1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
22 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
23 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
24 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
25 * Support for Daala video
26 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
27 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
28 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
29 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
30 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
33 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
34 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
35 * Support Daala in Ogg
36 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
37 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
38 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
39 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
40 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
43 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
46 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
47 * Wayland shell surface window provider
48 * Wayland shared memory video output
49 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
50 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
51 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
54 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
55 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
58 * Chromecast output module
61 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
64 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
65 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
69 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
72 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
73 * Port to Yosemite X.10
76 * Batch convert support
79 * Support key accelerators
82 * split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
83 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
84 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
88 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
89 --------------------------------
92 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
93 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
96 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
97 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
98 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
99 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
102 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
103 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
104 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
105 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
107 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
108 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
111 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
112 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
113 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
114 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
115 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
116 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
117 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
118 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
119 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
120 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
121 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
122 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
123 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
124 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
125 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
126 * New jpeg image decoder
127 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
128 * New SVG image decoder
129 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
130 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
131 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
134 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
135 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
136 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
137 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
138 * New png image encoder using libpng
141 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
142 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
143 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
144 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
145 synchronization and tracks exclusion
146 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
147 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
148 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
149 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
150 * Support Opus in MKV
152 * Basic support for WebVTT
153 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
154 * Support HDPR TS files
155 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
156 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
157 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
158 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
159 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
160 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
161 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
162 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
163 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
164 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
165 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
166 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
169 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
170 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
171 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
172 * New Android native window provider module
173 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
174 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
175 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
178 * New Oldmovie effect filter
179 * New VHS effect filter
180 * New Freeze effect filter
181 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
182 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
183 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
186 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
187 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
188 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
189 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
190 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
191 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
194 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
195 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
197 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
200 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
201 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
202 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
203 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
204 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
205 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
206 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
207 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
208 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
210 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
211 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
212 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
215 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
216 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
219 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
220 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
223 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
224 * Add record button in Qt menus
225 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
226 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
227 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
230 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
231 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
232 * Fixes for advanced preferences
233 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
234 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
235 * Option to increase playlist font size
236 * Improved crash log reporting
239 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
240 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
241 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
244 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
247 * iOS video output: use ios2
248 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
249 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
252 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
253 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
254 * Update of all translations:
255 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
256 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
257 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
258 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
259 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
260 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
261 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
264 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
265 --------------------------------
268 * Fix compilation on OS/2
271 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
273 Mac OS X audio output:
274 * Fix channel ordering
275 * Increase the buffersize
278 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
279 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
280 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
283 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
286 * Correctly support video-on-top
287 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
288 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
291 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
294 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
295 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
298 * Update British English
301 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
302 --------------------------------
305 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
308 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
311 * Fix DVD playback regression
312 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
313 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
316 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
317 --------------------------------
320 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
321 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
324 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
325 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
326 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
329 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
330 by updating codec libraries
331 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
332 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
333 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
336 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
337 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
338 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
339 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
342 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
343 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
346 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
347 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
348 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
349 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
350 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
353 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
354 * Fix record file names
357 * Fix minimal size possible on start
358 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
359 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
360 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
361 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
364 * Fix album art display on Windows
367 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
368 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
369 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
370 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
371 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
372 and Simplified Chinese translations
373 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
376 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
377 --------------------------------
380 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
381 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
382 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
383 audio devices on OS X
384 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
385 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
388 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
389 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
392 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
393 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
396 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
399 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
400 * Improve A-B loop control
401 * Fix album art update when changing media
404 * Add a language option in the interface
405 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
406 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
407 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
408 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
409 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
410 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
411 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
414 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
417 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
418 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
419 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
420 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
423 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
424 --------------------------------
427 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
429 * Fix some subtitles track selection
432 * VP9 support in WebM
433 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
434 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
437 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
438 * Support Speex in ogg files
439 * Fix some .mov playlists support
440 * Support Alac in mkv
441 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
442 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
445 * Fix DVB options parsing
446 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
447 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
450 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
451 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
454 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
455 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
458 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
459 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
460 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
461 * Fix play after drag'n drop
462 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
465 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
466 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
469 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
470 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
473 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
474 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
475 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
476 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
477 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
478 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
479 * Improves interface resizings
482 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
483 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
484 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
485 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
486 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
490 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
491 --------------------------------
494 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
495 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
496 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
497 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
498 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
500 3rd party libraries (contrib):
501 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
504 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
505 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
506 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
507 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
508 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
511 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
512 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
516 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
517 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
518 * Support for Ulead DV audio
519 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
520 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
521 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
522 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
523 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
524 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
525 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
526 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
527 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
528 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
531 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
532 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
533 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
536 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
537 remove support for previous OS X releases
538 * Major improvements in DASH support
539 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
540 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
541 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
542 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
543 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
544 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
545 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
546 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
547 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
548 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
549 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
552 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
553 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
554 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
555 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
556 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
557 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
558 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
559 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
560 * Support for more MJPEG streams
561 * Add support for liveleak streams
562 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
