1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
21 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
22 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
23 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
24 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
25 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
26 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
27 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
28 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
29 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
32 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
33 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
34 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
35 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
36 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
39 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
40 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
41 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
42 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
45 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
46 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
47 * Ogg seeking improvements
48 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
51 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
52 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
53 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
54 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
55 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
56 and important cleanups and optimisations
57 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
58 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
59 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
60 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
63 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
64 * New video output for iOS platform
65 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
66 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
67 * Various vmem improvements
70 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
71 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
72 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
73 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
74 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
75 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
76 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
77 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
80 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
83 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
86 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
87 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
88 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
89 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
90 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
91 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
92 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
93 * Major rework of VoD support
94 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
95 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
96 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
97 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
98 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
99 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
100 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
101 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
102 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
105 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
106 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
109 * New capabilities for libVLC:
110 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
111 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
112 list of available audio and video filters
115 * asademux: use libass only
116 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
117 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
119 * upnp: use upnp_intel
122 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
123 --------------------------------
125 Windows and Mac OS X:
126 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
129 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
132 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
133 * Improve Apple Remote handling
134 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
135 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
136 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
137 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
140 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
141 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
145 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
146 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
147 * New Luganda Translation
150 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
151 --------------------------------
154 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
157 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
158 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
159 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
160 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
163 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
165 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
166 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
167 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
168 * mp4 demuxer improvements
169 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
170 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
171 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
172 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
174 Miscellaneous fixes in:
175 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
176 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
177 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
178 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
179 * Configure and build system improvements
180 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
183 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
184 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
185 * New icelandic translation
188 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
189 --------------------------------
192 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
196 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
197 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
198 and stability reasons
201 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
205 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
208 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
209 ----------------------------------
212 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
215 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
216 ---------------------------------
219 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
220 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
221 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
222 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
225 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
228 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
229 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
230 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
231 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
234 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
235 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
236 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
238 Subtitles and renderer:
239 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
240 * Mark more freetype options as safe
241 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
242 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
243 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
246 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
247 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
248 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
249 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
252 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
253 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
256 * KDE device solid actions
258 * Transcode integer overflow
259 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
260 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
263 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
264 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
265 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
268 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
269 ----------------------------------
272 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
276 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
279 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
282 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
283 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
284 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
285 * Taglib thread-safety fix
288 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
292 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
295 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
298 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
299 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
301 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
305 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
306 * Miscellaneous fixes
309 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
310 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
312 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
313 * New Asturian translation
316 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
317 ----------------------------------
320 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
322 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
325 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
328 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
329 * Various fixes for Windows
332 * New Armenian translation
333 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
334 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
337 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
338 --------------------------------
341 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
343 * Fix folders opening from the interface
346 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
347 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
350 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
351 --------------------------------
354 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
355 * fix for podcasts parsing
356 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
359 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
360 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
363 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
364 * fix m3u playlists exports
367 * fix video autoresize behaviour
370 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
373 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
376 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
379 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
382 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
383 --------------------------------
386 * Avformat fps displaying fix
387 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
390 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
391 of mono streams, especially on Windows
394 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
395 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
396 * fix console output encoding
398 Interface and extensions:
399 * Youtube and other scripts updates
400 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
403 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
404 --------------------------------
407 * New capabilities for libVLC:
408 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
409 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
410 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
411 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
412 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
413 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
414 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
415 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
416 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
417 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
418 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
419 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
420 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
421 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
422 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
426 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
427 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
428 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
429 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
430 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
433 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
436 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
437 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
438 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
442 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
445 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
446 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
447 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
450 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
451 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
452 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
453 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
456 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
457 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
460 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
461 --------------------------------
463 Important changes for users:
464 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
465 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
467 Important changes for packagers:
468 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
469 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
470 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
471 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
472 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
474 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
476 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
477 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
478 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
479 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
480 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
483 * Support for the sftp protocol
484 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
485 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
486 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
487 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
488 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
491 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
492 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
493 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
495 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
496 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
497 * Invmem module improvements
498 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
499 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
500 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
501 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
502 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
503 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
504 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
505 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
506 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
507 * Support for VP8 codec
508 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
511 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
512 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
513 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
514 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
515 * Various EGP improvements
516 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
517 * Metadata and cover art improvements
520 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
521 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
522 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
523 * Podcast images are now displayed
526 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
527 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
528 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
529 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
530 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
531 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
532 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
533 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
534 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
535 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
536 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
539 * New content extensions lua framework
542 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
543 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
544 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
545 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
546 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
547 * NEON assembly audio converter module
548 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
551 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
552 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
553 * Service discovery based on libudev
554 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
557 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
558 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
559 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
560 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
561 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
562 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
563 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
566 * New smem module, streaming to memory
567 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
568 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
571 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
573 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
574 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
577 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
580 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
581 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
582 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
583 by Andy Matuschak et al.
