1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
6 --------------------------------
9 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
12 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
13 * Add extensions download from external repositories
14 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
15 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
18 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
19 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
20 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
21 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
23 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
24 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
27 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
28 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
29 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
30 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
31 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
32 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
33 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
34 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
35 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
36 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
37 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
38 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
39 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
40 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
41 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
42 * New jpeg image decoder
43 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
44 * New SVG image decoder
45 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
46 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
47 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
50 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
51 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
52 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
53 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
54 * New png image encoder using libpng
57 * New CAF format module
58 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
59 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
60 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
61 synchronization and tracks exclusion
62 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
63 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
66 * Basic support for WebVTT
67 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
68 * Support HDPR TS files
69 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
70 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
71 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
72 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
73 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
74 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
75 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
76 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
77 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
78 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
79 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
80 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
81 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
84 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
85 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
87 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
90 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
91 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
92 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
93 * New Android native window provider module
94 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
95 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
96 * Add mmal based video output
99 * New Oldmovie effect filter
100 * New VHS effect filter
101 * New Freeze effect filter
102 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
103 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
104 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
107 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
108 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
109 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
110 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
111 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
112 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
115 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
116 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
117 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
118 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
119 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
120 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
121 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
122 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
123 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
125 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
126 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
127 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
130 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
131 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
134 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
135 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
138 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
139 * Add record button in Qt menus
140 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
141 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
142 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
145 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
146 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
147 * Fixes for advanced preferences
148 * Option to increase playlist font size
151 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
152 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
153 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
156 * ios video output: use ios2
157 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
158 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
161 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
162 --------------------------------
165 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
168 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
171 * Fix DVD playback regression
172 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
173 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
176 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
177 --------------------------------
180 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
181 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
184 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
185 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
186 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
189 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
190 by updating codec libraries
191 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
192 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
193 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
196 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
197 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
198 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
199 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
202 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
203 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
206 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
207 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
208 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
209 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
210 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
213 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
214 * Fix record file names
217 * Fix minimal size possible on start
218 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
219 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
220 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
221 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
224 * Fix album art display on Windows
227 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
228 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
229 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
230 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
231 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
232 and Simplified Chinese translations
233 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
236 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
237 --------------------------------
240 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
241 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
242 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
243 audio devices on OS X
244 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
245 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
248 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
249 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
252 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
253 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
256 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
259 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
260 * Improve A-B loop control
261 * Fix album art update when changing media
264 * Add a language option in the interface
265 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
266 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
267 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
268 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
269 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
270 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
271 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
274 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
277 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
278 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
279 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
280 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
283 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
284 --------------------------------
287 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
289 * Fix some subtitles track selection
292 * VP9 support in WebM
293 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
294 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
297 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
298 * Support Speex in ogg files
299 * Fix some .mov playlists support
300 * Support Alac in mkv
301 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
302 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
305 * Fix DVB options parsing
306 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
307 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
310 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
311 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
314 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
315 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
318 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
319 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
320 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
321 * Fix play after drag'n drop
322 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
325 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
326 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
329 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
330 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
333 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
334 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
335 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
336 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
337 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
338 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
339 * Improves interface resizings
342 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
343 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
344 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
345 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
346 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
350 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
351 --------------------------------
354 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
355 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
356 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
357 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
358 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
360 3rd party libraries (contrib):
361 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
364 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
365 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
366 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
367 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
368 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
371 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
372 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
376 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
377 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
378 * Support for Ulead DV audio
379 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
380 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
381 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
382 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
383 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
384 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
385 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
386 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
387 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
388 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
391 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
392 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
393 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
396 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
397 remove support for previous OS X releases
398 * Major improvements in DASH support
399 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
400 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
401 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
402 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
403 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
404 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
405 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
406 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
407 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
408 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
409 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
412 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
413 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
414 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
415 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
416 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
417 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
418 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
419 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
420 * Support for more MJPEG streams
421 * Add support for liveleak streams
422 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
423 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
424 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
427 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
428 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
429 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
430 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
431 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
432 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
433 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
434 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
435 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
436 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
437 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
440 * New remapping channel filter
441 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
442 * New VSXu visualization plugin
443 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
444 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
445 * New gain audio filter
448 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
449 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
450 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
451 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
452 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
453 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
454 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
455 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
456 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
459 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
460 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
461 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
462 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
463 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
464 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
465 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