563 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
564 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
567 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
568 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
569 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
570 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
571 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
572 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
573 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
574 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
575 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
576 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
577 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
580 * New remapping channel filter
581 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
582 * New VSXu visualization plugin
583 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
584 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
585 * New gain audio filter
588 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
589 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
590 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
591 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
592 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
593 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
594 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
595 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
596 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
599 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
600 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
601 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
602 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
603 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
604 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
605 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
608 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
609 * Options support for AVIO output module
610 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
611 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
612 * Livehttp stream encryption support
613 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
614 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
617 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
620 * configurable password for the HTTP server
621 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
622 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
623 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
624 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
625 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
626 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
627 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
631 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
634 * Add support for multiple video outputs
635 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
637 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
638 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
639 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
640 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
641 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
642 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
643 VLC's internal volume level
644 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
646 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
647 selection and to manage the list of presets
648 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
649 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
650 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
651 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
652 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
653 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
654 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
655 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
656 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
657 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
659 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
660 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
661 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
662 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
663 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
664 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
665 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
666 3rd party applications
667 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
668 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
669 (system-wide settings)
670 * Add support for the Video Title option
671 * Add support for the Boss Key
672 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
673 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
676 * Partial support for Qt5.0
677 * Menus modifications and improvements
678 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
679 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
680 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
681 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
682 * EPG display fixes and improvements
683 * Add SD pixmap sources
684 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
685 * Display playlist total duration
686 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
687 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
688 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
693 * Extend sliders, offsets options
694 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
695 * Numerous fixes and improvements
696 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
699 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
700 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
701 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
702 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
703 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
704 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
705 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
706 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
707 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
708 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
711 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
712 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
713 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
714 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
715 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
716 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
718 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
719 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
720 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
721 * Broken crop video filter
723 * OSD parser and menu
724 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
725 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
726 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
727 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
731 * Update of all translations
734 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
735 --------------------------------
738 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
739 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
742 * Fix modplug security issues
745 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
746 --------------------------------
750 * Fix crash in QTsound
751 * Fix screen mouse file location
752 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
755 * Fix use after free in sgimb
756 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
759 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
762 * Fix interface crashes
763 * Fix autostart playback option
764 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
767 * update Welsh translation
768 * New Kannada translation
771 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
772 --------------------------------
775 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
776 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
780 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
783 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
786 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
789 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
793 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
796 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
799 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
800 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
801 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
804 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
805 --------------------------------
808 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
811 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
814 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
815 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
816 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
817 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
818 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
819 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
822 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
823 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
824 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
825 * 3rd party codecs updates
828 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
829 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
830 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
831 in the advanced preferences panel
832 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
833 * Fix crash within the video output code
834 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
835 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
836 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
837 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
839 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
842 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
845 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
846 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
849 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
852 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
853 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
854 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
855 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
856 Dutch, Danish, translations
857 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
860 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
861 --------------------------------
864 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
867 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
868 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
869 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
872 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
873 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
874 * Fix koreus lua parser
875 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
876 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
877 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
878 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
881 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
882 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
885 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
888 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
889 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
890 * Fix Time counter UI look
891 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
894 * Fix https streaming
897 * Fix audio and video track selection:
898 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
899 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
902 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
903 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
904 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
905 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
906 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
909 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
910 --------------------------------
913 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
914 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
915 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
916 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
917 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
918 during playback on Mac OS X
921 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
922 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
923 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
926 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
927 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
928 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
929 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
930 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
933 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
934 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
935 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
936 * Support Youtube live streams
939 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
942 * Fix media info dialog update
943 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
944 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
945 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
946 * Fix album art display at start
949 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
950 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
951 * Fix menus display and behavior
952 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
953 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
954 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
955 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
956 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
957 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
958 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
961 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
962 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
963 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
964 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
965 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
966 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
967 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
968 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
969 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
972 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
973 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
974 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
975 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
976 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
979 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
980 --------------------------------
983 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
986 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
987 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
990 * Add GateKeeper support
991 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
992 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
993 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
996 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
999 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1000 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1001 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1002 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1003 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1006 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1007 --------------------------------
1010 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1011 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1012 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1013 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1014 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1015 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1016 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1017 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1018 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1019 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1020 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1024 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1025 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1026 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1027 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1028 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1029 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1030 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1031 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1032 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1033 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1034 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1035 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1038 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1039 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1041 * Fix MP3 free format support
1044 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1045 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1046 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1047 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1048 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1051 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1052 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1054 Audio filters and output:
1055 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1056 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1057 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1058 * Do not apply volume in file output
1059 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1060 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1063 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1064 the persistant media library
1065 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1066 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1067 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1068 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1069 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1070 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1071 press on the Play/Pause button
1072 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1073 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1074 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1075 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1076 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1077 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1078 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1079 Synchronization panel
1080 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1081 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1082 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1083 * Fix crashes on exit
1084 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1086 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1087 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1088 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1089 automatically reset on the first launch.