584 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
585 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
586 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
589 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
590 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
593 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
594 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
595 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
599 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
600 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
601 * Improved Solaris port
604 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
605 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
608 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
609 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
610 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
611 * transrate: broken since too long
612 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
613 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
614 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
615 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
616 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
617 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
618 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
619 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
620 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
621 * cddax: use cdda instead.
622 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
623 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
624 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
625 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
628 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
629 --------------------------------
632 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
634 Decoders/Packetizers:
635 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
638 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
639 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
640 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
641 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
642 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
645 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
646 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
649 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
650 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
653 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
654 and Walloon translations updated
655 * Sinhala translation started
658 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
659 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
662 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
663 --------------------------------
666 * SubRip extra styles improvements
667 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
670 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
673 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
674 increase performance and fix x264 issues
677 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
678 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
679 Russian, Slovak translation updates
680 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
683 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
684 --------------------------------
687 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
688 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
691 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
692 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
695 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
696 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
699 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
702 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
703 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
706 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
707 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
710 * New Walloon translation
711 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
714 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
715 --------------------------------
718 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
719 regressions in most popular drivers
720 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
723 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
724 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
725 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
728 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
729 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
732 * Update for appletrailers lua script
733 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
734 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
735 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
736 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
739 * New udev module for linux
742 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
745 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
748 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
749 --------------------------------
752 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
753 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
754 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
757 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
758 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
761 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
762 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
765 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
768 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
769 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
770 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
771 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
774 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
775 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
776 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
777 - no support for Goom and SDL
778 - limited text rendering support
779 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
782 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
783 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
784 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
785 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
786 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
787 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
788 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
789 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
790 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
794 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
797 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
800 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
801 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
802 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
803 Arabic and French translation updates
806 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
807 --------------------------------
810 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
811 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
812 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
813 * Fix Dailymotion access script
814 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
815 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
818 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
819 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
822 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
823 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
824 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
827 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
830 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
831 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
834 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
835 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
836 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
837 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
838 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
839 * Fix various crashes
842 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
844 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
847 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
848 ---------------------------------
852 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
853 See 'Access:' for more info.
854 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
857 * Instantaneous pausing
858 * Frame-by-Frame playback
859 * Finer speed control
860 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
861 * Timeshift for most medias
862 * RTSP trickplay support
863 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
866 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
867 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
868 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
869 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
870 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
871 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
872 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
873 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
874 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
875 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
878 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
879 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
880 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
881 * Metadata for mod files are supported
882 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
883 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
884 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
887 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
888 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
891 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
892 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
893 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
894 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
895 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
896 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
897 * DVB scanning on linux
898 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
899 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
900 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
901 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
902 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
903 * MTP device access on Unix
904 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
905 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
908 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
909 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
910 Windows and Mac OS X.
913 * Export the playlist in HTML
914 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
915 * Better metadata handling and reading
917 Linux/Windows interface:
918 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
919 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
920 * Recently played items list
921 * Interface toolbar customizations
922 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
925 - Improvements on many dialogs
926 - New dialog for plugins listing
927 - Fixed-size mode for videos
928 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
929 * Better integration in GTK environments
932 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
933 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
934 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
935 * Additional usability improvements
938 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
939 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
940 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
941 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
942 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
945 * New Maemo port with:
946 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
947 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
950 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
953 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
954 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
955 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
956 * Support for latest iSight models
959 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
960 * Surround support for PulseAudio
963 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
964 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
965 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
966 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
967 The old image video output has been removed.
968 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
969 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
972 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
980 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
981 --------------------------------------
987 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
988 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
989 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
990 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
991 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
992 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
993 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
995 Various fixes to the following modules:
998 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
999 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1000 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1002 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1007 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1008 ---------------------------------
1011 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1012 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1015 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1016 ---------------------------------
1019 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1022 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1025 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1026 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1027 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1028 main controller window.
