1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
19 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
20 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
23 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
24 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
25 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
26 * Support for Daala video
27 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
28 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
29 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
30 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
31 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
33 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
36 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
37 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
38 * Support Daala in Ogg
39 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
40 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
41 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
42 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
43 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
44 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
45 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
46 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
47 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
50 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
53 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
54 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
57 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
58 * Wayland shell surface window provider
59 * Wayland shared memory video output
60 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
61 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
62 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
63 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
64 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
67 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
68 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
71 * Chromecast output module
72 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
75 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
78 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
79 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
83 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
84 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
87 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
88 * Port to Yosemite X.10
91 * Batch convert support
94 * Support key accelerators
97 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
98 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
99 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
100 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
101 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
102 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
103 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
104 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
105 identifier (if there is one available)
108 * Support for the SystemD Journal
109 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
110 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
111 * New Android module for logging
114 * remove langfromtelx
115 * remove ZPL playlist format
118 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
119 --------------------------------
122 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
123 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
126 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
127 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
128 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
129 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
132 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
133 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
134 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
135 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
137 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
138 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
139 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
142 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
143 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
144 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
145 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
146 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
147 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
148 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
149 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
150 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
151 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
152 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
153 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
154 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
155 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
156 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
157 * New jpeg image decoder
158 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
159 * New SVG image decoder
160 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
161 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
162 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
165 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
166 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
167 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
168 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
169 * New png image encoder using libpng
172 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
173 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
174 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
175 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
176 synchronization and tracks exclusion
177 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
178 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
179 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
180 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
181 * Support Opus in MKV
183 * Basic support for WebVTT
184 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
185 * Support HDPR TS files
186 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
187 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
188 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
189 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
190 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
191 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
192 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
193 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
194 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
195 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
196 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
197 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
200 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
201 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
202 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
203 * New Android native window provider module
204 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
205 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
206 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
209 * New Oldmovie effect filter
210 * New VHS effect filter
211 * New Freeze effect filter
212 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
213 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
214 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
217 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
218 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
219 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
220 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
221 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
222 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
225 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
226 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
228 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
231 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
232 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
233 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
234 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
235 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
236 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
237 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
238 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
239 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
241 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
242 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
243 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
246 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
247 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
250 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
251 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
254 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
255 * Add record button in Qt menus
256 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
257 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
258 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
261 * Support for OS X Yosemite
262 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
263 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
264 * Fixes for advanced preferences
265 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
266 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
267 * Option to increase playlist font size
268 * Improved crash log reporting
271 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
272 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
273 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
274 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
277 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
280 * iOS video output: use ios2
281 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
282 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
285 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
286 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
287 * Update of all translations:
288 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
289 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
290 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
291 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
292 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
293 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
294 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
297 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
298 --------------------------------
304 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
305 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
306 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
307 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
308 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
309 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
310 * Fix potential crash in zip access
311 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
314 * Update translations and greek encoding
317 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
318 --------------------------------
321 * Fix compilation on OS/2
324 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
326 Mac OS X audio output:
327 * Fix channel ordering
328 * Increase the buffersize
331 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
332 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
333 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
336 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
339 * Correctly support video-on-top
340 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
341 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
344 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
347 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
348 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
351 * Update British English
354 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
355 --------------------------------
358 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
361 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
364 * Fix DVD playback regression
365 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
366 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
369 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
374 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
377 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
378 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
379 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
382 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
383 by updating codec libraries
384 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
385 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
386 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
389 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
390 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
391 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
392 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
395 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
396 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
399 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
400 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
401 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
402 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
403 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
406 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
407 * Fix record file names
410 * Fix minimal size possible on start
411 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
412 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
413 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
414 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
417 * Fix album art display on Windows
420 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
421 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
422 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
423 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
424 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
425 and Simplified Chinese translations
426 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
429 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
430 --------------------------------
433 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
434 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
435 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
436 audio devices on OS X
437 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
438 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
441 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
442 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
445 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
446 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
449 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
452 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
453 * Improve A-B loop control
454 * Fix album art update when changing media
457 * Add a language option in the interface
458 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
459 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
460 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
461 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
462 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
463 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
464 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
467 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
470 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
471 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
472 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
473 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
476 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
477 --------------------------------
480 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
482 * Fix some subtitles track selection
485 * VP9 support in WebM
486 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
487 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
490 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
491 * Support Speex in ogg files
492 * Fix some .mov playlists support
493 * Support Alac in mkv
494 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
495 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
498 * Fix DVB options parsing
499 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
500 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
503 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
504 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
507 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
508 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
511 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
512 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
513 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
514 * Fix play after drag'n drop
515 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
518 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
519 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
522 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
523 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
526 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
527 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
528 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
529 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
530 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
531 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
532 * Improves interface resizings
535 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
536 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
537 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
538 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
539 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
543 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
544 --------------------------------
547 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
548 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
549 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
550 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
551 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
553 3rd party libraries (contrib):
554 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
557 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
558 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
559 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
560 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
561 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
564 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
565 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
569 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
570 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
571 * Support for Ulead DV audio
572 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
573 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
574 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
575 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
576 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
577 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
578 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
579 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
580 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
581 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
584 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
585 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
586 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
589 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
590 remove support for previous OS X releases
591 * Major improvements in DASH support
592 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
593 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
594 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
595 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
