1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
10 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
11 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
12 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
13 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
14 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
15 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
16 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
17 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
18 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
19 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
20 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
21 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
22 --http-crl (optional CRL).
23 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
24 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
26 Important changes for packagers:
27 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
28 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
29 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
30 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
31 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
32 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
33 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
34 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
35 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
36 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
37 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
39 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
40 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
43 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
44 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
45 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
46 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
47 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
48 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
51 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
52 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
53 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
54 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
55 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
56 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
57 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
58 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
59 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
60 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
61 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
62 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
63 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
64 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
65 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
68 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
69 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
70 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
71 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
72 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
73 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
74 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
75 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
76 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
77 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
78 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
79 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
80 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
81 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
84 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
85 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
86 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
87 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
88 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
89 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
90 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
91 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
94 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
95 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
96 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
97 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
98 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
99 and important cleanups and optimisations
100 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
101 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
102 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
103 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
104 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
105 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
106 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
107 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
108 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
109 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
110 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
111 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
112 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
113 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
116 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
117 * New video output for iOS platform
118 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
119 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
120 * Various vmem improvements
121 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
123 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
124 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
125 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which now requires a
126 Quartz Extreme capable machine
129 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
130 * New audio output in memory (amem)
131 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
132 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
133 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
136 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
137 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
138 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
139 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
140 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
141 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
142 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
143 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
144 * New anti-flickering filter
145 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
146 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
147 blackbox and customizable shadow
148 - The freetype module is used by default on the Mac now in favor of
149 quartztext, which can still be enabled manually
152 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
155 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
156 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
157 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
158 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
159 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
160 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
161 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
162 * Major rework of VoD support
163 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
164 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
165 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
166 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
167 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
168 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
169 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
170 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
171 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
172 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
175 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
176 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
179 * New capabilities for libVLC:
180 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
181 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
182 list of available audio and video filters
183 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
184 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
185 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
188 * asademux: use libass only
189 * subsass: use libass
190 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
191 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
193 * upnp: use upnp_intel
194 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
195 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
196 * removal of the noise filter
197 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
198 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
199 removed in Growl's next release, too.
200 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
203 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
204 ----------------------------------
207 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
208 including support for OS X Lion
209 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
210 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
213 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
216 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
217 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
218 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
221 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
224 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
225 ----------------------------------
228 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
229 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
232 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
233 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
234 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
235 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
236 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
238 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
239 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
240 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
242 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
243 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
246 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
249 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
252 * Fix quitting on Linux
253 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
257 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
260 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
263 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
264 ---------------------------------
266 Windows and Mac OS X:
267 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
270 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
271 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
274 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
277 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
280 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
282 Miscellaneous fixes in:
283 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
285 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
286 * RTP output and XML export
287 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
291 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
292 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
293 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
294 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
297 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
298 --------------------------------
300 Windows and Mac OS X:
301 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
304 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
307 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
308 * Improve Apple Remote handling
309 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
310 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
311 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
312 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
315 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
316 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
320 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
321 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
322 * New Luganda Translation
325 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
326 --------------------------------
329 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
332 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
333 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
334 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
335 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
338 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
340 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
341 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
342 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
343 * mp4 demuxer improvements
344 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
345 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
346 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
347 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
349 Miscellaneous fixes in:
350 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
351 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
352 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
353 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
354 * Configure and build system improvements
355 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
358 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
359 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
360 * New icelandic translation
363 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
364 --------------------------------
367 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
371 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
372 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
373 and stability reasons
376 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
380 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
383 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
384 ----------------------------------
387 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
390 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
391 ---------------------------------
394 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
395 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
396 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
397 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
400 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
403 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
404 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
405 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
406 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
409 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
410 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
411 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
413 Subtitles and renderer:
414 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
415 * Mark more freetype options as safe
416 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
417 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
418 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
421 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
422 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
423 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
424 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
427 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
428 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
431 * KDE device solid actions
433 * Transcode integer overflow
434 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
435 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
438 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
439 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
440 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
443 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
444 ----------------------------------
447 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
451 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
454 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
457 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
458 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
459 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
460 * Taglib thread-safety fix
463 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
467 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
470 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
473 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
474 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
476 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
480 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
481 * Miscellaneous fixes
484 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
485 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
487 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
488 * New Asturian translation
491 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
492 ----------------------------------
495 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
497 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