1029 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1032 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1037 * Updates of other localizations
1040 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1041 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1042 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1043 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1044 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1047 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1048 ---------------------------------
1051 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1053 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1056 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1057 --------------------------------
1062 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1063 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1066 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1067 --------------------------------
1069 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1070 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1073 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1076 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1077 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1080 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1081 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1084 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1085 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1086 * Various fixed in playlist
1089 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1092 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1095 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1096 ------------------------------------
1098 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1099 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1102 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1103 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1104 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1107 * Stability fix for the video output.
1110 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1111 --------------------------------
1114 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1115 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1116 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1117 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1118 * Fixed update system bugs
1119 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1122 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1123 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1124 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1125 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1126 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1127 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1128 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1129 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1130 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1131 modern Mac OS X versions
1134 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1135 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1137 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1138 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1141 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1142 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1143 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1144 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1145 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1146 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1149 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1150 --------------------------------
1152 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1153 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1154 * Multiple bugfixes.
1157 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1158 --------------------------------
1160 * Multiple bug fixes.
1163 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1164 ---------------------------------
1168 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1169 recent to work correctly
1170 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1171 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1172 edit the ".hosts" file.
1173 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1174 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1175 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1176 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1177 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1178 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1179 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1180 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1181 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1182 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1183 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1184 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1185 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1186 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1187 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1188 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1189 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1190 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1191 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1192 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1193 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1194 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1195 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1196 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1197 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1198 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1199 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1200 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1201 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1202 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1203 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1204 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1205 and postproc modules.
1206 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1207 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1208 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1209 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1211 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1212 filter. For example:
1213 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1214 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1216 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1217 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1223 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1225 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1226 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1229 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1230 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1232 * Shoutcast TV listings
1233 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1235 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1236 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1238 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1241 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1242 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1243 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1244 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1245 * JACK audio input support
1246 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1247 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1248 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1249 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1250 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1251 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1252 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1253 (available as a separate download).
1254 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1255 * RTMP input support
1256 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1257 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1258 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1260 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1261 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1264 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1265 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1266 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1267 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1269 * APEv1/2 tags support
1270 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1271 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1273 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1274 * TiVo Series 2 support
1275 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1280 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1281 * Flash Screen Video support
1282 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1283 * DosBox Capture support
1284 * Karl Morton's Video support
1285 * limited atrac3 support
1287 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1288 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1289 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1290 * H.264 PAFF support
1291 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1292 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1293 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1294 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1295 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1298 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1299 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1300 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1301 * AQTitle subtitles support
1302 * MKV USF subtitles support
1303 * HTML-based subtitles support
1304 * MPSub subtitles support
1305 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1306 * MPL2 subtitles support
1307 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1308 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1309 * Realtext subtitle support
1310 * DKS subtitle support
1311 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1312 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1315 * Flash Screen Video support
1316 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1318 Video outputs and filters:
1319 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1320 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1321 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1322 * New puzzle video output filter
1323 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1324 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1326 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1327 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1328 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1329 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1330 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1331 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1332 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1333 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1334 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1335 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1336 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1337 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1338 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1339 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1341 Audio outputs and filters:
1342 * Replay gain support
1343 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1344 new scaletempo audio filter)
1345 * New spatializer audio filter
1346 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1349 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1350 * New RTP payload formats:
1351 * Speex voice audio codec
1352 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1353 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1354 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1355 * DCCP transport for RTP
1356 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1361 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1362 end-user suitable way.
1363 * Improved user interaction
1364 * Improved mouse gestures
1365 * Vastly improved Update checker
1366 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1368 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1369 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1371 * Improved video output features
1372 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1373 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1374 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1375 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1376 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1378 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1379 if libncursesw is available.