1090 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1091 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1092 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1095 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1096 * Fixes for icecast SD
1099 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1100 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1101 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1102 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1103 * Fix tags and file names display
1104 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1107 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1108 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1111 * Fix display of some buttons
1112 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1113 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1116 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1117 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1118 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1121 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1122 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1123 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1124 Thai translations update
1125 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1128 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1133 * fix the samba module compilation
1134 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1135 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1136 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1137 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1140 * Support for MXPEG files
1141 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1142 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1145 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1146 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1147 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1150 * Fix ogm header creation
1153 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1154 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1157 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1158 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1159 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1160 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1163 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1166 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1167 * allow to hide the sidebar
1168 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1169 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1170 * noticebly faster launch time
1171 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1172 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1173 * improve track synchronization panel
1174 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1175 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1178 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1179 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1180 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1181 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1184 * fix for menus display
1185 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1186 * documentation update
1189 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1190 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1193 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1194 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1195 * Update Jamendo selections
1199 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1200 * fix a crash on VLM close
1203 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1204 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1205 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1206 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1209 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1212 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1213 ---------------------------------
1216 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1217 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1218 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1219 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1220 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1221 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1222 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1223 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1224 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1225 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1226 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1227 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1228 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1229 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1230 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1231 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1232 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1233 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1234 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1235 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1236 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1237 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1238 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1239 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1240 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1241 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1243 Important changes for packagers:
1244 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1245 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1246 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1247 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1248 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1249 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1250 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1251 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1252 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1253 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1256 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1257 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1258 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1259 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1260 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1261 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1262 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1265 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1266 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1267 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1268 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1269 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1270 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1271 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1272 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1273 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1274 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1275 * PulseAudio audio input support
1276 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1277 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1278 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1279 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1280 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1281 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1282 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1283 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1286 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1287 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1288 are notably concerned.
1289 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1290 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1291 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1292 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1293 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1294 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1295 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1296 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1297 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1298 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1299 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1300 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1301 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1302 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1303 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1306 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1307 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1308 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1309 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1310 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1311 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1312 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1313 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1314 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1315 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1316 * Improved support of tracker files
1317 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1320 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1321 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1322 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1323 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1324 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1325 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1326 and important cleanups and optimisations
1327 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1328 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1329 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1330 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1331 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1332 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1333 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1334 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1335 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1336 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1337 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1338 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1339 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1340 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1341 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1342 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1343 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1344 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1345 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1346 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1347 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1350 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1351 * New video output for iOS platform
1352 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1353 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1354 * Various vmem improvements
1355 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1356 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1357 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1358 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1359 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1360 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1362 Audio Output and Filters:
1363 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1364 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1365 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1366 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1367 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1368 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1369 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1370 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1371 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1372 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1375 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1376 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1377 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1378 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1379 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1380 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1381 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1382 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1383 * New anti-flickering filter
1384 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1385 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1386 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1387 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1388 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1389 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1390 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1393 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1394 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1395 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1396 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1397 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1398 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1399 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1400 * Major rework of VoD support
1401 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1402 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1403 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1404 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1405 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1406 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1407 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1408 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1409 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1410 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1413 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1414 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1417 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1418 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1419 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1420 list of available audio and video filters
1421 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1422 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1423 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1426 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1427 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1428 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1429 * id3tag: use taglib
1430 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1431 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1432 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1433 * removal of the noise filter
1434 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1435 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1436 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1437 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1440 * Update of translations for most languages.
1441 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1444 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1445 ----------------------------------
1448 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1449 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1452 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1453 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1456 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1457 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1458 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1461 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1464 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1465 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1468 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1471 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1472 ----------------------------------
1475 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1476 including support for OS X Lion
1477 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1478 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1481 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1484 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1485 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1486 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1489 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1492 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1493 ----------------------------------
1496 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1497 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1500 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1501 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1502 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1503 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1504 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1506 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1507 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1508 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1510 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1511 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1514 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1517 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1520 * Fix quitting on Linux
1521 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1525 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1528 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1531 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1532 ---------------------------------
1534 Windows and Mac OS X:
1535 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1538 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1539 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1542 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1545 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1548 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1550 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1551 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1553 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1554 * RTP output and XML export
1555 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1559 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1560 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1561 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1562 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1565 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1566 --------------------------------
1568 Windows and Mac OS X:
1569 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1572 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1575 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1576 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1577 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1578 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1579 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1580 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1583 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1584 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1588 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1589 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1590 * New Luganda Translation
1593 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1594 --------------------------------
1597 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1600 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1601 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1602 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1603 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1606 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1608 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1609 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1610 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1611 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1612 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1613 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1614 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1615 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1617 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1618 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1619 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1620 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1621 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1622 * Configure and build system improvements
1623 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1626 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1627 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1628 * New icelandic translation
1631 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1632 --------------------------------
1635 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1636 #234484 and #260719.