596 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
597 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
598 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
599 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
600 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
601 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
602 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
605 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
606 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
607 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
608 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
609 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
610 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
611 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
612 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
613 * Support for more MJPEG streams
614 * Add support for liveleak streams
615 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
616 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
617 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
620 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
621 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
622 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
623 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
624 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
625 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
626 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
627 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
628 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
629 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
630 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
633 * New remapping channel filter
634 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
635 * New VSXu visualization plugin
636 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
637 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
638 * New gain audio filter
641 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
642 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
643 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
644 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
645 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
646 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
647 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
648 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
649 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
652 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
653 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
654 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
655 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
656 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
657 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
658 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
661 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
662 * Options support for AVIO output module
663 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
664 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
665 * Livehttp stream encryption support
666 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
667 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
670 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
673 * configurable password for the HTTP server
674 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
675 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
676 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
677 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
678 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
679 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
680 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
684 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
687 * Add support for multiple video outputs
688 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
690 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
691 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
692 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
693 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
694 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
695 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
696 VLC's internal volume level
697 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
699 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
700 selection and to manage the list of presets
701 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
702 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
703 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
704 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
705 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
706 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
707 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
708 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
709 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
710 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
712 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
713 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
714 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
715 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
716 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
717 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
718 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
719 3rd party applications
720 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
721 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
722 (system-wide settings)
723 * Add support for the Video Title option
724 * Add support for the Boss Key
725 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
726 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
729 * Partial support for Qt5.0
730 * Menus modifications and improvements
731 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
732 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
733 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
734 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
735 * EPG display fixes and improvements
736 * Add SD pixmap sources
737 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
738 * Display playlist total duration
739 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
740 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
741 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
746 * Extend sliders, offsets options
747 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
748 * Numerous fixes and improvements
749 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
752 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
753 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
754 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
755 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
756 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
757 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
758 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
759 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
760 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
761 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
764 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
765 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
766 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
767 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
768 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
769 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
771 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
772 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
773 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
774 * Broken crop video filter
776 * OSD parser and menu
777 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
778 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
779 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
780 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
784 * Update of all translations
787 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
788 --------------------------------
791 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
792 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
795 * Fix modplug security issues
798 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
799 --------------------------------
803 * Fix crash in QTsound
804 * Fix screen mouse file location
805 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
808 * Fix use after free in sgimb
809 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
812 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
815 * Fix interface crashes
816 * Fix autostart playback option
817 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
820 * update Welsh translation
821 * New Kannada translation
824 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
825 --------------------------------
828 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
829 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
833 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
836 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
839 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
842 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
846 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
849 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
852 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
853 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
854 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
857 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
858 --------------------------------
861 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
864 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
867 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
868 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
869 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
870 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
871 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
872 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
875 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
876 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
877 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
878 * 3rd party codecs updates
881 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
882 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
883 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
884 in the advanced preferences panel
885 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
886 * Fix crash within the video output code
887 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
888 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
889 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
890 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
892 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
895 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
898 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
899 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
902 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
905 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
906 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
907 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
908 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
909 Dutch, Danish, translations
910 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
913 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
920 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
921 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
922 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
925 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
926 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
927 * Fix koreus lua parser
928 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
929 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
930 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
931 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
934 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
935 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
938 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
941 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
942 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
943 * Fix Time counter UI look
944 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
947 * Fix https streaming
950 * Fix audio and video track selection:
951 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
952 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
955 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
956 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
957 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
958 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
959 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
962 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
963 --------------------------------
966 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
967 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
968 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
969 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
970 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
971 during playback on Mac OS X
974 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
975 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
976 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
979 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
980 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
981 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
982 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
983 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
986 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
987 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
988 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
989 * Support Youtube live streams
992 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
995 * Fix media info dialog update
996 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
997 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
998 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
999 * Fix album art display at start
1002 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1003 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1004 * Fix menus display and behavior
1005 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1006 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1007 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1008 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1009 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1010 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1011 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1014 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1015 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1016 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1017 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1018 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1019 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1020 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1021 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1022 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1025 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1026 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1027 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1028 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1029 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1032 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1033 --------------------------------
1036 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1039 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1040 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1043 * Add GateKeeper support
1044 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1045 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1046 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1049 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1052 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1053 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1054 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1055 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1056 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1059 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1060 --------------------------------
1063 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1064 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1065 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1066 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1067 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1068 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1069 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1070 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1071 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1072 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1073 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1077 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1078 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1079 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1080 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1081 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1082 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1083 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1084 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1085 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1086 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1087 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1088 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1091 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1092 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1094 * Fix MP3 free format support
1097 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1098 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1099 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1100 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1101 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1104 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1105 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1107 Audio filters and output:
1108 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1109 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1110 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1111 * Do not apply volume in file output
1112 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1113 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1116 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1117 the persistant media library
1118 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1119 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1120 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1121 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1122 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1123 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1124 press on the Play/Pause button
1125 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1126 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1127 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1128 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1129 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1130 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1131 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1132 Synchronization panel
1133 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1134 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1135 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1136 * Fix crashes on exit
1137 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1139 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1140 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1141 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1142 automatically reset on the first launch.