1380 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1381 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1382 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1384 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1385 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1386 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1387 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1388 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1389 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1390 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1391 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1394 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1395 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1396 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1399 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1400 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1401 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1402 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1403 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1404 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1407 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1408 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1418 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1419 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1420 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1423 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1424 ----------------------------------
1427 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1430 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1431 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1432 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1433 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1434 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1435 * Updated Polish translation
1438 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1439 ----------------------------------
1442 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1443 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1444 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1447 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1448 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1449 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1450 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1451 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1452 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1453 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1454 to an unexpected application termination
1455 * New Serbian translation
1456 * Updated Romanian translation
1459 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1460 ----------------------------------
1463 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1464 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1465 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1466 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1467 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1468 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1469 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1470 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1473 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1474 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1475 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1476 * Fixed AAC resampling
1477 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1478 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1481 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1482 ----------------------------------
1485 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1486 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1487 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1488 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1489 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1492 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1493 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1494 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1495 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1496 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1499 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1500 ----------------------------------
1503 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1504 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1507 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1508 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1509 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1510 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1512 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1516 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1519 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1522 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1525 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1528 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1529 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1530 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1531 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1532 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1534 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1535 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1536 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1537 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1540 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1543 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1544 ----------------------------------
1547 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1548 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1549 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1551 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1552 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1554 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1555 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1558 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1560 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1561 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1562 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1563 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1564 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1565 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1566 two different movies
1567 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1568 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1569 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1572 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1575 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1576 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1577 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1578 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1581 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1582 ----------------------------------
1584 Various bugfixes, notably:
1585 * Windows Vista compatibility
1586 * Cropping in Direct3D
1587 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1588 * RSS filter string overflow
1590 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1592 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1593 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1596 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1597 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1600 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1603 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1606 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1609 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1610 ----------------------------------
1612 Various bugfixes, notably:
1613 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1614 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1615 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1616 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1617 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1618 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1621 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1622 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1625 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1627 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1628 * Diverse usability improvements
1629 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1630 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1631 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1634 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1635 ---------------------------------
1637 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1638 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1641 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1644 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1645 --------------------------------
1648 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1651 * Support for RTSP authentication
1652 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1653 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1654 * ATSC support for DVB input
1655 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1656 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1657 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1660 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1661 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1662 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1663 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1664 * Matroska WavPack support
1665 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1666 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1667 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1670 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1671 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1672 * Improved libcaca support
1676 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1677 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1679 * Systray support in skins
1681 * Support for Apple Remote control
1682 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1683 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1684 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1685 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1687 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1690 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1691 Windows 9x/ME users:
1692 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1693 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1694 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1695 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1696 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1698 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1699 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1708 * Updates to the libvlc API
1709 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1712 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1713 --------------------------------
1716 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1717 * Support for downloading updates
1721 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1722 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1723 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1724 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1726 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1727 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1728 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1731 * Cook (Real audio) support
1733 Playlist / Services discovery:
1734 * XSPF playlist support
1736 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1739 * New JACK audio output
1742 * New video filters:
1743 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1744 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1745 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1746 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1747 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1748 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1751 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1754 * System to inform the user and request information
1755 - HTTP authentication
1759 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1760 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1761 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1764 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1765 - Improved playlist handling
1766 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1768 - Embedded Video output
1769 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1770 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1771 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1772 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1773 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1775 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1776 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1779 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1782 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1783 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1784 * Growl "Now playing" support
1787 * Ability to log to syslog
1788 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1791 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1793 * A bit more automatic testing
1796 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1797 ---------------------------------
1800 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1801 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1804 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1805 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1808 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1811 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1812 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1818 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1821 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1822 --------------------------------
1825 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1829 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1830 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1831 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1834 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1835 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1836 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1837 * GnomeVFS input module
1838 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1839 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1842 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1843 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1844 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1847 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1848 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1854 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1855 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1858 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1859 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1860 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1863 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1865 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1866 - New extended controls panel
1867 - New bookmarks window
1868 - Fixed playlist sorting
1869 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1871 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1872 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1873 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1874 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1878 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1879 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1881 - Include macro to include other files
1885 * Should now work outside IE as well
1888 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1891 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1892 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1895 The following languages were added:
1899 * Simplified Chinese
1900 The following languages were re-added:
1904 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1905 --------------------------------
1908 * Rewrite of the playlist
1910 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1911 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1912 * Preferences improvements:
1913 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1914 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1916 * Core image manipulation support
1917 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1918 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1919 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1920 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1921 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1922 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1923 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1924 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1925 * Access filter architecture
1926 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1927 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1931 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1932 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1933 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1934 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1935 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1936 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1937 * Massive Matroska improvements
1938 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1940 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1941 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1942 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1943 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1944 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1946 Decoders / Encoders:
1947 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1948 * PNG decoder/encoder
1949 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1950 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1953 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1956 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1957 * Brand new SAP module
1958 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1959 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1960 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1961 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1962 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1963 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1967 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1970 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1971 * Image file video output (png)
1972 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1973 * Improvements to wall video filter
1974 * Support for font color and opacity
1980 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1981 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1982 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1986 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1987 - Improved preferences
1988 - Improvements to the wizard
1989 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1991 - Redesigned playlist
1992 - Improved preferences
1994 - Support for multiple actions
1997 - Support for the new playlist system
1999 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2002 * Screensaver disabling fix
2003 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2004 * Support for no-decoration windows
2007 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2008 * The OpenGL video output is back
2009 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2010 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2011 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2012 is not yet available in the new module
2013 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2016 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2025 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2028 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2031 The following languages were added:
2037 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2038 --------------------------------
2041 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2042 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2045 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2046 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2047 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2050 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2053 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2056 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2059 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2060 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2061 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2065 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2067 * Support of playlist group announcement
2070 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2071 --------------------------------
2074 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2075 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2076 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2077 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2078 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2079 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2082 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2083 (Stream your desktop)
2084 * Improved DVD support:
2085 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2086 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2087 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2088 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2089 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2090 (selection of titles/chapters).
