1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
8 * new remapping channel filter
11 * portaudio audio output
13 Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
14 ---------------------------------
17 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
18 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
19 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
20 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
21 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
22 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
23 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
24 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
25 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
26 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
27 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
28 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
29 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
30 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
31 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
32 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
33 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
34 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
35 --http-crl (optional CRL).
36 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
37 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
38 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
39 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
40 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
41 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
42 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
44 Important changes for packagers:
45 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
46 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
47 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
48 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
49 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
50 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
51 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
52 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
53 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
54 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
57 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
58 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
59 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
60 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
61 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
62 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
63 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
66 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
67 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
68 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
69 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
70 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
71 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
72 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
73 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
74 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
75 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
76 * PulseAudio audio input support
77 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
78 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
79 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
80 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
81 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
82 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
83 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
84 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
87 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
88 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
89 are notably concerned.
90 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
91 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
92 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
93 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
94 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
95 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
96 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
97 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
98 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
99 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
100 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
101 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
102 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
103 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
104 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
107 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
108 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
109 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
110 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
111 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
112 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
113 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
114 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
115 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
116 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
117 * Improved support of tracker files
120 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
121 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
122 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
123 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
124 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
125 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
126 and important cleanups and optimisations
127 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
128 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
129 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
130 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
131 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
132 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
133 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
134 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
135 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
136 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
137 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
138 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
139 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
140 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
141 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
142 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
143 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
144 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
145 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
146 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
147 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
150 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
151 * New video output for iOS platform
152 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
153 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
154 * Various vmem improvements
155 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
156 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
157 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
158 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
159 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
160 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
162 Audio Output and Filters:
163 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
164 * New audio output in memory (amem)
165 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
166 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
167 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
168 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
169 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
170 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
171 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
172 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
175 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
176 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
177 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
178 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
179 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
180 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
181 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
182 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
183 * New anti-flickering filter
184 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
185 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
186 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
187 blackbox and customizable shadow.
188 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
189 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
190 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
193 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
194 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
195 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
196 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
197 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
198 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
199 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
200 * Major rework of VoD support
201 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
202 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
203 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
204 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
205 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
206 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
207 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
208 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
209 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
210 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
213 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
214 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
217 * New capabilities for libVLC:
218 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
219 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
220 list of available audio and video filters
221 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
222 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
223 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
226 * asademux: use libass only
227 * subsass: use libass
228 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
229 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
231 * upnp: use upnp_intel
232 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
233 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
234 * removal of the noise filter
235 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
236 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
237 removed in Growl's next release, too.
238 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
241 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
242 ----------------------------------
245 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
246 including support for OS X Lion
247 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
248 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
251 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
254 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
255 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
256 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
259 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
262 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
263 ----------------------------------
266 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
267 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
270 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
271 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
272 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
273 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
274 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
276 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
277 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
278 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
280 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
281 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
284 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
287 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
290 * Fix quitting on Linux
291 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
295 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
298 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
301 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
302 ---------------------------------
304 Windows and Mac OS X:
305 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
308 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
309 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
312 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
315 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
318 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
320 Miscellaneous fixes in:
321 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
323 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
324 * RTP output and XML export
325 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
329 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
330 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
331 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
332 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
335 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
336 --------------------------------
338 Windows and Mac OS X:
339 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
342 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
345 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
346 * Improve Apple Remote handling
347 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
348 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
349 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
350 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
353 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
354 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
358 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
359 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
360 * New Luganda Translation
363 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
364 --------------------------------
367 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
370 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
371 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
372 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
373 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
376 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
378 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