1143 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1144 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1145 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1148 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1149 * Fixes for icecast SD
1152 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1153 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1154 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1155 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1156 * Fix tags and file names display
1157 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1160 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1161 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1164 * Fix display of some buttons
1165 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1166 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1169 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1170 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1171 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1174 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1175 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1176 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1177 Thai translations update
1178 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1181 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1182 --------------------------------
1185 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1186 * fix the samba module compilation
1187 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1188 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1189 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1190 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1193 * Support for MXPEG files
1194 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1195 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1198 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1199 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1200 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1203 * Fix ogm header creation
1206 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1207 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1210 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1211 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1212 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1213 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1216 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1219 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1220 * allow to hide the sidebar
1221 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1222 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1223 * noticebly faster launch time
1224 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1225 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1226 * improve track synchronization panel
1227 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1228 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1231 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1232 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1233 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1234 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1237 * fix for menus display
1238 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1239 * documentation update
1242 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1243 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1246 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1247 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1248 * Update Jamendo selections
1252 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1253 * fix a crash on VLM close
1256 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1257 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1258 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1259 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1262 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1265 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1266 ---------------------------------
1269 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1270 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1271 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1272 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1273 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1274 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1275 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1276 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1277 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1278 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1279 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1280 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1281 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1282 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1283 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1284 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1285 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1286 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1287 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1288 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1289 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1290 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1291 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1292 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1293 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1294 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1296 Important changes for packagers:
1297 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1298 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1299 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1300 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1301 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1302 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1303 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1304 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1305 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1306 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1309 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1310 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1311 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1312 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1313 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1314 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1315 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1318 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1319 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1320 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1321 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1322 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1323 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1324 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1325 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1326 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1327 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1328 * PulseAudio audio input support
1329 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1330 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1331 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1332 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1333 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1334 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1335 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1336 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1339 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1340 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1341 are notably concerned.
1342 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1343 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1344 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1345 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1346 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1347 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1348 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1349 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1350 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1351 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1352 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1353 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1354 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1355 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1356 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1359 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1360 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1361 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1362 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1363 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1364 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1365 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1366 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1367 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1368 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1369 * Improved support of tracker files
1370 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1373 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1374 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1375 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1376 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1377 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1378 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1379 and important cleanups and optimisations
1380 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1381 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1382 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1383 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1384 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1385 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1386 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1387 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1388 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1389 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1390 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1391 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1392 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1393 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1394 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1395 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1396 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1397 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1398 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1399 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1400 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1403 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1404 * New video output for iOS platform
1405 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1406 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1407 * Various vmem improvements
1408 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1409 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1410 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1411 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1412 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1413 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1415 Audio Output and Filters:
1416 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1417 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1418 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1419 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1420 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1421 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1422 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1423 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1424 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1425 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1428 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1429 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1430 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1431 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1432 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1433 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1434 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1435 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1436 * New anti-flickering filter
1437 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1438 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1439 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1440 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1441 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1442 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1443 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1446 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1447 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1448 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1449 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1450 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1451 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1452 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1453 * Major rework of VoD support
1454 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1455 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1456 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1457 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1458 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1459 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1460 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1461 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1462 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1463 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1466 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1467 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1470 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1471 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1472 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1473 list of available audio and video filters
1474 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1475 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1476 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1479 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1480 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1481 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1482 * id3tag: use taglib
1483 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1484 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1485 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1486 * removal of the noise filter
1487 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1488 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1489 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1490 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1493 * Update of translations for most languages.
1494 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1497 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1498 ----------------------------------
1501 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1502 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1505 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1506 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1509 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1510 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1511 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1514 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1517 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1518 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1521 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1524 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1525 ----------------------------------
1528 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1529 including support for OS X Lion
1530 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1531 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1534 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1537 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1538 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1539 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1542 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1545 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1546 ----------------------------------
1549 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1550 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1553 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1554 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1555 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1556 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1557 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1559 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1560 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1561 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1563 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1564 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1567 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1570 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1573 * Fix quitting on Linux
1574 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1578 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1581 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1584 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1585 ---------------------------------
1587 Windows and Mac OS X:
1588 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1591 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1592 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1595 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1598 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1601 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1603 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1604 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1606 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1607 * RTP output and XML export
1608 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1612 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1613 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1614 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1615 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1618 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1619 --------------------------------
1621 Windows and Mac OS X:
1622 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1625 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1628 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1629 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1630 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1631 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1632 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1633 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1636 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1637 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1641 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1642 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1643 * New Luganda Translation
1646 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1647 --------------------------------
1650 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1653 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1654 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1655 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1656 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1659 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1661 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1662 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1663 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1664 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1665 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1666 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1667 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1668 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1670 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1671 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1672 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1673 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1674 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1675 * Configure and build system improvements
1676 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1679 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1680 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1681 * New icelandic translation
1684 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1685 --------------------------------
1688 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1689 #234484 and #260719.