1639 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1640 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1641 and stability reasons
1644 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1648 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1651 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1652 ----------------------------------
1655 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1658 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1659 ---------------------------------
1662 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1663 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1664 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1665 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1668 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1671 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1672 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1673 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1674 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1677 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1678 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1679 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1681 Subtitles and renderer:
1682 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1683 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1684 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1685 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1686 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1689 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1690 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1691 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1692 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1695 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1696 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1698 Miscellaneous fixes:
1699 * KDE device solid actions
1701 * Transcode integer overflow
1702 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1703 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1706 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1707 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1708 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1711 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1712 ----------------------------------
1715 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1719 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1722 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1725 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1726 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1727 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1728 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1731 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1735 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1738 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1741 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1742 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1744 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1748 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1749 * Miscellaneous fixes
1752 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1753 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1754 French and Ukrainian
1755 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1756 * New Asturian translation
1759 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1760 ----------------------------------
1763 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1765 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1768 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1771 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1772 * Various fixes for Windows
1775 * New Armenian translation
1776 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1777 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1780 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1781 --------------------------------
1784 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1785 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1786 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1789 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1790 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1793 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1794 --------------------------------
1796 Access and demuxers:
1797 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1798 * fix for podcasts parsing
1799 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1802 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1803 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1806 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1807 * fix m3u playlists exports
1810 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1813 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1816 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1819 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1822 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1825 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1826 --------------------------------
1829 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1830 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1833 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1834 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1837 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1838 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1839 * fix console output encoding
1841 Interface and extensions:
1842 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1843 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1846 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1847 --------------------------------
1850 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1851 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1852 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1853 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1854 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1855 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1856 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1857 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1858 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1859 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1860 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1861 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1862 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1863 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1864 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1865 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1869 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1870 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1871 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1872 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1873 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1876 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1879 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1880 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1881 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1885 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1888 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1889 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1890 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1893 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1894 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1895 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1896 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1899 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1900 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1903 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1904 --------------------------------
1906 Important changes for users:
1907 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1908 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1910 Important changes for packagers:
1911 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1912 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1913 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1914 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1915 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1917 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1919 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1920 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1921 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1922 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1923 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1926 * Support for the sftp protocol
1927 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1928 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1929 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1930 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1931 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1934 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1935 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1936 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1938 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1939 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1940 * Invmem module improvements
1941 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1942 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1943 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1944 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1945 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1946 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1947 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1948 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1949 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1950 * Support for VP8 codec
1951 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1954 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1955 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1956 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1957 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1958 * Various EGP improvements
1959 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1960 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1963 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1964 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1965 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1966 * Podcast images are now displayed
1969 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1970 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1971 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1972 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1973 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1974 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1975 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1976 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1977 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1978 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1979 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1982 * New content extensions lua framework
1985 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1986 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1987 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1988 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1989 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1990 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1991 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1994 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1995 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1996 * Service discovery based on libudev
1997 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2000 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2001 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2002 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2003 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2004 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2005 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2006 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2009 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2010 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2011 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2014 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2016 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2017 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2020 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2023 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2024 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2025 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2026 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2027 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2028 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2029 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2032 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2033 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2036 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2037 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2038 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2042 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2043 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2044 * Improved Solaris port
2047 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2048 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2051 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2052 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2053 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2054 * transrate: broken since too long
2055 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2056 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2057 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2058 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2059 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2060 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2061 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2062 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2063 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2064 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2065 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2066 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2067 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2068 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2071 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2072 --------------------------------
2075 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2077 Decoders/Packetizers:
2078 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2081 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2082 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2083 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2084 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2085 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2088 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2089 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2092 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2093 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2096 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2097 and Walloon translations updated
2098 * Sinhala translation started
2101 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2102 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2105 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2106 --------------------------------
2109 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2110 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2113 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2116 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2117 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2120 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2121 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2122 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2123 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2126 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2127 --------------------------------
2130 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2131 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2134 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2135 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2138 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2139 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2142 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2145 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2146 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2149 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2150 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2153 * New Walloon translation
2154 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2157 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2158 --------------------------------
2161 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2162 regressions in most popular drivers
2163 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2166 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2167 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2168 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2171 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2172 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2175 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2176 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2177 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2178 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2179 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2182 * New udev module for linux
2185 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2188 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2191 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2192 --------------------------------
2195 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2196 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2197 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2200 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2201 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2204 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2205 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2208 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2211 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2212 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2213 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2214 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2217 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2218 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2219 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2220 - no support for Goom and SDL
2221 - limited text rendering support
2222 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2225 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2226 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2227 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2228 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2229 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2230 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2231 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2232 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2233 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2237 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2240 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2243 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2244 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2245 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2246 Arabic and French translation updates
2249 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2250 --------------------------------
2253 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2254 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2255 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2256 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2257 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2258 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2261 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2262 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2263 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2266 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2267 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2268 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2271 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2274 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2275 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2278 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2279 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2280 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2281 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2282 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2283 * Fix various crashes
2286 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2288 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2292 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2293 ---------------------------------
2297 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2298 See 'Access:' for more info.
