1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
6 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
9 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
12 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
15 * New Oldmovie effect filter
16 * New VHS effect filter
19 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
22 * ios video output: use ios2
25 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
26 --------------------------------
29 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
30 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
31 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
32 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
33 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
35 3rd party libraries (contrib):
36 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
40 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
41 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
42 * Partial support for Windows Store App
44 * Add an audio fingerprinter
45 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
48 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
49 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
50 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
51 * Support for Ulead DV audio
52 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
53 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
54 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
55 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
56 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
57 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
58 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
59 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
62 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
63 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
66 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
67 remove support for previous OS X releases
68 * Major improvements in DASH support
69 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
70 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
71 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
72 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
73 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
74 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
75 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
76 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
77 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
78 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
81 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
82 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
83 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
84 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
85 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
86 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
87 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
88 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
89 * Support for more MJPEG streams
90 * Add support for liveleak streams
91 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
92 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
94 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
97 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
98 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
99 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
100 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
101 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
102 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
103 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
104 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
105 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
106 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
107 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
110 * New remapping channel filter
111 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
112 * New VSXu visualization plugin
113 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
114 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
117 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
118 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
119 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
120 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
121 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
122 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
123 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
124 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
127 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
128 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
129 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
130 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
131 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
132 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
133 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
136 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
137 * Options support for AVIO output module
138 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
139 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
140 * Livehttp stream encryption support
141 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
142 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
145 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
148 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
149 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
150 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
151 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
152 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
153 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
157 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
160 * Add support for multiple video outputs
161 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
163 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
164 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
165 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
166 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
167 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
168 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
169 VLC's internal volume level
170 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
172 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
173 selection and to manage the list of presets
174 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
175 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
176 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
177 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
178 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
179 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
180 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
181 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
182 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
183 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
185 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
186 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
187 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
188 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
189 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
190 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
191 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
192 3rd party applications
193 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
194 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
195 (system-wide settings)
196 * Add support for the Video Title option
197 * Add support for the Boss Key
198 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
199 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
202 * Partial support for Qt5.0
203 * Menus modifications and improvements
204 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
205 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
206 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
207 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
208 * EPG display fixes and improvements
209 * Add SD pixmap sources
210 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
211 * Display playlist total duration
212 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
214 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
215 * Remove language preference
216 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
221 * Extend sliders, offsets options
222 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
223 * Numerous fixes and improvements
224 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
227 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
228 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
229 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
230 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
231 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
232 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
233 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
234 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
235 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
236 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
239 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
240 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
241 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
242 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
243 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
244 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
246 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
247 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
248 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
249 * Broken crop video filter
251 * OSD parser and menu
252 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
253 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
254 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
255 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
259 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
260 --------------------------------
263 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
264 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
268 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
271 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
274 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
277 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
281 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
284 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
287 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
288 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
289 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
292 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
293 --------------------------------
296 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
299 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
302 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
303 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
304 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
305 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
306 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
307 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
310 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
311 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
312 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
313 * 3rd party codecs updates
316 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
317 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
318 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
319 in the advanced preferences panel
320 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
321 * Fix crash within the video output code
322 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
323 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
324 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
325 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
327 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
330 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
333 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
334 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
337 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
340 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
341 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
342 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
343 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
344 Dutch, Danish, translations
345 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
348 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
349 --------------------------------
352 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
355 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
356 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
357 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
360 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
361 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
362 * Fix koreus lua parser
363 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
364 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
365 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
366 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
369 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
370 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
373 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
376 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
377 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
378 * Fix Time counter UI look
379 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
382 * Fix https streaming
385 * Fix audio and video track selection:
386 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
387 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
390 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
391 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
392 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
393 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
394 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
397 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
398 --------------------------------
401 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
402 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
403 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
404 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
405 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
406 during playback on Mac OS X
409 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
410 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
411 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
414 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
415 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
416 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
417 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
418 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
421 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
422 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
423 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
424 * Support Youtube live streams
427 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
430 * Fix media info dialog update
431 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
432 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
433 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
434 * Fix album art display at start
437 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
438 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
439 * Fix menus display and behavior
440 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
441 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
442 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
443 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
444 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
445 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
446 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
449 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
450 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
451 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
452 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
453 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
454 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
455 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
456 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
457 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
460 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
461 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
462 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
463 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
464 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
467 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
468 --------------------------------
471 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
474 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
475 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
478 * Add GateKeeper support
479 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
480 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
481 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
484 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
487 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
488 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
489 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
490 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
491 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
494 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
495 --------------------------------
498 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
499 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
500 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
501 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
502 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
503 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
504 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
505 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
506 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
507 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
508 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
512 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
513 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
514 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
515 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
516 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
517 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
518 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
519 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
520 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
521 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
522 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
523 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
526 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
527 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
529 * Fix MP3 free format support
532 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
533 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
534 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
535 * Fix for DVB channels file support
536 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
539 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
540 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
542 Audio filters and output:
543 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
544 * Fix DirectSound device selection
545 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
546 * Do not apply volume in file output
547 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
548 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
551 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
552 the persistant media library
553 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
554 to the media library or the temporary playlist
555 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
556 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
557 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
558 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
559 press on the Play/Pause button
560 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
561 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
562 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
563 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
564 * Many Fullscreen fixes
565 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
566 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
567 Synchronization panel
568 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
569 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
570 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
571 * Fix crashes on exit
572 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
574 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
575 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
576 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
577 automatically reset on the first launch.
