1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
18 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
21 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
24 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * Major improvements in DASH support
26 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
27 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
30 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
31 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
32 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
33 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
34 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
35 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
36 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
37 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
38 * Support for more MJPEG streams
41 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
42 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
43 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
46 * new remapping channel filter
47 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
48 * new VSXu visualization plugin
51 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
52 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
55 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
56 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
57 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
58 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
59 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
60 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
63 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
66 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
67 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
68 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
69 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
70 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
73 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
74 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
77 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
78 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
79 VLC's internal volume level
80 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
81 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
82 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
84 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
85 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
86 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
87 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
91 * Partial support for Qt5.0
92 * Menus modifications and improvements
93 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
94 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
98 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
99 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
100 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
101 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
104 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
105 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
106 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
107 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
108 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
110 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
111 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
114 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
115 --------------------------------
118 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
121 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
122 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
125 * Add GateKeeper support
126 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
127 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
128 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
131 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
134 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
135 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
136 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
137 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
138 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
141 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
142 --------------------------------
145 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
146 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
147 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
148 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
149 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
150 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
151 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
152 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
153 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
154 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
155 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
159 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
160 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
161 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
162 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
163 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
164 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
165 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
166 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
167 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
168 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
169 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
170 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
173 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
174 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
176 * Fix MP3 free format support
179 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
180 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
181 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
182 * Fix for DVB channels file support
183 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
186 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
187 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
189 Audio filters and output:
190 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
191 * Fix DirectSound device selection
192 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
193 * Do not apply volume in file output
194 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
195 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
198 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
199 the persistant media library
200 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
201 to the media library or the temporary playlist
202 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
203 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
204 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
205 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
206 press on the Play/Pause button
207 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
208 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
209 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
210 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
211 * Many Fullscreen fixes
212 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
213 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
214 Synchronization panel
215 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
216 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
217 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
218 * Fix crashes on exit
219 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
221 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
222 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
223 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
224 automatically reset on the first launch.
225 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
226 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
227 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
230 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
231 * Fixes for icecast SD
234 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
235 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
236 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
237 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
238 * Fix tags and file names display
239 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
242 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
243 * Fix for key events and focus loss
246 * Fix display of some buttons
247 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
248 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
251 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
252 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
253 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
256 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
257 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
258 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
259 Thai translations update
260 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
263 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
264 --------------------------------
267 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
268 * fix the samba module compilation
269 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
270 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
271 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
272 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
275 * Support for MXPEG files
276 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
277 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
280 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
281 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
282 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
285 * Fix ogm header creation
288 * limit spatializer filter distortions
289 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
292 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
293 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
294 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
295 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
298 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
301 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
302 * allow to hide the sidebar
303 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
304 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
305 * noticebly faster launch time
306 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
307 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
308 * improve track synchronization panel
309 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
310 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
313 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
314 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
315 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
316 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
319 * fix for menus display
320 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
321 * documentation update
324 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
325 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
328 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
329 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
330 * Update Jamendo selections
334 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
335 * fix a crash on VLM close
338 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
339 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
340 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
341 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
344 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
347 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
348 ---------------------------------
351 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
352 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
353 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
354 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
355 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
356 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
357 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
358 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
359 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
360 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
361 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
362 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
363 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
364 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
365 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
366 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
367 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
368 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
369 --http-crl (optional CRL).
370 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
371 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
372 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
373 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
374 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
375 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
376 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
378 Important changes for packagers:
379 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
380 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
381 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
382 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
383 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
384 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
385 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
386 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
387 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
388 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
391 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
392 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
393 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
394 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
395 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
396 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
397 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
400 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
401 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
402 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
403 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
404 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
405 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
406 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
407 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
408 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
409 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
410 * PulseAudio audio input support
411 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
412 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
413 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
414 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
415 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
416 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
417 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
418 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
421 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
422 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
423 are notably concerned.
