1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
43 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
46 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
49 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
52 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
53 * Wayland shell surface window provider
54 * Wayland shared memory video output
55 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
56 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
57 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
60 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
61 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
64 * Chromecast output module
65 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
68 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
71 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
72 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
76 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
79 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
80 * Port to Yosemite X.10
83 * Batch convert support
86 * Support key accelerators
89 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
90 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
91 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
92 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
93 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
94 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
95 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
96 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
97 identifier (if there is one available)
100 * Support for the SystemD Journal
101 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
102 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
103 * New Android module for logging
106 * remove langfromtelx
109 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
110 --------------------------------
113 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
114 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
117 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
118 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
119 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
120 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
123 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
124 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
125 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
126 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
128 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
129 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
132 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
133 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
134 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
135 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
136 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
137 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
138 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
139 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
140 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
141 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
142 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
143 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
144 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
145 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
146 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
147 * New jpeg image decoder
148 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
149 * New SVG image decoder
150 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
151 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
152 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
155 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
156 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
157 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
158 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
159 * New png image encoder using libpng
162 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
163 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
164 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
165 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
166 synchronization and tracks exclusion
167 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
168 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
169 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
170 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
171 * Support Opus in MKV
173 * Basic support for WebVTT
174 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
175 * Support HDPR TS files
176 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
177 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
178 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
179 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
180 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
181 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
182 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
183 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
184 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
185 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
186 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
187 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
190 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
191 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
192 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
193 * New Android native window provider module
194 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
195 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
196 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
199 * New Oldmovie effect filter
200 * New VHS effect filter
201 * New Freeze effect filter
202 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
203 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
204 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
207 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
208 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
209 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
210 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
211 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
212 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
215 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
216 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
218 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
221 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
222 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
223 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
224 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
225 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
226 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
227 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
228 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
229 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
231 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
232 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
233 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
236 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
237 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
240 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
241 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
244 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
245 * Add record button in Qt menus
246 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
247 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
248 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
251 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
252 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
253 * Fixes for advanced preferences
254 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
255 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
256 * Option to increase playlist font size
257 * Improved crash log reporting
260 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
261 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
262 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
265 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
268 * iOS video output: use ios2
269 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
270 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
273 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
274 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
275 * Update of all translations:
276 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
277 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
278 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
279 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
280 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
281 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
282 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
285 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
286 --------------------------------
289 * Fix compilation on OS/2
292 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
294 Mac OS X audio output:
295 * Fix channel ordering
296 * Increase the buffersize
299 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
300 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
301 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
304 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
307 * Correctly support video-on-top
308 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
309 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
312 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
315 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
316 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
319 * Update British English
322 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
323 --------------------------------
326 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
329 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
332 * Fix DVD playback regression
333 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
334 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
337 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
338 --------------------------------
341 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
342 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
345 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
346 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
347 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
350 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
351 by updating codec libraries
352 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
353 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
354 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
357 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
358 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
359 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
360 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
363 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
364 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
367 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
368 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
369 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
370 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
371 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
374 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
375 * Fix record file names
378 * Fix minimal size possible on start
379 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
380 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
381 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
382 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
385 * Fix album art display on Windows
388 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
389 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
390 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
391 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
392 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
393 and Simplified Chinese translations
394 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
397 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
398 --------------------------------
401 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
402 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
403 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
404 audio devices on OS X
405 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
406 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
409 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
410 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
413 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
414 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
417 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
420 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
421 * Improve A-B loop control
422 * Fix album art update when changing media
425 * Add a language option in the interface
426 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
427 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
428 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
429 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
430 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
431 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
432 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
435 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
438 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
439 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
440 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
441 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
444 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
445 --------------------------------
448 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
450 * Fix some subtitles track selection
453 * VP9 support in WebM
454 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
455 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
458 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
459 * Support Speex in ogg files
460 * Fix some .mov playlists support
461 * Support Alac in mkv
462 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
463 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
466 * Fix DVB options parsing
467 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
468 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
471 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
472 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
475 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
476 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
479 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
480 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
481 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
482 * Fix play after drag'n drop
483 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
486 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
487 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
490 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
491 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
494 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
495 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
496 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
497 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
498 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
499 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
500 * Improves interface resizings
503 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
504 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
505 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
506 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
507 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
511 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
512 --------------------------------
515 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
516 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
517 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
518 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
519 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
521 3rd party libraries (contrib):
522 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
525 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
526 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
527 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
528 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
529 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
532 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
533 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
537 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
538 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
539 * Support for Ulead DV audio
540 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
541 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
542 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
543 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
544 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
545 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
546 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
547 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
548 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
549 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
552 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
553 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
554 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
557 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
558 remove support for previous OS X releases
559 * Major improvements in DASH support
560 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
561 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
562 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
563 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
564 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
565 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
566 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
567 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
568 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
569 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
570 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
573 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
574 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
575 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
576 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
577 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
578 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
579 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
580 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
581 * Support for more MJPEG streams
582 * Add support for liveleak streams
583 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
584 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
585 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