1692 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1693 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1694 and stability reasons
1697 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1701 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1704 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1705 ----------------------------------
1708 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1711 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1712 ---------------------------------
1715 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1716 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1717 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1718 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1721 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1724 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1725 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1726 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1727 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1730 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1731 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1732 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1734 Subtitles and renderer:
1735 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1736 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1737 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1738 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1739 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1742 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1743 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1744 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1745 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1748 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1749 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1751 Miscellaneous fixes:
1752 * KDE device solid actions
1754 * Transcode integer overflow
1755 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1756 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1759 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1760 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1761 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1764 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1765 ----------------------------------
1768 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1772 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1775 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1778 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1779 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1780 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1781 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1784 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1788 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1791 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1794 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1795 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1797 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1801 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1802 * Miscellaneous fixes
1805 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1806 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1807 French and Ukrainian
1808 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1809 * New Asturian translation
1812 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1813 ----------------------------------
1816 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1818 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1821 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1824 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1825 * Various fixes for Windows
1828 * New Armenian translation
1829 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1830 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1833 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1834 --------------------------------
1837 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1838 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1839 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1842 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1843 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1846 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1847 --------------------------------
1849 Access and demuxers:
1850 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1851 * fix for podcasts parsing
1852 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1855 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1856 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1859 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1860 * fix m3u playlists exports
1863 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1866 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1869 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1872 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1875 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1878 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1879 --------------------------------
1882 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1883 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1886 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1887 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1890 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1891 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1892 * fix console output encoding
1894 Interface and extensions:
1895 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1896 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1899 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1900 --------------------------------
1903 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1904 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1905 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1906 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1907 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1908 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1909 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1910 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1911 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1912 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1913 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1914 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1915 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1916 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1917 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1918 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1922 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1923 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1924 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1925 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1926 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1929 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1932 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1933 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1934 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1938 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1941 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1942 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1943 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1946 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1947 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1948 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1949 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1952 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1953 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1956 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1957 --------------------------------
1959 Important changes for users:
1960 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1961 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1963 Important changes for packagers:
1964 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1965 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1966 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1967 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1968 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1970 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1972 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1973 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1974 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1975 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1976 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1979 * Support for the sftp protocol
1980 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1981 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1982 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1983 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1984 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1987 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1988 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1989 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1991 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1992 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1993 * Invmem module improvements
1994 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1995 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1996 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1997 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1998 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1999 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2000 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2001 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2002 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2003 * Support for VP8 codec
2004 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2007 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2008 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2009 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2010 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2011 * Various EGP improvements
2012 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2013 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2016 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2017 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2018 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2019 * Podcast images are now displayed
2022 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2023 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2024 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2025 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2026 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2027 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2028 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2029 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2030 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2031 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2032 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2035 * New content extensions lua framework
2038 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2039 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2040 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2041 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2042 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2043 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2044 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2047 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2048 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2049 * Service discovery based on libudev
2050 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2053 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2054 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2055 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2056 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2057 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2058 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2059 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2062 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2063 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2064 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2067 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2069 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2070 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2073 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2076 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2077 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2078 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2079 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2080 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2081 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2082 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2085 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2086 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2089 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2090 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2091 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2095 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2096 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2097 * Improved Solaris port
2100 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2101 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2104 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2105 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2106 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2107 * transrate: broken since too long
2108 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2109 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2110 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2111 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2112 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2113 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2114 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2115 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2116 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2117 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2118 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2119 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2120 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2121 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2124 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2125 --------------------------------
2128 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2130 Decoders/Packetizers:
2131 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2134 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2135 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2136 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2137 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2138 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2141 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2142 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2145 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2146 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2149 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2150 and Walloon translations updated
2151 * Sinhala translation started
2154 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2155 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2158 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2159 --------------------------------
2162 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2163 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2166 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2169 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2170 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2173 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2174 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2175 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2176 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2179 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2180 --------------------------------
2183 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2184 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2187 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2188 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2191 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2192 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2195 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2198 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2199 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2202 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2203 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2206 * New Walloon translation
2207 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2210 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2211 --------------------------------
2214 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2215 regressions in most popular drivers
2216 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2219 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2220 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2221 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2224 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2225 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2228 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2229 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2230 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2231 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2232 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2235 * New udev module for linux
2238 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2241 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2244 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2245 --------------------------------
2248 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2249 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2250 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2253 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2254 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2257 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2258 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2261 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2264 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2265 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2266 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2267 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2270 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2271 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2272 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2273 - no support for Goom and SDL
2274 - limited text rendering support
2275 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2278 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2279 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2280 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2281 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2282 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2283 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2284 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2285 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2286 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2290 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2293 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2296 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2297 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2298 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2299 Arabic and French translation updates
2302 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2303 --------------------------------
2306 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2307 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2308 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2309 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2310 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2311 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2314 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2315 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2316 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2319 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2320 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2321 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2324 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2327 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2328 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2331 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2332 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2333 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2334 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2335 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2336 * Fix various crashes
2339 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2341 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2345 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2346 ---------------------------------
2350 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2351 See 'Access:' for more info.