2299 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2302 * Instantaneous pausing
2303 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2304 * Finer speed control
2305 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2306 * Timeshift for most medias
2307 * RTSP trickplay support
2308 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2311 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2312 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2313 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2314 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2315 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2316 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2317 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2318 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2319 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2320 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2323 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2324 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2325 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2326 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2327 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2328 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2329 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2332 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2333 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2336 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2337 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2338 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2339 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2340 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2341 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2342 * DVB scanning on linux
2343 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2344 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2345 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2346 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2347 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2348 * MTP device access on Unix
2349 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2350 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2353 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2354 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2355 Windows and Mac OS X.
2358 * Export the playlist in HTML
2359 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2360 * Better metadata handling and reading
2362 Linux/Windows interface:
2363 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2364 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2365 * Recently played items list
2366 * Interface toolbar customizations
2367 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2368 - More menus actions
2369 - Finer speed slider
2370 - Improvements on many dialogs
2371 - New dialog for plugins listing
2372 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2373 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2374 * Better integration in GTK environments
2377 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2378 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2379 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2380 * Additional usability improvements
2383 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2384 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2385 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2386 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2387 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2390 * New Maemo port with:
2391 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2392 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2395 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2398 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2399 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2400 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2401 * Support for latest iSight models
2404 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2405 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2408 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2409 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2410 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2411 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2412 The old image video output has been removed.
2413 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2414 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2417 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2425 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2426 --------------------------------------
2432 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2433 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2434 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2435 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2436 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2437 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2438 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2440 Various fixes to the following modules:
2443 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2444 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2445 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2447 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2452 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2453 ---------------------------------
2456 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2457 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2460 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2461 ---------------------------------
2464 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2467 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2470 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2471 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2472 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2473 main controller window.
2474 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2477 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2482 * Updates of other localizations
2485 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2486 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2487 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2488 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2489 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2492 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2493 ---------------------------------
2496 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2498 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2501 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2502 --------------------------------
2507 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2508 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2511 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2512 --------------------------------
2514 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2515 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2518 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2521 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2522 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2525 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2526 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2529 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2530 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2531 * Various fixed in playlist
2534 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2537 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2540 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2541 ------------------------------------
2543 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2544 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2547 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2548 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2549 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2552 * Stability fix for the video output.
2555 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2556 --------------------------------
2559 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2560 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2561 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2562 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2563 * Fixed update system bugs
2564 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2567 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2568 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2569 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2570 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2571 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2572 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2573 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2574 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2575 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2576 modern Mac OS X versions
2579 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2580 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2582 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2583 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2586 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2587 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2588 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2589 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2590 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2591 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2594 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2595 --------------------------------
2597 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2598 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2599 * Multiple bugfixes.
2602 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2603 --------------------------------
2605 * Multiple bug fixes.
2608 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2609 ---------------------------------
2613 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2614 recent to work correctly
2615 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2616 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2617 edit the ".hosts" file.
2618 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2619 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2620 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2621 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2622 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2623 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2624 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2625 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2626 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2627 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2628 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2629 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2630 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2631 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2632 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2633 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2634 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2635 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2636 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2637 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2638 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2639 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2640 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2641 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2642 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2643 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2644 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2645 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2646 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2647 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2648 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2649 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2650 and postproc modules.
2651 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2652 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2653 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2654 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2656 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2657 filter. For example:
2658 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2659 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2661 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2662 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2668 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2670 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2671 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2674 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2675 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2677 * Shoutcast TV listings
2678 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2680 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2681 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2683 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2686 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2687 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2688 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2689 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2690 * JACK audio input support
2691 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2692 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2693 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2694 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2695 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2696 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2697 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2698 (available as a separate download).
2699 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2700 * RTMP input support
2701 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2702 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2703 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2705 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2706 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2709 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2710 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2711 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2712 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2714 * APEv1/2 tags support
2715 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2716 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2718 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2719 * TiVo Series 2 support
2720 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2725 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2726 * Flash Screen Video support
2727 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2728 * DosBox Capture support
2729 * Karl Morton's Video support
2730 * limited atrac3 support
2732 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2733 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2734 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2735 * H.264 PAFF support
2736 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2737 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2738 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2739 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2740 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2743 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2744 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2745 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2746 * AQTitle subtitles support
2747 * MKV USF subtitles support
2748 * HTML-based subtitles support
2749 * MPSub subtitles support
2750 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2751 * MPL2 subtitles support
2752 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2753 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2754 * Realtext subtitle support
2755 * DKS subtitle support
2756 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2757 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2760 * Flash Screen Video support
2761 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2763 Video outputs and filters:
2764 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2765 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2766 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2767 * New puzzle video output filter
2768 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2769 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2771 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2772 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2773 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2774 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2775 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2776 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2777 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2778 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2779 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2780 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2781 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2782 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2783 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2784 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2786 Audio outputs and filters:
2787 * Replay gain support
2788 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2789 new scaletempo audio filter)
2790 * New spatializer audio filter
2791 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2794 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2795 * New RTP payload formats:
2796 * Speex voice audio codec
2797 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2798 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2799 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2800 * DCCP transport for RTP
2801 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2806 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2807 end-user suitable way.
