109 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2110 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2111 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2112 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2113 * Updated Polish translation
2116 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2117 ----------------------------------
2120 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2121 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2122 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2125 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2126 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2127 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2128 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2129 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2130 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2131 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2132 to an unexpected application termination
2133 * New Serbian translation
2134 * Updated Romanian translation
2137 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2138 ----------------------------------
2141 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2142 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2143 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2144 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2145 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2146 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2147 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2148 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2151 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2152 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2153 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2154 * Fixed AAC resampling
2155 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2156 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2159 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2160 ----------------------------------
2163 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2164 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2165 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2166 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2167 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2170 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2171 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2172 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2173 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2174 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2177 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2178 ----------------------------------
2181 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2182 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2185 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2186 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2187 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2188 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2190 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2194 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2197 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2200 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2203 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2206 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2207 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2208 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2209 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2210 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2212 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2213 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2214 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2215 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2218 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2221 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2222 ----------------------------------
2225 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2226 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2227 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2229 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2230 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2232 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2233 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2236 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2238 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2239 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2240 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2241 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2242 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2243 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2244 two different movies
2245 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2246 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2247 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2250 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2253 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2254 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2255 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2256 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2259 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2260 ----------------------------------
2262 Various bugfixes, notably:
2263 * Windows Vista compatibility
2264 * Cropping in Direct3D
2265 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2266 * RSS filter string overflow
2268 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2270 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2271 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2274 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2275 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2278 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2281 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2284 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2287 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2288 ----------------------------------
2290 Various bugfixes, notably:
2291 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2292 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2293 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2294 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2295 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2296 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2299 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2300 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2303 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2305 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2306 * Diverse usability improvements
2307 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2308 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2309 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2312 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2313 ---------------------------------
2315 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2316 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2319 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2322 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2323 --------------------------------
2326 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2329 * Support for RTSP authentication
2330 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2331 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2332 * ATSC support for DVB input
2333 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2334 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2335 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2338 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2339 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2340 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2341 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2342 * Matroska WavPack support
2343 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2344 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2345 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2348 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2349 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2350 * Improved libcaca support
2354 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2355 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2357 * Systray support in skins
2359 * Support for Apple Remote control
2360 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2361 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2362 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2363 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2365 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2368 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2369 Windows 9x/ME users:
2370 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2371 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2372 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2373 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2374 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2376 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2377 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2386 * Updates to the libvlc API
2387 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2390 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2391 --------------------------------
2394 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2395 * Support for downloading updates
2399 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2400 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2401 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2402 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2404 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2405 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2406 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2409 * Cook (Real audio) support
2411 Playlist / Services discovery:
2412 * XSPF playlist support
2414 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2417 * New JACK audio output
2420 * New video filters:
2421 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2422 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2423 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2424 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2425 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2426 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2429 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2432 * System to inform the user and request information
2433 - HTTP authentication
2437 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2438 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2439 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2442 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2443 - Improved playlist handling
2444 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2446 - Embedded Video output
2447 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2448 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2449 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2450 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2451 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2453 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2454 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2457 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2460 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2461 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2462 * Growl "Now playing" support
2465 * Ability to log to syslog
2466 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2469 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2471 * A bit more automatic testing
2474 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2475 ---------------------------------
2478 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2479 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2482 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2483 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2486 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2489 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2490 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2496 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2499 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2500 --------------------------------
2503 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2507 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2508 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2509 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2512 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2513 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2514 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2515 * GnomeVFS input module
2516 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2517 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2520 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2521 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2522 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2525 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2526 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2532 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2533 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2536 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2537 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2538 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2541 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2543 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2544 - New extended controls panel
2545 - New bookmarks window
2546 - Fixed playlist sorting
2547 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2549 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2550 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2551 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2552 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2556 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2557 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2559 - Include macro to include other files
2563 * Should now work outside IE as well
2566 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2569 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2570 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2573 The following languages were added:
2577 * Simplified Chinese
2578 The following languages were re-added:
2582 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2583 --------------------------------
2586 * Rewrite of the playlist
2588 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2589 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2590 * Preferences improvements:
2591 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2592 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2594 * Core image manipulation support
2595 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2596 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2597 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2598 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2599 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2600 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2601 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2602 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2603 * Access filter architecture
2604 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2605 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2609 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2610 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2611 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2612 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2613 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2614 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2615 * Massive Matroska improvements
2616 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2618 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2619 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2620 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2621 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2622 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2624 Decoders / Encoders:
2625 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2626 * PNG decoder/encoder
2627 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2628 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2631 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2634 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2635 * Brand new SAP module
2636 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2637 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2638 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2639 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2640 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2641 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2645 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2648 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2649 * Image file video output (png)
2650 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2651 * Improvements to wall video filter
2652 * Support for font color and opacity
2658 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2659 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2660 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2664 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2665 - Improved preferences
2666 - Improvements to the wizard
2667 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2669 - Redesigned playlist
2670 - Improved preferences
2672 - Support for multiple actions
2675 - Support for the new playlist system
2677 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2680 * Screensaver disabling fix
2681 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2682 * Support for no-decoration windows
2685 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2686 * The OpenGL video output is back
2687 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2688 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2689 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2690 is not yet available in the new module
2691 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2694 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2703 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2706 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2709 The following languages were added:
2715 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2716 --------------------------------
2719 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2720 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2723 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2724 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2725 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2728 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2731 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2734 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2737 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2738 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2739 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2743 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2745 * Support of playlist group announcement
2748 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2749 --------------------------------
2752 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2753 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2754 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2755 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2756 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2757 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2760 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2761 (Stream your desktop)
2762 * Improved DVD support:
2763 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2764 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2765 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2766 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2767 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2768 (selection of titles/chapters).
