1 Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
2 -------------------------------------
6 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
7 See 'Access:' for more info.
10 * Instantaneous pausing
11 * Frame-by-Frame playback
13 * Timeshift for most medias
14 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
15 * RTSP trickplay support
19 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
22 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
23 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
24 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
25 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
28 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
29 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
30 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
33 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
34 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
37 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
38 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
39 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
40 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
41 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
42 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
43 * DVB scanning on linux
44 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
45 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
46 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
47 * MTP device access on Unix
48 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
51 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
52 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
56 * Export the playlist in HTML
57 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
58 * Better metadata handling and reading
60 Linux/Windows interface:
61 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
62 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
63 * Recently played items list
64 * Interface toolbar customizations
65 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
68 - Improvements on many dialogs
69 - New dialog for plugins listing
70 - Fixed-size mode for videos
71 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
72 * Better integration in GTK environments
75 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
76 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
77 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
78 * Additional usability improvements
81 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
82 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
83 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
84 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
85 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
88 * New Maemo port with:
89 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
90 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
93 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
96 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
97 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
100 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
101 * Surround support for PulseAudio
104 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
105 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
106 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
109 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
111 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
112 ---------------------------------
115 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
118 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
121 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
122 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
123 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
124 main controller window.
125 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
128 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
133 * Updates of other localizations
136 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
137 * Lots of small bugfixes.
138 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
139 * Telnet fixes on Windows
140 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
142 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
143 ---------------------------------
146 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
148 Bunch of small bugfixes.
151 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
152 --------------------------------
157 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
158 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
161 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
162 --------------------------------
164 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
165 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
168 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
171 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
172 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
175 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
176 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
179 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
180 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
181 * Various fixed in playlist
184 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
187 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
190 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
191 ------------------------------------
193 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
194 * Fixes several memory leaks.
197 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
198 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
199 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
202 * Stability fix for the video output.
205 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
206 --------------------------------
209 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
210 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
211 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
212 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
213 * Fixed update system bugs
214 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
217 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
218 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
219 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
220 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
221 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
222 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
223 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
224 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
225 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
226 modern Mac OS X versions
229 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
230 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
232 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
233 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
236 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
237 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
238 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
239 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
240 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
241 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
244 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
245 --------------------------------
247 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
248 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
252 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
253 --------------------------------
255 * Multiple bug fixes.
258 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
259 ---------------------------------
263 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
264 recent to work correctly
265 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
266 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
267 edit the ".hosts" file.
268 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
269 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
270 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
271 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
272 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
273 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
274 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
275 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
276 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
277 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
278 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
279 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
280 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
281 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
282 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
283 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
284 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
285 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
286 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
287 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
288 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
289 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
290 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
291 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
292 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
293 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
294 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
295 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
296 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
297 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
298 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
299 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
300 and postproc modules.
301 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
302 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
303 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
304 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
306 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
308 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
309 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
311 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
312 * Glide video output module has been removed.
318 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
320 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
321 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
324 * Vastly improved playlist support:
325 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
327 * Shoutcast TV listings
328 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
330 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
331 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
333 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
336 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
337 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
338 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
339 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
340 * JACK audio input support
341 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
342 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
343 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
344 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
345 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
346 * Experimental EyeTV access module
347 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
348 (available as a separate download).
349 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
351 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
352 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
353 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
355 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
356 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
359 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
360 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
361 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
362 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
364 * APEv1/2 tags support
365 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
366 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
368 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
369 * TiVo Series 2 support
370 * CD+G karaoke Files support
375 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
376 * Flash Screen Video support
377 * CamStudio Screen Video support
378 * DosBox Capture support
379 * Karl Morton's Video support
380 * limited atrac3 support
382 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
383 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
384 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
386 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
387 * NellyMoser ASAO support
388 * APE (Monkey audio) support
389 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
390 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
393 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
394 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
395 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
396 * AQTitle subtitles support
397 * MKV USF subtitles support
398 * HTML-based subtitles support
399 * MPSub subtitles support
400 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
401 * MPL2 subtitles support
402 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
403 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
404 * Realtext subtitle support
405 * DKS subtitle support
406 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
407 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
410 * Flash Screen Video support
411 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
413 Video outputs and filters:
414 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
415 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
416 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
417 * New puzzle video output filter
418 * Re-written motion detection video filter
419 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
421 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
422 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
423 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
424 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
425 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
426 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
427 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
428 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
429 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
430 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
431 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
432 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
433 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
434 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
436 Audio outputs and filters:
437 * Replay gain support
438 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
439 new scaletempo audio filter)
440 * New spatializer audio filter
441 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
444 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
445 * New RTP payload formats:
446 * Speex voice audio codec
447 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
448 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
449 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
450 * DCCP transport for RTP
451 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
456 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
457 end-user suitable way.