424 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
425 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
426 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
427 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
428 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
429 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
430 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
431 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
432 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
433 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
434 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
435 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
436 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
437 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
438 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
441 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
442 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
443 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
444 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
445 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
446 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
447 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
448 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
449 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
450 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
451 * Improved support of tracker files
452 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
455 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
456 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
457 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
458 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
459 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
460 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
461 and important cleanups and optimisations
462 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
463 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
464 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
465 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
466 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
467 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
468 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
469 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
470 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
471 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
472 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
473 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
474 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
475 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
476 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
477 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
478 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
479 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
480 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
481 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
482 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
485 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
486 * New video output for iOS platform
487 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
488 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
489 * Various vmem improvements
490 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
491 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
492 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
493 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
494 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
495 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
497 Audio Output and Filters:
498 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
499 * New audio output in memory (amem)
500 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
501 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
502 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
503 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
504 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
505 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
506 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
507 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
510 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
511 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
512 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
513 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
514 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
515 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
516 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
517 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
518 * New anti-flickering filter
519 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
520 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
521 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
522 blackbox and customizable shadow.
523 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
524 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
525 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
528 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
529 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
530 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
531 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
532 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
533 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
534 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
535 * Major rework of VoD support
536 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
537 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
538 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
539 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
540 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
541 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
542 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
543 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
544 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
545 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
548 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
549 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
552 * New capabilities for libVLC:
553 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
554 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
555 list of available audio and video filters
556 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
557 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
558 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
561 * asademux, subsass: use libass
562 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
563 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
565 * upnp: use upnp_intel
566 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
567 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
568 * removal of the noise filter
569 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
570 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
571 removed in Growl's next release, too.
572 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
575 * Update of translations for most languages.
576 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
579 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
580 ----------------------------------
583 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
584 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
587 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
588 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
591 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
592 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
593 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
596 * Camtasia decoding fix.
599 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
600 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
603 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
606 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
607 ----------------------------------
610 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
611 including support for OS X Lion
612 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
613 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
616 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
619 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
620 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
621 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
624 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
627 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
628 ----------------------------------
631 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
632 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
635 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
636 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
637 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
638 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
639 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
641 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
642 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
643 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
645 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
646 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
649 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
652 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
655 * Fix quitting on Linux
656 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
660 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
663 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
666 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
667 ---------------------------------
669 Windows and Mac OS X:
670 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
673 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
674 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
677 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
680 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
683 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
685 Miscellaneous fixes in:
686 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
688 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
689 * RTP output and XML export
690 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
694 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
695 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
696 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
697 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
700 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
701 --------------------------------
703 Windows and Mac OS X:
704 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
707 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
710 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
711 * Improve Apple Remote handling
712 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
713 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
714 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
715 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
718 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
719 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
723 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
724 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
725 * New Luganda Translation
728 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
729 --------------------------------
732 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
735 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
736 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
737 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
738 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
741 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
743 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
744 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
745 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
746 * mp4 demuxer improvements
747 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
748 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
749 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
750 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
752 Miscellaneous fixes in:
753 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
754 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
755 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
756 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
757 * Configure and build system improvements
758 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
761 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
762 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
763 * New icelandic translation
766 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
767 --------------------------------
770 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
774 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
775 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
776 and stability reasons
779 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
783 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
786 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
787 ----------------------------------
790 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
793 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
794 ---------------------------------
797 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
798 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
799 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
800 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
803 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
806 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
807 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
808 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
809 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
812 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
813 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
814 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
816 Subtitles and renderer:
817 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
818 * Mark more freetype options as safe
819 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
820 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
821 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
824 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
825 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
826 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
827 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
830 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
831 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
834 * KDE device solid actions
836 * Transcode integer overflow
837 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
838 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
841 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
842 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
843 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
846 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
847 ----------------------------------
850 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
854 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
857 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
860 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
861 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
862 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
863 * Taglib thread-safety fix
866 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
870 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
873 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
876 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
877 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
879 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
883 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
884 * Miscellaneous fixes
887 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
888 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
890 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
891 * New Asturian translation
894 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
895 ----------------------------------
898 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
900 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
903 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
906 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
907 * Various fixes for Windows
910 * New Armenian translation
911 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
912 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
915 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
916 --------------------------------
919 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
921 * Fix folders opening from the interface
924 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
925 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