500 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
503 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
504 * Various fixes for Windows
507 * New Armenian translation
508 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
509 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
512 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
513 --------------------------------
516 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
518 * Fix folders opening from the interface
521 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
522 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
525 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
526 --------------------------------
529 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
530 * fix for podcasts parsing
531 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
534 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
535 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
538 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
539 * fix m3u playlists exports
542 * fix video autoresize behaviour
545 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
548 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
551 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
554 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
557 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
558 --------------------------------
561 * Avformat fps displaying fix
562 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
565 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
566 of mono streams, especially on Windows
569 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
570 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
571 * fix console output encoding
573 Interface and extensions:
574 * Youtube and other scripts updates
575 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
578 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
579 --------------------------------
582 * New capabilities for libVLC:
583 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
584 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
585 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
586 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
587 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
588 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
589 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
590 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
591 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
592 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
593 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
594 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
595 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
596 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
597 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
601 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
602 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
603 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
604 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
605 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
608 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
611 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
612 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
613 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
617 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
620 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
621 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
622 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
625 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
626 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
627 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
628 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
631 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
632 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
635 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
636 --------------------------------
638 Important changes for users:
639 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
640 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
642 Important changes for packagers:
643 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
644 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
645 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
646 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
647 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
649 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
651 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
652 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
653 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
654 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
655 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
658 * Support for the sftp protocol
659 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
660 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
661 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
662 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
663 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
666 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
667 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
668 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
670 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
671 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
672 * Invmem module improvements
673 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
674 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
675 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
676 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
677 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
678 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
679 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
680 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
681 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
682 * Support for VP8 codec
683 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
686 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
687 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
688 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
689 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
690 * Various EGP improvements
691 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
692 * Metadata and cover art improvements
695 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
696 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
697 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
698 * Podcast images are now displayed
701 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
702 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
703 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
704 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
705 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
706 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
707 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
708 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
709 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
710 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
711 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
714 * New content extensions lua framework
717 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
718 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
719 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
720 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
721 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
722 * NEON assembly audio converter module
723 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
726 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
727 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
728 * Service discovery based on libudev
729 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
732 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
733 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
734 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
735 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
736 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
737 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
738 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
741 * New smem module, streaming to memory
742 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
743 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
746 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
748 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
749 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
752 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
755 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
756 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
757 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
758 by Andy Matuschak et al.
759 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
760 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
761 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
764 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
765 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
768 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
769 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
770 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
774 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
775 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
776 * Improved Solaris port
779 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
780 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
783 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
784 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
785 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
786 * transrate: broken since too long
787 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
788 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
789 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
790 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
791 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
792 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
793 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
794 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
795 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
796 * cddax: use cdda instead.
797 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
798 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
799 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
800 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
803 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
804 --------------------------------
807 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
809 Decoders/Packetizers:
810 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
813 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
814 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
815 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
816 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
817 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
820 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
821 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
824 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
825 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
828 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
829 and Walloon translations updated
830 * Sinhala translation started
833 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
834 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
837 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
838 --------------------------------
841 * SubRip extra styles improvements
842 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
845 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
848 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
849 increase performance and fix x264 issues
852 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
853 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
854 Russian, Slovak translation updates
855 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
858 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
859 --------------------------------
862 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
863 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
866 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
867 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
870 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
871 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
874 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
877 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
878 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
881 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
882 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
885 * New Walloon translation
886 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
889 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
890 --------------------------------
893 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
894 regressions in most popular drivers
895 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
898 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
899 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
900 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
903 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
904 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
907 * Update for appletrailers lua script
908 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
909 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
910 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
911 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
914 * New udev module for linux
917 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
920 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
923 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
924 --------------------------------
927 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
928 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
929 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
932 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
933 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
936 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
937 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
940 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
943 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
944 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
945 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
946 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
949 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
950 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
951 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
952 - no support for Goom and SDL
953 - limited text rendering support
954 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
957 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
958 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
959 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
960 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
961 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
962 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
963 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
964 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
965 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
969 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
972 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
975 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
976 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
977 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
978 Arabic and French translation updates
981 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
982 --------------------------------
985 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
986 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
987 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
988 * Fix Dailymotion access script
989 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
990 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
993 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
994 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
997 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
998 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
999 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1002 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1005 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1006 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1009 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1010 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1011 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1012 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1013 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1014 * Fix various crashes
1017 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1019 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
1022 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1023 ---------------------------------
1027 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1028 See 'Access:' for more info.