588 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
589 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
590 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
591 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
592 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
593 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
594 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
595 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
596 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
597 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
598 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
601 * New remapping channel filter
602 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
603 * New VSXu visualization plugin
604 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
605 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
606 * New gain audio filter
609 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
610 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
611 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
612 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
613 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
614 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
615 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
616 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
617 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
620 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
621 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
622 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
623 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
624 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
625 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
626 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
629 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
630 * Options support for AVIO output module
631 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
632 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
633 * Livehttp stream encryption support
634 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
635 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
638 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
641 * configurable password for the HTTP server
642 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
643 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
644 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
645 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
646 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
647 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
648 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
652 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
655 * Add support for multiple video outputs
656 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
658 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
659 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
660 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
661 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
662 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
663 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
664 VLC's internal volume level
665 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
667 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
668 selection and to manage the list of presets
669 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
670 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
671 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
672 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
673 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
674 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
675 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
676 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
677 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
678 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
680 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
681 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
682 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
683 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
684 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
685 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
686 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
687 3rd party applications
688 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
689 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
690 (system-wide settings)
691 * Add support for the Video Title option
692 * Add support for the Boss Key
693 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
694 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
697 * Partial support for Qt5.0
698 * Menus modifications and improvements
699 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
700 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
701 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
702 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
703 * EPG display fixes and improvements
704 * Add SD pixmap sources
705 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
706 * Display playlist total duration
707 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
708 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
709 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
714 * Extend sliders, offsets options
715 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
716 * Numerous fixes and improvements
717 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
720 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
721 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
722 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
723 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
724 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
725 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
726 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
727 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
728 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
729 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
732 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
733 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
734 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
735 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
736 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
737 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
739 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
740 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
741 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
742 * Broken crop video filter
744 * OSD parser and menu
745 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
746 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
747 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
748 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
752 * Update of all translations
755 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
756 --------------------------------
759 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
760 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
763 * Fix modplug security issues
766 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
767 --------------------------------
771 * Fix crash in QTsound
772 * Fix screen mouse file location
773 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
776 * Fix use after free in sgimb
777 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
780 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
783 * Fix interface crashes
784 * Fix autostart playback option
785 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
788 * update Welsh translation
789 * New Kannada translation
792 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
793 --------------------------------
796 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
797 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
801 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
804 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
807 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
810 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
814 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
817 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
820 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
821 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
822 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
825 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
826 --------------------------------
829 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
832 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
835 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
836 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
837 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
838 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
839 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
840 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
843 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
844 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
845 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
846 * 3rd party codecs updates
849 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
850 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
851 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
852 in the advanced preferences panel
853 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
854 * Fix crash within the video output code
855 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
856 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
857 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
858 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
860 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
863 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
866 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
867 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
870 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
873 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
874 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
875 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
876 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
877 Dutch, Danish, translations
878 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
881 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
882 --------------------------------
885 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
888 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
889 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
890 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
893 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
894 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
895 * Fix koreus lua parser
896 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
897 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
898 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
899 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
902 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
903 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
906 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
909 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
910 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
911 * Fix Time counter UI look
912 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
915 * Fix https streaming
918 * Fix audio and video track selection:
919 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
920 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
923 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
924 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
925 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
926 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
927 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
930 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
931 --------------------------------
934 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
935 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
936 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
937 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
938 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
939 during playback on Mac OS X
942 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
943 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
944 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
947 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
948 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
949 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
950 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
951 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
954 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
955 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
956 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
957 * Support Youtube live streams
960 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
963 * Fix media info dialog update
964 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
965 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
966 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
967 * Fix album art display at start
970 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
971 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
972 * Fix menus display and behavior
973 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
974 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
975 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
976 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
977 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
978 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
979 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
982 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
983 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
984 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
985 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
986 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
987 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
988 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
989 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
990 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
993 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
994 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
995 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
996 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
997 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1000 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1001 --------------------------------
1004 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1007 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1008 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1011 * Add GateKeeper support
1012 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1013 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1014 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1017 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1020 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1021 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1022 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1023 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1024 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1027 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1028 --------------------------------
1031 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1032 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1033 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1034 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1035 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1036 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1037 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1038 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1039 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1040 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1041 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1045 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1046 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1047 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1048 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1049 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1050 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1051 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1052 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1053 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1054 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1055 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1056 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1059 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1060 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1062 * Fix MP3 free format support
1065 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1066 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1067 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1068 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1069 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1072 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1073 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1075 Audio filters and output:
1076 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1077 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1078 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1079 * Do not apply volume in file output
1080 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1081 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1084 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1085 the persistant media library
1086 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1087 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1088 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1089 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1090 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1091 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1092 press on the Play/Pause button
1093 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1094 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1095 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1096 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1097 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1098 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1099 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1100 Synchronization panel
1101 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1102 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1103 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1104 * Fix crashes on exit
1105 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1107 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1108 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1109 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1110 automatically reset on the first launch.