928 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
929 --------------------------------
932 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
933 * fix for podcasts parsing
934 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
937 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
938 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
941 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
942 * fix m3u playlists exports
945 * fix video autoresize behaviour
948 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
951 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
954 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
957 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
960 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
961 --------------------------------
964 * Avformat fps displaying fix
965 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
968 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
969 of mono streams, especially on Windows
972 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
973 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
974 * fix console output encoding
976 Interface and extensions:
977 * Youtube and other scripts updates
978 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
981 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
982 --------------------------------
985 * New capabilities for libVLC:
986 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
987 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
988 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
989 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
990 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
991 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
992 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
993 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
994 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
995 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
996 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
997 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
998 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
999 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1000 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1004 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1005 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1006 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1007 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1008 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1011 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1014 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1015 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1016 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1020 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1023 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1024 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1025 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1028 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1029 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1030 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1031 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1034 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1035 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1038 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1039 --------------------------------
1041 Important changes for users:
1042 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1043 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1045 Important changes for packagers:
1046 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1047 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1048 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1049 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1050 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1052 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1054 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1055 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1056 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1057 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1058 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1061 * Support for the sftp protocol
1062 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1063 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1064 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1065 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1066 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1069 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1070 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1071 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1073 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1074 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1075 * Invmem module improvements
1076 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1077 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1078 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1079 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1080 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1081 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1082 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1083 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1084 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1085 * Support for VP8 codec
1086 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1089 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1090 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1091 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1092 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1093 * Various EGP improvements
1094 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1095 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1098 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1099 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1100 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1101 * Podcast images are now displayed
1104 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1105 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1106 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1107 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1108 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1109 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1110 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1111 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1112 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1113 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1114 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1117 * New content extensions lua framework
1120 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1121 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1122 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1123 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1124 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1125 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1126 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1129 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1130 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1131 * Service discovery based on libudev
1132 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1135 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1136 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1137 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1138 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1139 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1140 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1141 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1144 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1145 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1146 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1149 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1151 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1152 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1155 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1158 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1159 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1160 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1161 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1162 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1163 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1164 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1167 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1168 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1171 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1172 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1173 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1177 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1178 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1179 * Improved Solaris port
1182 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1183 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1186 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1187 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1188 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1189 * transrate: broken since too long
1190 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1191 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1192 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1193 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1194 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1195 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1196 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1197 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1198 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1199 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1200 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1201 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1202 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1203 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1206 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1207 --------------------------------
1210 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1212 Decoders/Packetizers:
1213 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1216 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1217 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1218 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1219 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1220 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1223 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1224 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1227 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1228 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1231 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1232 and Walloon translations updated
1233 * Sinhala translation started
1236 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1237 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1240 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1241 --------------------------------
1244 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1245 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1248 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1251 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1252 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1255 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1256 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1257 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1258 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1261 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1262 --------------------------------
1265 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1266 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1269 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1270 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1273 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1274 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1277 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1280 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1281 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1284 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1285 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1288 * New Walloon translation
1289 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1292 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1293 --------------------------------
1296 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1297 regressions in most popular drivers
1298 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1301 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1302 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1303 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1306 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1307 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1310 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1311 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1312 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1313 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1314 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1317 * New udev module for linux
1320 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1323 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1326 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1327 --------------------------------
1330 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1331 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1332 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1335 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1336 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1339 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1340 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1343 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1346 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1347 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1348 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1349 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1352 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1353 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1354 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1355 - no support for Goom and SDL
1356 - limited text rendering support
1357 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1360 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1361 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1362 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1363 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1364 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1365 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1366 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1367 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1368 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1372 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1375 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1378 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1379 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1380 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1381 Arabic and French translation updates
1384 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1385 --------------------------------
1388 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1389 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1390 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1391 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1392 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1393 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1396 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1397 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1398 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1401 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1402 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1403 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1406 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1409 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1410 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1413 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1414 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1415 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1416 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1417 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1418 * Fix various crashes
1421 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1423 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1427 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1428 ---------------------------------
1432 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1433 See 'Access:' for more info.