379 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
380 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
381 * mp4 demuxer improvements
382 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
383 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
384 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
385 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
387 Miscellaneous fixes in:
388 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
389 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
390 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
391 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
392 * Configure and build system improvements
393 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
396 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
397 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
398 * New icelandic translation
401 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
402 --------------------------------
405 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
409 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
410 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
411 and stability reasons
414 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
418 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
421 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
422 ----------------------------------
425 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
428 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
429 ---------------------------------
432 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
433 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
434 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
435 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
438 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
441 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
442 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
443 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
444 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
447 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
448 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
449 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
451 Subtitles and renderer:
452 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
453 * Mark more freetype options as safe
454 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
455 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
456 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
459 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
460 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
461 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
462 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
465 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
466 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
469 * KDE device solid actions
471 * Transcode integer overflow
472 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
473 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
476 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
477 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
478 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
481 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
482 ----------------------------------
485 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
489 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
492 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
495 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
496 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
497 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
498 * Taglib thread-safety fix
501 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
505 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
508 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
511 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
512 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
514 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
518 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
519 * Miscellaneous fixes
522 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
523 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
525 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
526 * New Asturian translation
529 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
530 ----------------------------------
533 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
535 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
538 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
541 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
542 * Various fixes for Windows
545 * New Armenian translation
546 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
547 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
550 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
551 --------------------------------
554 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
556 * Fix folders opening from the interface
559 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
560 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
563 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
564 --------------------------------
567 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
568 * fix for podcasts parsing
569 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
572 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
573 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
576 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
577 * fix m3u playlists exports
580 * fix video autoresize behaviour
583 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
586 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
589 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
592 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
595 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
596 --------------------------------
599 * Avformat fps displaying fix
600 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
603 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
604 of mono streams, especially on Windows
607 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
608 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
609 * fix console output encoding
611 Interface and extensions:
612 * Youtube and other scripts updates
613 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
616 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
617 --------------------------------
620 * New capabilities for libVLC:
621 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
622 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
623 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
624 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
625 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
626 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
627 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
628 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
629 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
630 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
631 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
632 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
633 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
634 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
635 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
639 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
640 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
641 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
642 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
643 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
646 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
649 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
650 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
651 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
655 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
658 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
659 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
660 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
663 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
664 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
665 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
666 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
669 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
670 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
673 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
674 --------------------------------
676 Important changes for users:
677 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
678 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
680 Important changes for packagers:
681 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
682 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
683 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
684 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
685 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
687 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
689 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
690 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
691 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
692 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
693 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
696 * Support for the sftp protocol
697 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
698 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
699 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
700 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
701 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
704 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
705 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
706 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
708 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
709 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
710 * Invmem module improvements
711 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
712 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
713 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
714 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
715 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
716 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
717 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
718 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
719 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
720 * Support for VP8 codec
721 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
724 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
725 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
726 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
727 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
728 * Various EGP improvements
729 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
730 * Metadata and cover art improvements
733 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
734 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
735 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
736 * Podcast images are now displayed
739 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
740 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
741 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
742 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
743 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
744 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
745 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
746 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
747 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
748 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
749 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
752 * New content extensions lua framework
755 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
756 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
757 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
758 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
759 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
760 * NEON assembly audio converter module
761 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
764 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
765 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
766 * Service discovery based on libudev
767 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
770 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
771 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
772 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
773 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
774 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
775 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
776 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
779 * New smem module, streaming to memory
780 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
781 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
784 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
786 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
787 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
790 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
793 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
794 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
795 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
796 by Andy Matuschak et al.
797 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
798 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
799 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
802 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
803 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
806 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
807 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
808 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
812 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
813 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
814 * Improved Solaris port
817 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
818 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
821 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
822 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
823 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
824 * transrate: broken since too long
825 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
826 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
827 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
828 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
829 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
830 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
831 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
832 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
833 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
834 * cddax: use cdda instead.