1111 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1112 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1113 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1116 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1117 * Fixes for icecast SD
1120 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1121 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1122 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1123 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1124 * Fix tags and file names display
1125 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1128 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1129 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1132 * Fix display of some buttons
1133 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1134 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1137 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1138 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1139 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1142 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1143 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1144 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1145 Thai translations update
1146 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1149 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1150 --------------------------------
1153 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1154 * fix the samba module compilation
1155 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1156 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1157 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1158 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1161 * Support for MXPEG files
1162 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1163 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1166 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1167 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1168 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1171 * Fix ogm header creation
1174 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1175 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1178 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1179 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1180 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1181 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1184 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1187 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1188 * allow to hide the sidebar
1189 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1190 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1191 * noticebly faster launch time
1192 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1193 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1194 * improve track synchronization panel
1195 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1196 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1199 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1200 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1201 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1202 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1205 * fix for menus display
1206 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1207 * documentation update
1210 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1211 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1214 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1215 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1216 * Update Jamendo selections
1220 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1221 * fix a crash on VLM close
1224 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1225 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1226 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1227 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1230 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1233 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1234 ---------------------------------
1237 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1238 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1239 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1240 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1241 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1242 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1243 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1244 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1245 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1246 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1247 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1248 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1249 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1250 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1251 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1252 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1253 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1254 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1255 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1256 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1257 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1258 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1259 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1260 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1261 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1262 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1264 Important changes for packagers:
1265 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1266 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1267 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1268 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1269 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1270 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1271 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1272 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1273 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1274 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1277 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1278 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1279 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1280 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1281 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1282 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1283 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1286 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1287 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1288 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1289 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1290 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1291 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1292 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1293 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1294 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1295 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1296 * PulseAudio audio input support
1297 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1298 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1299 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1300 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1301 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1302 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1303 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1304 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1307 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1308 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1309 are notably concerned.
1310 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1311 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1312 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1313 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1314 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1315 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1316 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1317 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1318 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1319 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1320 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1321 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1322 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1323 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1324 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1327 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1328 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1329 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1330 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1331 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1332 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1333 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1334 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1335 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1336 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1337 * Improved support of tracker files
1338 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1341 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1342 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1343 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1344 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1345 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1346 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1347 and important cleanups and optimisations
1348 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1349 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1350 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1351 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1352 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1353 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1354 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1355 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1356 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1357 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1358 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1359 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1360 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1361 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1362 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1363 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1364 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1365 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1366 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1367 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1368 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1371 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1372 * New video output for iOS platform
1373 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1374 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1375 * Various vmem improvements
1376 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1377 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1378 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1379 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1380 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1381 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1383 Audio Output and Filters:
1384 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1385 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1386 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1387 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1388 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1389 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1390 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1391 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1392 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1393 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1396 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1397 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1398 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1399 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1400 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1401 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1402 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1403 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1404 * New anti-flickering filter
1405 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1406 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1407 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1408 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1409 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1410 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1411 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1414 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1415 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1416 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1417 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1418 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1419 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1420 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1421 * Major rework of VoD support
1422 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1423 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1424 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1425 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1426 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1427 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1428 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1429 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1430 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1431 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1434 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1435 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1438 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1439 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1440 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1441 list of available audio and video filters
1442 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1443 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1444 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1447 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1448 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1449 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1450 * id3tag: use taglib
1451 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1452 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1453 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1454 * removal of the noise filter
1455 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1456 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1457 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1458 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1461 * Update of translations for most languages.
1462 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1465 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1466 ----------------------------------
1469 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1470 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1473 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1474 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1477 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1478 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1479 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1482 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1485 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1486 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1489 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1492 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1493 ----------------------------------
1496 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1497 including support for OS X Lion
1498 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1499 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1502 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1505 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1506 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1507 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1510 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1513 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1514 ----------------------------------
1517 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1518 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1521 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1522 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1523 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1524 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1525 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1527 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1528 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1529 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1531 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1532 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1535 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1538 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1541 * Fix quitting on Linux
1542 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1546 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1549 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1552 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1553 ---------------------------------
1555 Windows and Mac OS X:
1556 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1559 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1560 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1563 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1566 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1569 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1571 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1572 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1574 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1575 * RTP output and XML export
1576 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1580 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1581 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1582 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1583 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1586 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1587 --------------------------------
1589 Windows and Mac OS X:
1590 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1593 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1596 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1597 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1598 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1599 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1600 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1601 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1604 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1605 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1609 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1610 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1611 * New Luganda Translation
1614 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1615 --------------------------------
1618 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1621 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1622 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1623 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1624 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1627 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1629 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1630 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1631 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1632 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1633 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1634 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1635 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1636 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1638 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1639 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1640 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1641 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1642 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1643 * Configure and build system improvements
1644 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1647 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1648 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1649 * New icelandic translation
1652 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1653 --------------------------------
1656 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1657 #234484 and #260719.