2771 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2772 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2773 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2774 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2775 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2776 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2777 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2778 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2779 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2780 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2783 * G.726 audio support
2784 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2785 * MPEG-4 text support
2786 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2787 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2788 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2792 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2793 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2794 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2795 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2796 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2797 * DVB subtitles encoder
2798 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2799 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2801 * Text track muxing for mp4
2802 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2803 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2804 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2805 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2806 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2807 * Improved ASF muxer
2809 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2810 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2811 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2814 * New audio equalizer filter
2815 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2816 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2817 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2818 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2821 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2822 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2823 with support for effects.
2824 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2825 - New filters can be streamed.
2826 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2827 - Centralized scaling and blending
2829 - "time", to display current time
2830 - "marq", to display a marquee
2833 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2834 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2835 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2836 * A few skins2 improvements
2837 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2838 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2839 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2840 * Improved CORBA control module
2843 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2844 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2845 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2848 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2849 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2850 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2853 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2854 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2855 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2856 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2857 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2860 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2863 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2864 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2867 * Server/client network synchronization module
2868 * VBrick streams fully supported
2869 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2873 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2874 --------------------------------
2877 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2878 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2879 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2880 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2883 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2884 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2885 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2886 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2887 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2888 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2889 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2892 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2893 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2894 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2895 * Improved directory access module.
2896 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2897 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2898 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2899 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2900 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2903 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2904 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2905 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2908 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2909 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2910 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2913 * Improved session announcement system.
2914 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2915 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2916 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2917 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2918 * Improved transrater.
2919 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2920 * New configuration system.
2921 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2924 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2925 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2926 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2927 * Supports scheduling.
2928 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2929 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2932 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2933 - Ability to embed video output.
2934 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2935 - Lots of improvements.
2936 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2937 - New design and set of icons.
2938 - Ability to embed video output.
2939 - Support for hotkeys.
2940 - Support for bookmarks.
2942 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2943 - Better hotkeys handling.
2946 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2947 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2948 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2949 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2952 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2953 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2954 * Improved Windows installer.
2960 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2961 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2964 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2965 ---------------------------------
2968 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2969 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2972 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2973 --------------------------------
2976 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2977 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2980 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2981 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2982 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2983 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2986 * Internal improvments
2987 * Improved import/export
2990 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2992 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2993 small and strange formats.
2995 * New MOD audio demux.
2996 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2997 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2998 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2999 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3002 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3003 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3004 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3010 * New opengl video output plugin.
3013 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3014 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3017 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3018 --------------------------------
3021 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3022 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3023 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3024 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3025 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3026 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3027 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3028 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3031 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3036 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3037 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3038 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3039 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3040 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3041 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3042 * Better Icecast support.
3043 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3044 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3047 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3048 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3049 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3050 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3051 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3052 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3053 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3056 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3057 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3058 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3059 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3060 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3061 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3062 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3063 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3064 * Preliminary RTP support.
3065 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3070 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3071 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3073 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3074 - Improvements and help in preferences
3075 - New streaming wizard
3076 - Revised Disc Open menu
3078 - Improvements of the standard pages
3079 - Support for new commands
3080 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3083 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3084 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3087 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3088 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3089 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3090 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3091 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3092 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3093 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3094 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3095 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3098 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3100 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3101 * Support for Panther.