468 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
469 * Options support for AVIO output module
470 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
471 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
472 * Livehttp stream encryption support
473 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
474 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
477 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
480 * configurable password for the HTTP server
481 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
482 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
483 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
484 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
485 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
486 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
487 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
491 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
494 * Add support for multiple video outputs
495 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
497 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
498 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
499 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
500 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
501 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
502 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
503 VLC's internal volume level
504 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
506 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
507 selection and to manage the list of presets
508 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
509 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
510 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
511 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
512 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
513 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
514 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
515 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
516 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
517 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
519 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
520 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
521 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
522 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
523 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
524 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
525 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
526 3rd party applications
527 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
528 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
529 (system-wide settings)
530 * Add support for the Video Title option
531 * Add support for the Boss Key
532 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
533 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
536 * Partial support for Qt5.0
537 * Menus modifications and improvements
538 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
539 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
540 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
541 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
542 * EPG display fixes and improvements
543 * Add SD pixmap sources
544 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
545 * Display playlist total duration
546 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
547 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
548 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
553 * Extend sliders, offsets options
554 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
555 * Numerous fixes and improvements
556 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
559 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
560 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
561 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
562 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
563 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
564 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
565 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
566 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
567 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
568 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
571 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
572 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
573 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
574 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
575 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
576 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
578 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
579 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
580 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
581 * Broken crop video filter
583 * OSD parser and menu
584 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
585 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
586 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
587 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
591 * Update of all translations
594 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
595 --------------------------------
598 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
599 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
602 * Fix modplug security issues
605 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
606 --------------------------------
610 * Fix crash in QTsound
611 * Fix screen mouse file location
612 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
615 * Fix use after free in sgimb
616 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
619 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
622 * Fix interface crashes
623 * Fix autostart playback option
624 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
627 * update Welsh translation
628 * New Kannada translation
631 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
632 --------------------------------
635 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
636 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
640 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
643 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
646 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
649 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
653 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
656 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
659 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
660 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
661 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
664 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
665 --------------------------------
668 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
671 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
674 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
675 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
676 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
677 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
678 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
679 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
682 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
683 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
684 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
685 * 3rd party codecs updates
688 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
689 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
690 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
691 in the advanced preferences panel
692 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
693 * Fix crash within the video output code
694 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
695 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
696 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
697 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
699 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
702 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
705 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
706 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
709 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
712 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
713 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
714 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
715 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
716 Dutch, Danish, translations
717 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
720 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
721 --------------------------------
724 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
727 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
728 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
729 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
732 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
733 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
734 * Fix koreus lua parser
735 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
736 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
737 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
738 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
741 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
742 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
745 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
748 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
749 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
750 * Fix Time counter UI look
751 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
754 * Fix https streaming
757 * Fix audio and video track selection:
758 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
759 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
762 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
763 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
764 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
765 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
766 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
769 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
770 --------------------------------
773 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
774 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
775 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
776 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
777 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
778 during playback on Mac OS X
781 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
782 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
783 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
786 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
787 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
788 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
789 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
790 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
793 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
794 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
795 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
796 * Support Youtube live streams
799 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
802 * Fix media info dialog update
803 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
804 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
805 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
806 * Fix album art display at start
809 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
810 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
811 * Fix menus display and behavior
812 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
813 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
814 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
815 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
816 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
817 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
818 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
821 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
822 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
823 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
824 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
825 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
826 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
827 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
828 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
829 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
832 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
833 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
834 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
835 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
836 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
839 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
840 --------------------------------
843 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
846 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
847 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
850 * Add GateKeeper support
851 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
852 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
853 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
856 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
859 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
860 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
861 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
862 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
863 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
866 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
867 --------------------------------
870 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
871 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
872 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
873 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
874 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
875 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
876 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
877 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
878 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
879 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
880 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
884 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
885 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
886 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
887 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
888 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
889 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
890 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
891 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
892 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
893 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
894 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
895 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
898 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
899 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
901 * Fix MP3 free format support
904 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
905 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
906 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
907 * Fix for DVB channels file support
908 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
911 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
912 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
914 Audio filters and output:
915 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
916 * Fix DirectSound device selection
917 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
918 * Do not apply volume in file output
919 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
920 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
923 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
924 the persistant media library
925 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
926 to the media library or the temporary playlist
927 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
928 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
929 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
930 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
931 press on the Play/Pause button
932 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
933 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
934 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
935 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
936 * Many Fullscreen fixes
937 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
938 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
939 Synchronization panel
940 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
941 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
942 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
943 * Fix crashes on exit
944 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
946 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
947 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
948 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
949 automatically reset on the first launch.