578 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
579 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
580 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
583 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
584 * Fixes for icecast SD
587 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
588 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
589 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
590 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
591 * Fix tags and file names display
592 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
595 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
596 * Fix for key events and focus loss
599 * Fix display of some buttons
600 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
601 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
604 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
605 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
606 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
609 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
610 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
611 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
612 Thai translations update
613 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
616 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
617 --------------------------------
620 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
621 * fix the samba module compilation
622 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
623 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
624 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
625 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
628 * Support for MXPEG files
629 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
630 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
633 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
634 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
635 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
638 * Fix ogm header creation
641 * limit spatializer filter distortions
642 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
645 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
646 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
647 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
648 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
651 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
654 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
655 * allow to hide the sidebar
656 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
657 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
658 * noticebly faster launch time
659 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
660 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
661 * improve track synchronization panel
662 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
663 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
666 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
667 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
668 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
669 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
672 * fix for menus display
673 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
674 * documentation update
677 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
678 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
681 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
682 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
683 * Update Jamendo selections
687 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
688 * fix a crash on VLM close
691 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
692 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
693 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
694 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
697 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
700 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
701 ---------------------------------
704 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
705 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
706 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
707 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
708 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
709 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
710 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
711 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
712 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
713 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
714 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
715 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
716 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
717 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
718 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
719 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
720 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
721 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
722 --http-crl (optional CRL).
723 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
724 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
725 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
726 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
727 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
728 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
729 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
731 Important changes for packagers:
732 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
733 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
734 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
735 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
736 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
737 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
738 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
739 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
740 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
741 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
744 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
745 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
746 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
747 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
748 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
749 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
750 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
753 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
754 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
755 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
756 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
757 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
758 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
759 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
760 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
761 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
762 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
763 * PulseAudio audio input support
764 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
765 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
766 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
767 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
768 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
769 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
770 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
771 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
774 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
775 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
776 are notably concerned.
777 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
778 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
779 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
780 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
781 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
782 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
783 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
784 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
785 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
786 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
787 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
788 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
789 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
790 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
791 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
794 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
795 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
796 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
797 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
798 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
799 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
800 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
801 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
802 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
803 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
804 * Improved support of tracker files
805 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
808 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
809 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
810 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
811 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
812 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
813 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
814 and important cleanups and optimisations
815 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
816 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
817 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
818 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
819 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
820 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
821 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
822 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
823 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
824 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
825 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
826 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
827 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
828 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
829 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
830 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
831 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
832 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
833 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
834 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
835 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
838 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
839 * New video output for iOS platform
840 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
841 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
842 * Various vmem improvements
843 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
844 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
845 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
846 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
847 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
848 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
850 Audio Output and Filters:
851 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
852 * New audio output in memory (amem)
853 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
854 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
855 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
856 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
857 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
858 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
859 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
860 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
863 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
864 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
865 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
866 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
867 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
868 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
869 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
870 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
871 * New anti-flickering filter
872 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
873 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
874 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
875 blackbox and customizable shadow.
876 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
877 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
878 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
881 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
882 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
883 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
884 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
885 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
886 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
887 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
888 * Major rework of VoD support
889 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
890 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
891 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
892 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
893 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
894 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
895 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
896 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
897 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
898 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
901 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
902 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
905 * New capabilities for libVLC:
906 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
907 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
908 list of available audio and video filters
909 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
910 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
911 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
914 * asademux, subsass: use libass
915 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
916 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
918 * upnp: use upnp_intel
919 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
920 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
921 * removal of the noise filter
922 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
923 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
924 removed in Growl's next release, too.
925 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
928 * Update of translations for most languages.
929 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
932 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
933 ----------------------------------
936 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
937 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
940 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
941 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
944 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
945 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
946 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
949 * Camtasia decoding fix.