835 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
836 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
837 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
838 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
841 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
842 --------------------------------
845 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
847 Decoders/Packetizers:
848 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
851 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
852 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
853 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
854 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
855 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
858 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
859 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
862 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
863 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
866 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
867 and Walloon translations updated
868 * Sinhala translation started
871 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
872 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
875 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
876 --------------------------------
879 * SubRip extra styles improvements
880 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
883 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
886 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
887 increase performance and fix x264 issues
890 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
891 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
892 Russian, Slovak translation updates
893 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
896 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
897 --------------------------------
900 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
901 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
904 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
905 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
908 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
909 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
912 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
915 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
916 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
919 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
920 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
923 * New Walloon translation
924 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
927 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
928 --------------------------------
931 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
932 regressions in most popular drivers
933 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
936 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
937 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
938 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
941 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
942 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
945 * Update for appletrailers lua script
946 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
947 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
948 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
949 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
952 * New udev module for linux
955 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
958 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
961 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
962 --------------------------------
965 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
966 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
967 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
970 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
971 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
974 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
975 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
978 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
981 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
982 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
983 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
984 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
987 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
988 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
989 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
990 - no support for Goom and SDL
991 - limited text rendering support
992 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
995 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
996 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
997 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
998 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
999 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1000 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1001 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1002 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1003 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1007 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1010 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1013 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1014 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1015 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1016 Arabic and French translation updates
1019 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1020 --------------------------------
1023 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1024 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1025 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1026 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1027 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1028 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1031 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1032 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1033 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1036 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1037 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1038 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1041 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1044 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1045 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1048 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1049 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1050 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1051 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1052 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1053 * Fix various crashes
1056 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1058 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1062 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1063 ---------------------------------
1067 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1068 See 'Access:' for more info.
1069 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1072 * Instantaneous pausing
1073 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1074 * Finer speed control
1075 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1076 * Timeshift for most medias
1077 * RTSP trickplay support
1078 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1081 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1082 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1083 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1084 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1085 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1086 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1087 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1088 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1089 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1090 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1093 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1094 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1095 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1096 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1097 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1098 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1099 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1102 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1103 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1106 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1107 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1108 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1109 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1110 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1111 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1112 * DVB scanning on linux
1113 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1114 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1115 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1116 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1117 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1118 * MTP device access on Unix
1119 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1120 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1123 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1124 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1125 Windows and Mac OS X.
1128 * Export the playlist in HTML
1129 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1130 * Better metadata handling and reading
1132 Linux/Windows interface:
1133 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1134 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1135 * Recently played items list
1136 * Interface toolbar customizations
1137 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1138 - More menus actions
1139 - Finer speed slider
1140 - Improvements on many dialogs
1141 - New dialog for plugins listing
1142 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1143 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1144 * Better integration in GTK environments
1147 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1148 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1149 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1150 * Additional usability improvements
1153 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1154 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1155 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1156 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1157 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1160 * New Maemo port with:
1161 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1162 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1165 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1168 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1169 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1170 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1171 * Support for latest iSight models
1174 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1175 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1178 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1179 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1180 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1181 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1182 The old image video output has been removed.
1183 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1184 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1187 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1195 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1196 --------------------------------------
1202 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1203 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1204 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1205 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1206 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1207 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1208 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1210 Various fixes to the following modules:
1213 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1214 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1215 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1217 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1222 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1223 ---------------------------------
1226 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1227 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1230 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1231 ---------------------------------
1234 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1237 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1240 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1241 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1242 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1243 main controller window.
1244 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1247 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1252 * Updates of other localizations
1255 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1256 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1257 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1258 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1259 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1262 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1263 ---------------------------------
1266 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1268 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1271 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1272 --------------------------------
1277 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1278 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1281 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1282 --------------------------------
1284 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1285 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1288 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1291 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1292 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1295 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1296 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1299 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1300 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1301 * Various fixed in playlist
1304 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1307 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1310 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1311 ------------------------------------
1313 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1314 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1317 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1318 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1319 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1322 * Stability fix for the video output.
1325 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1326 --------------------------------
1329 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1330 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1331 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1332 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1333 * Fixed update system bugs
1334 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1337 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1338 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1339 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1340 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1341 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1342 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1343 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1344 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1345 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1346 modern Mac OS X versions
1349 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1350 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1352 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1353 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1356 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1357 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1358 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1359 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1360 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1361 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1364 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1365 --------------------------------
1367 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1368 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1369 * Multiple bugfixes.
1372 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1373 --------------------------------
1375 * Multiple bug fixes.
1378 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1379 ---------------------------------
1383 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1384 recent to work correctly
1385 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1386 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1387 edit the ".hosts" file.