950 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
951 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
952 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
955 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
956 * Fixes for icecast SD
959 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
960 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
961 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
962 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
963 * Fix tags and file names display
964 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
967 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
968 * Fix for key events and focus loss
971 * Fix display of some buttons
972 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
973 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
976 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
977 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
978 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
981 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
982 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
983 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
984 Thai translations update
985 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
988 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
989 --------------------------------
992 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
993 * fix the samba module compilation
994 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
995 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
996 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
997 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1000 * Support for MXPEG files
1001 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1002 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1005 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1006 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1007 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1010 * Fix ogm header creation
1013 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1014 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1017 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1018 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1019 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1020 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1023 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1026 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1027 * allow to hide the sidebar
1028 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1029 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1030 * noticebly faster launch time
1031 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1032 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1033 * improve track synchronization panel
1034 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1035 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1038 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1039 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1040 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1041 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1044 * fix for menus display
1045 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1046 * documentation update
1049 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1050 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1053 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1054 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1055 * Update Jamendo selections
1059 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1060 * fix a crash on VLM close
1063 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1064 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1065 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1066 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1069 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1072 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1073 ---------------------------------
1076 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1077 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1078 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1079 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1080 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1081 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1082 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1083 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1084 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1085 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1086 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1087 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1088 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1089 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1090 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1091 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1092 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1093 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1094 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1095 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1096 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1097 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1098 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1099 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1100 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1101 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1103 Important changes for packagers:
1104 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1105 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1106 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1107 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1108 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1109 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1110 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1111 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1112 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1113 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1116 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1117 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1118 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1119 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1120 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1121 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1122 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1125 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1126 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1127 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1128 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1129 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1130 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1131 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1132 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1133 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1134 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1135 * PulseAudio audio input support
1136 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1137 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1138 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1139 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1140 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1141 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1142 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1143 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1146 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1147 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1148 are notably concerned.
1149 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1150 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1151 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1152 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1153 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1154 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1155 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1156 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1157 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1158 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1159 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1160 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1161 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1162 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1163 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1166 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1167 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1168 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1169 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1170 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1171 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1172 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1173 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1174 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1175 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1176 * Improved support of tracker files
1177 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1180 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1181 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1182 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1183 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1184 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1185 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1186 and important cleanups and optimisations
1187 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1188 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1189 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1190 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1191 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1192 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1193 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1194 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1195 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1196 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1197 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1198 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1199 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1200 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1201 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1202 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1203 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1204 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1205 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1206 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1207 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1210 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1211 * New video output for iOS platform
1212 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1213 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1214 * Various vmem improvements
1215 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1216 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1217 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1218 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1219 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1220 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1222 Audio Output and Filters:
1223 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1224 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1225 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1226 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1227 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1228 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1229 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1230 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1231 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1232 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1235 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1236 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1237 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1238 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1239 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1240 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1241 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1242 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1243 * New anti-flickering filter
1244 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1245 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1246 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1247 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1248 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1249 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1250 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1253 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1254 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1255 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1256 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1257 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1258 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1259 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1260 * Major rework of VoD support
1261 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1262 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1263 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1264 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1265 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1266 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1267 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1268 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1269 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1270 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1273 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1274 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1277 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1278 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1279 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1280 list of available audio and video filters
1281 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1282 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1283 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1286 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1287 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1288 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1289 * id3tag: use taglib
1290 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1291 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1292 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1293 * removal of the noise filter
1294 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1295 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1296 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1297 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1300 * Update of translations for most languages.
1301 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1304 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1305 ----------------------------------
1308 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1309 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1312 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1313 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1316 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1317 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1318 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1321 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1324 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1325 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1328 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1331 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1332 ----------------------------------
1335 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1336 including support for OS X Lion
1337 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1338 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1341 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1344 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1345 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1346 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1349 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1352 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1353 ----------------------------------
1356 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1357 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1360 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1361 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1362 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1363 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1364 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1366 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1367 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1368 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1370 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1371 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1374 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1377 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1380 * Fix quitting on Linux
1381 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1385 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1388 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1391 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1392 ---------------------------------
1394 Windows and Mac OS X:
1395 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1398 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1399 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1402 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1405 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1408 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1410 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1411 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1413 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1414 * RTP output and XML export
1415 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1419 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1420 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1421 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1422 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1425 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1426 --------------------------------
1428 Windows and Mac OS X:
1429 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1432 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1435 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1436 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1437 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1438 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1439 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1440 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1443 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1444 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1448 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1449 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1450 * New Luganda Translation
1453 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1454 --------------------------------
1457 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1460 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1461 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1462 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1463 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1466 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1468 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1469 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1470 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1471 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1472 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1473 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1474 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1475 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1477 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1478 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1479 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1480 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1481 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1482 * Configure and build system improvements
1483 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1486 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1487 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1488 * New icelandic translation
1491 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1492 --------------------------------
1495 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1496 #234484 and #260719.