3102 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3103 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3106 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3107 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3108 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3109 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3110 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3111 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3112 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3113 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3116 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3117 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3118 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3121 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3124 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3125 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3126 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3127 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3130 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3131 --------------------------------
3134 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3137 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3138 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3141 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3142 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3145 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3148 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3149 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3152 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3155 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3158 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3159 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3163 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3164 --------------------------------
3167 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3168 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3172 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3173 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3174 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3176 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3177 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3180 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3183 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3186 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3187 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3191 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3192 --------------------------------
3195 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3196 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3200 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3201 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3202 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3203 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3204 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3207 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3208 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3209 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3212 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3213 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3214 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3217 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3218 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3219 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3220 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3221 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3224 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3225 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3226 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3229 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3232 * Improved build system.
3233 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3234 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3235 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3236 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3239 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3240 --------------------------------
3243 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3246 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3247 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3248 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3249 * Video 4 Linux support
3250 * CD Digital Audio support
3251 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3254 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3255 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3256 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3257 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3260 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3261 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3262 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3263 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3264 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3265 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3266 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3269 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3270 * New HTTP remote control interface
3273 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3274 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3275 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3276 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3277 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3280 * New reset option for the preferences
3281 * You can set your language in the prefences
3282 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3283 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3284 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3285 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3288 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3289 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3290 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3293 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3294 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3295 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3296 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3297 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3298 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3299 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3300 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3301 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3302 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3305 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3306 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3307 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3308 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3309 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3310 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3311 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3314 * Interface localization
3315 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3316 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3317 * New full-featured Preferences window
3320 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3321 --------------------------------
3324 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3325 * support for skins at the interface level
3326 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3327 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3328 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3329 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3330 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3333 * fixed HTTP redirects
3334 * support for opening an entire directory
3335 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3336 * new video4linux access plug-in
3337 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3340 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3341 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3342 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3345 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3346 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3347 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3348 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3349 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3350 * new codec for raw I420 video
3351 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3354 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3355 (although it still misses some important features)
3356 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3359 * new HTTP output support
3360 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3361 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3364 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3367 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3370 * reorderable playlist
3371 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3372 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3373 * support for mono audio output devices
3374 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3375 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3376 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3377 * the messages window remembers more lines
3378 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3379 * http and ogg stream output options
3380 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3383 * new skinnable interface
3384 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3386 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3387 * support for FLAC audio format
3388 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3390 * network tab in the interface
3391 * "apply" handling in preferences
3394 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3395 ---------------------------------
3398 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3399 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3400 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3401 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3403 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3404 * DTS S/PDIF support
3407 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3408 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3409 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3410 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3413 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3414 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3417 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3420 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3423 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3425 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3426 * rc interface is now fully useable
3427 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3430 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3431 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3432 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3433 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3434 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3436 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3437 * support for mouse gestures
3438 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3441 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3442 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3445 * improved ID3 tag detection
3446 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3447 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3448 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3450 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3453 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3454 ---------------------------------
3457 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3458 English was set as the preferred language
3461 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3462 --------------------------------
3465 * new mouse gesture interface
3466 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3470 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3471 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3472 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3475 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3476 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3480 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3483 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3484 without the user consent
3487 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3489 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3490 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3491 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3494 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3495 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3496 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3497 * playlist enhancements
3498 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3499 * new step forward/step backward commands
3500 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3501 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3502 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3505 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3506 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3507 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3510 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3511 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3514 * native video output is working again
3515 * only commandline interface support
3516 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3519 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3520 --------------------------------
3523 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3524 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3525 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3526 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3527 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3528 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3529 and A/52 streams are supported)
3530 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3535 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3536 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3537 * VCD entry points support
3538 * VCD image file support
3541 * support for *.asf format
3542 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3543 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3544 * support for ogg encapsulation
3545 * support for raw DV format
3546 * support for *.wav format
3547 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3550 Stream discovery & playlists:
3551 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3552 * support for .m3u file format
3553 * support for .asx file format
3554 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3557 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3558 (only available with the .avi demux)
3559 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3560 * support for raw PCM data
3561 * support for Cinepak video codec
3562 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3563 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3564 * support for Xvid codec
3565 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3566 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3567 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3569 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3571 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3574 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3577 * new WxWindows interface
3578 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3579 device and the channels configuration
3580 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3581 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3582 format that VLC can play
3583 * new swedish translation
3584 * enhancements of the playlist window
3585 * new messages window to see debug info
3586 * fixed a few crashes
3589 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3590 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3591 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3592 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working