1660 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1661 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1662 and stability reasons
1665 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1669 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1672 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1673 ----------------------------------
1676 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1679 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1680 ---------------------------------
1683 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1684 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1685 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1686 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1689 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1692 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1693 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1694 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1695 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1698 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1699 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1700 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1702 Subtitles and renderer:
1703 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1704 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1705 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1706 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1707 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1710 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1711 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1712 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1713 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1716 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1717 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1719 Miscellaneous fixes:
1720 * KDE device solid actions
1722 * Transcode integer overflow
1723 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1724 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1727 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1728 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1729 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1732 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1733 ----------------------------------
1736 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1740 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1743 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1746 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1747 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1748 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1749 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1752 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1756 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1759 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1762 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1763 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1765 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1769 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1770 * Miscellaneous fixes
1773 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1774 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1775 French and Ukrainian
1776 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1777 * New Asturian translation
1780 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1781 ----------------------------------
1784 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1786 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1789 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1792 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1793 * Various fixes for Windows
1796 * New Armenian translation
1797 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1798 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1801 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1802 --------------------------------
1805 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1806 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1807 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1810 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1811 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1814 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1815 --------------------------------
1817 Access and demuxers:
1818 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1819 * fix for podcasts parsing
1820 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1823 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1824 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1827 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1828 * fix m3u playlists exports
1831 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1834 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1837 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1840 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1843 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1846 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1847 --------------------------------
1850 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1851 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1854 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1855 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1858 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1859 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1860 * fix console output encoding
1862 Interface and extensions:
1863 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1864 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1867 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1868 --------------------------------
1871 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1872 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1873 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1874 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1875 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1876 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1877 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1878 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1879 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1880 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1881 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1882 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1883 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1884 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1885 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1886 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1890 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1891 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1892 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1893 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1894 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1897 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1900 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1901 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1902 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1906 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1909 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1910 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1911 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1914 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1915 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1916 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1917 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1920 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1921 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1924 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1925 --------------------------------
1927 Important changes for users:
1928 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1929 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1931 Important changes for packagers:
1932 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1933 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1934 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1935 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1936 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1938 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1940 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1941 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1942 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1943 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1944 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1947 * Support for the sftp protocol
1948 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1949 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1950 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1951 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1952 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1955 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1956 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1957 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1959 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1960 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1961 * Invmem module improvements
1962 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1963 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1964 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1965 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1966 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1967 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1968 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1969 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1970 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1971 * Support for VP8 codec
1972 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1975 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1976 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1977 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1978 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1979 * Various EGP improvements
1980 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1981 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1984 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1985 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1986 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1987 * Podcast images are now displayed
1990 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1991 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1992 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1993 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1994 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1995 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1996 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1997 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1998 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1999 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2000 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2003 * New content extensions lua framework
2006 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2007 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2008 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2009 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2010 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2011 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2012 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2015 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2016 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2017 * Service discovery based on libudev
2018 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2021 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2022 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2023 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2024 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2025 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2026 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2027 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2030 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2031 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2032 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2035 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2037 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2038 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2041 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2044 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2045 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2046 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2047 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2048 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2049 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2050 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2053 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2054 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2057 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2058 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2059 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2063 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2064 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2065 * Improved Solaris port
2068 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2069 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2072 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2073 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2074 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2075 * transrate: broken since too long
2076 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2077 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2078 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2079 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2080 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2081 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2082 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2083 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2084 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2085 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2086 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2087 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2088 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2089 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2092 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2093 --------------------------------
2096 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2098 Decoders/Packetizers:
2099 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2102 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2103 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2104 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2105 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2106 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2109 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2110 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2113 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2114 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2117 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2118 and Walloon translations updated
2119 * Sinhala translation started
2122 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2123 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2126 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2127 --------------------------------
2130 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2131 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2134 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2137 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2138 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2141 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2142 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2143 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2144 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2147 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2148 --------------------------------
2151 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2152 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2155 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2156 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2159 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2160 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2163 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2166 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2167 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2170 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2171 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2174 * New Walloon translation
2175 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2178 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2183 regressions in most popular drivers
2184 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2187 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2188 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2189 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2192 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2193 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2196 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2197 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2198 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2199 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2200 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2203 * New udev module for linux
2206 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2209 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2212 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2213 --------------------------------
2216 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2217 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2218 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2221 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2222 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2225 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2226 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2229 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2232 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2233 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2234 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2235 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2238 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2239 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2240 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2241 - no support for Goom and SDL
2242 - limited text rendering support
2243 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2246 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2247 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2248 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2249 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2250 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2251 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2252 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2253 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2254 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2258 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2261 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2264 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2265 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2266 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2267 Arabic and French translation updates
2270 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2271 --------------------------------
2274 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2275 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2276 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2277 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2278 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2279 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2282 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2283 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2284 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2287 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2288 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2289 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2292 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2295 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2296 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2299 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2300 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2301 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2302 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2303 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2304 * Fix various crashes
2307 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2309 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2313 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2314 ---------------------------------
2318 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2319 See 'Access:' for more info.
