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
19 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
20 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
21 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
24 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
25 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
26 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
27 * Support for Daala video
28 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
29 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
30 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
31 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
32 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
33 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
34 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
35 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
38 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
39 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
40 * Support Daala in Ogg
41 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
42 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
43 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
44 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
45 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
46 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
47 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
48 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
49 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
52 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
55 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
56 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
59 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
60 * Wayland shell surface window provider
61 * Wayland shared memory video output
62 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
63 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
64 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
65 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
66 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
69 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
70 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
73 * Chromecast output module
74 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
77 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
80 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
81 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
85 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
86 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
89 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
90 * Port to Yosemite X.10
93 * Batch convert support
96 * Support key accelerators
99 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
100 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
101 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
102 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
103 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
104 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
105 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
106 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
107 identifier (if there is one available)
108 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
111 * Support for the SystemD Journal
112 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
113 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
114 * New Android module for logging
117 * remove langfromtelx
118 * remove ZPL playlist format
121 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
122 --------------------------------
125 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
126 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
129 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
130 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
131 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
132 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
135 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
136 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
137 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
138 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
140 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
141 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
142 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
145 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
146 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
147 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
148 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
149 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
150 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
151 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
152 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
153 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
154 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
155 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
156 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
157 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
158 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
159 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
160 * New jpeg image decoder
161 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
162 * New SVG image decoder
163 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
164 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
165 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
168 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
169 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
170 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
171 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
172 * New png image encoder using libpng
175 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
176 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
177 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
178 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
179 synchronization and tracks exclusion
180 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
181 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
182 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
183 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
184 * Support Opus in MKV
186 * Basic support for WebVTT
187 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
188 * Support HDPR TS files
189 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
190 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
191 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
192 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
193 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
194 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
195 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
196 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
197 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
198 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
199 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
200 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
203 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
204 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
205 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
206 * New Android native window provider module
207 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
208 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
209 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
212 * New Oldmovie effect filter
213 * New VHS effect filter
214 * New Freeze effect filter
215 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
216 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
217 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
220 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
221 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
222 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
223 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
224 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
225 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
228 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
229 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
231 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
234 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
235 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
236 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
237 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
238 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
239 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
240 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
241 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
242 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
244 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
245 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
246 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
249 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
250 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
253 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
254 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
257 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
258 * Add record button in Qt menus
259 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
260 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
261 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
264 * Support for OS X Yosemite
265 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
266 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
267 * Fixes for advanced preferences
268 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
269 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
270 * Option to increase playlist font size
271 * Improved crash log reporting
274 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
275 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
276 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
277 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
280 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
283 * iOS video output: use ios2
284 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
285 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
288 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
289 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
290 * Update of all translations:
291 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
292 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
293 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
294 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
295 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
296 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
297 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
300 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
301 --------------------------------
307 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
308 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
309 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
310 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
311 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
312 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
313 * Fix potential crash in zip access
314 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
317 * Update translations and greek encoding
320 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
321 --------------------------------
324 * Fix compilation on OS/2
327 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
329 Mac OS X audio output:
330 * Fix channel ordering
331 * Increase the buffersize
334 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
335 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
336 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
339 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
342 * Correctly support video-on-top
343 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
344 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
347 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
350 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
351 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
354 * Update British English
357 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
358 --------------------------------
361 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
364 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
367 * Fix DVD playback regression
368 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
369 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
372 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
373 --------------------------------
376 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
377 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
380 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
381 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
382 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
385 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
386 by updating codec libraries
387 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
388 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
389 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
392 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
393 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
394 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
395 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
398 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
399 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
402 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
403 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
404 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
405 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
406 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
409 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
410 * Fix record file names
413 * Fix minimal size possible on start
414 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
415 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
416 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
417 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
420 * Fix album art display on Windows
423 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
424 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
425 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
426 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
427 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
428 and Simplified Chinese translations
429 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
432 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
433 --------------------------------
436 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
437 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
438 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
439 audio devices on OS X
440 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
441 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
444 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
445 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
448 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
449 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
452 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
455 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
456 * Improve A-B loop control
457 * Fix album art update when changing media
460 * Add a language option in the interface
461 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
462 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
463 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
464 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
465 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
466 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
467 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
470 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
473 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
474 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
475 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
476 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
479 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
480 --------------------------------
483 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
485 * Fix some subtitles track selection
488 * VP9 support in WebM
489 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
490 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
493 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
494 * Support Speex in ogg files
495 * Fix some .mov playlists support
496 * Support Alac in mkv
497 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
498 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
501 * Fix DVB options parsing
502 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
503 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
506 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
507 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
510 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
511 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
514 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
515 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
516 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
517 * Fix play after drag'n drop
518 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
521 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
522 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
525 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
526 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
529 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
530 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
531 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
532 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
533 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
534 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
535 * Improves interface resizings
538 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
539 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
540 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
541 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
542 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
546 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
547 --------------------------------
550 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
551 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
552 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
553 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
554 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
556 3rd party libraries (contrib):
557 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
560 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
561 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
562 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
563 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
564 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
567 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
568 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
572 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
573 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
574 * Support for Ulead DV audio
575 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
576 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
577 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
578 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
579 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
580 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
581 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
582 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
583 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
584 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
587 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
588 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
589 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
592 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
593 remove support for previous OS X releases
594 * Major improvements in DASH support
595 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
596 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
