Important notes:
----------------
+ * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
+ to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
* The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
edit the ".hosts" file.
- XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
+ - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
+ If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
+ /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
+ - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
+ C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
+ - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
+ and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
* This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
- interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
- - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
+ interface lacks a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
+ - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced
by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
- features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
- - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
- later point
- * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
+ features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6
+ * The behavior of --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
* The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
+ * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
+ Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
+ Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
+ New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
+ * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
+ EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
+ of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
Changes:
--------
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+ * Album art support
* User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
(Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
+ * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
+ share/luameta/README.txt
Input/Demuxers:
- * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
- * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
* Proxy support for MMSH stream
* JACK audio input support
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
+ * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
+ * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
+ * TiVo Series 2 support
+ * v4l2 access module support
+ * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
+ * CD+G karaoke Files support
+ * MXF files support
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* MKV USF subtitles support
- * HTML based subtitles support
+ * HTML-based subtitles support
* Flash Screen Video support
* CamStudio Screen Video support
* DosBox Capture support
* Karl Morton's Video support
* limited atrac3 support
- * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
+ * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
+ * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
+ Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
+ * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
+ * H.264 PAFF support
+ * DNxHD / VC-3 support
+ * NellyMoser ASAO support
+ * APE (Monkey audio) support
+ * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
Video output and filters:
+ * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter
video)
* New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
* New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
- * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
+ * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML
tags
* Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
* New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
* New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
was previously part of the mosaic module.
* Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
+ * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
+ * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
+ * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
+
+Audio output and filters
+ * Replay gain support
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * New spatializer audio filter
+ * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
Stream output:
- * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
+ * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
+ * New RTP payload formats:
+ * Speex voice audio codec
+ * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
+ * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP
+ * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
Interfaces:
* Windows/Linux
* All
* Improved user interaction
* Improved mouse gestures
+ * Fastly improved Update checker
+ * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
+ * Ncurses:
+ * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available (not by default on MacOSX)
+ * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
+ * Mac OS X
+ * Improved video output features
+ * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
+ * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
* Unix
- * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
- * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
+ * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
+ * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
(Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
- finished.
+ finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
+ * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+ * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
+ * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
+
+Linux Port:
+ * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
+ http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
+ (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
+ applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
+ * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+
+LibVLC:
+ * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
+ (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Finnish
+ * Persian
+ * Polish
-Capture:
- * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
- Windows
+TODO: Add 0.8.6e changelog here
+
+Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
+ * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
+ * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
+ * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
+ * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
+
+Windows and Mac OS Binaries
+ * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
+
+Active X plugin:
+ * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
+ * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+ * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
+ * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
+ * Support for current Ogg file formats
+ NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
+
+Encoders:
+ * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
+
+Other changes:
+ * The automatic updating facility was removed
+ * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
+ EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
+ * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Windows Vista compatibility
+ * Cropping in Direct3D
+ * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
+ * RSS filter string overflow
+ * Few memory leaks
+ * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
+
+CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
+ * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
+
+Decoders:
+ * Updated FLAC API compatibility
+
+Input:
+ * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
+
+Localisation:
+ * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
-Localisations:
- * Persian
Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
------------------------------------------------------------
+----------------------------------
+
Various bugfixes, notably:
* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
---------------------------------
CDDA / VCDX plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
-
Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing
+
Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------
* Mac OS X
- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
--------------------------------
The following languages were re-added:
* Swedish
+
Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
--------------------------------
Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
* Stream output:
* Support of playlist group announcement
+
Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
* VLM enhancements
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
---------------------------------
Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
* A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
+
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
* Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
* libcaca video output (colored ascii)
+
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window
+
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
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