1499 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1500 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1501 and stability reasons
1504 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1508 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1511 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1512 ----------------------------------
1515 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1518 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1519 ---------------------------------
1522 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1523 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1524 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1525 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1528 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1531 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1532 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1533 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1534 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1537 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1538 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1539 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1541 Subtitles and renderer:
1542 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1543 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1544 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1545 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1546 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1549 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1550 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1551 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1552 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1555 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1556 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1558 Miscellaneous fixes:
1559 * KDE device solid actions
1561 * Transcode integer overflow
1562 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1563 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1566 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1567 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1568 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1571 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1572 ----------------------------------
1575 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1579 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1582 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1585 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1586 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1587 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1588 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1591 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1595 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1598 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1601 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1602 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1604 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1608 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1609 * Miscellaneous fixes
1612 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1613 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1614 French and Ukrainian
1615 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1616 * New Asturian translation
1619 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1620 ----------------------------------
1623 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1625 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1628 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1631 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1632 * Various fixes for Windows
1635 * New Armenian translation
1636 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1637 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1640 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1641 --------------------------------
1644 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1645 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1646 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1649 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1650 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1653 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1654 --------------------------------
1656 Access and demuxers:
1657 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1658 * fix for podcasts parsing
1659 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1662 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1663 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1666 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1667 * fix m3u playlists exports
1670 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1673 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1676 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1679 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1682 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1685 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1686 --------------------------------
1689 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1690 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1693 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1694 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1697 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1698 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1699 * fix console output encoding
1701 Interface and extensions:
1702 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1703 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1706 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1707 --------------------------------
1710 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1711 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1712 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1713 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1714 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1715 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1716 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1717 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1718 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1719 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1720 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1721 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1722 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1723 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1724 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1725 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1729 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1730 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1731 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1732 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1733 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1736 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1739 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1740 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1741 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1745 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1748 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1749 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1750 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1753 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1754 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1755 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1756 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1759 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1760 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1763 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1764 --------------------------------
1766 Important changes for users:
1767 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1768 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1770 Important changes for packagers:
1771 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1772 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1773 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1774 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1775 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1777 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1779 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1780 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1781 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1782 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1783 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1786 * Support for the sftp protocol
1787 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1788 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1789 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1790 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1791 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1794 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1795 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1796 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1798 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1799 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1800 * Invmem module improvements
1801 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1802 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1803 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1804 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1805 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1806 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1807 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1808 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1809 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1810 * Support for VP8 codec
1811 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1814 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1815 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1816 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1817 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1818 * Various EGP improvements
1819 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1820 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1823 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1824 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1825 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1826 * Podcast images are now displayed
1829 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1830 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1831 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1832 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1833 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1834 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1835 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1836 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1837 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1838 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1839 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1842 * New content extensions lua framework
1845 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1846 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1847 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1848 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1849 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1850 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1851 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1854 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1855 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1856 * Service discovery based on libudev
1857 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1860 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1861 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1862 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1863 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1864 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1865 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1866 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1869 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1870 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1871 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1874 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1876 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1877 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1880 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1883 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1884 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1885 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1886 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1887 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1888 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1889 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1892 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1893 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1896 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1897 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1898 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1902 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1903 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1904 * Improved Solaris port
1907 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1908 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1911 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1912 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1913 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1914 * transrate: broken since too long
1915 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1916 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1917 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1918 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1919 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1920 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1921 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1922 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1923 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1924 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1925 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1926 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1927 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1928 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1931 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1932 --------------------------------
1935 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1937 Decoders/Packetizers:
1938 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1941 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1942 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1943 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1944 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1945 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1948 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1949 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1952 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1953 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1956 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1957 and Walloon translations updated
1958 * Sinhala translation started
1961 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1962 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1965 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1966 --------------------------------
1969 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1970 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1973 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1976 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1977 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1980 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1981 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1982 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1983 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1986 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1987 --------------------------------
1990 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1991 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1994 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1995 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1998 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1999 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2002 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2005 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2006 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2009 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2010 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2013 * New Walloon translation
2014 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2017 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2018 --------------------------------
2021 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2022 regressions in most popular drivers
2023 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2026 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2027 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2028 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2031 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2032 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2035 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2036 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2037 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2038 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2039 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2042 * New udev module for linux
2045 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2048 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2051 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2052 --------------------------------
2055 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2056 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2057 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2060 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2061 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2064 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2065 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2068 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2071 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2072 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2073 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2074 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2077 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2078 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2079 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2080 - no support for Goom and SDL
2081 - limited text rendering support
2082 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2085 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2086 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2087 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2088 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2089 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2090 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2091 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2092 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2093 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2097 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2100 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2103 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2104 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2105 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2106 Arabic and French translation updates
2109 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2110 --------------------------------
2113 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2114 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2115 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2116 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2117 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2118 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2121 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2122 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2123 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2126 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2127 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2128 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2131 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2134 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2135 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2138 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2139 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2140 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2141 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2142 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2143 * Fix various crashes
2146 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2148 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2152 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2153 ---------------------------------
2157 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2158 See 'Access:' for more info.