2320 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2323 * Instantaneous pausing
2324 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2325 * Finer speed control
2326 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2327 * Timeshift for most medias
2328 * RTSP trickplay support
2329 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2332 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2333 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2334 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2335 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2336 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2337 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2338 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2339 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2340 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2341 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2344 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2345 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2346 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2347 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2348 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2349 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2350 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2353 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2354 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2357 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2358 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2359 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2360 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2361 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2362 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2363 * DVB scanning on linux
2364 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2365 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2366 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2367 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2368 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2369 * MTP device access on Unix
2370 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2371 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2374 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2375 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2376 Windows and Mac OS X.
2379 * Export the playlist in HTML
2380 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2381 * Better metadata handling and reading
2383 Linux/Windows interface:
2384 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2385 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2386 * Recently played items list
2387 * Interface toolbar customizations
2388 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2389 - More menus actions
2390 - Finer speed slider
2391 - Improvements on many dialogs
2392 - New dialog for plugins listing
2393 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2394 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2395 * Better integration in GTK environments
2398 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2399 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2400 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2401 * Additional usability improvements
2404 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2405 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2406 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2407 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2408 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2411 * New Maemo port with:
2412 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2413 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2416 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2419 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2420 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2421 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2422 * Support for latest iSight models
2425 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2426 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2429 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2430 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2431 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2432 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2433 The old image video output has been removed.
2434 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2435 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2438 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2446 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2447 --------------------------------------
2453 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2454 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2455 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2456 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2457 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2458 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2459 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2461 Various fixes to the following modules:
2464 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2465 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2466 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2468 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2473 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2474 ---------------------------------
2477 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2478 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2481 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2482 ---------------------------------
2485 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2488 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2491 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2492 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2493 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2494 main controller window.
2495 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2498 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2503 * Updates of other localizations
2506 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2507 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2508 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2509 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2510 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2513 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2514 ---------------------------------
2517 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2519 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2522 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2523 --------------------------------
2528 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2529 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2532 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2533 --------------------------------
2535 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2536 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2539 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2542 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2543 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2546 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2547 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2550 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2551 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2552 * Various fixed in playlist
2555 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2558 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2561 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2562 ------------------------------------
2564 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2565 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2568 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2569 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2570 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2573 * Stability fix for the video output.
2576 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2577 --------------------------------
2580 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2581 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2582 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2583 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2584 * Fixed update system bugs
2585 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2588 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2589 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2590 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2591 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2592 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2593 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2594 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2595 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2596 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2597 modern Mac OS X versions
2600 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2601 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2603 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2604 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2607 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2608 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2609 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2610 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2611 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2612 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2615 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2616 --------------------------------
2618 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2619 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2620 * Multiple bugfixes.
2623 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2624 --------------------------------
2626 * Multiple bug fixes.
2629 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2630 ---------------------------------
2634 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2635 recent to work correctly
2636 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2637 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2638 edit the ".hosts" file.
2639 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2640 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2641 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2642 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2643 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2644 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2645 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2646 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2647 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2648 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2649 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2650 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2651 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2652 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2653 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2654 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2655 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2656 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2657 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2658 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2659 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2660 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2661 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2662 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2663 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2664 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2665 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2666 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2667 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2668 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2669 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2670 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2671 and postproc modules.
2672 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2673 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2674 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2675 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2677 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2678 filter. For example:
2679 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2680 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2682 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2683 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2689 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2691 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2692 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2695 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2696 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2698 * Shoutcast TV listings
2699 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2701 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2702 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2704 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2707 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2708 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2709 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2710 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2711 * JACK audio input support
2712 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2713 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2714 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2715 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2716 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2717 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2718 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2719 (available as a separate download).
2720 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2721 * RTMP input support
2722 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2723 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2724 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2726 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2727 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2730 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2731 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2732 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2733 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2735 * APEv1/2 tags support
2736 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2737 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2739 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2740 * TiVo Series 2 support
2741 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2746 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2747 * Flash Screen Video support
2748 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2749 * DosBox Capture support
2750 * Karl Morton's Video support
2751 * limited atrac3 support
2753 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2754 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2755 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2756 * H.264 PAFF support
2757 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2758 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2759 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2760 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2761 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2764 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2765 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2766 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2767 * AQTitle subtitles support
2768 * MKV USF subtitles support
2769 * HTML-based subtitles support
2770 * MPSub subtitles support
2771 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2772 * MPL2 subtitles support
2773 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2774 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2775 * Realtext subtitle support
2776 * DKS subtitle support
2777 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2778 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2781 * Flash Screen Video support
2782 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2784 Video outputs and filters:
2785 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2786 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2787 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2788 * New puzzle video output filter
2789 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2790 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2792 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2793 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2794 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2795 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2796 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2797 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2798 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2799 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2800 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2801 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2802 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2803 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2804 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2805 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2807 Audio outputs and filters:
2808 * Replay gain support
2809 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2810 new scaletempo audio filter)
2811 * New spatializer audio filter
2812 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2815 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2816 * New RTP payload formats:
2817 * Speex voice audio codec
2818 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2819 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2820 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2821 * DCCP transport for RTP
2822 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2827 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2828 end-user suitable way.