1434 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1437 * Instantaneous pausing
1438 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1439 * Finer speed control
1440 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1441 * Timeshift for most medias
1442 * RTSP trickplay support
1443 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1446 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1447 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1448 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1449 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1450 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1451 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1452 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1453 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1454 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1455 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1458 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1459 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1460 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1461 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1462 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1463 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1464 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1467 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1468 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1471 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1472 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1473 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1474 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1475 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1476 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1477 * DVB scanning on linux
1478 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1479 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1480 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1481 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1482 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1483 * MTP device access on Unix
1484 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1485 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1488 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1489 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1490 Windows and Mac OS X.
1493 * Export the playlist in HTML
1494 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1495 * Better metadata handling and reading
1497 Linux/Windows interface:
1498 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1499 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1500 * Recently played items list
1501 * Interface toolbar customizations
1502 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1503 - More menus actions
1504 - Finer speed slider
1505 - Improvements on many dialogs
1506 - New dialog for plugins listing
1507 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1508 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1509 * Better integration in GTK environments
1512 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1513 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1514 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1515 * Additional usability improvements
1518 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1519 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1520 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1521 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1522 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1525 * New Maemo port with:
1526 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1527 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1530 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1533 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1534 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1535 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1536 * Support for latest iSight models
1539 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1540 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1543 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1544 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1545 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1546 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1547 The old image video output has been removed.
1548 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1549 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1552 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1560 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1561 --------------------------------------
1567 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1568 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1569 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1570 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1571 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1572 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1573 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1575 Various fixes to the following modules:
1578 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1579 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1580 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1582 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1587 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1588 ---------------------------------
1591 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1592 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1595 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1596 ---------------------------------
1599 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1602 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1605 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1606 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1607 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1608 main controller window.
1609 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1612 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1617 * Updates of other localizations
1620 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1621 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1622 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1623 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1624 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1627 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1628 ---------------------------------
1631 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1633 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1636 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1637 --------------------------------
1642 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1643 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1646 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1647 --------------------------------
1649 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1650 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1653 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1656 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1657 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1660 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1661 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1664 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1665 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1666 * Various fixed in playlist
1669 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1672 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1675 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1676 ------------------------------------
1678 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1679 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1682 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1683 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1684 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1687 * Stability fix for the video output.
1690 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1691 --------------------------------
1694 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1695 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1696 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1697 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1698 * Fixed update system bugs
1699 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1702 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1703 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1704 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1705 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1706 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1707 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1708 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1709 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1710 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1711 modern Mac OS X versions
1714 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1715 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1717 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1718 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1721 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1722 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1723 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1724 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1725 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1726 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1729 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1730 --------------------------------
1732 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1733 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1734 * Multiple bugfixes.
1737 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1738 --------------------------------
1740 * Multiple bug fixes.
1743 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1744 ---------------------------------
1748 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1749 recent to work correctly
1750 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1751 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1752 edit the ".hosts" file.
1753 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1754 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1755 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1756 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1757 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1758 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1759 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1760 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1761 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1762 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1763 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1764 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1765 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1766 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1767 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1768 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1769 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1770 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1771 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1772 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1773 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1774 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1775 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1776 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1777 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1778 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1779 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1780 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1781 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1782 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1783 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1784 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1785 and postproc modules.
1786 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1787 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1788 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1789 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1791 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1792 filter. For example:
1793 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1794 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1796 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1797 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1803 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1805 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1806 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1809 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1810 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1812 * Shoutcast TV listings
1813 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1815 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1816 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1818 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1821 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1822 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1823 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1824 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1825 * JACK audio input support
1826 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1827 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1828 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1829 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1830 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1831 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1832 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1833 (available as a separate download).