1388 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1389 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1390 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1391 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1392 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1393 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1394 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1395 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1396 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1397 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1398 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1399 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1400 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1401 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1402 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1403 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1404 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1405 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1406 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1407 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1408 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1409 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1410 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1411 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1412 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1413 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1414 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1415 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1416 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1417 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1418 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1419 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1420 and postproc modules.
1421 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1422 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1423 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1424 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1426 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1427 filter. For example:
1428 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1429 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1431 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1432 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1438 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1440 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1441 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1444 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1445 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1447 * Shoutcast TV listings
1448 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1450 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1451 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1453 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1456 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1457 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1458 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1459 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1460 * JACK audio input support
1461 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1462 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1463 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1464 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1465 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1466 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1467 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1468 (available as a separate download).
1469 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1470 * RTMP input support
1471 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1472 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1473 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1475 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1476 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1479 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1480 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1481 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1482 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1484 * APEv1/2 tags support
1485 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1486 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1488 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1489 * TiVo Series 2 support
1490 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1495 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1496 * Flash Screen Video support
1497 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1498 * DosBox Capture support
1499 * Karl Morton's Video support
1500 * limited atrac3 support
1502 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1503 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1504 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1505 * H.264 PAFF support
1506 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1507 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1508 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1509 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1510 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1513 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1514 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1515 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1516 * AQTitle subtitles support
1517 * MKV USF subtitles support
1518 * HTML-based subtitles support
1519 * MPSub subtitles support
1520 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1521 * MPL2 subtitles support
1522 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1523 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1524 * Realtext subtitle support
1525 * DKS subtitle support
1526 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1527 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1530 * Flash Screen Video support
1531 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1533 Video outputs and filters:
1534 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1535 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1536 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1537 * New puzzle video output filter
1538 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1539 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1541 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1542 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1543 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1544 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1545 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1546 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1547 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1548 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1549 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1550 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1551 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1552 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1553 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1554 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1556 Audio outputs and filters:
1557 * Replay gain support
1558 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1559 new scaletempo audio filter)
1560 * New spatializer audio filter
1561 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1564 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1565 * New RTP payload formats:
1566 * Speex voice audio codec
1567 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1568 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1569 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1570 * DCCP transport for RTP
1571 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1576 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1577 end-user suitable way.
1578 * Improved user interaction
1579 * Improved mouse gestures
1580 * Vastly improved Update checker
1581 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1583 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1584 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1586 * Improved video output features
1587 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1588 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1589 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1590 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1591 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1593 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1594 if libncursesw is available.
1595 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1596 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1597 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1599 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1600 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1601 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1602 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1603 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1604 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1605 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1606 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1609 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1610 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1611 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1614 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1615 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1616 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1617 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1618 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1619 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1622 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1623 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1633 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1634 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1635 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1638 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1639 ----------------------------------
1642 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1645 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1646 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1647 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1648 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1649 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1650 * Updated Polish translation
1653 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1654 ----------------------------------
1657 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1658 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1659 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1662 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1663 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1664 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1665 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1666 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1667 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1668 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1669 to an unexpected application termination
1670 * New Serbian translation
1671 * Updated Romanian translation
1674 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1675 ----------------------------------
1678 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1679 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1680 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1681 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1682 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1683 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1684 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1685 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1688 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1689 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1690 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1691 * Fixed AAC resampling
1692 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1693 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1696 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1697 ----------------------------------
1700 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1701 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1702 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1703 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1704 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1707 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1708 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1709 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1710 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1711 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1714 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1715 ----------------------------------
1718 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1719 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1722 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1723 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1724 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1725 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1727 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1731 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1734 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1737 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1740 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1743 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1744 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1745 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1746 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1747 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1749 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1750 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1751 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1752 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1755 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1758 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1759 ----------------------------------
1762 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1763 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1764 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1766 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1767 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1769 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1770 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1773 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1775 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1776 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1777 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1778 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1779 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1780 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1781 two different movies