1029 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1032 * Instantaneous pausing
1033 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1034 * Finer speed control
1035 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1036 * Timeshift for most medias
1037 * RTSP trickplay support
1038 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1041 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1042 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1043 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1044 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1045 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1046 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1047 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1048 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1049 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1050 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1053 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1054 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1055 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1056 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1057 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1058 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1059 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1062 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1063 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1066 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1067 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1068 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1069 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1070 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1071 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1072 * DVB scanning on linux
1073 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1074 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1075 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1076 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1077 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1078 * MTP device access on Unix
1079 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1080 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1083 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1084 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1085 Windows and Mac OS X.
1088 * Export the playlist in HTML
1089 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1090 * Better metadata handling and reading
1092 Linux/Windows interface:
1093 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1094 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1095 * Recently played items list
1096 * Interface toolbar customizations
1097 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1098 - More menus actions
1099 - Finer speed slider
1100 - Improvements on many dialogs
1101 - New dialog for plugins listing
1102 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1103 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1104 * Better integration in GTK environments
1107 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1108 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1109 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1110 * Additional usability improvements
1113 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1114 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1115 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1116 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1117 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1120 * New Maemo port with:
1121 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1122 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1125 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1128 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1129 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1130 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1131 * Support for latest iSight models
1134 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1135 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1138 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1139 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1140 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1141 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1142 The old image video output has been removed.
1143 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1144 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1147 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1155 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1156 --------------------------------------
1162 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1163 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1164 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1165 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1166 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1167 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1168 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1170 Various fixes to the following modules:
1173 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1174 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1175 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1177 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1182 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1183 ---------------------------------
1186 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1187 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1190 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1191 ---------------------------------
1194 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1197 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1200 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1201 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1202 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1203 main controller window.
1204 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1207 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1212 * Updates of other localizations
1215 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1216 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1217 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1218 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1219 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1222 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1223 ---------------------------------
1226 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1228 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1231 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1232 --------------------------------
1237 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1238 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1241 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1242 --------------------------------
1244 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1245 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1248 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1251 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1252 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1255 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1256 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1259 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1260 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1261 * Various fixed in playlist
1264 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1267 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1270 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1271 ------------------------------------
1273 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1274 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1277 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1278 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1279 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1282 * Stability fix for the video output.
1285 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1286 --------------------------------
1289 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1290 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1291 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1292 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1293 * Fixed update system bugs
1294 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1297 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1298 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1299 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1300 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1301 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1302 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1303 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1304 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1305 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1306 modern Mac OS X versions
1309 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1310 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1312 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1313 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1316 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1317 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1318 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1319 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1320 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1321 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1324 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1325 --------------------------------
1327 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1328 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1329 * Multiple bugfixes.
1332 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1333 --------------------------------
1335 * Multiple bug fixes.
1338 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1339 ---------------------------------
1343 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1344 recent to work correctly
1345 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1346 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1347 edit the ".hosts" file.
1348 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1349 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1350 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1351 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1352 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1353 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1354 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1355 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1356 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1357 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1358 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1359 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1360 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1361 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1362 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1363 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1364 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1365 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1366 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1367 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1368 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1369 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1370 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1371 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1372 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1373 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1374 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1375 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1376 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1377 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1378 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1379 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1380 and postproc modules.