2829 * Improved user interaction
2830 * Improved mouse gestures
2831 * Vastly improved Update checker
2832 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2834 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2835 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2837 * Improved video output features
2838 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2839 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2840 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2841 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2842 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2844 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2845 if libncursesw is available.
2846 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2847 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2848 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2850 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2851 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2852 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2853 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2854 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2855 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2856 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2857 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2860 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2861 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2862 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2865 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2866 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2867 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2868 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2869 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2870 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2873 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2874 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2884 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2885 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2886 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2889 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2890 ----------------------------------
2893 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2896 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2897 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2898 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2899 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2900 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2901 * Updated Polish translation
2904 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2905 ----------------------------------
2908 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2909 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2910 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2913 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2914 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2915 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2916 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2917 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2918 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2919 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2920 to an unexpected application termination
2921 * New Serbian translation
2922 * Updated Romanian translation
2925 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2926 ----------------------------------
2929 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2930 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2931 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2932 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2933 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2934 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2935 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2936 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2939 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2940 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2941 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2942 * Fixed AAC resampling
2943 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2944 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2947 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2948 ----------------------------------
2951 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2952 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2953 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2954 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2955 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2958 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2959 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2960 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2961 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2962 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2965 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2966 ----------------------------------
2969 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2970 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2973 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2974 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2975 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2976 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2978 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2982 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2985 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2988 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2991 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2994 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2995 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2996 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2997 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2998 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3000 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3001 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3002 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3003 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3006 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3009 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3010 ----------------------------------
3013 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3014 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3015 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3017 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3018 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3020 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3021 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3024 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3026 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3027 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3028 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3029 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3030 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3031 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3032 two different movies
3033 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3034 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3035 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3038 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3041 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3042 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3043 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3044 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3047 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3048 ----------------------------------
3050 Various bugfixes, notably:
3051 * Windows Vista compatibility
3052 * Cropping in Direct3D
3053 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3054 * RSS filter string overflow
3056 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3058 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3059 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3062 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3063 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3066 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3069 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3072 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3075 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3076 ----------------------------------
3078 Various bugfixes, notably:
3079 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3080 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3081 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3082 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3083 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3084 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3087 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3088 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3091 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3093 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3094 * Diverse usability improvements
3095 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3096 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3097 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3100 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3101 ---------------------------------
3103 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3104 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3107 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3110 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3111 --------------------------------
3114 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3117 * Support for RTSP authentication
3118 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3119 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3120 * ATSC support for DVB input
3121 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3122 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3123 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3126 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3127 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3128 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3129 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3130 * Matroska WavPack support
3131 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3132 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3133 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3136 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3137 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3138 * Improved libcaca support
3142 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3143 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3145 * Systray support in skins
3147 * Support for Apple Remote control
3148 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3149 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3150 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3151 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3153 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3156 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3157 Windows 9x/ME users:
3158 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3159 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3160 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3161 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3162 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3164 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3165 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3174 * Updates to the libvlc API
3175 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3178 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3179 --------------------------------
3182 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3183 * Support for downloading updates
3187 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3188 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3189 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3190 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3192 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3193 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3194 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3197 * Cook (Real audio) support
3199 Playlist / Services discovery:
3200 * XSPF playlist support
3202 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3205 * New JACK audio output
3208 * New video filters:
3209 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3210 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3211 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3212 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3213 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3214 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3217 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3220 * System to inform the user and request information
3221 - HTTP authentication
3225 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3226 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3227 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3230 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3231 - Improved playlist handling
3232 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3234 - Embedded Video output
3235 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3236 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3237 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3238 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3239 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3241 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3242 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3245 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3248 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3249 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3250 * Growl "Now playing" support
3253 * Ability to log to syslog
3254 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3257 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3259 * A bit more automatic testing
3262 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3263 ---------------------------------
3266 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3267 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3270 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3271 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3274 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3277 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3278 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3284 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3287 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3288 --------------------------------
3291 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3295 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3296 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3297 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3300 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3301 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3302 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3303 * GnomeVFS input module
3304 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3305 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3308 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3309 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3310 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3313 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3314 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3320 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3321 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3324 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3325 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3326 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3329 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3331 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3332 - New extended controls panel
3333 - New bookmarks window
3334 - Fixed playlist sorting
3335 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3337 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3338 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3339 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3340 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3344 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3345 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3347 - Include macro to include other files
3351 * Should now work outside IE as well