1782 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1783 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1784 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1787 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1790 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1791 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1792 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1793 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1796 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1797 ----------------------------------
1799 Various bugfixes, notably:
1800 * Windows Vista compatibility
1801 * Cropping in Direct3D
1802 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1803 * RSS filter string overflow
1805 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1807 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1808 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1811 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1812 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1815 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1818 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1821 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1824 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1825 ----------------------------------
1827 Various bugfixes, notably:
1828 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1829 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1830 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1831 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1832 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1833 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1836 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1837 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1840 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1842 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1843 * Diverse usability improvements
1844 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1845 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1846 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1849 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1850 ---------------------------------
1852 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1853 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1856 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1859 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1860 --------------------------------
1863 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1866 * Support for RTSP authentication
1867 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1868 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1869 * ATSC support for DVB input
1870 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1871 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1872 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1875 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1876 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1877 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1878 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1879 * Matroska WavPack support
1880 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1881 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1882 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1885 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1886 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1887 * Improved libcaca support
1891 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1892 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1894 * Systray support in skins
1896 * Support for Apple Remote control
1897 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1898 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1899 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1900 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1902 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1905 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1906 Windows 9x/ME users:
1907 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1908 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1909 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1910 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1911 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1913 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1914 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1923 * Updates to the libvlc API
1924 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1927 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1928 --------------------------------
1931 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1932 * Support for downloading updates
1936 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1937 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1938 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1939 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1941 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1942 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1943 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1946 * Cook (Real audio) support
1948 Playlist / Services discovery:
1949 * XSPF playlist support
1951 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1954 * New JACK audio output
1957 * New video filters:
1958 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1959 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1960 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1961 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1962 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1963 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1966 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1969 * System to inform the user and request information
1970 - HTTP authentication
1974 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1975 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1976 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1979 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1980 - Improved playlist handling
1981 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1983 - Embedded Video output
1984 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1985 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1986 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1987 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1988 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1990 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1991 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1994 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1997 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1998 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1999 * Growl "Now playing" support
2002 * Ability to log to syslog
2003 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2006 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2008 * A bit more automatic testing
2011 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2012 ---------------------------------
2015 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2016 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2019 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2020 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2023 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2026 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2027 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2033 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2036 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2037 --------------------------------
2040 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2044 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2045 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2046 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2049 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2050 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2051 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2052 * GnomeVFS input module
2053 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2054 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2057 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2058 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2059 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2062 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2063 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2069 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2070 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2073 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2074 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2075 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2078 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2080 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2081 - New extended controls panel
2082 - New bookmarks window
2083 - Fixed playlist sorting
2084 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2086 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2087 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2088 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2089 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2093 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2094 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2096 - Include macro to include other files
2100 * Should now work outside IE as well
2103 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2106 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2107 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2110 The following languages were added:
2114 * Simplified Chinese
2115 The following languages were re-added:
2119 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2120 --------------------------------
2123 * Rewrite of the playlist
2125 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2126 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2127 * Preferences improvements:
2128 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2129 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2131 * Core image manipulation support
2132 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2133 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2134 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2135 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2136 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2137 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2138 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2139 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2140 * Access filter architecture
2141 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2142 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2146 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2147 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2148 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2149 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2150 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2151 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2152 * Massive Matroska improvements
2153 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2155 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2156 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2157 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2158 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2159 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2161 Decoders / Encoders:
2162 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2163 * PNG decoder/encoder
2164 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2165 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2168 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2171 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2172 * Brand new SAP module
2173 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2174 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2175 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2176 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2177 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2178 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2182 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2185 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2186 * Image file video output (png)
2187 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2188 * Improvements to wall video filter
2189 * Support for font color and opacity
2195 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2196 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2197 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2201 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2202 - Improved preferences
2203 - Improvements to the wizard
2204 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2206 - Redesigned playlist
2207 - Improved preferences
2209 - Support for multiple actions
2212 - Support for the new playlist system
2214 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2217 * Screensaver disabling fix
2218 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2219 * Support for no-decoration windows
2222 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2223 * The OpenGL video output is back
2224 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2225 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2226 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2227 is not yet available in the new module
2228 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2231 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2240 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2243 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2246 The following languages were added:
2252 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2253 --------------------------------
2256 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2257 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2260 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2261 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2262 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2265 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2268 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2271 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2274 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2275 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2276 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2280 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2282 * Support of playlist group announcement
2285 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2286 --------------------------------
2289 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2290 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2291 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2292 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2293 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2294 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2297 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2298 (Stream your desktop)
2299 * Improved DVD support:
2300 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2301 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2302 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2303 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2304 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2305 (selection of titles/chapters).