2159 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2162 * Instantaneous pausing
2163 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2164 * Finer speed control
2165 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2166 * Timeshift for most medias
2167 * RTSP trickplay support
2168 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2171 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2172 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2173 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2174 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2175 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2176 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2177 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2178 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2179 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2180 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2183 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2184 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2185 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2186 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2187 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2188 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2189 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2192 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2193 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2196 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2197 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2198 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2199 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2200 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2201 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2202 * DVB scanning on linux
2203 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2204 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2205 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2206 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2207 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2208 * MTP device access on Unix
2209 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2210 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2213 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2214 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2215 Windows and Mac OS X.
2218 * Export the playlist in HTML
2219 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2220 * Better metadata handling and reading
2222 Linux/Windows interface:
2223 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2224 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2225 * Recently played items list
2226 * Interface toolbar customizations
2227 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2228 - More menus actions
2229 - Finer speed slider
2230 - Improvements on many dialogs
2231 - New dialog for plugins listing
2232 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2233 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2234 * Better integration in GTK environments
2237 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2238 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2239 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2240 * Additional usability improvements
2243 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2244 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2245 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2246 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2247 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2250 * New Maemo port with:
2251 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2252 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2255 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2258 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2259 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2260 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2261 * Support for latest iSight models
2264 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2265 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2268 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2269 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2270 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2271 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2272 The old image video output has been removed.
2273 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2274 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2277 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2285 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2286 --------------------------------------
2292 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2293 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2294 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2295 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2296 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2297 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2298 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2300 Various fixes to the following modules:
2303 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2304 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2305 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2307 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2312 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2313 ---------------------------------
2316 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2317 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2320 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2321 ---------------------------------
2324 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2327 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2330 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2331 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2332 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2333 main controller window.
2334 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2337 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2342 * Updates of other localizations
2345 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2346 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2347 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2348 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2349 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2352 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2353 ---------------------------------
2356 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2358 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2361 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2362 --------------------------------
2367 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2368 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2371 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2372 --------------------------------
2374 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2375 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2378 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2381 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2382 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2385 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2386 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2389 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2390 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2391 * Various fixed in playlist
2394 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2397 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2400 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2401 ------------------------------------
2403 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2404 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2407 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2408 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2409 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2412 * Stability fix for the video output.
2415 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2416 --------------------------------
2419 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2420 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2421 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2422 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2423 * Fixed update system bugs
2424 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2427 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2428 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2429 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2430 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2431 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2432 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2433 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2434 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2435 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2436 modern Mac OS X versions
2439 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2440 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2442 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2443 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2446 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2447 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2448 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2449 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2450 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2451 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2454 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2455 --------------------------------
2457 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2458 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2459 * Multiple bugfixes.
2462 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2463 --------------------------------
2465 * Multiple bug fixes.
2468 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2469 ---------------------------------
2473 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2474 recent to work correctly
2475 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2476 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2477 edit the ".hosts" file.
2478 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2479 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2480 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2481 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2482 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2483 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2484 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2485 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2486 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2487 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2488 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2489 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2490 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2491 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2492 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2493 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2494 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2495 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2496 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2497 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2498 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2499 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2500 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2501 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2502 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2503 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2504 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2505 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2506 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2507 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2508 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2509 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2510 and postproc modules.
2511 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2512 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2513 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2514 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2516 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2517 filter. For example:
2518 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2519 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2521 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2522 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2528 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2530 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2531 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2534 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2535 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2537 * Shoutcast TV listings
2538 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2540 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2541 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2543 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2546 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2547 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2548 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2549 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2550 * JACK audio input support
2551 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2552 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2553 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2554 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2555 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2556 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2557 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2558 (available as a separate download).
2559 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2560 * RTMP input support
2561 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2562 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2563 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2565 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2566 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2569 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2570 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2571 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2572 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2574 * APEv1/2 tags support
2575 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2576 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2578 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2579 * TiVo Series 2 support
2580 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2585 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2586 * Flash Screen Video support
2587 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2588 * DosBox Capture support
2589 * Karl Morton's Video support
2590 * limited atrac3 support
2592 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2593 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2594 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2595 * H.264 PAFF support
2596 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2597 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2598 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2599 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2600 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2603 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2604 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2605 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2606 * AQTitle subtitles support
2607 * MKV USF subtitles support
2608 * HTML-based subtitles support
2609 * MPSub subtitles support
2610 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2611 * MPL2 subtitles support
2612 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2613 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2614 * Realtext subtitle support
2615 * DKS subtitle support
2616 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2617 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2620 * Flash Screen Video support
2621 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2623 Video outputs and filters:
2624 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2625 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2626 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2627 * New puzzle video output filter
2628 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2629 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2631 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2632 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2633 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2634 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2635 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2636 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2637 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2638 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2639 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2640 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2641 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2642 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2643 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2644 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2646 Audio outputs and filters:
2647 * Replay gain support
2648 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2649 new scaletempo audio filter)
2650 * New spatializer audio filter
2651 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2654 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2655 * New RTP payload formats:
2656 * Speex voice audio codec
2657 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2658 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2659 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2660 * DCCP transport for RTP
2661 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2666 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2667 end-user suitable way.