3354 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3357 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3358 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3361 The following languages were added:
3365 * Simplified Chinese
3366 The following languages were re-added:
3370 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3371 --------------------------------
3374 * Rewrite of the playlist
3376 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3377 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3378 * Preferences improvements:
3379 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3380 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3382 * Core image manipulation support
3383 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3384 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3385 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3386 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3387 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3388 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3389 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3390 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3391 * Access filter architecture
3392 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3393 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3397 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3398 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3399 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3400 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3401 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3402 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3403 * Massive Matroska improvements
3404 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3406 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3407 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3408 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3409 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3410 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3412 Decoders / Encoders:
3413 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3414 * PNG decoder/encoder
3415 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3416 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3419 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3422 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3423 * Brand new SAP module
3424 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3425 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3426 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3427 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3428 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3429 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3433 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3436 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3437 * Image file video output (png)
3438 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3439 * Improvements to wall video filter
3440 * Support for font color and opacity
3446 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3447 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3448 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3452 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3453 - Improved preferences
3454 - Improvements to the wizard
3455 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3457 - Redesigned playlist
3458 - Improved preferences
3460 - Support for multiple actions
3463 - Support for the new playlist system
3465 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3468 * Screensaver disabling fix
3469 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3470 * Support for no-decoration windows
3473 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3474 * The OpenGL video output is back
3475 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3476 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3477 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3478 is not yet available in the new module
3479 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3482 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3491 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3494 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3497 The following languages were added:
3503 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3504 --------------------------------
3507 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3508 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3511 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3512 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3513 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3516 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3519 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3522 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3525 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3526 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3527 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3531 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3533 * Support of playlist group announcement
3536 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3537 --------------------------------
3540 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3541 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3542 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3543 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3544 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3545 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3548 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3549 (Stream your desktop)
3550 * Improved DVD support:
3551 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3552 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3553 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3554 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3555 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3556 (selection of titles/chapters).
3559 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3560 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3561 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3562 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3563 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3564 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3565 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3566 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3567 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3568 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3571 * G.726 audio support
3572 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3573 * MPEG-4 text support
3574 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3575 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3576 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3580 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3581 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3582 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3583 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3584 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3585 * DVB subtitles encoder
3586 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3587 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3589 * Text track muxing for mp4
3590 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3591 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3592 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3593 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3594 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3595 * Improved ASF muxer
3597 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3598 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3599 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3602 * New audio equalizer filter
3603 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3604 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3605 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3606 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3609 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3610 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3611 with support for effects.
3612 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3613 - New filters can be streamed.
3614 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3615 - Centralized scaling and blending
3617 - "time", to display current time
3618 - "marq", to display a marquee
3621 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3622 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3623 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3624 * A few skins2 improvements
3625 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3626 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3627 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3628 * Improved CORBA control module
3631 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3632 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3633 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3636 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3637 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3638 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3641 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3642 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3643 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3644 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3645 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3648 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3651 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3652 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3655 * Server/client network synchronization module
3656 * VBrick streams fully supported
3657 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3661 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3662 --------------------------------
3665 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3666 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3667 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3668 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3671 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3672 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3673 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3674 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3675 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3676 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3677 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3680 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3681 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3682 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3683 * Improved directory access module.
3684 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3685 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3686 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3687 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3688 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3691 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3692 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3693 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3696 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3697 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3698 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3701 * Improved session announcement system.
3702 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3703 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3704 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3705 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3706 * Improved transrater.
3707 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3708 * New configuration system.
3709 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3712 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3713 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3714 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3715 * Supports scheduling.
3716 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3717 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3720 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3721 - Ability to embed video output.
3722 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3723 - Lots of improvements.
3724 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3725 - New design and set of icons.
3726 - Ability to embed video output.
3727 - Support for hotkeys.
3728 - Support for bookmarks.
3730 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3731 - Better hotkeys handling.
3734 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3735 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3736 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3737 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3740 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3741 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3742 * Improved Windows installer.
3748 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3749 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3752 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3753 ---------------------------------
3756 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3757 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3760 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3761 --------------------------------
3764 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3765 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3768 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3769 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3770 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3771 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3774 * Internal improvments
3775 * Improved import/export
3778 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3780 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3781 small and strange formats.
3783 * New MOD audio demux.
3784 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3785 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3786 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3787 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3790 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3791 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3792 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3798 * New opengl video output plugin.
3801 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3802 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3805 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3806 --------------------------------
3809 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3810 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3811 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3812 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3813 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3814 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3815 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3816 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3819 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3824 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3825 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3826 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3827 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3828 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3829 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3830 * Better Icecast support.
3831 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3832 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3835 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3836 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3837 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3838 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3839 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3840 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3841 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3844 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3845 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3846 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3847 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3848 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3849 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3850 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3851 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3852 * Preliminary RTP support.