2308 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2309 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2310 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2311 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2312 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2313 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2314 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2315 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2316 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2317 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2320 * G.726 audio support
2321 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2322 * MPEG-4 text support
2323 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2324 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2325 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2329 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2330 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2331 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2332 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2333 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2334 * DVB subtitles encoder
2335 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2336 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2338 * Text track muxing for mp4
2339 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2340 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2341 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2342 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2343 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2344 * Improved ASF muxer
2346 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2347 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2348 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2351 * New audio equalizer filter
2352 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2353 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2354 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2355 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2358 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2359 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2360 with support for effects.
2361 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2362 - New filters can be streamed.
2363 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2364 - Centralized scaling and blending
2366 - "time", to display current time
2367 - "marq", to display a marquee
2370 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2371 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2372 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2373 * A few skins2 improvements
2374 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2375 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2376 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2377 * Improved CORBA control module
2380 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2381 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2382 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2385 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2386 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2387 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2390 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2391 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2392 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2393 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2394 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2397 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2400 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2401 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2404 * Server/client network synchronization module
2405 * VBrick streams fully supported
2406 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2410 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2411 --------------------------------
2414 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2415 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2416 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2417 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2420 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2421 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2422 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2423 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2424 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2425 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2426 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2429 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2430 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2431 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2432 * Improved directory access module.
2433 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2434 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2435 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2436 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2437 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2440 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2441 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2442 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2445 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2446 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2447 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2450 * Improved session announcement system.
2451 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2452 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2453 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2454 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2455 * Improved transrater.
2456 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2457 * New configuration system.
2458 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2461 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2462 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2463 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2464 * Supports scheduling.
2465 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2466 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2469 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2470 - Ability to embed video output.
2471 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2472 - Lots of improvements.
2473 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2474 - New design and set of icons.
2475 - Ability to embed video output.
2476 - Support for hotkeys.
2477 - Support for bookmarks.
2479 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2480 - Better hotkeys handling.
2483 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2484 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2485 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2486 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2489 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2490 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2491 * Improved Windows installer.
2497 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2498 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2501 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2502 ---------------------------------
2505 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2506 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2509 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2510 --------------------------------
2513 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2514 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2517 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2518 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2519 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2520 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2523 * Internal improvments
2524 * Improved import/export
2527 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2529 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2530 small and strange formats.
2532 * New MOD audio demux.
2533 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2534 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2535 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2536 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2539 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2540 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2541 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2547 * New opengl video output plugin.
2550 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2551 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2554 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2555 --------------------------------
2558 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2559 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2560 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2561 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2562 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2563 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2564 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2565 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2568 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2573 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2574 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2575 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2576 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2577 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2578 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2579 * Better Icecast support.
2580 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2581 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2584 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2585 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2586 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2587 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2588 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2589 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2590 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2593 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2594 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2595 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2596 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2597 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2598 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2599 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2600 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2601 * Preliminary RTP support.
2602 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2607 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2608 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2610 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2611 - Improvements and help in preferences
2612 - New streaming wizard
2613 - Revised Disc Open menu
2615 - Improvements of the standard pages
2616 - Support for new commands
2617 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2620 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2621 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2624 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2625 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2626 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2627 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2628 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2629 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2630 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2631 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2632 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2635 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2637 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2638 * Support for Panther.
2639 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2640 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2643 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2644 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2645 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2646 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2647 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2648 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2649 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2650 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2653 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2654 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2655 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2658 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2661 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2662 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2663 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2664 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2667 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2668 --------------------------------
2671 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2674 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2675 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2678 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2679 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2682 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2685 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2686 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2689 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2692 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2695 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2696 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2700 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2701 --------------------------------
2704 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2705 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2709 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2710 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2711 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2713 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2714 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2717 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2720 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2723 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2724 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2728 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2729 --------------------------------
2732 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2733 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2737 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2738 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2739 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2740 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2741 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2744 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2745 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2746 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2749 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2750 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2751 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2754 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2755 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2756 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2757 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2758 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2761 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2762 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2763 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2766 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2769 * Improved build system.