597 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
598 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
599 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
600 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
601 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
602 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
603 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
604 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
605 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
608 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
609 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
610 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
611 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
612 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
613 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
614 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
615 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
616 * Support for more MJPEG streams
617 * Add support for liveleak streams
618 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
619 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
620 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
623 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
624 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
625 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
626 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
627 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
628 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
629 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
630 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
631 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
632 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
633 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
636 * New remapping channel filter
637 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
638 * New VSXu visualization plugin
639 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
640 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
641 * New gain audio filter
644 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
645 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
646 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
647 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
648 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
649 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
650 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
651 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
652 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
655 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
656 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
657 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
658 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
659 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
660 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
661 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
664 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
665 * Options support for AVIO output module
666 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
667 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
668 * Livehttp stream encryption support
669 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
670 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
673 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
676 * configurable password for the HTTP server
677 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
678 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
679 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
680 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
681 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
682 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
683 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
687 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
690 * Add support for multiple video outputs
691 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
693 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
694 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
695 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
696 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
697 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
698 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
699 VLC's internal volume level
700 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
702 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
703 selection and to manage the list of presets
704 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
705 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
706 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
707 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
708 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
709 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
710 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
711 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
712 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
713 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
715 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
716 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
717 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
718 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
719 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
720 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
721 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
722 3rd party applications
723 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
724 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
725 (system-wide settings)
726 * Add support for the Video Title option
727 * Add support for the Boss Key
728 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
729 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
732 * Partial support for Qt5.0
733 * Menus modifications and improvements
734 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
735 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
736 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
737 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
738 * EPG display fixes and improvements
739 * Add SD pixmap sources
740 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
741 * Display playlist total duration
742 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
743 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
744 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
749 * Extend sliders, offsets options
750 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
751 * Numerous fixes and improvements
752 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
755 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
756 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
757 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
758 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
759 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
760 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
761 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
762 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
763 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
764 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
767 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
768 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
769 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
770 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
771 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
772 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
774 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
775 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
776 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
777 * Broken crop video filter
779 * OSD parser and menu
780 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
781 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
782 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
783 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
787 * Update of all translations
790 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
791 --------------------------------
794 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
795 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
798 * Fix modplug security issues
801 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
802 --------------------------------
806 * Fix crash in QTsound
807 * Fix screen mouse file location
808 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
811 * Fix use after free in sgimb
812 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
815 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
818 * Fix interface crashes
819 * Fix autostart playback option
820 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
823 * update Welsh translation
824 * New Kannada translation
827 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
828 --------------------------------
831 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
832 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
836 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
839 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
842 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
845 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
849 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
852 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
855 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
856 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
857 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
860 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
861 --------------------------------
864 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
867 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
870 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
871 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
872 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
873 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
874 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
875 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
878 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
879 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
880 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
881 * 3rd party codecs updates
884 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
885 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
886 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
887 in the advanced preferences panel
888 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
889 * Fix crash within the video output code
890 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
891 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
892 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
893 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
895 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
898 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
901 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
902 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
905 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
908 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
909 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
910 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
911 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
912 Dutch, Danish, translations
913 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
916 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
917 --------------------------------
920 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
923 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
924 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
925 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
928 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
929 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
930 * Fix koreus lua parser
931 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
932 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
933 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
934 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
937 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
938 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
941 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
944 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
945 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
946 * Fix Time counter UI look
947 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
950 * Fix https streaming
953 * Fix audio and video track selection:
954 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
955 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
958 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
959 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
960 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
961 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
962 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
965 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
966 --------------------------------
969 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
970 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
971 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
972 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
973 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
974 during playback on Mac OS X
977 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
978 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
979 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
982 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
983 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
984 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
985 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
986 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
989 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
990 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
991 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
992 * Support Youtube live streams
995 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
998 * Fix media info dialog update
999 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1000 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1001 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1002 * Fix album art display at start
1005 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1006 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1007 * Fix menus display and behavior
1008 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1009 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1010 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1011 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1012 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1013 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1014 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1017 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1018 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1019 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1020 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1021 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1022 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1023 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1024 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1025 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1028 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1029 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1030 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1031 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1032 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1035 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1036 --------------------------------
1039 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1042 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1043 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1046 * Add GateKeeper support
1047 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1048 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1049 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1052 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1055 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1056 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1057 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1058 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1059 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1062 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1063 --------------------------------
1066 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1067 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1068 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1069 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1070 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1071 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1072 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1073 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1074 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1075 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1076 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1080 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1081 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1082 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1083 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1084 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1085 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1086 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1087 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1088 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1089 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1090 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1091 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1094 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1095 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1097 * Fix MP3 free format support
1100 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1101 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1102 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1103 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1104 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1107 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1108 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1110 Audio filters and output:
1111 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1112 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1113 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1114 * Do not apply volume in file output
1115 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1116 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1119 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1120 the persistant media library
1121 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1122 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1123 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1124 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1125 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1126 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1127 press on the Play/Pause button
1128 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1129 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1130 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1131 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1132 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1133 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1134 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1135 Synchronization panel
1136 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1137 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1138 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1139 * Fix crashes on exit
1140 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1142 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1143 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1144 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1145 automatically reset on the first launch.