3853 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3858 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3859 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3861 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3862 - Improvements and help in preferences
3863 - New streaming wizard
3864 - Revised Disc Open menu
3866 - Improvements of the standard pages
3867 - Support for new commands
3868 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3871 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3872 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3875 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3876 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3877 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3878 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3879 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3880 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3881 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3882 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3883 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3886 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3888 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3889 * Support for Panther.
3890 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3891 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3894 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3895 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3896 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3897 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3898 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3899 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3900 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3901 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3904 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3905 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3906 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3909 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3912 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3913 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3914 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3915 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3918 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3919 --------------------------------
3922 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3925 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3926 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3929 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3930 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3933 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3936 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3937 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3940 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3943 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3946 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3947 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3951 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3952 --------------------------------
3955 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3956 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3960 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3961 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3962 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3964 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3965 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3968 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3971 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3974 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3975 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3979 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3980 --------------------------------
3983 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3984 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3988 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3989 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3990 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3991 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3992 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3995 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3996 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3997 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4000 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4001 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4002 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4005 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4006 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4007 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4008 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4009 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4012 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4013 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4014 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4017 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4020 * Improved build system.
4021 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4022 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4023 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4024 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4027 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4028 --------------------------------
4031 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4034 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4035 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4036 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4037 * Video 4 Linux support
4038 * CD Digital Audio support
4039 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4042 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4043 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4044 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4045 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4048 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4049 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4050 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4051 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4052 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4053 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4054 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4057 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4058 * New HTTP remote control interface
4061 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4062 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4063 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4064 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4065 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4068 * New reset option for the preferences
4069 * You can set your language in the prefences
4070 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4071 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4072 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4073 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4076 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4077 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4078 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4081 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4082 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4083 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4084 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4085 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4086 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4087 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4088 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4089 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4090 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4093 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4094 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4095 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4096 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4097 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4098 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4099 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4102 * Interface localization
4103 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4104 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4105 * New full-featured Preferences window
4108 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4109 --------------------------------
4112 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4113 * support for skins at the interface level
4114 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4115 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4116 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4117 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4118 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4121 * fixed HTTP redirects
4122 * support for opening an entire directory
4123 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4124 * new video4linux access plug-in
4125 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4128 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4129 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4130 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4133 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4134 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4135 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4136 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4137 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4138 * new codec for raw I420 video
4139 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4142 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4143 (although it still misses some important features)
4144 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4147 * new HTTP output support
4148 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4149 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4152 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4155 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4158 * reorderable playlist
4159 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4160 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4161 * support for mono audio output devices
4162 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4163 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4164 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4165 * the messages window remembers more lines
4166 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4167 * http and ogg stream output options
4168 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4171 * new skinnable interface
4172 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4174 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4175 * support for FLAC audio format
4176 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4178 * network tab in the interface
4179 * "apply" handling in preferences
4182 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4183 ---------------------------------
4186 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4187 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4188 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4189 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4191 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4192 * DTS S/PDIF support
4195 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4196 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4197 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4198 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4201 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4202 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4205 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4208 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4211 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4213 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4214 * rc interface is now fully useable
4215 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4218 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4219 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4220 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4221 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4222 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4224 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4225 * support for mouse gestures
4226 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4229 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4230 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4233 * improved ID3 tag detection
4234 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4235 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4236 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4238 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4241 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4242 ---------------------------------
4245 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4246 English was set as the preferred language
4249 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4250 --------------------------------
4253 * new mouse gesture interface
4254 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4258 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4259 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4260 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4263 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4264 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4268 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4271 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4272 without the user consent
4275 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4277 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4278 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4279 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4282 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4283 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4284 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4285 * playlist enhancements
4286 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4287 * new step forward/step backward commands
4288 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4289 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4290 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4293 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4294 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4295 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4298 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4299 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4302 * native video output is working again
4303 * only commandline interface support
4304 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4307 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4308 --------------------------------
4311 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4312 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4313 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4314 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4315 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4316 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4317 and A/52 streams are supported)
4318 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4323 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4324 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4325 * VCD entry points support
4326 * VCD image file support
4329 * support for *.asf format
4330 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4331 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4332 * support for ogg encapsulation
4333 * support for raw DV format
4334 * support for *.wav format
4335 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4338 Stream discovery & playlists:
4339 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4340 * support for .m3u file format
4341 * support for .asx file format
4342 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4345 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4346 (only available with the .avi demux)
4347 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4348 * support for raw PCM data
4349 * support for Cinepak video codec
4350 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4351 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4352 * support for Xvid codec
4353 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4354 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4355 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4357 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4359 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4362 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4365 * new WxWindows interface
4366 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4367 device and the channels configuration
4368 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4369 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4370 format that VLC can play
4371 * new swedish translation
4372 * enhancements of the playlist window
4373 * new messages window to see debug info
4374 * fixed a few crashes
4377 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4378 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4379 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4380 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working