458 * Improved user interaction
459 * Improved mouse gestures
460 * Vastly improved Update checker
461 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
463 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
464 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
466 * Improved video output features
467 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
468 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
469 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
470 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
471 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
473 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
474 if libncursesw is available.
475 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
476 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
477 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
479 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
480 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
481 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
482 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
483 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
484 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
485 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
486 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
489 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
490 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
491 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
494 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
495 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
496 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
497 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
498 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
499 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
502 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
503 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
513 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
514 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
515 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
518 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
519 ----------------------------------
522 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
525 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
526 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
527 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
528 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
529 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
530 * Updated Polish translation
533 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
534 ----------------------------------
537 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
538 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
539 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
542 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
543 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
544 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
545 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
546 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
547 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
548 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
549 to an unexpected application termination
550 * New Serbian translation
551 * Updated Romanian translation
554 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
555 ----------------------------------
558 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
559 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
560 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
561 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
562 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
563 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
564 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
565 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
568 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
569 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
570 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
571 * Fixed AAC resampling
572 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
573 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
576 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
577 ----------------------------------
580 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
581 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
582 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
583 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
584 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
587 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
588 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
589 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
590 * Close MMS access on network timeout
591 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
594 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
595 ----------------------------------
598 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
599 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
602 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
603 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
604 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
605 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
607 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
611 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
614 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
617 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
620 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
623 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
624 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
625 encoding on multi-cpu systems
626 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
627 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
629 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
630 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
631 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
632 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
635 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
638 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
639 ----------------------------------
642 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
643 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
644 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
646 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
647 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
649 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
650 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
653 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
655 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
656 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
657 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
658 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
659 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
660 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
662 * Support for current Ogg file formats
663 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
664 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
667 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
670 * The automatic updating facility was removed
671 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
672 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
673 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
676 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
677 ----------------------------------
679 Various bugfixes, notably:
680 * Windows Vista compatibility
681 * Cropping in Direct3D
682 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
683 * RSS filter string overflow
685 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
687 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
688 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
691 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
692 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
695 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
698 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
701 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
704 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
705 ----------------------------------
707 Various bugfixes, notably:
708 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
709 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
710 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
711 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
712 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
713 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
716 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
717 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
720 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
722 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
723 * Diverse usability improvements
724 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
725 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
726 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
729 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
730 ---------------------------------
733 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
736 * Fullscreen controller improvements
739 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
740 --------------------------------
743 * Shoutcast TV listings support
746 * Support for RTSP authentication
747 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
748 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
749 * ATSC support for DVB input
750 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
751 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
752 * Improved support for Flash Video files
755 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
756 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
757 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
758 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
759 * Matroska WavPack support
760 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
761 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
762 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
765 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
766 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
767 * Improved libcaca support
771 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
772 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
774 * Systray support in skins
776 * Support for Apple Remote control
777 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
778 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
779 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
780 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
782 * Notifications using notification-daemon
785 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
787 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
788 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
789 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
790 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
791 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
793 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
794 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
803 * Updates to the libvlc API
804 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
807 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
808 --------------------------------
811 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
812 * Support for downloading updates
816 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
817 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
818 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
819 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
821 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
822 * Improved subtitles encoding support
823 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
826 * Cook (Real audio) support
828 Playlist / Services discovery:
829 * XSPF playlist support
831 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
834 * New JACK audio output
838 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
839 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
840 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
841 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
842 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
843 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
846 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
849 * System to inform the user and request information
850 - HTTP authentication
854 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
855 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
856 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
859 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
860 - Improved playlist handling
861 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
863 - Embedded Video output
864 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
865 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
866 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
867 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
868 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
870 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
871 - A bunch of new RPN functions
874 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
877 * Mac-Intel compatibility
878 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
879 * Growl "Now playing" support
882 * Ability to log to syslog
883 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
886 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
888 * A bit more automatic testing
891 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
892 ---------------------------------
895 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
896 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
899 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
900 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
903 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
906 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
907 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
913 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
916 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
917 --------------------------------
920 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
924 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
925 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
926 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
929 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
930 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
931 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
932 * GnomeVFS input module
933 * Support for RTP packet reordering
934 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
937 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
938 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
939 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
942 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
943 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
949 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
950 Mixer and Dolby Surround
953 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
954 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
955 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
958 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
960 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
961 - New extended controls panel
962 - New bookmarks window
963 - Fixed playlist sorting
964 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
966 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
967 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
968 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
969 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
973 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
974 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
976 - Include macro to include other files
980 * Should now work outside IE as well
983 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
986 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
987 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