2808 * Improved user interaction
2809 * Improved mouse gestures
2810 * Vastly improved Update checker
2811 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2813 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2814 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2816 * Improved video output features
2817 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2818 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2819 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2820 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2821 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2823 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2824 if libncursesw is available.
2825 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2826 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2827 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2829 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2830 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2831 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2832 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2833 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2834 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2835 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2836 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2839 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2840 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2841 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2844 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2845 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2846 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2847 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2848 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2849 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2852 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2853 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2863 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2864 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2865 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2868 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2869 ----------------------------------
2872 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2875 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2876 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2877 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2878 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2879 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2880 * Updated Polish translation
2883 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2884 ----------------------------------
2887 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2888 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2889 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2892 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2893 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2894 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2895 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2896 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2897 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2898 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2899 to an unexpected application termination
2900 * New Serbian translation
2901 * Updated Romanian translation
2904 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2905 ----------------------------------
2908 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2909 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2910 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2911 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2912 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2913 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2914 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2915 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2918 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2919 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2920 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2921 * Fixed AAC resampling
2922 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2923 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2926 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2927 ----------------------------------
2930 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2931 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2932 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2933 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2934 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2937 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2938 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2939 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2940 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2941 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2944 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2945 ----------------------------------
2948 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2949 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2952 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2953 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2954 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2955 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2957 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2961 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2964 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2967 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2970 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2973 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2974 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2975 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2976 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2977 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2979 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2980 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2981 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2982 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2985 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2988 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2989 ----------------------------------
2992 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2993 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2994 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2996 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2997 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2999 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3000 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3003 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3005 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3006 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3007 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3008 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3009 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3010 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3011 two different movies
3012 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3013 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3014 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3017 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3020 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3021 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3022 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3023 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3026 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3027 ----------------------------------
3029 Various bugfixes, notably:
3030 * Windows Vista compatibility
3031 * Cropping in Direct3D
3032 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3033 * RSS filter string overflow
3035 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3037 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3038 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3041 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3042 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3045 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3048 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3051 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3054 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3055 ----------------------------------
3057 Various bugfixes, notably:
3058 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3059 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3060 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3061 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3062 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3063 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3066 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3067 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3070 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3072 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3073 * Diverse usability improvements
3074 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3075 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3076 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3079 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3080 ---------------------------------
3082 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3083 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3086 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3089 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3090 --------------------------------
3093 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3096 * Support for RTSP authentication
3097 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3098 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3099 * ATSC support for DVB input
3100 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3101 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3102 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3105 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3106 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3107 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3108 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3109 * Matroska WavPack support
3110 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3111 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3112 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3115 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3116 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3117 * Improved libcaca support
3121 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3122 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3124 * Systray support in skins
3126 * Support for Apple Remote control
3127 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3128 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3129 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3130 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3132 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3135 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3136 Windows 9x/ME users:
3137 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3138 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3139 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3140 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3141 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3143 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3144 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3153 * Updates to the libvlc API
3154 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3157 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3158 --------------------------------
3161 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3162 * Support for downloading updates
3166 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3167 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3168 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3169 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3171 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3172 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3173 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3176 * Cook (Real audio) support
3178 Playlist / Services discovery:
3179 * XSPF playlist support
3181 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3184 * New JACK audio output
3187 * New video filters:
3188 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3189 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3190 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3191 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3192 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3193 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3196 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3199 * System to inform the user and request information
3200 - HTTP authentication
3204 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3205 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3206 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3209 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3210 - Improved playlist handling
3211 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3213 - Embedded Video output
3214 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3215 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3216 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3217 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3218 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3220 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3221 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3224 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3227 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3228 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3229 * Growl "Now playing" support
3232 * Ability to log to syslog
3233 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3236 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3238 * A bit more automatic testing
3241 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3242 ---------------------------------
3245 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3246 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3249 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3250 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3253 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3256 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3257 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3263 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3266 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3267 --------------------------------
3270 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3274 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3275 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3276 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3279 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3280 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3281 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3282 * GnomeVFS input module
3283 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3284 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3287 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3288 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3289 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3292 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3293 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3299 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3300 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3303 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3304 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3305 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3308 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3310 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3311 - New extended controls panel
3312 - New bookmarks window
3313 - Fixed playlist sorting
3314 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3316 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3317 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3318 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3319 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3323 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3324 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3326 - Include macro to include other files
3330 * Should now work outside IE as well