1834 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1835 * RTMP input support
1836 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1837 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1838 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1840 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1841 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1844 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1845 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1846 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1847 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1849 * APEv1/2 tags support
1850 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1851 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1853 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1854 * TiVo Series 2 support
1855 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1860 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1861 * Flash Screen Video support
1862 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1863 * DosBox Capture support
1864 * Karl Morton's Video support
1865 * limited atrac3 support
1867 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1868 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1869 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1870 * H.264 PAFF support
1871 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1872 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1873 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1874 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1875 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1878 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1879 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1880 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1881 * AQTitle subtitles support
1882 * MKV USF subtitles support
1883 * HTML-based subtitles support
1884 * MPSub subtitles support
1885 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1886 * MPL2 subtitles support
1887 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1888 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1889 * Realtext subtitle support
1890 * DKS subtitle support
1891 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1892 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1895 * Flash Screen Video support
1896 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1898 Video outputs and filters:
1899 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1900 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1901 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1902 * New puzzle video output filter
1903 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1904 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1906 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1907 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1908 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1909 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1910 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1911 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1912 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1913 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1914 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1915 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1916 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1917 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1918 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1919 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1921 Audio outputs and filters:
1922 * Replay gain support
1923 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1924 new scaletempo audio filter)
1925 * New spatializer audio filter
1926 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1929 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1930 * New RTP payload formats:
1931 * Speex voice audio codec
1932 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1933 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1934 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1935 * DCCP transport for RTP
1936 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1941 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1942 end-user suitable way.
1943 * Improved user interaction
1944 * Improved mouse gestures
1945 * Vastly improved Update checker
1946 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1948 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1949 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1951 * Improved video output features
1952 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1953 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1954 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1955 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1956 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1958 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1959 if libncursesw is available.
1960 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1961 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1962 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1964 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1965 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1966 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1967 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1968 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1969 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1970 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1971 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1974 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1975 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1976 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1979 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1980 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1981 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1982 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1983 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1984 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1987 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1988 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1998 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1999 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2000 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2003 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2004 ----------------------------------
2007 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2010 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2011 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2012 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2013 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2014 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2015 * Updated Polish translation
2018 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2019 ----------------------------------
2022 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2023 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2024 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2027 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2028 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2029 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2030 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2031 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2032 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2033 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2034 to an unexpected application termination
2035 * New Serbian translation
2036 * Updated Romanian translation
2039 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2040 ----------------------------------
2043 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2044 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2045 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2046 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2047 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2048 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2049 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2050 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2053 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2054 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2055 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2056 * Fixed AAC resampling
2057 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2058 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2061 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2062 ----------------------------------
2065 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2066 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2067 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2068 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2069 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2072 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2073 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2074 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2075 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2076 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2079 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2080 ----------------------------------
2083 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2084 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2087 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2088 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2089 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2090 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2092 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2096 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2099 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2102 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2105 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2108 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2109 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2110 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2111 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2112 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2114 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2115 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2116 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2117 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2120 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2123 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2124 ----------------------------------
2127 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2128 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2129 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2131 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2132 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2134 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2135 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2138 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2140 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2141 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2142 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2143 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2144 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2145 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2146 two different movies
2147 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2148 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2149 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2152 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2155 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2156 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2157 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2158 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2161 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2162 ----------------------------------
2164 Various bugfixes, notably:
2165 * Windows Vista compatibility
2166 * Cropping in Direct3D
2167 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2168 * RSS filter string overflow
2170 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2172 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2173 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2176 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2177 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2180 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2183 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2186 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2189 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2190 ----------------------------------
2192 Various bugfixes, notably:
2193 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2194 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2195 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2196 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2197 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2198 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2201 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2202 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2205 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2207 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2208 * Diverse usability improvements