2668 * Improved user interaction
2669 * Improved mouse gestures
2670 * Vastly improved Update checker
2671 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2673 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2674 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2676 * Improved video output features
2677 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2678 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2679 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2680 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2681 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2683 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2684 if libncursesw is available.
2685 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2686 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2687 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2689 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2690 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2691 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2692 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2693 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2694 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2695 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2696 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2699 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2700 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2701 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2704 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2705 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2706 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2707 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2708 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2709 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2712 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2713 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2723 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2724 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2725 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2728 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2729 ----------------------------------
2732 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2735 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2736 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2737 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2738 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2739 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2740 * Updated Polish translation
2743 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2744 ----------------------------------
2747 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2748 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2749 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2752 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2753 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2754 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2755 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2756 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2757 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2758 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2759 to an unexpected application termination
2760 * New Serbian translation
2761 * Updated Romanian translation
2764 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2765 ----------------------------------
2768 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2769 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2770 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2771 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2772 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2773 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2774 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2775 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2778 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2779 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2780 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2781 * Fixed AAC resampling
2782 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2783 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2786 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2787 ----------------------------------
2790 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2791 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2792 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2793 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2794 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2797 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2798 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2799 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2800 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2801 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2804 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2805 ----------------------------------
2808 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2809 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2812 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2813 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2814 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2815 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2817 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2821 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2824 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2827 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2830 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2833 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2834 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2835 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2836 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2837 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2839 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2840 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2841 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2842 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2845 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2848 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2849 ----------------------------------
2852 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2853 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2854 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2856 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2857 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2859 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2860 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2863 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2865 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2866 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2867 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2868 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2869 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2870 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2871 two different movies
2872 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2873 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2874 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2877 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2880 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2881 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2882 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2883 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2886 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2887 ----------------------------------
2889 Various bugfixes, notably:
2890 * Windows Vista compatibility
2891 * Cropping in Direct3D
2892 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2893 * RSS filter string overflow
2895 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2897 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2898 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2901 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2902 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2905 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2908 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2911 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2914 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2915 ----------------------------------
2917 Various bugfixes, notably:
2918 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2919 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2920 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2921 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2922 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2923 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2926 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2927 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2930 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2932 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2933 * Diverse usability improvements
2934 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2935 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2936 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2939 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2940 ---------------------------------
2942 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2943 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2946 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2949 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2950 --------------------------------
2953 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2956 * Support for RTSP authentication
2957 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2958 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2959 * ATSC support for DVB input
2960 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2961 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2962 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2965 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2966 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2967 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2968 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2969 * Matroska WavPack support
2970 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2971 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2972 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2975 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2976 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2977 * Improved libcaca support
2981 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2982 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2984 * Systray support in skins
2986 * Support for Apple Remote control
2987 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2988 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2989 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2990 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2992 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2995 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2996 Windows 9x/ME users:
2997 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2998 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2999 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3000 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3001 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3003 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3004 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3013 * Updates to the libvlc API
3014 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3017 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3018 --------------------------------
3021 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3022 * Support for downloading updates
3026 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3027 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3028 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3029 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3031 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3032 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3033 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3036 * Cook (Real audio) support
3038 Playlist / Services discovery:
3039 * XSPF playlist support
3041 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3044 * New JACK audio output
3047 * New video filters:
3048 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3049 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3050 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3051 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3052 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3053 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3056 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3059 * System to inform the user and request information
3060 - HTTP authentication
3064 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3065 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3066 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3069 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3070 - Improved playlist handling
3071 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3073 - Embedded Video output
3074 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3075 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3076 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3077 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3078 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3080 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3081 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3084 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3087 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3088 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3089 * Growl "Now playing" support
3092 * Ability to log to syslog
3093 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3096 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3098 * A bit more automatic testing
3101 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3102 ---------------------------------
3105 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3106 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3109 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3110 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3113 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3116 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3117 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3123 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3126 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3127 --------------------------------
3130 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3134 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3135 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3136 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3139 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3140 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3141 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3142 * GnomeVFS input module
3143 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3144 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3147 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3148 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3149 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3152 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3153 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3159 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3160 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3163 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3164 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3165 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3168 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3170 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3171 - New extended controls panel
3172 - New bookmarks window
3173 - Fixed playlist sorting
3174 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3176 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3177 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3178 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3179 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3183 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3184 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3186 - Include macro to include other files
3190 * Should now work outside IE as well