1381 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1382 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1383 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1384 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1386 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1387 filter. For example:
1388 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1389 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1391 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1392 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1398 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1400 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1401 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1404 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1405 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1407 * Shoutcast TV listings
1408 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1410 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1411 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1413 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1416 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1417 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1418 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1419 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1420 * JACK audio input support
1421 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1422 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1423 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1424 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1425 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1426 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1427 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1428 (available as a separate download).
1429 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1430 * RTMP input support
1431 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1432 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1433 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1435 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1436 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1439 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1440 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1441 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1442 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1444 * APEv1/2 tags support
1445 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1446 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1448 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1449 * TiVo Series 2 support
1450 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1455 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1456 * Flash Screen Video support
1457 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1458 * DosBox Capture support
1459 * Karl Morton's Video support
1460 * limited atrac3 support
1462 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1463 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1464 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1465 * H.264 PAFF support
1466 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1467 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1468 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1469 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1470 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1473 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1474 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1475 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1476 * AQTitle subtitles support
1477 * MKV USF subtitles support
1478 * HTML-based subtitles support
1479 * MPSub subtitles support
1480 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1481 * MPL2 subtitles support
1482 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1483 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1484 * Realtext subtitle support
1485 * DKS subtitle support
1486 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1487 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1490 * Flash Screen Video support
1491 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1493 Video outputs and filters:
1494 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1495 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1496 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1497 * New puzzle video output filter
1498 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1499 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1501 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1502 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1503 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1504 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1505 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1506 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1507 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1508 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1509 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1510 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1511 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1512 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1513 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1514 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1516 Audio outputs and filters:
1517 * Replay gain support
1518 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1519 new scaletempo audio filter)
1520 * New spatializer audio filter
1521 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1524 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1525 * New RTP payload formats:
1526 * Speex voice audio codec
1527 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1528 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1529 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1530 * DCCP transport for RTP
1531 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1536 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1537 end-user suitable way.
1538 * Improved user interaction
1539 * Improved mouse gestures
1540 * Vastly improved Update checker
1541 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1543 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1544 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1546 * Improved video output features
1547 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1548 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1549 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1550 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1551 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1553 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1554 if libncursesw is available.
1555 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1556 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1557 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1559 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1560 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1561 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1562 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1563 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1564 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1565 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1566 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1569 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1570 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1571 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1574 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1575 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1576 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1577 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1578 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1579 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1582 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1583 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1593 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1594 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1595 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1598 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1599 ----------------------------------
1602 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1605 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1606 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1607 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1608 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1609 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1610 * Updated Polish translation
1613 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1614 ----------------------------------
1617 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1618 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1619 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1622 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1623 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1624 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1625 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1626 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1627 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1628 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1629 to an unexpected application termination
1630 * New Serbian translation
1631 * Updated Romanian translation
1634 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1635 ----------------------------------
1638 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1639 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1640 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1641 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1642 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1643 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1644 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1645 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1648 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1649 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1650 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1651 * Fixed AAC resampling
1652 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1653 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1656 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1657 ----------------------------------
1660 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1661 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1662 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1663 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1664 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1667 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1668 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1669 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1670 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1671 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1674 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1675 ----------------------------------
1678 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1679 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1682 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1683 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1684 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1685 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1687 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1691 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1694 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1697 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1700 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1703 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1704 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1705 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1706 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1707 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1709 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1710 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1711 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1712 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1715 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1718 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1719 ----------------------------------
1722 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1723 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1724 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1726 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1727 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1729 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1730 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1733 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1735 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1736 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1737 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1738 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1739 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1740 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1741 two different movies
1742 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1743 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1744 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1747 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1750 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1751 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1752 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1753 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1756 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1757 ----------------------------------
1759 Various bugfixes, notably:
1760 * Windows Vista compatibility
1761 * Cropping in Direct3D
1762 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1763 * RSS filter string overflow
1765 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1767 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1768 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1771 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1772 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1775 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1778 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1781 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1784 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1785 ----------------------------------