2093 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2094 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2095 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2096 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2097 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2098 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2099 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2100 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2101 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2102 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2105 * G.726 audio support
2106 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2107 * MPEG-4 text support
2108 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2109 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2110 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2114 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2115 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2116 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2117 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2118 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2119 * DVB subtitles encoder
2120 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2121 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2123 * Text track muxing for mp4
2124 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2125 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2126 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2127 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2128 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2129 * Improved ASF muxer
2131 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2132 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2133 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2136 * New audio equalizer filter
2137 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2138 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2139 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2140 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2143 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2144 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2145 with support for effects.
2146 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2147 - New filters can be streamed.
2148 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2149 - Centralized scaling and blending
2151 - "time", to display current time
2152 - "marq", to display a marquee
2155 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2156 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2157 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2158 * A few skins2 improvements
2159 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2160 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2161 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2162 * Improved CORBA control module
2165 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2166 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2167 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2170 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2171 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2172 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2175 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2176 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2177 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2178 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2179 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2182 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2185 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2186 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2189 * Server/client network synchronization module
2190 * VBrick streams fully supported
2191 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2195 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2196 --------------------------------
2199 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2200 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2201 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2202 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2205 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2206 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2207 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2208 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2209 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2210 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2211 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2214 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2215 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2216 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2217 * Improved directory access module.
2218 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2219 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2220 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2221 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2222 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2225 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2226 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2227 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2230 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2231 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2232 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2235 * Improved session announcement system.
2236 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2237 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2238 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2239 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2240 * Improved transrater.
2241 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2242 * New configuration system.
2243 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2246 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2247 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2248 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2249 * Supports scheduling.
2250 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2251 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2254 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2255 - Ability to embed video output.
2256 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2257 - Lots of improvements.
2258 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2259 - New design and set of icons.
2260 - Ability to embed video output.
2261 - Support for hotkeys.
2262 - Support for bookmarks.
2264 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2265 - Better hotkeys handling.
2268 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2269 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2270 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2271 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2274 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2275 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2276 * Improved Windows installer.
2282 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2283 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2286 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2287 ---------------------------------
2290 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2291 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2294 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2295 --------------------------------
2298 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2299 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2302 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2303 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2304 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2305 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2308 * Internal improvments
2309 * Improved import/export
2312 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2314 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2315 small and strange formats.
2317 * New MOD audio demux.
2318 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2319 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2320 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2321 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2324 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2325 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2326 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2332 * New opengl video output plugin.
2335 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2336 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2339 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2340 --------------------------------
2343 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2344 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2345 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2346 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2347 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2348 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2349 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2350 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2353 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2358 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2359 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2360 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2361 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2362 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2363 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2364 * Better Icecast support.
2365 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2366 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2369 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2370 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2371 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2372 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2373 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2374 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2375 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2378 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2379 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2380 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2381 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2382 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2383 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2384 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2385 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2386 * Preliminary RTP support.
2387 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2392 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2393 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2395 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2396 - Improvements and help in preferences
2397 - New streaming wizard
2398 - Revised Disc Open menu
2400 - Improvements of the standard pages
2401 - Support for new commands
2402 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2405 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2406 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2409 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2410 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2411 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2412 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2413 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2414 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2415 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2416 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2417 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2420 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2422 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2423 * Support for Panther.