3193 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3196 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3197 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3200 The following languages were added:
3204 * Simplified Chinese
3205 The following languages were re-added:
3209 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3210 --------------------------------
3213 * Rewrite of the playlist
3215 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3216 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3217 * Preferences improvements:
3218 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3219 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3221 * Core image manipulation support
3222 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3223 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3224 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3225 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3226 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3227 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3228 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3229 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3230 * Access filter architecture
3231 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3232 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3236 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3237 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3238 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3239 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3240 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3241 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3242 * Massive Matroska improvements
3243 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3245 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3246 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3247 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3248 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3249 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3251 Decoders / Encoders:
3252 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3253 * PNG decoder/encoder
3254 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3255 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3258 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3261 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3262 * Brand new SAP module
3263 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3264 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3265 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3266 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3267 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3268 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3272 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3275 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3276 * Image file video output (png)
3277 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3278 * Improvements to wall video filter
3279 * Support for font color and opacity
3285 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3286 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3287 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3291 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3292 - Improved preferences
3293 - Improvements to the wizard
3294 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3296 - Redesigned playlist
3297 - Improved preferences
3299 - Support for multiple actions
3302 - Support for the new playlist system
3304 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3307 * Screensaver disabling fix
3308 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3309 * Support for no-decoration windows
3312 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3313 * The OpenGL video output is back
3314 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3315 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3316 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3317 is not yet available in the new module
3318 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3321 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3330 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3333 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3336 The following languages were added:
3342 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3343 --------------------------------
3346 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3347 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3350 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3351 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3352 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3355 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3358 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3361 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3364 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3365 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3366 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3370 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3372 * Support of playlist group announcement
3375 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3376 --------------------------------
3379 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3380 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3381 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3382 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3383 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3384 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3387 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3388 (Stream your desktop)
3389 * Improved DVD support:
3390 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3391 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3392 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3393 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3394 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3395 (selection of titles/chapters).
3398 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3399 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3400 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3401 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3402 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3403 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3404 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3405 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3406 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3407 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3410 * G.726 audio support
3411 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3412 * MPEG-4 text support
3413 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3414 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3415 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3419 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3420 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3421 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3422 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3423 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3424 * DVB subtitles encoder
3425 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3426 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3428 * Text track muxing for mp4
3429 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3430 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3431 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3432 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3433 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3434 * Improved ASF muxer
3436 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3437 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3438 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3441 * New audio equalizer filter
3442 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3443 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3444 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3445 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3448 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3449 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3450 with support for effects.
3451 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3452 - New filters can be streamed.
3453 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3454 - Centralized scaling and blending
3456 - "time", to display current time
3457 - "marq", to display a marquee
3460 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3461 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3462 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3463 * A few skins2 improvements
3464 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3465 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3466 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3467 * Improved CORBA control module
3470 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3471 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3472 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3475 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3476 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3477 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3480 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3481 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3482 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3483 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3484 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3487 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3490 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3491 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3494 * Server/client network synchronization module
3495 * VBrick streams fully supported
3496 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3500 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3501 --------------------------------
3504 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3505 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3506 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3507 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3510 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3511 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3512 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3513 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3514 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3515 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3516 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3519 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3520 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3521 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3522 * Improved directory access module.
3523 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3524 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3525 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3526 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3527 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3530 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3531 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3532 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3535 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3536 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3537 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3540 * Improved session announcement system.
3541 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3542 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3543 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3544 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3545 * Improved transrater.
3546 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3547 * New configuration system.
3548 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3551 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3552 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3553 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3554 * Supports scheduling.
3555 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3556 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3559 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3560 - Ability to embed video output.
3561 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3562 - Lots of improvements.
3563 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3564 - New design and set of icons.
3565 - Ability to embed video output.
3566 - Support for hotkeys.
3567 - Support for bookmarks.
3569 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3570 - Better hotkeys handling.
3573 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3574 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3575 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3576 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3579 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3580 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3581 * Improved Windows installer.
3587 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3588 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3591 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3592 ---------------------------------
3595 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3596 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3599 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3600 --------------------------------
3603 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3604 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3607 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3608 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3609 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3610 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3613 * Internal improvments
3614 * Improved import/export
3617 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3619 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3620 small and strange formats.
3622 * New MOD audio demux.
3623 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3624 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3625 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3626 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3629 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3630 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3631 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3637 * New opengl video output plugin.
3640 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3641 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3644 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3645 --------------------------------
3648 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3649 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3650 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3651 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3652 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3653 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3654 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3655 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3658 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3663 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3664 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3665 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3666 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3667 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3668 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3669 * Better Icecast support.
3670 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3671 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3674 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3675 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3676 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3677 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3678 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3679 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3680 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3683 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3684 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3685 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3686 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3687 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3688 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3689 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3690 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3691 * Preliminary RTP support.