1146 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1147 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1148 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1151 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1152 * Fixes for icecast SD
1155 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1156 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1157 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1158 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1159 * Fix tags and file names display
1160 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1163 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1164 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1167 * Fix display of some buttons
1168 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1169 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1172 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1173 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1174 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1177 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1178 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1179 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1180 Thai translations update
1181 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1184 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1185 --------------------------------
1188 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1189 * fix the samba module compilation
1190 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1191 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1192 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1193 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1196 * Support for MXPEG files
1197 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1198 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1201 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1202 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1203 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1206 * Fix ogm header creation
1209 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1210 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1213 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1214 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1215 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1216 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1219 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1222 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1223 * allow to hide the sidebar
1224 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1225 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1226 * noticebly faster launch time
1227 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1228 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1229 * improve track synchronization panel
1230 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1231 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1234 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1235 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1236 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1237 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1240 * fix for menus display
1241 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1242 * documentation update
1245 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1246 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1249 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1250 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1251 * Update Jamendo selections
1255 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1256 * fix a crash on VLM close
1259 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1260 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1261 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1262 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1265 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1268 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1269 ---------------------------------
1272 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1273 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1274 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1275 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1276 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1277 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1278 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1279 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1280 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1281 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1282 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1283 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1284 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1285 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1286 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1287 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1288 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1289 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1290 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1291 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1292 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1293 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1294 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1295 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1296 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1297 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1299 Important changes for packagers:
1300 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1301 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1302 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1303 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1304 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1305 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1306 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1307 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1308 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1309 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1312 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1313 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1314 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1315 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1316 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1317 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1318 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1321 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1322 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1323 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1324 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1325 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1326 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1327 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1328 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1329 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1330 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1331 * PulseAudio audio input support
1332 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1333 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1334 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1335 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1336 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1337 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1338 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1339 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1342 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1343 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1344 are notably concerned.
1345 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1346 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1347 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1348 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1349 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1350 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1351 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1352 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1353 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1354 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1355 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1356 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1357 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1358 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1359 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1362 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1363 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1364 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1365 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1366 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1367 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1368 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1369 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1370 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1371 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1372 * Improved support of tracker files
1373 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1376 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1377 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1378 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1379 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1380 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1381 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1382 and important cleanups and optimisations
1383 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1384 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1385 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1386 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1387 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1388 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1389 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1390 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1391 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1392 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1393 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1394 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1395 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1396 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1397 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1398 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1399 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1400 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1401 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1402 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1403 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1406 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1407 * New video output for iOS platform
1408 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1409 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1410 * Various vmem improvements
1411 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1412 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1413 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1414 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1415 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1416 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1418 Audio Output and Filters:
1419 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1420 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1421 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1422 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1423 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1424 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1425 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1426 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1427 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1428 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1431 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1432 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1433 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1434 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1435 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1436 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1437 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1438 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1439 * New anti-flickering filter
1440 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1441 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1442 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1443 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1444 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1445 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1446 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1449 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1450 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1451 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1452 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1453 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1454 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1455 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1456 * Major rework of VoD support
1457 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1458 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1459 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1460 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1461 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1462 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1463 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1464 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1465 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1466 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1469 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1470 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1473 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1474 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1475 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1476 list of available audio and video filters
1477 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1478 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1479 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1482 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1483 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1484 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1485 * id3tag: use taglib
1486 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1487 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1488 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1489 * removal of the noise filter
1490 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1491 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1492 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1493 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1496 * Update of translations for most languages.
1497 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1500 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1501 ----------------------------------
1504 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1505 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1508 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1509 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1512 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1513 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1514 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1517 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1520 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1521 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1524 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1527 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1528 ----------------------------------
1531 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1532 including support for OS X Lion
1533 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1534 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1537 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1540 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1541 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1542 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1545 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1548 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1549 ----------------------------------
1552 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1553 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1556 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1557 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1558 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1559 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1560 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1562 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1563 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1564 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1566 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1567 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1570 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1573 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1576 * Fix quitting on Linux
1577 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1581 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1584 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1587 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1588 ---------------------------------
1590 Windows and Mac OS X:
1591 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1594 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1595 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1598 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1601 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1604 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1606 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1607 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1609 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1610 * RTP output and XML export
1611 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1615 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1616 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1617 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1618 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1621 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1622 --------------------------------
1624 Windows and Mac OS X:
1625 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1628 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1631 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1632 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1633 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1634 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1635 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1636 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1639 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1640 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1644 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1645 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1646 * New Luganda Translation
1649 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1650 --------------------------------
1653 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1656 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1657 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1658 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1659 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1662 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1664 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1665 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1666 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1667 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1668 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1669 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1670 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1671 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1673 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1674 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1675 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1676 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1677 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1678 * Configure and build system improvements
1679 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1682 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1683 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1684 * New icelandic translation
1687 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1688 --------------------------------
1691 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1692 #234484 and #260719.
