-Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
+Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-pre1:
--------------------------------
Important changes:
* Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
* Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
* Partial support for Windows Store App
+ * Removed SQL support
+ * Added audio fingerprinter support
+ * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
Decoders:
* Support for OPUS via libopus.
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
+ * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
Access:
* Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
* Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
* Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
+ * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
Demuxers:
* MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
* AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
* Support for more MJPEG streams
* Add support for liveleak streams
+ * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
* Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
* Android AudioTrack audio output support
- * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
+ * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
* Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
* OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
* Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
* Livehttp stream encryption support
* Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
+ * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
+
+Fingerprinters:
+ * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
* configurable password for the HTTP server.
* add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
* add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
VLC's internal volume level
+ * add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
+ playback
* add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
selection and to manage the list of presets
* add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
* add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
* add an option to show next / previous buttons
* add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
+ * add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
* add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
date and language
* add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
3rd party applications
* add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
+ (system-wide settings)
+ * add support for the Video Title option
+ * add support for the Boss Key
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
- deprecated now
+ deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
Qt:
* Partial support for Qt5.0
* Display playlist total duration
* Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
* Numerous fixes
+ * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
+ * Removed language preference
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
+ Added new profiles.
libVLC:
* new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
* new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
* new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
+ * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
Removed modules:
* portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
* OSD parser and menu
* Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
* Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
+ * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
+ * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
+--------------------------------
+
+Input:
+ * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
+ * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
+ playlist files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
+
+Video output:
+ * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
+
+Mac OS X Interface
+ * Minor improvements
+ * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
+
+HTTP Interface
+ * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
+ * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
+ * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
+ * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
+ * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
+ * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
+ * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
+ * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
+ * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
+ * 3rd party codecs updates
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
+ * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
+ * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
+ in the advanced preferences panel
+ * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
+ * Fix crash within the video output code
+ * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
+ folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
+ * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
+ * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
+ lua extensions, ...)
+ * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
+
+GNU/Linux:
+ * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
+ * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
+
+Windows:
+ * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
+ Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
+ Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
+ Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
+ Dutch, Danish, translations
+ * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
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