2209 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2210 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2211 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2214 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2215 ---------------------------------
2217 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2218 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2221 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2224 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2225 --------------------------------
2228 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2231 * Support for RTSP authentication
2232 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2233 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2234 * ATSC support for DVB input
2235 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2236 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2237 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2240 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2241 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2242 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2243 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2244 * Matroska WavPack support
2245 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2246 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2247 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2250 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2251 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2252 * Improved libcaca support
2256 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2257 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2259 * Systray support in skins
2261 * Support for Apple Remote control
2262 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2263 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2264 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2265 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2267 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2270 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2271 Windows 9x/ME users:
2272 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2273 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2274 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2275 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2276 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2278 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2279 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2288 * Updates to the libvlc API
2289 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2292 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2293 --------------------------------
2296 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2297 * Support for downloading updates
2301 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2302 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2303 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2304 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2306 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2307 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2308 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2311 * Cook (Real audio) support
2313 Playlist / Services discovery:
2314 * XSPF playlist support
2316 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2319 * New JACK audio output
2322 * New video filters:
2323 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2324 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2325 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2326 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2327 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2328 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2331 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2334 * System to inform the user and request information
2335 - HTTP authentication
2339 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2340 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2341 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2344 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2345 - Improved playlist handling
2346 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2348 - Embedded Video output
2349 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2350 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2351 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2352 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2353 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2355 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2356 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2359 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2362 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2363 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2364 * Growl "Now playing" support
2367 * Ability to log to syslog
2368 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2371 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2373 * A bit more automatic testing
2376 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2377 ---------------------------------
2380 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2381 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2384 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2385 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2388 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2391 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2392 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2398 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2401 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2402 --------------------------------
2405 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2409 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2410 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2411 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2414 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2415 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2416 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2417 * GnomeVFS input module
2418 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2419 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2422 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2423 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2424 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2427 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2428 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2434 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2435 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2438 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2439 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2440 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2443 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2445 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2446 - New extended controls panel
2447 - New bookmarks window
2448 - Fixed playlist sorting
2449 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2451 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2452 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2453 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2454 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2458 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2459 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2461 - Include macro to include other files
2465 * Should now work outside IE as well
2468 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2471 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2472 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2475 The following languages were added:
2479 * Simplified Chinese
2480 The following languages were re-added:
2484 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2485 --------------------------------
2488 * Rewrite of the playlist
2490 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2491 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2492 * Preferences improvements:
2493 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2494 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2496 * Core image manipulation support
2497 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2498 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2499 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2500 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2501 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2502 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2503 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2504 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2505 * Access filter architecture
2506 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2507 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2511 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2512 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2513 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2514 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2515 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2516 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2517 * Massive Matroska improvements
2518 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2520 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2521 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2522 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2523 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2524 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2526 Decoders / Encoders:
2527 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2528 * PNG decoder/encoder
2529 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2530 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2533 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2536 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2537 * Brand new SAP module
2538 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2539 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2540 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2541 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2542 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2543 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2547 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2550 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2551 * Image file video output (png)
2552 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2553 * Improvements to wall video filter
2554 * Support for font color and opacity
2560 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2561 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2562 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2566 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2567 - Improved preferences
2568 - Improvements to the wizard
2569 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2571 - Redesigned playlist
2572 - Improved preferences
2574 - Support for multiple actions
2577 - Support for the new playlist system
2579 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2582 * Screensaver disabling fix
2583 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2584 * Support for no-decoration windows
2587 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2588 * The OpenGL video output is back
2589 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2590 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2591 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2592 is not yet available in the new module
2593 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2596 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2605 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2608 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2611 The following languages were added:
2617 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2618 --------------------------------
2621 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2622 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2625 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2626 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2627 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2630 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2633 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2636 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2639 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2640 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2641 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2645 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2647 * Support of playlist group announcement
2650 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2651 --------------------------------
2654 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2655 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2656 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2657 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2658 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2659 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2662 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2663 (Stream your desktop)
2664 * Improved DVD support:
2665 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2666 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2667 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2668 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2669 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2670 (selection of titles/chapters).