1695 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1696 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1697 and stability reasons
1700 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1704 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1707 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1708 ----------------------------------
1711 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1714 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1715 ---------------------------------
1718 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1719 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1720 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1721 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1724 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1727 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1728 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1729 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1730 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1733 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1734 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1735 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1737 Subtitles and renderer:
1738 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1739 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1740 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1741 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1742 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1745 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1746 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1747 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1748 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1751 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1752 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1754 Miscellaneous fixes:
1755 * KDE device solid actions
1757 * Transcode integer overflow
1758 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1759 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1762 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1763 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1764 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1767 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1768 ----------------------------------
1771 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1775 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1778 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1781 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1782 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1783 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1784 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1787 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1791 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1794 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1797 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1798 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1800 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1804 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1805 * Miscellaneous fixes
1808 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1809 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1810 French and Ukrainian
1811 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1812 * New Asturian translation
1815 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1816 ----------------------------------
1819 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1821 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1824 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1827 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1828 * Various fixes for Windows
1831 * New Armenian translation
1832 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1833 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1836 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1837 --------------------------------
1840 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1841 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1842 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1845 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1846 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1849 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1850 --------------------------------
1852 Access and demuxers:
1853 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1854 * fix for podcasts parsing
1855 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1858 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1859 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1862 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1863 * fix m3u playlists exports
1866 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1869 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1872 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1875 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1878 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1881 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1882 --------------------------------
1885 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1886 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1889 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1890 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1893 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1894 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1895 * fix console output encoding
1897 Interface and extensions:
1898 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1899 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1902 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1903 --------------------------------
1906 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1907 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1908 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1909 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1910 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1911 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1912 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1913 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1914 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1915 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1916 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1917 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1918 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1919 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1920 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1921 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1925 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1926 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1927 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1928 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1929 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1932 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1935 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1936 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1937 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1941 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1944 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1945 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1946 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1949 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1950 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1951 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1952 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1955 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1956 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1959 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1960 --------------------------------
1962 Important changes for users:
1963 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1964 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1966 Important changes for packagers:
1967 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1968 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1969 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1970 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1971 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1973 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1975 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1976 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1977 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1978 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1979 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1982 * Support for the sftp protocol
1983 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1984 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1985 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1986 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1987 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1990 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1991 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1992 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1994 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1995 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1996 * Invmem module improvements
1997 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1998 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1999 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2000 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2001 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2002 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2003 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2004 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2005 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2006 * Support for VP8 codec
2007 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2010 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2011 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2012 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2013 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2014 * Various EGP improvements
2015 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2016 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2019 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2020 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2021 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2022 * Podcast images are now displayed
2025 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2026 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2027 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2028 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2029 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2030 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2031 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2032 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2033 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2034 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2035 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2038 * New content extensions lua framework
2041 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2042 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2043 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2044 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2045 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2046 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2047 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2050 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2051 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2052 * Service discovery based on libudev
2053 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2056 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2057 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2058 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2059 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2060 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2061 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2062 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2065 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2066 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2067 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2070 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2072 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2073 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2076 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2079 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2080 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2081 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2082 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2083 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2084 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2085 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2088 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2089 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2092 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2093 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2094 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2098 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2099 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2100 * Improved Solaris port
2103 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2104 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2107 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2108 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2109 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2110 * transrate: broken since too long
2111 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2112 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2113 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2114 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2115 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2116 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2117 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2118 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2119 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2120 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2121 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2122 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2123 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2124 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2127 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2128 --------------------------------
2131 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2133 Decoders/Packetizers:
2134 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2137 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2138 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2139 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2140 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2141 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2144 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2145 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2148 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2149 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2152 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2153 and Walloon translations updated
2154 * Sinhala translation started
2157 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2158 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2161 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2162 --------------------------------
2165 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2166 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2169 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2172 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2173 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2176 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2177 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2178 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2179 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2182 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2183 --------------------------------
2186 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2187 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2190 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2191 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2194 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2195 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2198 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2201 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2202 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2205 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2206 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2209 * New Walloon translation
2210 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2213 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2214 --------------------------------
2217 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2218 regressions in most popular drivers
2219 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2222 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2223 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2224 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2227 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2228 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2231 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2232 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2233 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2234 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2235 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2238 * New udev module for linux
2241 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2244 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2247 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2248 --------------------------------
2251 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2252 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2253 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2256 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2257 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2260 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2261 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2264 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2267 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2268 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2269 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2270 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2273 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2274 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2275 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2276 - no support for Goom and SDL
2277 - limited text rendering support
2278 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2281 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2282 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2283 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2284 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2285 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2286 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2287 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2288 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2289 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2293 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2296 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2299 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2300 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2301 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2302 Arabic and French translation updates
2305 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2306 --------------------------------
2309 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2310 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2311 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2312 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2313 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2314 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2317 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2318 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2319 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2322 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2323 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2324 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2327 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2330 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2331 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2334 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2335 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2336 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2337 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2338 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2339 * Fix various crashes
2342 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2344 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2348 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2349 ---------------------------------
2353 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2354 See 'Access:' for more info.