1787 Various bugfixes, notably:
1788 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1789 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1790 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1791 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1792 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1793 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1796 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1797 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1800 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1802 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1803 * Diverse usability improvements
1804 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1805 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1806 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1809 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1810 ---------------------------------
1812 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1813 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1816 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1819 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1820 --------------------------------
1823 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1826 * Support for RTSP authentication
1827 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1828 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1829 * ATSC support for DVB input
1830 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1831 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1832 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1835 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1836 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1837 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1838 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1839 * Matroska WavPack support
1840 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1841 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1842 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1845 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1846 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1847 * Improved libcaca support
1851 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1852 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1854 * Systray support in skins
1856 * Support for Apple Remote control
1857 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1858 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1859 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1860 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1862 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1865 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1866 Windows 9x/ME users:
1867 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1868 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1869 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1870 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1871 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1873 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1874 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1883 * Updates to the libvlc API
1884 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1887 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1888 --------------------------------
1891 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1892 * Support for downloading updates
1896 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1897 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1898 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1899 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1901 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1902 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1903 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1906 * Cook (Real audio) support
1908 Playlist / Services discovery:
1909 * XSPF playlist support
1911 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1914 * New JACK audio output
1917 * New video filters:
1918 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1919 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1920 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1921 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1922 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1923 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1926 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1929 * System to inform the user and request information
1930 - HTTP authentication
1934 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1935 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1936 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1939 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1940 - Improved playlist handling
1941 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1943 - Embedded Video output
1944 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1945 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1946 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1947 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1948 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1950 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1951 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1954 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1957 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1958 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1959 * Growl "Now playing" support
1962 * Ability to log to syslog
1963 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1966 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1968 * A bit more automatic testing
1971 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1972 ---------------------------------
1975 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1976 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1979 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1980 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1983 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1986 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1987 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1993 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1996 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1997 --------------------------------
2000 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2004 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2005 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2006 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2009 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2010 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2011 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2012 * GnomeVFS input module
2013 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2014 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2017 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2018 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2019 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2022 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2023 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2029 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2030 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2033 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2034 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2035 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2038 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2040 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2041 - New extended controls panel
2042 - New bookmarks window
2043 - Fixed playlist sorting
2044 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2046 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2047 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2048 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2049 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2053 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2054 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2056 - Include macro to include other files
2060 * Should now work outside IE as well
2063 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2066 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2067 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2070 The following languages were added:
2074 * Simplified Chinese
2075 The following languages were re-added:
2079 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2080 --------------------------------
2083 * Rewrite of the playlist
2085 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2086 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2087 * Preferences improvements:
2088 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2089 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2091 * Core image manipulation support
2092 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2093 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2094 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2095 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2096 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2097 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2098 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2099 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2100 * Access filter architecture
2101 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2102 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2106 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2107 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2108 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2109 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2110 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2111 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2112 * Massive Matroska improvements
2113 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2115 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2116 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2117 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2118 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2119 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2121 Decoders / Encoders:
2122 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2123 * PNG decoder/encoder
2124 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2125 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2128 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2131 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2132 * Brand new SAP module
2133 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2134 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2135 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2136 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2137 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2138 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2142 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2145 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2146 * Image file video output (png)
2147 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2148 * Improvements to wall video filter
2149 * Support for font color and opacity
2155 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2156 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2157 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2161 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2162 - Improved preferences
2163 - Improvements to the wizard
2164 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2166 - Redesigned playlist
2167 - Improved preferences
2169 - Support for multiple actions
2172 - Support for the new playlist system
2174 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2177 * Screensaver disabling fix
2178 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2179 * Support for no-decoration windows
2182 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2183 * The OpenGL video output is back
2184 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2185 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2186 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2187 is not yet available in the new module
2188 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2191 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2200 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2203 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2206 The following languages were added:
2212 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2213 --------------------------------
2216 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2217 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2220 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2221 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2222 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2225 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2228 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2231 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2234 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2235 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2236 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2240 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2242 * Support of playlist group announcement
2245 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2246 --------------------------------
2249 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2250 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2251 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2252 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2253 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2254 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2257 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2258 (Stream your desktop)
2259 * Improved DVD support:
2260 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2261 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2262 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2263 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2264 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2265 (selection of titles/chapters).