2673 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2674 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2675 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2676 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2677 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2678 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2679 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2680 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2681 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2682 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2685 * G.726 audio support
2686 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2687 * MPEG-4 text support
2688 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2689 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2690 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2694 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2695 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2696 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2697 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2698 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2699 * DVB subtitles encoder
2700 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2701 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2703 * Text track muxing for mp4
2704 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2705 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2706 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2707 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2708 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2709 * Improved ASF muxer
2711 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2712 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2713 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2716 * New audio equalizer filter
2717 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2718 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2719 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2720 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2723 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2724 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2725 with support for effects.
2726 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2727 - New filters can be streamed.
2728 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2729 - Centralized scaling and blending
2731 - "time", to display current time
2732 - "marq", to display a marquee
2735 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2736 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2737 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2738 * A few skins2 improvements
2739 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2740 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2741 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2742 * Improved CORBA control module
2745 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2746 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2747 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2750 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2751 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2752 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2755 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2756 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2757 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2758 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2759 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2762 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2765 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2766 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2769 * Server/client network synchronization module
2770 * VBrick streams fully supported
2771 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2775 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2776 --------------------------------
2779 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2780 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2781 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2782 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2785 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2786 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2787 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2788 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2789 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2790 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2791 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2794 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2795 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2796 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2797 * Improved directory access module.
2798 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2799 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2800 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2801 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2802 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2805 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2806 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2807 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2810 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2811 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2812 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2815 * Improved session announcement system.
2816 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2817 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2818 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2819 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2820 * Improved transrater.
2821 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2822 * New configuration system.
2823 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2826 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2827 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2828 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2829 * Supports scheduling.
2830 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2831 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2834 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2835 - Ability to embed video output.
2836 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2837 - Lots of improvements.
2838 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2839 - New design and set of icons.
2840 - Ability to embed video output.
2841 - Support for hotkeys.
2842 - Support for bookmarks.
2844 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2845 - Better hotkeys handling.
2848 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2849 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2850 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2851 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2854 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2855 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2856 * Improved Windows installer.
2862 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2863 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2866 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2867 ---------------------------------
2870 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2871 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2874 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2875 --------------------------------
2878 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2879 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2882 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2883 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2884 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2885 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2888 * Internal improvments
2889 * Improved import/export
2892 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2894 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2895 small and strange formats.
2897 * New MOD audio demux.
2898 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2899 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2900 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2901 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2904 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2905 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2906 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2912 * New opengl video output plugin.
2915 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2916 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2919 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2920 --------------------------------
2923 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2924 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2925 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2926 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2927 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2928 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2929 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2930 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2933 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2938 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2939 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2940 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2941 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2942 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2943 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2944 * Better Icecast support.
2945 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2946 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2949 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2950 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2951 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2952 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2953 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2954 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2955 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2958 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2959 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2960 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2961 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2962 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2963 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2964 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2965 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2966 * Preliminary RTP support.
2967 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2972 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2973 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2975 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2976 - Improvements and help in preferences
2977 - New streaming wizard
2978 - Revised Disc Open menu
2980 - Improvements of the standard pages
2981 - Support for new commands
2982 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2985 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2986 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2989 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2990 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2991 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2992 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2993 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2994 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2995 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2996 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2997 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3000 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3002 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3003 * Support for Panther.
3004 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3005 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3008 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3009 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3010 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3011 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3012 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3013 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3014 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3015 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3018 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3019 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3020 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3023 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3026 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3027 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3028 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3029 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3032 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3033 --------------------------------
3036 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3039 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3040 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3043 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3044 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3047 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3050 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3051 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3054 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3057 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3060 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3061 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3065 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3066 --------------------------------
3069 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3070 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3074 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3075 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3076 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3078 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3079 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3082 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3085 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3088 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3089 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3093 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3094 --------------------------------
3097 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3098 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3102 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3103 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3104 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3105 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3106 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3109 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3110 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3111 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3114 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3115 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3116 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3119 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3120 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3121 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3122 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3123 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3126 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3127 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3128 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3131 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3134 * Improved build system.