2355 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2358 * Instantaneous pausing
2359 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2360 * Finer speed control
2361 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2362 * Timeshift for most medias
2363 * RTSP trickplay support
2364 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2367 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2368 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2369 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2370 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2371 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2372 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2373 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2374 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2375 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2376 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2379 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2380 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2381 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2382 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2383 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2384 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2385 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2388 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2389 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2392 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2393 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2394 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2395 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2396 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2397 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2398 * DVB scanning on linux
2399 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2400 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2401 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2402 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2403 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2404 * MTP device access on Unix
2405 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2406 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2409 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2410 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2411 Windows and Mac OS X.
2414 * Export the playlist in HTML
2415 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2416 * Better metadata handling and reading
2418 Linux/Windows interface:
2419 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2420 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2421 * Recently played items list
2422 * Interface toolbar customizations
2423 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2424 - More menus actions
2425 - Finer speed slider
2426 - Improvements on many dialogs
2427 - New dialog for plugins listing
2428 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2429 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2430 * Better integration in GTK environments
2433 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2434 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2435 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2436 * Additional usability improvements
2439 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2440 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2441 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2442 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2443 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2446 * New Maemo port with:
2447 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2448 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2451 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2454 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2455 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2456 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2457 * Support for latest iSight models
2460 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2461 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2464 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2465 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2466 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2467 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2468 The old image video output has been removed.
2469 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2470 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2473 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2481 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2482 --------------------------------------
2488 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2489 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2490 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2491 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2492 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2493 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2494 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2496 Various fixes to the following modules:
2499 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2500 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2501 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2503 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2508 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2509 ---------------------------------
2512 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2513 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2516 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2517 ---------------------------------
2520 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2523 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2526 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2527 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2528 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2529 main controller window.
2530 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2533 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2538 * Updates of other localizations
2541 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2542 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2543 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2544 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2545 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2548 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2549 ---------------------------------
2552 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2554 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2557 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2558 --------------------------------
2563 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2564 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2567 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2568 --------------------------------
2570 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2571 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2574 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2577 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2578 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2581 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2582 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2585 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2586 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2587 * Various fixed in playlist
2590 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2593 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2596 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2597 ------------------------------------
2599 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2600 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2603 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2604 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2605 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2608 * Stability fix for the video output.
2611 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2612 --------------------------------
2615 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2616 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2617 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2618 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2619 * Fixed update system bugs
2620 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2623 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2624 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2625 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2626 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2627 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2628 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2629 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2630 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2631 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2632 modern Mac OS X versions
2635 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2636 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2638 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2639 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2642 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2643 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2644 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2645 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2646 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2647 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2650 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2651 --------------------------------
2653 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2654 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2655 * Multiple bugfixes.
2658 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2659 --------------------------------
2661 * Multiple bug fixes.
2664 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2665 ---------------------------------
2669 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2670 recent to work correctly
2671 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2672 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2673 edit the ".hosts" file.
2674 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2675 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2676 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2677 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2678 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2679 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2680 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2681 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2682 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2683 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2684 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2685 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2686 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2687 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2688 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2689 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2690 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2691 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2692 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2693 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2694 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2695 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2696 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2697 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2698 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2699 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2700 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2701 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2702 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2703 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2704 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2705 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2706 and postproc modules.
2707 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2708 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2709 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2710 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2712 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2713 filter. For example:
2714 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2715 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2717 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2718 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2724 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2726 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2727 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2730 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2731 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2733 * Shoutcast TV listings
2734 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2736 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2737 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2739 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2742 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2743 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2744 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2745 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2746 * JACK audio input support
2747 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2748 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2749 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2750 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2751 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2752 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2753 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2754 (available as a separate download).