2268 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2269 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2270 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2271 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2272 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2273 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2274 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2275 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2276 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2277 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2280 * G.726 audio support
2281 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2282 * MPEG-4 text support
2283 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2284 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2285 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2289 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2290 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2291 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2292 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2293 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2294 * DVB subtitles encoder
2295 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2296 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2298 * Text track muxing for mp4
2299 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2300 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2301 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2302 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2303 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2304 * Improved ASF muxer
2306 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2307 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2308 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2311 * New audio equalizer filter
2312 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2313 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2314 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2315 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2318 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2319 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2320 with support for effects.
2321 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2322 - New filters can be streamed.
2323 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2324 - Centralized scaling and blending
2326 - "time", to display current time
2327 - "marq", to display a marquee
2330 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2331 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2332 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2333 * A few skins2 improvements
2334 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2335 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2336 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2337 * Improved CORBA control module
2340 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2341 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2342 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2345 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2346 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2347 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2350 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2351 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2352 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2353 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2354 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2357 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2360 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2361 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2364 * Server/client network synchronization module
2365 * VBrick streams fully supported
2366 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2370 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2371 --------------------------------
2374 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2375 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2376 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2377 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2380 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2381 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2382 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2383 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2384 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2385 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2386 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2389 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2390 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2391 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2392 * Improved directory access module.
2393 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2394 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2395 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2396 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2397 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2400 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2401 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2402 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2405 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2406 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2407 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2410 * Improved session announcement system.
2411 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2412 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2413 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2414 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2415 * Improved transrater.
2416 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2417 * New configuration system.
2418 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2421 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2422 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2423 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2424 * Supports scheduling.
2425 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2426 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2429 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2430 - Ability to embed video output.
2431 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2432 - Lots of improvements.
2433 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2434 - New design and set of icons.
2435 - Ability to embed video output.
2436 - Support for hotkeys.
2437 - Support for bookmarks.
2439 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2440 - Better hotkeys handling.
2443 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2444 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2445 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2446 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2449 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2450 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2451 * Improved Windows installer.
2457 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2458 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2461 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2462 ---------------------------------
2465 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2466 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2469 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2470 --------------------------------
2473 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2474 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2477 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2478 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2479 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2480 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2483 * Internal improvments
2484 * Improved import/export
2487 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2489 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2490 small and strange formats.
2492 * New MOD audio demux.
2493 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2494 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2495 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2496 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2499 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2500 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2501 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2507 * New opengl video output plugin.
2510 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2511 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2514 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2515 --------------------------------
2518 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2519 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2520 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2521 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2522 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2523 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2524 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2525 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2528 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2533 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2534 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2535 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2536 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2537 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2538 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2539 * Better Icecast support.
2540 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2541 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2544 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2545 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2546 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2547 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2548 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2549 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2550 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2553 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2554 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2555 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2556 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2557 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2558 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2559 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2560 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2561 * Preliminary RTP support.
2562 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2567 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2568 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2570 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2571 - Improvements and help in preferences
2572 - New streaming wizard
2573 - Revised Disc Open menu
2575 - Improvements of the standard pages
2576 - Support for new commands
2577 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2580 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2581 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2584 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2585 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2586 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2587 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2588 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2589 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2590 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2591 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2592 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2595 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2597 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2598 * Support for Panther.
2599 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2600 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2603 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2604 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2605 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2606 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2607 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2608 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2609 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2610 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2613 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2614 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2615 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2618 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2621 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2622 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2623 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2624 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2627 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2628 --------------------------------
2631 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2634 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2635 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2638 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2639 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2642 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2645 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2646 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2649 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2652 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2655 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2656 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2660 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2661 --------------------------------
2664 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2665 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2669 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2670 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2671 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2673 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2674 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2677 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2680 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2683 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2684 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2688 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2689 --------------------------------
2692 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2693 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2697 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2698 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2699 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2700 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2701 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2704 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2705 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2706 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2709 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2710 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2711 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2714 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2715 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2716 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2717 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2718 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2721 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2722 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2723 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2726 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2729 * Improved build system.