2352 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2355 * Instantaneous pausing
2356 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2357 * Finer speed control
2358 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2359 * Timeshift for most medias
2360 * RTSP trickplay support
2361 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2364 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2365 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2366 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2367 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2368 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2369 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2370 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2371 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2372 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2373 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2376 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2377 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2378 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2379 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2380 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2381 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2382 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2385 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2386 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2389 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2390 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2391 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2392 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2393 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2394 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2395 * DVB scanning on linux
2396 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2397 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2398 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2399 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2400 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2401 * MTP device access on Unix
2402 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2403 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2406 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2407 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2408 Windows and Mac OS X.
2411 * Export the playlist in HTML
2412 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2413 * Better metadata handling and reading
2415 Linux/Windows interface:
2416 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2417 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2418 * Recently played items list
2419 * Interface toolbar customizations
2420 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2421 - More menus actions
2422 - Finer speed slider
2423 - Improvements on many dialogs
2424 - New dialog for plugins listing
2425 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2426 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2427 * Better integration in GTK environments
2430 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2431 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2432 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2433 * Additional usability improvements
2436 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2437 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2438 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2439 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2440 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2443 * New Maemo port with:
2444 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2445 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2448 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2451 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2452 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2453 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2454 * Support for latest iSight models
2457 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2458 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2461 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2462 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2463 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2464 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2465 The old image video output has been removed.
2466 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2467 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2470 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2478 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2479 --------------------------------------
2485 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2486 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2487 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2488 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2489 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2490 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2491 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2493 Various fixes to the following modules:
2496 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2497 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2498 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2500 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2505 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2506 ---------------------------------
2509 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2510 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2513 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2514 ---------------------------------
2517 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2520 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2523 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2524 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2525 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2526 main controller window.
2527 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2530 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2535 * Updates of other localizations
2538 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2539 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2540 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2541 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2542 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2545 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2546 ---------------------------------
2549 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2551 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2554 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2555 --------------------------------
2560 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2561 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2564 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2565 --------------------------------
2567 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2568 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2571 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2574 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2575 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2578 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2579 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2582 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2583 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2584 * Various fixed in playlist
2587 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2590 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2593 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2594 ------------------------------------
2596 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2597 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2600 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2601 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2602 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2605 * Stability fix for the video output.
2608 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2609 --------------------------------
2612 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2613 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2614 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2615 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2616 * Fixed update system bugs
2617 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2620 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2621 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2622 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2623 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2624 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2625 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2626 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2627 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2628 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2629 modern Mac OS X versions
2632 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2633 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2635 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2636 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2639 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2640 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2641 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2642 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2643 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2644 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2647 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2648 --------------------------------
2650 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2651 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2652 * Multiple bugfixes.
2655 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2656 --------------------------------
2658 * Multiple bug fixes.
2661 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2662 ---------------------------------
2666 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2667 recent to work correctly
2668 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2669 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2670 edit the ".hosts" file.
2671 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2672 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2673 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2674 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2675 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2676 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2677 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2678 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2679 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2680 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2681 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2682 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2683 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2684 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2685 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2686 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2687 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2688 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2689 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2690 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2691 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2692 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2693 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2694 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2695 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2696 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2697 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2698 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2699 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2700 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2701 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2702 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2703 and postproc modules.
2704 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2705 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2706 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2707 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2709 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2710 filter. For example:
2711 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2712 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2714 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2715 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2721 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2723 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2724 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2727 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2728 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2730 * Shoutcast TV listings
2731 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2733 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2734 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2736 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2739 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2740 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2741 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2742 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2743 * JACK audio input support
2744 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2745 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2746 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2747 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2748 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2749 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2750 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2751 (available as a separate download).