3333 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3336 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3337 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3340 The following languages were added:
3344 * Simplified Chinese
3345 The following languages were re-added:
3349 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3350 --------------------------------
3353 * Rewrite of the playlist
3355 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3356 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3357 * Preferences improvements:
3358 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3359 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3361 * Core image manipulation support
3362 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3363 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3364 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3365 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3366 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3367 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3368 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3369 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3370 * Access filter architecture
3371 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3372 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3376 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3377 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3378 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3379 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3380 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3381 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3382 * Massive Matroska improvements
3383 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3385 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3386 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3387 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3388 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3389 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3391 Decoders / Encoders:
3392 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3393 * PNG decoder/encoder
3394 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3395 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3398 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3401 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3402 * Brand new SAP module
3403 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3404 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3405 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3406 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3407 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3408 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3412 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3415 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3416 * Image file video output (png)
3417 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3418 * Improvements to wall video filter
3419 * Support for font color and opacity
3425 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3426 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3427 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3431 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3432 - Improved preferences
3433 - Improvements to the wizard
3434 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3436 - Redesigned playlist
3437 - Improved preferences
3439 - Support for multiple actions
3442 - Support for the new playlist system
3444 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3447 * Screensaver disabling fix
3448 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3449 * Support for no-decoration windows
3452 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3453 * The OpenGL video output is back
3454 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3455 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3456 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3457 is not yet available in the new module
3458 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3461 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3470 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3473 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3476 The following languages were added:
3482 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3483 --------------------------------
3486 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3487 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3490 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3491 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3492 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3495 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3498 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3501 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3504 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3505 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3506 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3510 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3512 * Support of playlist group announcement
3515 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3516 --------------------------------
3519 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3520 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3521 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3522 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3523 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3524 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3527 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3528 (Stream your desktop)
3529 * Improved DVD support:
3530 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3531 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3532 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3533 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3534 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3535 (selection of titles/chapters).
3538 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3539 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3540 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3541 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3542 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3543 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3544 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3545 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3546 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3547 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3550 * G.726 audio support
3551 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3552 * MPEG-4 text support
3553 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3554 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3555 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3559 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3560 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3561 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3562 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3563 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3564 * DVB subtitles encoder
3565 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3566 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3568 * Text track muxing for mp4
3569 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3570 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3571 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3572 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3573 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3574 * Improved ASF muxer
3576 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3577 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3578 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3581 * New audio equalizer filter
3582 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3583 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3584 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3585 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3588 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3589 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3590 with support for effects.
3591 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3592 - New filters can be streamed.
3593 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3594 - Centralized scaling and blending
3596 - "time", to display current time
3597 - "marq", to display a marquee
3600 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3601 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3602 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3603 * A few skins2 improvements
3604 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3605 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3606 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3607 * Improved CORBA control module
3610 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3611 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3612 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3615 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3616 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3617 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3620 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3621 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3622 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3623 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3624 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3627 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3630 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3631 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3634 * Server/client network synchronization module
3635 * VBrick streams fully supported
3636 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3640 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3641 --------------------------------
3644 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3645 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3646 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3647 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3650 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3651 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3652 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3653 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3654 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3655 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3656 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3659 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3660 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3661 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3662 * Improved directory access module.
3663 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3664 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3665 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3666 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3667 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3670 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3671 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3672 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3675 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3676 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3677 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3680 * Improved session announcement system.
3681 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3682 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3683 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3684 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3685 * Improved transrater.
3686 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3687 * New configuration system.
3688 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3691 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3692 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3693 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3694 * Supports scheduling.
3695 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3696 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3699 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3700 - Ability to embed video output.
3701 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3702 - Lots of improvements.
3703 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3704 - New design and set of icons.
3705 - Ability to embed video output.
3706 - Support for hotkeys.
3707 - Support for bookmarks.
3709 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3710 - Better hotkeys handling.
3713 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3714 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3715 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3716 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3719 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3720 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3721 * Improved Windows installer.
3727 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3728 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3731 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3732 ---------------------------------
3735 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3736 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3739 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3740 --------------------------------
3743 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3744 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3747 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3748 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3749 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3750 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3753 * Internal improvments
3754 * Improved import/export
3757 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3759 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3760 small and strange formats.
3762 * New MOD audio demux.
3763 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3764 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3765 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3766 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3769 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3770 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3771 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3777 * New opengl video output plugin.
3780 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3781 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3784 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3785 --------------------------------
3788 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3789 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3790 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3791 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3792 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3793 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3794 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3795 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3798 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3803 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3804 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3805 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3806 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3807 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3808 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3809 * Better Icecast support.
3810 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3811 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3814 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3815 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3816 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3817 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3818 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3819 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3820 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3823 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3824 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3825 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3826 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3827 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3828 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3829 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3830 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3831 * Preliminary RTP support.