990 The following languages were added:
995 The following languages were re-added:
999 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1000 --------------------------------
1003 * Rewrite of the playlist
1005 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1006 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1007 * Preferences improvements:
1008 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1009 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1011 * Core image manipulation support
1012 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1013 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1014 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1015 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1016 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1017 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1018 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1019 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1020 * Access filter architecture
1021 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1022 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1026 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1027 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1028 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1029 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1030 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1031 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1032 * Massive Matroska improvements
1033 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1035 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1036 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1037 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1038 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1039 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1041 Decoders / Encoders:
1042 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1043 * PNG decoder/encoder
1044 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1045 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1048 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1051 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1052 * Brand new SAP module
1053 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1054 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1055 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1056 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1057 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1058 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1062 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1065 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1066 * Image file video output (png)
1067 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1068 * Improvements to wall video filter
1069 * Support for font color and opacity
1075 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1076 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1077 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1081 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1082 - Improved preferences
1083 - Improvements to the wizard
1084 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1086 - Redesigned playlist
1087 - Improved preferences
1089 - Support for multiple actions
1092 - Support for the new playlist system
1094 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1097 * Screensaver disabling fix
1098 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1099 * Support for no-decoration windows
1102 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1103 * The OpenGL video output is back
1104 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1105 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1106 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1107 is not yet available in the new module
1108 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1111 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1120 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1123 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1126 The following languages were added:
1132 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1137 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1140 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1141 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1142 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1145 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1148 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1151 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1154 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1155 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1156 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1160 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1162 * Support of playlist group announcement
1165 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1166 --------------------------------
1169 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1170 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1171 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1172 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1173 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1174 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1177 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1178 (Stream your desktop)
1179 * Improved DVD support:
1180 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1181 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1182 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1183 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1184 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1185 (selection of titles/chapters).
1188 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1189 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1190 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1191 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1192 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1193 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1194 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1195 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1196 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1197 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1200 * G.726 audio support
1201 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1202 * MPEG-4 text support
1203 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1204 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1205 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1209 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1210 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1211 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1212 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1213 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1214 * DVB subtitles encoder
1215 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1216 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1218 * Text track muxing for mp4
1219 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1220 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1221 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1222 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1223 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1224 * Improved ASF muxer
1226 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1227 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1228 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1231 * New audio equalizer filter
1232 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1233 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1234 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1235 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1238 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1239 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1240 with support for effects.
1241 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1242 - New filters can be streamed.
1243 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1244 - Centralized scaling and blending
1246 - "time", to display current time
1247 - "marq", to display a marquee
1250 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1251 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1252 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1253 * A few skins2 improvements
1254 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1255 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1256 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1257 * Improved CORBA control module
1260 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1261 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1262 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1265 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1266 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1267 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1270 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1271 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1272 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1273 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1274 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1277 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1280 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1281 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1284 * Server/client network synchronization module
1285 * VBrick streams fully supported
1286 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1290 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1291 --------------------------------
1294 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1295 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1296 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1297 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1300 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1301 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1302 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1303 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1304 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1305 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1306 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1309 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1310 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1311 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1312 * Improved directory access module.
1313 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1314 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1315 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1316 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1317 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1320 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1321 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1322 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1325 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1326 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1327 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1330 * Improved session announcement system.
1331 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1332 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1333 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1334 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1335 * Improved transrater.
1336 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1337 * New configuration system.
1338 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1341 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1342 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1343 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1344 * Supports scheduling.
1345 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1346 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1349 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1350 - Ability to embed video output.
1351 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1352 - Lots of improvements.
1353 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1354 - New design and set of icons.
1355 - Ability to embed video output.
1356 - Support for hotkeys.
1357 - Support for bookmarks.
1359 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1360 - Better hotkeys handling.
1363 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1364 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1365 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1366 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1369 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1370 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1371 * Improved Windows installer.
1377 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1378 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1381 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1382 ---------------------------------
1385 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1386 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1389 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1390 --------------------------------
1393 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1394 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1397 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1398 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1399 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1400 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1403 * Internal improvments
1404 * Improved import/export
1407 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1409 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1410 small and strange formats.
1412 * New MOD audio demux.
1413 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1414 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1415 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1416 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1419 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1420 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1421 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1427 * New opengl video output plugin.
1430 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1431 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1434 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1435 --------------------------------
1438 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1439 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1440 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1441 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1442 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1443 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1444 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1445 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1448 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1453 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1454 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1455 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1456 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1457 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1458 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1459 * Better Icecast support.
1460 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1461 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1464 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1465 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1466 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1467 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1468 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1469 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1470 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1473 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1474 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1475 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1476 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1477 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1478 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1479 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1480 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1481 * Preliminary RTP support.