2752 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2753 * RTMP input support
2754 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2755 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2756 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2758 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2759 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2762 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2763 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2764 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2765 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2767 * APEv1/2 tags support
2768 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2769 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2771 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2772 * TiVo Series 2 support
2773 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2778 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2779 * Flash Screen Video support
2780 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2781 * DosBox Capture support
2782 * Karl Morton's Video support
2783 * limited atrac3 support
2785 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2786 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2787 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2788 * H.264 PAFF support
2789 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2790 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2791 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2792 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2793 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2796 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2797 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2798 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2799 * AQTitle subtitles support
2800 * MKV USF subtitles support
2801 * HTML-based subtitles support
2802 * MPSub subtitles support
2803 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2804 * MPL2 subtitles support
2805 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2806 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2807 * Realtext subtitle support
2808 * DKS subtitle support
2809 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2810 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2813 * Flash Screen Video support
2814 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2816 Video outputs and filters:
2817 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2818 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2819 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2820 * New puzzle video output filter
2821 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2822 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2824 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2825 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2826 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2827 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2828 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2829 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2830 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2831 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2832 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2833 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2834 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2835 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2836 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2837 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2839 Audio outputs and filters:
2840 * Replay gain support
2841 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2842 new scaletempo audio filter)
2843 * New spatializer audio filter
2844 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2847 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2848 * New RTP payload formats:
2849 * Speex voice audio codec
2850 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2851 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2852 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2853 * DCCP transport for RTP
2854 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2859 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2860 end-user suitable way.
2861 * Improved user interaction
2862 * Improved mouse gestures
2863 * Vastly improved Update checker
2864 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2866 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2867 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2869 * Improved video output features
2870 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2871 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2872 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2873 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2874 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2876 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2877 if libncursesw is available.
2878 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2879 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2880 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2882 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2883 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2884 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2885 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2886 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2887 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2888 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2889 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2892 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2893 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2894 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2897 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2898 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2899 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2900 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2901 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2902 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2905 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2906 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2916 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2917 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2918 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2921 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2922 ----------------------------------
2925 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2928 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2929 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2930 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2931 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2932 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2933 * Updated Polish translation
2936 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2937 ----------------------------------
2940 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2941 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2942 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2945 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2946 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2947 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2948 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2949 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2950 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2951 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2952 to an unexpected application termination
2953 * New Serbian translation
2954 * Updated Romanian translation
2957 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2958 ----------------------------------
2961 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2962 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2963 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2964 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2965 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2966 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2967 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2968 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2971 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2972 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2973 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2974 * Fixed AAC resampling
2975 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2976 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2979 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2980 ----------------------------------
2983 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2984 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2985 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2986 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2987 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2990 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2991 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2992 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2993 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2994 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2997 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2998 ----------------------------------
3001 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3002 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3005 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3006 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3007 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3008 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3010 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3014 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3017 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3020 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3023 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3026 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3027 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3028 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3029 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3030 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3032 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3033 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3034 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3035 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3038 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3041 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3042 ----------------------------------
3045 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3046 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3047 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3049 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3050 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3052 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3053 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3056 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3058 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3059 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3060 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3061 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3062 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3063 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3064 two different movies
3065 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3066 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3067 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3070 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3073 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3074 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3075 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3076 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3079 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3080 ----------------------------------
3082 Various bugfixes, notably:
3083 * Windows Vista compatibility
3084 * Cropping in Direct3D
3085 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3086 * RSS filter string overflow
3088 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3090 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3091 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3094 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3095 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3098 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3101 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3104 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3107 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3108 ----------------------------------
3110 Various bugfixes, notably:
3111 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3112 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3113 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3114 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3115 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3116 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3119 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3120 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3123 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3125 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3126 * Diverse usability improvements
3127 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3128 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3129 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3132 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3133 ---------------------------------
3135 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3136 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3139 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3142 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3143 --------------------------------
3146 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3149 * Support for RTSP authentication
3150 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3151 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3152 * ATSC support for DVB input
3153 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3154 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3155 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3158 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3159 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3160 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3161 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3162 * Matroska WavPack support
3163 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3164 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3165 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3168 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3169 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3170 * Improved libcaca support
3174 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3175 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3177 * Systray support in skins
3179 * Support for Apple Remote control
3180 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3181 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3182 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3183 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3185 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3188 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3189 Windows 9x/ME users:
3190 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3191 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3192 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3193 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3194 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3196 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3197 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3206 * Updates to the libvlc API
3207 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3210 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3211 --------------------------------
3214 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3215 * Support for downloading updates
3219 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3220 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3221 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3222 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3224 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3225 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3226 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3229 * Cook (Real audio) support
3231 Playlist / Services discovery:
3232 * XSPF playlist support
3234 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3237 * New JACK audio output
3240 * New video filters:
3241 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3242 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3243 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3244 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3245 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3246 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3249 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3252 * System to inform the user and request information
3253 - HTTP authentication
3257 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3258 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3259 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3262 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3263 - Improved playlist handling
3264 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3266 - Embedded Video output
3267 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3268 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3269 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3270 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3271 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3273 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3274 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3277 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3280 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3281 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3282 * Growl "Now playing" support
3285 * Ability to log to syslog
3286 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3289 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3291 * A bit more automatic testing
3294 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3295 ---------------------------------