3135 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3136 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3137 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3138 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3141 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3142 --------------------------------
3145 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3148 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3149 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3150 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3151 * Video 4 Linux support
3152 * CD Digital Audio support
3153 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3156 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3157 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3158 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3159 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3162 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3163 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3164 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3165 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3166 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3167 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3168 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3171 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3172 * New HTTP remote control interface
3175 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3176 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3177 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3178 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3179 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3182 * New reset option for the preferences
3183 * You can set your language in the prefences
3184 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3185 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3186 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3187 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3190 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3191 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3192 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3195 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3196 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3197 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3198 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3199 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3200 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3201 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3202 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3203 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3204 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3207 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3208 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3209 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3210 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3211 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3212 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3213 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3216 * Interface localization
3217 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3218 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3219 * New full-featured Preferences window
3222 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3223 --------------------------------
3226 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3227 * support for skins at the interface level
3228 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3229 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3230 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3231 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3232 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3235 * fixed HTTP redirects
3236 * support for opening an entire directory
3237 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3238 * new video4linux access plug-in
3239 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3242 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3243 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3244 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3247 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3248 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3249 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3250 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3251 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3252 * new codec for raw I420 video
3253 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3256 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3257 (although it still misses some important features)
3258 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3261 * new HTTP output support
3262 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3263 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3266 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3269 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3272 * reorderable playlist
3273 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3274 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3275 * support for mono audio output devices
3276 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3277 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3278 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3279 * the messages window remembers more lines
3280 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3281 * http and ogg stream output options
3282 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3285 * new skinnable interface
3286 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3288 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3289 * support for FLAC audio format
3290 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3292 * network tab in the interface
3293 * "apply" handling in preferences
3296 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3297 ---------------------------------
3300 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3301 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3302 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3303 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3305 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3306 * DTS S/PDIF support
3309 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3310 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3311 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3312 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3315 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3316 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3319 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3322 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3325 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3327 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3328 * rc interface is now fully useable
3329 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3332 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3333 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3334 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3335 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3336 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3338 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3339 * support for mouse gestures
3340 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3343 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3344 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3347 * improved ID3 tag detection
3348 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3349 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3350 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3352 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3355 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3356 ---------------------------------
3359 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3360 English was set as the preferred language
3363 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3364 --------------------------------
3367 * new mouse gesture interface
3368 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3372 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3373 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3374 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3377 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3378 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3382 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3385 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3386 without the user consent
3389 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3391 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3392 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3393 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3396 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3397 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3398 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3399 * playlist enhancements
3400 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3401 * new step forward/step backward commands
3402 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3403 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3404 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3407 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3408 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3409 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3412 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3413 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3416 * native video output is working again
3417 * only commandline interface support
3418 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3421 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3422 --------------------------------
3425 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3426 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3427 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3428 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3429 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3430 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3431 and A/52 streams are supported)
3432 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3437 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3438 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3439 * VCD entry points support
3440 * VCD image file support
3443 * support for *.asf format
3444 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3445 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3446 * support for ogg encapsulation
3447 * support for raw DV format
3448 * support for *.wav format
3449 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3452 Stream discovery & playlists:
3453 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3454 * support for .m3u file format
3455 * support for .asx file format
3456 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3459 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3460 (only available with the .avi demux)
3461 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3462 * support for raw PCM data
3463 * support for Cinepak video codec
3464 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3465 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3466 * support for Xvid codec
3467 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3468 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3469 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3471 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3473 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3476 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3479 * new WxWindows interface
3480 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3481 device and the channels configuration
3482 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3483 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3484 format that VLC can play
3485 * new swedish translation
3486 * enhancements of the playlist window
3487 * new messages window to see debug info
3488 * fixed a few crashes
3491 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3492 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3493 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3494 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working