2730 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2731 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2732 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2733 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2736 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2737 --------------------------------
2740 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2743 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2744 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2745 * Video 4 Linux support
2746 * CD Digital Audio support
2747 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2750 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2751 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2752 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2753 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2756 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2757 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2758 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2759 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2760 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2761 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2762 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2765 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2766 * New HTTP remote control interface
2769 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2770 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2771 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2772 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2775 * New reset option for the preferences
2776 * You can set your language in the prefences
2777 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2778 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2779 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2780 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2783 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2784 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2785 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2788 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2789 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2790 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2791 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2792 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2793 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2794 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2795 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2796 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2797 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2800 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2801 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2802 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2803 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2804 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2805 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2806 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2809 * Interface localization
2810 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2811 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2812 * New full-featured Preferences window
2815 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2816 --------------------------------
2819 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2820 * support for skins at the interface level
2821 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2822 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2823 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2824 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2825 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2828 * fixed HTTP redirects
2829 * support for opening an entire directory
2830 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2831 * new video4linux access plug-in
2832 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2835 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2836 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2837 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2840 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2841 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2842 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2843 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2844 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2845 * new codec for raw I420 video
2846 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2849 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2850 (although it still misses some important features)
2851 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2854 * new HTTP output support
2855 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2856 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2859 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2862 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2865 * reorderable playlist
2866 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2867 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2868 * support for mono audio output devices
2869 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2870 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2871 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2872 * the messages window remembers more lines
2873 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2874 * http and ogg stream output options
2875 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2878 * new skinnable interface
2879 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2881 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2882 * support for FLAC audio format
2883 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2885 * network tab in the interface
2886 * "apply" handling in preferences
2889 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2890 ---------------------------------
2893 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2894 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2895 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2896 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2898 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2899 * DTS S/PDIF support
2902 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2903 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2904 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2905 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2908 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2909 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2912 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2915 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2918 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2920 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2921 * rc interface is now fully useable
2922 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2925 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2926 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2927 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2928 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2929 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2931 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2932 * support for mouse gestures
2933 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2936 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2937 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2940 * improved ID3 tag detection
2941 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2942 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2943 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2945 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2948 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2949 ---------------------------------
2952 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2953 English was set as the preferred language
2956 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2957 --------------------------------
2960 * new mouse gesture interface
2961 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2965 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2966 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2967 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2970 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2971 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2975 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2978 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2979 without the user consent
2982 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2984 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2985 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2986 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2989 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2990 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2991 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2992 * playlist enhancements
2993 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2994 * new step forward/step backward commands
2995 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2996 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2997 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3000 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3001 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3002 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3005 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3006 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3009 * native video output is working again
3010 * only commandline interface support
3011 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3014 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3015 --------------------------------
3018 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3019 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3020 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3021 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3022 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3023 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3024 and A/52 streams are supported)
3025 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3030 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3031 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3032 * VCD entry points support
3033 * VCD image file support
3036 * support for *.asf format
3037 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3038 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3039 * support for ogg encapsulation
3040 * support for raw DV format
3041 * support for *.wav format
3042 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3045 Stream discovery & playlists:
3046 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3047 * support for .m3u file format
3048 * support for .asx file format
3049 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3052 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3053 (only available with the .avi demux)
3054 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3055 * support for raw PCM data
3056 * support for Cinepak video codec
3057 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3058 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3059 * support for Xvid codec
3060 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3061 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3062 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3064 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3066 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3069 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3072 * new WxWindows interface
3073 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3074 device and the channels configuration
3075 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3076 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3077 format that VLC can play
3078 * new swedish translation
3079 * enhancements of the playlist window
3080 * new messages window to see debug info
3081 * fixed a few crashes
3084 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3085 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3086 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3087 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working