3298 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3299 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3302 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3303 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3306 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3309 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3310 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3316 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3319 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3320 --------------------------------
3323 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3327 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3328 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3329 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3332 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3333 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3334 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3335 * GnomeVFS input module
3336 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3337 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3340 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3341 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3342 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3345 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3346 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3352 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3353 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3356 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3357 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3358 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3361 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3363 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3364 - New extended controls panel
3365 - New bookmarks window
3366 - Fixed playlist sorting
3367 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3369 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3370 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3371 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3372 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3376 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3377 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3379 - Include macro to include other files
3383 * Should now work outside IE as well
3386 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3389 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3390 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3393 The following languages were added:
3397 * Simplified Chinese
3398 The following languages were re-added:
3402 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3403 --------------------------------
3406 * Rewrite of the playlist
3408 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3409 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3410 * Preferences improvements:
3411 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3412 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3414 * Core image manipulation support
3415 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3416 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3417 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3418 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3419 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3420 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3421 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3422 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3423 * Access filter architecture
3424 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3425 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3429 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3430 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3431 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3432 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3433 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3434 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3435 * Massive Matroska improvements
3436 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3438 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3439 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3440 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3441 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3442 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3444 Decoders / Encoders:
3445 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3446 * PNG decoder/encoder
3447 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3448 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3451 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3454 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3455 * Brand new SAP module
3456 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3457 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3458 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3459 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3460 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3461 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3465 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3468 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3469 * Image file video output (png)
3470 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3471 * Improvements to wall video filter
3472 * Support for font color and opacity
3478 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3479 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3480 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3484 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3485 - Improved preferences
3486 - Improvements to the wizard
3487 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3489 - Redesigned playlist
3490 - Improved preferences
3492 - Support for multiple actions
3495 - Support for the new playlist system
3497 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3500 * Screensaver disabling fix
3501 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3502 * Support for no-decoration windows
3505 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3506 * The OpenGL video output is back
3507 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3508 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3509 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3510 is not yet available in the new module
3511 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3514 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3523 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3526 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3529 The following languages were added:
3535 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3536 --------------------------------
3539 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3540 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3543 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3544 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3545 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3548 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3551 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3554 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3557 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3558 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3559 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3563 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3565 * Support of playlist group announcement
3568 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3569 --------------------------------
3572 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3573 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3574 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3575 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3576 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3577 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3580 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3581 (Stream your desktop)
3582 * Improved DVD support:
3583 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3584 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3585 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3586 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3587 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3588 (selection of titles/chapters).
3591 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3592 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3593 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3594 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3595 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3596 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3597 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3598 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3599 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3600 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3603 * G.726 audio support
3604 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3605 * MPEG-4 text support
3606 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3607 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3608 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3612 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3613 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3614 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3615 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3616 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3617 * DVB subtitles encoder
3618 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3619 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3621 * Text track muxing for mp4
3622 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3623 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3624 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3625 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3626 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3627 * Improved ASF muxer
3629 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3630 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3631 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3634 * New audio equalizer filter
3635 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3636 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3637 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3638 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3641 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3642 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3643 with support for effects.
3644 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3645 - New filters can be streamed.
3646 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3647 - Centralized scaling and blending
3649 - "time", to display current time
3650 - "marq", to display a marquee
3653 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3654 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3655 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3656 * A few skins2 improvements
3657 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3658 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3659 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3660 * Improved CORBA control module
3663 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3664 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3665 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3668 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3669 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3670 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3673 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3674 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3675 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3676 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3677 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3680 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3683 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3684 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3687 * Server/client network synchronization module
3688 * VBrick streams fully supported
3689 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3693 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3694 --------------------------------
3697 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3698 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3699 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3700 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3703 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3704 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3705 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3706 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3707 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3708 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3709 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3712 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3713 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3714 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3715 * Improved directory access module.
3716 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3717 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3718 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3719 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3720 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3723 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3724 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3725 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3728 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3729 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3730 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3733 * Improved session announcement system.
3734 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3735 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3736 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3737 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3738 * Improved transrater.
3739 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3740 * New configuration system.
3741 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3744 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3745 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3746 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3747 * Supports scheduling.
3748 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3749 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3752 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3753 - Ability to embed video output.
3754 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3755 - Lots of improvements.
3756 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3757 - New design and set of icons.
3758 - Ability to embed video output.
3759 - Support for hotkeys.
3760 - Support for bookmarks.
3762 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3763 - Better hotkeys handling.
3766 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3767 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3768 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3769 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3772 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3773 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3774 * Improved Windows installer.
3780 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3781 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3784 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3785 ---------------------------------
3788 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3789 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3792 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3793 --------------------------------
3796 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3797 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3800 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3801 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3802 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3803 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3806 * Internal improvments
3807 * Improved import/export
3810 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3812 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3813 small and strange formats.
3815 * New MOD audio demux.
3816 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3817 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3818 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3819 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3822 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3823 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3824 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3830 * New opengl video output plugin.
3833 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3834 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3837 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3838 --------------------------------
3841 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3842 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3843 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3844 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3845 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3846 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3847 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3848 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3851 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3856 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3857 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3858 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3859 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3860 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3861 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3862 * Better Icecast support.
3863 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3864 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3867 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3868 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3869 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3870 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3871 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3872 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3873 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3876 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3877 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3878 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3879 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3880 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3881 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3882 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3883 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3884 * Preliminary RTP support.