3832 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3837 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3838 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3840 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3841 - Improvements and help in preferences
3842 - New streaming wizard
3843 - Revised Disc Open menu
3845 - Improvements of the standard pages
3846 - Support for new commands
3847 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3850 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3851 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3854 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3855 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3856 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3857 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3858 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3859 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3860 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3861 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3862 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3865 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3867 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3868 * Support for Panther.
3869 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3870 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3873 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3874 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3875 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3876 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3877 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3878 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3879 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3880 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3883 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3884 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3885 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3888 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3891 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3892 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3893 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3894 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3897 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3898 --------------------------------
3901 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3904 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3905 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3908 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3909 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3912 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3915 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3916 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3919 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3922 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3925 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3926 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3930 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3931 --------------------------------
3934 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3935 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3939 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3940 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3941 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3943 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3944 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3947 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3950 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3953 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3954 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3958 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3959 --------------------------------
3962 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3963 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3967 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3968 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3969 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3970 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3971 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3974 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3975 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3976 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3979 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3980 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3981 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3984 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3985 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3986 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3987 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3988 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3991 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3992 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3993 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3996 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3999 * Improved build system.
4000 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4001 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4002 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4003 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4006 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4007 --------------------------------
4010 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4013 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4014 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4015 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4016 * Video 4 Linux support
4017 * CD Digital Audio support
4018 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4021 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4022 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4023 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4024 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4027 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4028 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4029 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4030 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4031 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4032 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4033 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4036 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4037 * New HTTP remote control interface
4040 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4041 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4042 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4043 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4044 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4047 * New reset option for the preferences
4048 * You can set your language in the prefences
4049 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4050 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4051 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4052 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4055 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4056 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4057 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4060 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4061 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4062 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4063 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4064 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4065 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4066 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4067 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4068 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4069 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4072 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4073 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4074 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4075 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4076 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4077 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4078 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4081 * Interface localization
4082 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4083 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4084 * New full-featured Preferences window
4087 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4088 --------------------------------
4091 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4092 * support for skins at the interface level
4093 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4094 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4095 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4096 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4097 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4100 * fixed HTTP redirects
4101 * support for opening an entire directory
4102 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4103 * new video4linux access plug-in
4104 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4107 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4108 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4109 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4112 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4113 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4114 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4115 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4116 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4117 * new codec for raw I420 video
4118 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4121 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4122 (although it still misses some important features)
4123 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4126 * new HTTP output support
4127 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4128 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4131 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4134 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4137 * reorderable playlist
4138 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4139 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4140 * support for mono audio output devices
4141 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4142 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4143 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4144 * the messages window remembers more lines
4145 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4146 * http and ogg stream output options
4147 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4150 * new skinnable interface
4151 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4153 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4154 * support for FLAC audio format
4155 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4157 * network tab in the interface
4158 * "apply" handling in preferences
4161 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4162 ---------------------------------
4165 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4166 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4167 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4168 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4170 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4171 * DTS S/PDIF support
4174 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4175 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4176 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4177 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4180 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4181 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4184 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4187 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4190 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4192 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4193 * rc interface is now fully useable
4194 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4197 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4198 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4199 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4200 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4201 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4203 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4204 * support for mouse gestures
4205 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4208 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4209 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4212 * improved ID3 tag detection
4213 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4214 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4215 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4217 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4220 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4221 ---------------------------------
4224 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4225 English was set as the preferred language
4228 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4229 --------------------------------
4232 * new mouse gesture interface
4233 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4237 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4238 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4239 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4242 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4243 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4247 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4250 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4251 without the user consent
4254 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4256 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4257 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4258 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4261 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4262 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4263 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4264 * playlist enhancements
4265 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4266 * new step forward/step backward commands
4267 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4268 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4269 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4272 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4273 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4274 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4277 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4278 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4281 * native video output is working again
4282 * only commandline interface support
4283 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4286 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4287 --------------------------------
4290 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4291 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4292 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4293 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4294 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4295 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4296 and A/52 streams are supported)
4297 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4302 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4303 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4304 * VCD entry points support
4305 * VCD image file support
4308 * support for *.asf format
4309 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4310 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4311 * support for ogg encapsulation
4312 * support for raw DV format
4313 * support for *.wav format
4314 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4317 Stream discovery & playlists:
4318 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4319 * support for .m3u file format
4320 * support for .asx file format
4321 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4324 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4325 (only available with the .avi demux)
4326 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4327 * support for raw PCM data
4328 * support for Cinepak video codec
4329 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4330 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4331 * support for Xvid codec
4332 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4333 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4334 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4336 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4338 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4341 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4344 * new WxWindows interface
4345 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4346 device and the channels configuration
4347 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4348 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4349 format that VLC can play
4350 * new swedish translation
4351 * enhancements of the playlist window
4352 * new messages window to see debug info
4353 * fixed a few crashes
4356 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4357 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4358 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4359 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working