2424 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2425 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2428 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2429 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2430 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2431 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2432 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2433 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2434 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2435 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2438 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2439 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2440 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2443 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2446 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2447 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2448 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2449 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2452 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2453 --------------------------------
2456 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2459 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2460 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2463 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2464 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2467 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2470 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2471 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2474 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2477 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2480 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2481 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2485 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2486 --------------------------------
2489 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2490 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2494 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2495 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2496 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2498 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2499 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2502 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2505 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2508 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2509 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2513 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2514 --------------------------------
2517 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2518 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2522 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2523 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2524 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2525 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2526 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2529 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2530 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2531 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2534 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2535 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2536 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2539 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2540 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2541 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2542 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2543 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2546 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2547 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2548 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2551 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2554 * Improved build system.
2555 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2556 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2557 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2558 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2561 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2562 --------------------------------
2565 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2568 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2569 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2570 * Video 4 Linux support
2571 * CD Digital Audio support
2572 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2575 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2576 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2577 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2578 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2581 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2582 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2583 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2584 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2585 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2586 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2587 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2590 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2591 * New HTTP remote control interface
2594 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2595 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2596 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2597 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2600 * New reset option for the preferences
2601 * You can set your language in the prefences
2602 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2603 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2604 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2605 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2608 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2609 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2610 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2613 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2614 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2615 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2616 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2617 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2618 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2619 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2620 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2621 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2622 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2625 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2626 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2627 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2628 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2629 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2630 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2631 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2634 * Interface localization
2635 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2636 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2637 * New full-featured Preferences window
2640 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2641 --------------------------------
2644 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2645 * support for skins at the interface level
2646 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2647 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2648 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2649 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2650 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2653 * fixed HTTP redirects
2654 * support for opening an entire directory
2655 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2656 * new video4linux access plug-in
2657 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2660 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2661 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2662 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2665 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2666 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2667 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2668 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2669 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2670 * new codec for raw I420 video
2671 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2674 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2675 (although it still misses some important features)
2676 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2679 * new HTTP output support
2680 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2681 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2684 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2687 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2690 * reorderable playlist
2691 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2692 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2693 * support for mono audio output devices
2694 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2695 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2696 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2697 * the messages window remembers more lines
2698 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2699 * http and ogg stream output options
2700 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2703 * new skinnable interface
2704 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2706 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2707 * support for FLAC audio format
2708 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2710 * network tab in the interface
2711 * "apply" handling in preferences
2714 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2715 ---------------------------------
2718 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2719 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2720 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2721 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2723 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2724 * DTS S/PDIF support
2727 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2728 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2729 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2730 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2733 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2734 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2737 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2740 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2743 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2745 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2746 * rc interface is now fully useable
2747 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2750 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2751 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2752 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2753 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2754 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2756 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2757 * support for mouse gestures
2758 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2761 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2762 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2765 * improved ID3 tag detection
2766 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2767 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2768 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2770 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2773 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2774 ---------------------------------
2777 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2778 English was set as the preferred language
2781 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2782 --------------------------------
2785 * new mouse gesture interface
2786 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2790 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2791 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2792 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2795 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2796 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2800 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2803 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2804 without the user consent
2807 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2809 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2810 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2811 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2814 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2815 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2816 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2817 * playlist enhancements
2818 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2819 * new step forward/step backward commands
2820 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2821 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2822 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2825 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2826 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2827 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2830 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2831 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2834 * native video output is working again
2835 * only commandline interface support
2836 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2839 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2840 --------------------------------
2843 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2844 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2845 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2846 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2847 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2848 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2849 and A/52 streams are supported)
2850 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2855 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2856 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2857 * VCD entry points support
2858 * VCD image file support
2861 * support for *.asf format
2862 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2863 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2864 * support for ogg encapsulation
2865 * support for raw DV format
2866 * support for *.wav format
2867 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2870 Stream discovery & playlists:
2871 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2872 * support for .m3u file format
2873 * support for .asx file format
2874 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2877 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2878 (only available with the .avi demux)
2879 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2880 * support for raw PCM data
2881 * support for Cinepak video codec
2882 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2883 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2884 * support for Xvid codec
2885 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2886 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2887 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2889 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2891 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2894 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2897 * new WxWindows interface
2898 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2899 device and the channels configuration
2900 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2901 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2902 format that VLC can play
2903 * new swedish translation
2904 * enhancements of the playlist window
2905 * new messages window to see debug info
2906 * fixed a few crashes
2909 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2910 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2911 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2912 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working