2770 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2771 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2772 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2773 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2776 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2777 --------------------------------
2780 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2783 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2784 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2785 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2786 * Video 4 Linux support
2787 * CD Digital Audio support
2788 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2791 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2792 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2793 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2794 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2797 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2798 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2799 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2800 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2801 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2802 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2803 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2806 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2807 * New HTTP remote control interface
2810 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2811 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2812 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2813 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2814 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2817 * New reset option for the preferences
2818 * You can set your language in the prefences
2819 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2820 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2821 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2822 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2825 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2826 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2827 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2830 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2831 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2832 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2833 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2834 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2835 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2836 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2837 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2838 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2839 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2842 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2843 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2844 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2845 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2846 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2847 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2848 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2851 * Interface localization
2852 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2853 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2854 * New full-featured Preferences window
2857 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2858 --------------------------------
2861 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2862 * support for skins at the interface level
2863 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2864 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2865 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2866 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2867 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2870 * fixed HTTP redirects
2871 * support for opening an entire directory
2872 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2873 * new video4linux access plug-in
2874 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2877 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2878 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2879 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2882 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2883 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2884 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2885 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2886 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2887 * new codec for raw I420 video
2888 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2891 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2892 (although it still misses some important features)
2893 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2896 * new HTTP output support
2897 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2898 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2901 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2904 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2907 * reorderable playlist
2908 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2909 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2910 * support for mono audio output devices
2911 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2912 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2913 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2914 * the messages window remembers more lines
2915 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2916 * http and ogg stream output options
2917 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2920 * new skinnable interface
2921 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2923 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2924 * support for FLAC audio format
2925 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2927 * network tab in the interface
2928 * "apply" handling in preferences
2931 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2932 ---------------------------------
2935 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2936 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2937 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2938 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2940 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2941 * DTS S/PDIF support
2944 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2945 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2946 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2947 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2950 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2951 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2954 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2957 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2960 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2962 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2963 * rc interface is now fully useable
2964 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2967 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2968 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2969 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2970 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2971 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2973 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2974 * support for mouse gestures
2975 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2978 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2979 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2982 * improved ID3 tag detection
2983 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2984 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2985 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2987 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2990 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2991 ---------------------------------
2994 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2995 English was set as the preferred language
2998 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2999 --------------------------------
3002 * new mouse gesture interface
3003 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3007 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3008 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3009 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3012 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3013 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3017 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3020 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3021 without the user consent
3024 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3026 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3027 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3028 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3031 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3032 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3033 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3034 * playlist enhancements
3035 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3036 * new step forward/step backward commands
3037 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3038 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3039 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3042 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3043 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3044 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3047 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3048 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3051 * native video output is working again
3052 * only commandline interface support
3053 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3056 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3057 --------------------------------
3060 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3061 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3062 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3063 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3064 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3065 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3066 and A/52 streams are supported)
3067 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3072 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3073 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3074 * VCD entry points support
3075 * VCD image file support
3078 * support for *.asf format
3079 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3080 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3081 * support for ogg encapsulation
3082 * support for raw DV format
3083 * support for *.wav format
3084 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3087 Stream discovery & playlists:
3088 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3089 * support for .m3u file format
3090 * support for .asx file format
3091 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3094 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3095 (only available with the .avi demux)
3096 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3097 * support for raw PCM data
3098 * support for Cinepak video codec
3099 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3100 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3101 * support for Xvid codec
3102 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3103 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3104 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3106 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3108 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3111 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3114 * new WxWindows interface
3115 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3116 device and the channels configuration
3117 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3118 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3119 format that VLC can play
3120 * new swedish translation
3121 * enhancements of the playlist window
3122 * new messages window to see debug info
3123 * fixed a few crashes
3126 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3127 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3128 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3129 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working