2755 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2756 * RTMP input support
2757 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2758 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2759 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2761 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2762 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2765 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2766 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2767 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2768 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2770 * APEv1/2 tags support
2771 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2772 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2774 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2775 * TiVo Series 2 support
2776 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2781 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2782 * Flash Screen Video support
2783 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2784 * DosBox Capture support
2785 * Karl Morton's Video support
2786 * limited atrac3 support
2788 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2789 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2790 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2791 * H.264 PAFF support
2792 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2793 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2794 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2795 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2796 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2799 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2800 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2801 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2802 * AQTitle subtitles support
2803 * MKV USF subtitles support
2804 * HTML-based subtitles support
2805 * MPSub subtitles support
2806 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2807 * MPL2 subtitles support
2808 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2809 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2810 * Realtext subtitle support
2811 * DKS subtitle support
2812 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2813 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2816 * Flash Screen Video support
2817 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2819 Video outputs and filters:
2820 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2821 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2822 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2823 * New puzzle video output filter
2824 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2825 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2827 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2828 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2829 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2830 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2831 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2832 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2833 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2834 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2835 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2836 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2837 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2838 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2839 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2840 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2842 Audio outputs and filters:
2843 * Replay gain support
2844 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2845 new scaletempo audio filter)
2846 * New spatializer audio filter
2847 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2850 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2851 * New RTP payload formats:
2852 * Speex voice audio codec
2853 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2854 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2855 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2856 * DCCP transport for RTP
2857 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2862 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2863 end-user suitable way.
2864 * Improved user interaction
2865 * Improved mouse gestures
2866 * Vastly improved Update checker
2867 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2869 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2870 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2872 * Improved video output features
2873 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2874 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2875 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2876 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2877 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2879 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2880 if libncursesw is available.
2881 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2882 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2883 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2885 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2886 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2887 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2888 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2889 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2890 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2891 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2892 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2895 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2896 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2897 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2900 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2901 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2902 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2903 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2904 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2905 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2908 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2909 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2919 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2920 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2921 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2924 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2925 ----------------------------------
2928 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2931 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2932 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2933 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2934 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2935 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2936 * Updated Polish translation
2939 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2940 ----------------------------------
2943 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2944 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2945 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2948 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2949 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2950 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2951 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2952 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2953 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2954 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2955 to an unexpected application termination
2956 * New Serbian translation
2957 * Updated Romanian translation
2960 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2961 ----------------------------------
2964 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2965 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2966 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2967 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2968 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2969 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2970 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2971 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2974 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2975 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2976 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2977 * Fixed AAC resampling
2978 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2979 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2982 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2983 ----------------------------------
2986 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2987 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2988 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2989 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2990 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2993 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2994 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2995 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2996 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2997 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3000 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3001 ----------------------------------
3004 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3005 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3008 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3009 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3010 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3011 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3013 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3017 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3020 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3023 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3026 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3029 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3030 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3031 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3032 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3033 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3035 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3036 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3037 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3038 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3041 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3044 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3045 ----------------------------------
3048 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3049 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3050 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3052 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3053 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3055 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3056 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3059 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3061 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3062 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3063 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3064 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3065 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3066 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3067 two different movies
3068 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3069 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3070 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3073 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3076 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3077 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3078 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3079 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3082 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3083 ----------------------------------
3085 Various bugfixes, notably:
3086 * Windows Vista compatibility
3087 * Cropping in Direct3D
3088 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3089 * RSS filter string overflow
3091 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3093 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3094 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3097 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3098 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3101 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3104 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3107 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3110 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3111 ----------------------------------
3113 Various bugfixes, notably:
3114 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3115 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3116 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3117 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3118 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3119 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3122 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3123 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3126 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3128 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3129 * Diverse usability improvements
3130 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3131 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3132 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3135 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3136 ---------------------------------
3138 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3139 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3142 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3145 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3146 --------------------------------
3149 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3152 * Support for RTSP authentication
3153 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3154 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3155 * ATSC support for DVB input
3156 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3157 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3158 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3161 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3162 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3163 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3164 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3165 * Matroska WavPack support
3166 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3167 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3168 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3171 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3172 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3173 * Improved libcaca support
3177 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3178 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3180 * Systray support in skins
3182 * Support for Apple Remote control
3183 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3184 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3185 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3186 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3188 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3191 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3192 Windows 9x/ME users:
3193 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3194 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3195 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3196 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3197 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3199 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3200 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3209 * Updates to the libvlc API
3210 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3213 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3214 --------------------------------
3217 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3218 * Support for downloading updates
3222 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3223 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3224 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3225 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3227 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3228 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3229 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3232 * Cook (Real audio) support
3234 Playlist / Services discovery:
3235 * XSPF playlist support
3237 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3240 * New JACK audio output
3243 * New video filters:
3244 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3245 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3246 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3247 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3248 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3249 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3252 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3255 * System to inform the user and request information
3256 - HTTP authentication
3260 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3261 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3262 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3265 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3266 - Improved playlist handling
3267 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3269 - Embedded Video output
3270 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3271 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3272 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3273 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3274 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3276 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3277 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3280 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3283 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3284 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3285 * Growl "Now playing" support
3288 * Ability to log to syslog
3289 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3292 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3294 * A bit more automatic testing
3297 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3298 ---------------------------------