1482 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1487 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1488 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1490 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1491 - Improvements and help in preferences
1492 - New streaming wizard
1493 - Revised Disc Open menu
1495 - Improvements of the standard pages
1496 - Support for new commands
1497 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1500 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1501 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1504 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1505 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1506 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1507 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1508 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1509 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1510 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1511 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1512 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1515 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1517 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1518 * Support for Panther.
1519 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1520 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1523 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1524 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1525 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1526 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1527 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1528 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1529 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1530 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1533 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1534 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1535 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1538 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1541 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1542 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1543 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1544 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1547 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1548 --------------------------------
1551 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1554 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1555 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1558 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1559 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1562 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1565 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1566 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1569 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1572 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1575 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1576 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1580 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1581 --------------------------------
1584 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1585 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1589 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1590 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1591 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1593 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1594 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1597 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1600 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1603 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1604 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1608 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1609 --------------------------------
1612 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1613 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1617 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1618 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1619 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1620 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1621 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1624 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1625 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1626 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1629 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1630 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1631 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1634 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1635 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1636 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1637 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1638 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1641 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1642 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1643 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1646 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1649 * Improved build system.
1650 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1651 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1652 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1653 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1656 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1657 --------------------------------
1660 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1663 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1664 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1665 * Video 4 Linux support
1666 * CD Digital Audio support
1667 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1670 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1671 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1672 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1673 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1676 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1677 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1678 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1679 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1680 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1681 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1682 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1685 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1686 * New HTTP remote control interface
1689 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1690 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1691 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1692 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1695 * New reset option for the preferences
1696 * You can set your language in the prefences
1697 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1698 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1699 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1700 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1703 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1704 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1705 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1708 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1709 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1710 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1711 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1712 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1713 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1714 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1715 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1716 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1717 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1720 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1721 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1722 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1723 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1724 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1725 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1726 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1729 * Interface localization
1730 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1731 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1732 * New full-featured Preferences window
1735 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1736 --------------------------------
1739 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1740 * support for skins at the interface level
1741 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1742 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1743 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1744 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1745 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1748 * fixed HTTP redirects
1749 * support for opening an entire directory
1750 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1751 * new video4linux access plug-in
1752 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1755 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1756 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1757 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1760 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1761 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1762 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1763 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1764 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1765 * new codec for raw I420 video
1766 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1769 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1770 (although it still misses some important features)
1771 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1774 * new HTTP output support
1775 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1776 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1779 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1782 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1785 * reorderable playlist
1786 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1787 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1788 * support for mono audio output devices
1789 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1790 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1791 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1792 * the messages window remembers more lines
1793 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1794 * http and ogg stream output options
1795 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1798 * new skinnable interface
1799 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1801 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1802 * support for FLAC audio format
1803 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1805 * network tab in the interface
1806 * "apply" handling in preferences
1809 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1810 ---------------------------------
1813 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1814 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1815 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1816 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1818 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1819 * DTS S/PDIF support
1822 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1823 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1824 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1825 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1828 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1829 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1832 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1835 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1838 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1840 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1841 * rc interface is now fully useable
1842 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1845 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1846 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1847 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1848 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1849 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1851 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1852 * support for mouse gestures
1853 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1856 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1857 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1860 * improved ID3 tag detection
1861 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1862 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1863 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1865 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1868 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1869 ---------------------------------
1872 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1873 English was set as the preferred language
1876 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1877 --------------------------------
1880 * new mouse gesture interface
1881 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1885 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1886 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1887 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1890 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1891 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1895 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1898 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1899 without the user consent
1902 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1904 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1905 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1906 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1909 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1910 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1911 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1912 * playlist enhancements
1913 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1914 * new step forward/step backward commands
1915 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1916 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1917 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1920 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1921 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1922 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1925 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1926 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1929 * native video output is working again
1930 * only commandline interface support
1931 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1934 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1935 --------------------------------
1938 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1939 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1940 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1941 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1942 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1943 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1944 and A/52 streams are supported)
1945 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1950 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1951 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1952 * VCD entry points support
1953 * VCD image file support
1956 * support for *.asf format
1957 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1958 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1959 * support for ogg encapsulation
1960 * support for raw DV format
1961 * support for *.wav format
1962 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1965 Stream discovery & playlists:
1966 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1967 * support for .m3u file format
1968 * support for .asx file format
1969 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1972 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1973 (only available with the .avi demux)
1974 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1975 * support for raw PCM data
1976 * support for Cinepak video codec
1977 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1978 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1979 * support for Xvid codec
1980 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1981 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1982 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1984 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1986 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1989 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1992 * new WxWindows interface
1993 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1994 device and the channels configuration
1995 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1996 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1997 format that VLC can play
1998 * new swedish translation
1999 * enhancements of the playlist window
2000 * new messages window to see debug info
2001 * fixed a few crashes
2004 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2005 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2006 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2007 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working