3885 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3890 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3891 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3893 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3894 - Improvements and help in preferences
3895 - New streaming wizard
3896 - Revised Disc Open menu
3898 - Improvements of the standard pages
3899 - Support for new commands
3900 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3903 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3904 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3907 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3908 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3909 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3910 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3911 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3912 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3913 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3914 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3915 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3918 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3920 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3921 * Support for Panther.
3922 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3923 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3926 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3927 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3928 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3929 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3930 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3931 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3932 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3933 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3936 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3937 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3938 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3941 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3944 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3945 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3946 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3947 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3950 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3951 --------------------------------
3954 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3957 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3958 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3961 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3962 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3965 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3968 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3969 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3972 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3975 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3978 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3979 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3983 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3984 --------------------------------
3987 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3988 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3992 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3993 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3994 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3996 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3997 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4000 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4003 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4006 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4007 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4011 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4012 --------------------------------
4015 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4016 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4020 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4021 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4022 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4023 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4024 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4027 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4028 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4029 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4032 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4033 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4034 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4037 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4038 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4039 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4040 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4041 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4044 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4045 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4046 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4049 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4052 * Improved build system.
4053 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4054 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4055 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4056 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4059 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4060 --------------------------------
4063 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4066 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4067 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4068 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4069 * Video 4 Linux support
4070 * CD Digital Audio support
4071 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4074 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4075 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4076 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4077 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4080 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4081 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4082 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4083 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4084 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4085 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4086 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4089 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4090 * New HTTP remote control interface
4093 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4094 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4095 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4096 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4097 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4100 * New reset option for the preferences
4101 * You can set your language in the prefences
4102 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4103 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4104 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4105 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4108 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4109 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4110 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4113 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4114 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4115 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4116 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4117 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4118 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4119 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4120 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4121 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4122 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4125 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4126 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4127 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4128 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4129 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4130 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4131 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4134 * Interface localization
4135 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4136 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4137 * New full-featured Preferences window
4140 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4141 --------------------------------
4144 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4145 * support for skins at the interface level
4146 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4147 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4148 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4149 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4150 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4153 * fixed HTTP redirects
4154 * support for opening an entire directory
4155 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4156 * new video4linux access plug-in
4157 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4160 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4161 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4162 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4165 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4166 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4167 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4168 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4169 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4170 * new codec for raw I420 video
4171 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4174 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4175 (although it still misses some important features)
4176 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4179 * new HTTP output support
4180 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4181 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4184 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4187 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4190 * reorderable playlist
4191 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4192 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4193 * support for mono audio output devices
4194 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4195 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4196 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4197 * the messages window remembers more lines
4198 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4199 * http and ogg stream output options
4200 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4203 * new skinnable interface
4204 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4206 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4207 * support for FLAC audio format
4208 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4210 * network tab in the interface
4211 * "apply" handling in preferences
4214 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4215 ---------------------------------
4218 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4219 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4220 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4221 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4223 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4224 * DTS S/PDIF support
4227 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4228 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4229 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4230 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4233 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4234 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4237 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4240 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4243 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4245 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4246 * rc interface is now fully useable
4247 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4250 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4251 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4252 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4253 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4254 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4256 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4257 * support for mouse gestures
4258 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4261 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4262 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4265 * improved ID3 tag detection
4266 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4267 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4268 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4270 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4273 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4274 ---------------------------------
4277 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4278 English was set as the preferred language
4281 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4282 --------------------------------
4285 * new mouse gesture interface
4286 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4290 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4291 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4292 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4295 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4296 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4300 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4303 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4304 without the user consent
4307 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4309 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4310 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4311 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4314 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4315 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4316 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4317 * playlist enhancements
4318 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4319 * new step forward/step backward commands
4320 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4321 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4322 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4325 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4326 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4327 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4330 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4331 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4334 * native video output is working again
4335 * only commandline interface support
4336 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4339 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4340 --------------------------------
4343 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4344 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4345 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4346 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4347 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4348 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4349 and A/52 streams are supported)
4350 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4355 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4356 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4357 * VCD entry points support
4358 * VCD image file support
4361 * support for *.asf format
4362 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4363 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4364 * support for ogg encapsulation
4365 * support for raw DV format
4366 * support for *.wav format
4367 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4370 Stream discovery & playlists:
4371 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4372 * support for .m3u file format
4373 * support for .asx file format
4374 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4377 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4378 (only available with the .avi demux)
4379 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4380 * support for raw PCM data
4381 * support for Cinepak video codec
4382 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4383 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4384 * support for Xvid codec
4385 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4386 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4387 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4389 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4391 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4394 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4397 * new WxWindows interface
4398 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4399 device and the channels configuration
4400 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4401 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4402 format that VLC can play
4403 * new swedish translation
4404 * enhancements of the playlist window
4405 * new messages window to see debug info
4406 * fixed a few crashes
4409 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4410 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4411 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4412 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working