3301 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3302 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3305 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3306 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3309 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3312 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3313 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3319 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3322 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3323 --------------------------------
3326 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3330 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3331 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3332 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3335 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3336 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3337 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3338 * GnomeVFS input module
3339 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3340 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3343 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3344 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3345 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3348 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3349 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3355 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3356 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3359 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3360 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3361 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3364 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3366 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3367 - New extended controls panel
3368 - New bookmarks window
3369 - Fixed playlist sorting
3370 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3372 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3373 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3374 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3375 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3379 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3380 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3382 - Include macro to include other files
3386 * Should now work outside IE as well
3389 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3392 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3393 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3396 The following languages were added:
3400 * Simplified Chinese
3401 The following languages were re-added:
3405 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3406 --------------------------------
3409 * Rewrite of the playlist
3411 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3412 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3413 * Preferences improvements:
3414 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3415 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3417 * Core image manipulation support
3418 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3419 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3420 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3421 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3422 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3423 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3424 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3425 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3426 * Access filter architecture
3427 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3428 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3432 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3433 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3434 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3435 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3436 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3437 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3438 * Massive Matroska improvements
3439 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3441 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3442 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3443 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3444 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3445 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3447 Decoders / Encoders:
3448 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3449 * PNG decoder/encoder
3450 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3451 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3454 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3457 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3458 * Brand new SAP module
3459 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3460 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3461 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3462 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3463 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3464 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3468 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3471 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3472 * Image file video output (png)
3473 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3474 * Improvements to wall video filter
3475 * Support for font color and opacity
3481 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3482 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3483 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3487 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3488 - Improved preferences
3489 - Improvements to the wizard
3490 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3492 - Redesigned playlist
3493 - Improved preferences
3495 - Support for multiple actions
3498 - Support for the new playlist system
3500 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3503 * Screensaver disabling fix
3504 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3505 * Support for no-decoration windows
3508 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3509 * The OpenGL video output is back
3510 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3511 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3512 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3513 is not yet available in the new module
3514 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3517 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3526 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3529 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3532 The following languages were added:
3538 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3539 --------------------------------
3542 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3543 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3546 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3547 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3548 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3551 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3554 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3557 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3560 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3561 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3562 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3566 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3568 * Support of playlist group announcement
3571 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3572 --------------------------------
3575 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3576 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3577 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3578 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3579 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3580 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3583 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3584 (Stream your desktop)
3585 * Improved DVD support:
3586 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3587 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3588 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3589 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3590 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3591 (selection of titles/chapters).
3594 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3595 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3596 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3597 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3598 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3599 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3600 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3601 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3602 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3603 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3606 * G.726 audio support
3607 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3608 * MPEG-4 text support
3609 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3610 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3611 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3615 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3616 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3617 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3618 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3619 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3620 * DVB subtitles encoder
3621 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3622 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3624 * Text track muxing for mp4
3625 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3626 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3627 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3628 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3629 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3630 * Improved ASF muxer
3632 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3633 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3634 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3637 * New audio equalizer filter
3638 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3639 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3640 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3641 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3644 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3645 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3646 with support for effects.
3647 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3648 - New filters can be streamed.
3649 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3650 - Centralized scaling and blending
3652 - "time", to display current time
3653 - "marq", to display a marquee
3656 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3657 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3658 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3659 * A few skins2 improvements
3660 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3661 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3662 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3663 * Improved CORBA control module
3666 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3667 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3668 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3671 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3672 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3673 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3676 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3677 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3678 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3679 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3680 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3683 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3686 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3687 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3690 * Server/client network synchronization module
3691 * VBrick streams fully supported
3692 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3696 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3697 --------------------------------
3700 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3701 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3702 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3703 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3706 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3707 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3708 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3709 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3710 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3711 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3712 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3715 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3716 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3717 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3718 * Improved directory access module.
3719 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3720 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3721 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3722 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3723 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3726 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3727 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3728 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3731 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3732 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3733 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3736 * Improved session announcement system.
3737 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3738 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3739 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3740 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3741 * Improved transrater.
3742 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3743 * New configuration system.
3744 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3747 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3748 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3749 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3750 * Supports scheduling.
3751 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3752 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3755 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3756 - Ability to embed video output.
3757 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3758 - Lots of improvements.
3759 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3760 - New design and set of icons.
3761 - Ability to embed video output.
3762 - Support for hotkeys.
3763 - Support for bookmarks.
3765 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3766 - Better hotkeys handling.
3769 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3770 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3771 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3772 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3775 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3776 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3777 * Improved Windows installer.
3783 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3784 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3787 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3788 ---------------------------------
3791 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3792 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3795 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3796 --------------------------------
3799 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3800 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3803 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3804 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3805 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3806 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3809 * Internal improvments
3810 * Improved import/export
3813 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3815 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3816 small and strange formats.
3818 * New MOD audio demux.
3819 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3820 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3821 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3822 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3825 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3826 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3827 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3833 * New opengl video output plugin.
3836 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3837 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3840 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3841 --------------------------------
3844 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3845 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3846 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3847 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3848 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3849 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3850 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3851 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3854 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3859 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3860 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3861 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3862 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3863 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3864 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3865 * Better Icecast support.
3866 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3867 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3870 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3871 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3872 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3873 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3874 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3875 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3876 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3879 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3880 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3881 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3882 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3883 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3884 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3885 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3886 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3887 * Preliminary RTP support.