3692 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3697 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3698 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3700 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3701 - Improvements and help in preferences
3702 - New streaming wizard
3703 - Revised Disc Open menu
3705 - Improvements of the standard pages
3706 - Support for new commands
3707 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3710 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3711 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3714 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3715 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3716 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3717 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3718 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3719 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3720 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3721 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3722 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3725 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3727 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3728 * Support for Panther.
3729 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3730 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3733 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3734 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3735 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3736 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3737 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3738 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3739 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3740 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3743 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3744 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3745 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3748 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3751 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3752 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3753 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3754 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3757 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3758 --------------------------------
3761 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3764 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3765 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3768 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3769 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3772 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3775 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3776 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3779 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3782 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3785 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3786 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3790 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3791 --------------------------------
3794 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3795 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3799 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3800 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3801 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3803 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3804 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3807 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3810 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3813 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3814 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3818 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3819 --------------------------------
3822 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3823 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3827 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3828 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3829 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3830 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3831 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3834 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3835 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3836 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3839 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3840 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3841 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3844 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3845 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3846 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3847 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3848 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3851 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3852 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3853 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3856 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3859 * Improved build system.
3860 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3861 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3862 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3863 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3866 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3867 --------------------------------
3870 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3873 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3874 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3875 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3876 * Video 4 Linux support
3877 * CD Digital Audio support
3878 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3881 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3882 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3883 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3884 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3887 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3888 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3889 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3890 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3891 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3892 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3893 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3896 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3897 * New HTTP remote control interface
3900 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3901 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3902 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3903 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3904 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3907 * New reset option for the preferences
3908 * You can set your language in the prefences
3909 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3910 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3911 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3912 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3915 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3916 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3917 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3920 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3921 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3922 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3923 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3924 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3925 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3926 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3927 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3928 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3929 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3932 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3933 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3934 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3935 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3936 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3937 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3938 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3941 * Interface localization
3942 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3943 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3944 * New full-featured Preferences window
3947 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3948 --------------------------------
3951 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3952 * support for skins at the interface level
3953 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3954 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3955 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3956 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3957 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3960 * fixed HTTP redirects
3961 * support for opening an entire directory
3962 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3963 * new video4linux access plug-in
3964 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3967 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3968 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3969 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3972 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3973 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3974 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3975 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3976 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3977 * new codec for raw I420 video
3978 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3981 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3982 (although it still misses some important features)
3983 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3986 * new HTTP output support
3987 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3988 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3991 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3994 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3997 * reorderable playlist
3998 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3999 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4000 * support for mono audio output devices
4001 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4002 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4003 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4004 * the messages window remembers more lines
4005 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4006 * http and ogg stream output options
4007 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4010 * new skinnable interface
4011 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4013 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4014 * support for FLAC audio format
4015 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4017 * network tab in the interface
4018 * "apply" handling in preferences
4021 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4022 ---------------------------------
4025 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4026 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4027 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4028 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4030 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4031 * DTS S/PDIF support
4034 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4035 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4036 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4037 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4040 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4041 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4044 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4047 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4050 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4052 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4053 * rc interface is now fully useable
4054 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4057 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4058 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4059 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4060 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4061 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4063 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4064 * support for mouse gestures
4065 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4068 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4069 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4072 * improved ID3 tag detection
4073 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4074 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4075 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4077 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4080 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4081 ---------------------------------
4084 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4085 English was set as the preferred language
4088 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4089 --------------------------------
4092 * new mouse gesture interface
4093 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4097 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4098 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4099 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4102 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4103 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4107 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4110 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4111 without the user consent
4114 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4116 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4117 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4118 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4121 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4122 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4123 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4124 * playlist enhancements
4125 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4126 * new step forward/step backward commands
4127 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4128 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4129 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4132 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4133 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4134 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4137 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4138 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4141 * native video output is working again
4142 * only commandline interface support
4143 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4146 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4147 --------------------------------
4150 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4151 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4152 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4153 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4154 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4155 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4156 and A/52 streams are supported)
4157 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4162 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4163 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4164 * VCD entry points support
4165 * VCD image file support
4168 * support for *.asf format
4169 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4170 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4171 * support for ogg encapsulation
4172 * support for raw DV format
4173 * support for *.wav format
4174 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4177 Stream discovery & playlists:
4178 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4179 * support for .m3u file format
4180 * support for .asx file format
4181 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4184 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4185 (only available with the .avi demux)
4186 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4187 * support for raw PCM data
4188 * support for Cinepak video codec
4189 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4190 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4191 * support for Xvid codec
4192 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4193 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4194 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4196 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4198 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4201 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4204 * new WxWindows interface
4205 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4206 device and the channels configuration
4207 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4208 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4209 format that VLC can play
4210 * new swedish translation
4211 * enhancements of the playlist window
4212 * new messages window to see debug info
4213 * fixed a few crashes
4216 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4217 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4218 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4219 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working