3888 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3893 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3894 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3896 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3897 - Improvements and help in preferences
3898 - New streaming wizard
3899 - Revised Disc Open menu
3901 - Improvements of the standard pages
3902 - Support for new commands
3903 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3906 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3907 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3910 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3911 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3912 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3913 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3914 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3915 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3916 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3917 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3918 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3921 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3923 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3924 * Support for Panther.
3925 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3926 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3929 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3930 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3931 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3932 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3933 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3934 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3935 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3936 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3939 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3940 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3941 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3944 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3947 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3948 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3949 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3950 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3953 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3954 --------------------------------
3957 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3960 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3961 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3964 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3965 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3968 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3971 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3972 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3975 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3978 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3981 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3982 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3986 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3987 --------------------------------
3990 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3991 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3995 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3996 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3997 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3999 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4000 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4003 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4006 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4009 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4010 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4014 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4015 --------------------------------
4018 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4019 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4023 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4024 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4025 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4026 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4027 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4030 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4031 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4032 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4035 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4036 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4037 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4040 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4041 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4042 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4043 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4044 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4047 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4048 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4049 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4052 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4055 * Improved build system.
4056 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4057 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4058 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4059 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4062 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4063 --------------------------------
4066 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4069 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4070 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4071 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4072 * Video 4 Linux support
4073 * CD Digital Audio support
4074 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4077 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4078 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4079 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4080 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4083 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4084 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4085 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4086 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4087 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4088 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4089 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4092 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4093 * New HTTP remote control interface
4096 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4097 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4098 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4099 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4100 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4103 * New reset option for the preferences
4104 * You can set your language in the prefences
4105 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4106 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4107 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4108 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4111 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4112 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4113 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4116 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4117 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4118 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4119 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4120 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4121 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4122 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4123 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4124 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4125 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4128 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4129 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4130 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4131 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4132 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4133 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4134 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4137 * Interface localization
4138 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4139 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4140 * New full-featured Preferences window
4143 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4144 --------------------------------
4147 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4148 * support for skins at the interface level
4149 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4150 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4151 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4152 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4153 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4156 * fixed HTTP redirects
4157 * support for opening an entire directory
4158 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4159 * new video4linux access plug-in
4160 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4163 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4164 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4165 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4168 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4169 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4170 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4171 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4172 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4173 * new codec for raw I420 video
4174 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4177 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4178 (although it still misses some important features)
4179 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4182 * new HTTP output support
4183 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4184 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4187 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4190 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4193 * reorderable playlist
4194 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4195 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4196 * support for mono audio output devices
4197 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4198 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4199 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4200 * the messages window remembers more lines
4201 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4202 * http and ogg stream output options
4203 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4206 * new skinnable interface
4207 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4209 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4210 * support for FLAC audio format
4211 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4213 * network tab in the interface
4214 * "apply" handling in preferences
4217 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4218 ---------------------------------
4221 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4222 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4223 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4224 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4226 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4227 * DTS S/PDIF support
4230 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4231 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4232 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4233 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4236 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4237 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4240 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4243 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4246 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4248 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4249 * rc interface is now fully useable
4250 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4253 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4254 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4255 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4256 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4257 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4259 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4260 * support for mouse gestures
4261 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4264 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4265 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4268 * improved ID3 tag detection
4269 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4270 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4271 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4273 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4276 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4277 ---------------------------------
4280 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4281 English was set as the preferred language
4284 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4285 --------------------------------
4288 * new mouse gesture interface
4289 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4293 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4294 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4295 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4298 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4299 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4303 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4306 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4307 without the user consent
4310 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4312 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4313 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4314 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4317 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4318 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4319 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4320 * playlist enhancements
4321 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4322 * new step forward/step backward commands
4323 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4324 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4325 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4328 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4329 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4330 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4333 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4334 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4337 * native video output is working again
4338 * only commandline interface support
4339 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4342 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4343 --------------------------------
4346 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4347 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4348 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4349 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4350 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4351 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4352 and A/52 streams are supported)
4353 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4358 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4359 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4360 * VCD entry points support
4361 * VCD image file support
4364 * support for *.asf format
4365 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4366 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4367 * support for ogg encapsulation
4368 * support for raw DV format
4369 * support for *.wav format
4370 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4373 Stream discovery & playlists:
4374 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4375 * support for .m3u file format
4376 * support for .asx file format
4377 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4380 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4381 (only available with the .avi demux)
4382 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4383 * support for raw PCM data
4384 * support for Cinepak video codec
4385 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4386 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4387 * support for Xvid codec
4388 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4389 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4390 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4392 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4394 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4397 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4400 * new WxWindows interface
4401 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4402 device and the channels configuration
4403 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4404 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4405 format that VLC can play
4406 * new swedish translation
4407 * enhancements of the playlist window
4408 * new messages window to see debug info
4409 * fixed a few crashes
4412 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4413 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4414 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4415 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working