952 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
953 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
956 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
959 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
960 ----------------------------------
963 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
964 including support for OS X Lion
965 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
966 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
969 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
972 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
973 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
974 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
977 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
980 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
981 ----------------------------------
984 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
985 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
988 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
989 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
990 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
991 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
992 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
994 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
995 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
996 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
998 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
999 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1002 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1005 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1008 * Fix quitting on Linux
1009 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1013 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1016 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1019 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1020 ---------------------------------
1022 Windows and Mac OS X:
1023 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1026 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1027 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1030 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1033 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1036 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1038 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1039 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1041 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1042 * RTP output and XML export
1043 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1047 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1048 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1049 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1050 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1053 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1054 --------------------------------
1056 Windows and Mac OS X:
1057 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1060 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1063 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1064 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1065 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1066 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1067 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1068 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1071 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1072 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1076 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1077 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1078 * New Luganda Translation
1081 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1082 --------------------------------
1085 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1088 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1089 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1090 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1091 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1094 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1096 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1097 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1098 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1099 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1100 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1101 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1102 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1103 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1105 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1106 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1107 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1108 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1109 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1110 * Configure and build system improvements
1111 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1114 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1115 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1116 * New icelandic translation
1119 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1120 --------------------------------
1123 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1124 #234484 and #260719.
1127 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1128 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1129 and stability reasons
1132 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1136 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1139 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1140 ----------------------------------
1143 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1146 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1147 ---------------------------------
1150 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1151 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1152 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1153 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1156 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1159 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1160 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1161 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1162 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1165 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1166 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1167 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1169 Subtitles and renderer:
1170 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1171 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1172 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1173 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1174 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1177 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1178 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1179 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1180 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1183 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1184 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1186 Miscellaneous fixes:
1187 * KDE device solid actions
1189 * Transcode integer overflow
1190 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1191 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1194 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1195 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1196 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1199 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1200 ----------------------------------
1203 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1207 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1210 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1213 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1214 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1215 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1216 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1219 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1223 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1226 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1229 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1230 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1232 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1236 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1237 * Miscellaneous fixes
1240 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1241 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1242 French and Ukrainian
1243 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1244 * New Asturian translation
1247 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1248 ----------------------------------
1251 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1253 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1256 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1259 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1260 * Various fixes for Windows
1263 * New Armenian translation
1264 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1265 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1268 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1269 --------------------------------
1272 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1273 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1274 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1277 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1278 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1281 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1282 --------------------------------
1284 Access and demuxers:
1285 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1286 * fix for podcasts parsing
1287 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1290 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1291 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1294 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1295 * fix m3u playlists exports
1298 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1301 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1304 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1307 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1310 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1313 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1314 --------------------------------
1317 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1318 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1321 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1322 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1325 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1326 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1327 * fix console output encoding
1329 Interface and extensions:
1330 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1331 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1334 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1335 --------------------------------
1338 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1339 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1340 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1341 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1342 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1343 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1344 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1345 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1346 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1347 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1348 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1349 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1350 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1351 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1352 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1353 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1357 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1358 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1359 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1360 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1361 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1364 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1367 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1368 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1369 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1373 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1376 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1377 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1378 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1381 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1382 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1383 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1384 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1387 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1388 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1391 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1392 --------------------------------
1394 Important changes for users:
1395 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1396 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1398 Important changes for packagers:
1399 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1400 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1401 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1402 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1403 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1405 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1407 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1408 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1409 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1410 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1411 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1414 * Support for the sftp protocol
1415 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1416 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1417 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1418 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1419 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1422 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1423 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1424 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1426 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1427 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1428 * Invmem module improvements
1429 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1430 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1431 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1432 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1433 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1434 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1435 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1436 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1437 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1438 * Support for VP8 codec
1439 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1442 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1443 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1444 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1445 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1446 * Various EGP improvements
1447 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1448 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1451 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1452 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1453 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1454 * Podcast images are now displayed
1457 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1458 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1459 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1460 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1461 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1462 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1463 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1464 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1465 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1466 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1467 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1470 * New content extensions lua framework
1473 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1474 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1475 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1476 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1477 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1478 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1479 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1482 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1483 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1484 * Service discovery based on libudev
1485 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1488 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1489 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1490 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1491 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1492 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1493 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1494 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1497 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1498 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1499 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1502 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1504 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1505 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1508 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1511 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1512 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1513 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1514 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1515 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1516 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1517 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1520 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1521 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1524 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1525 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1526 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1530 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1531 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1532 * Improved Solaris port
1535 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1536 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1539 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1540 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1541 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1542 * transrate: broken since too long
1543 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1544 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1545 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1546 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1547 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1548 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1549 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1550 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1551 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1552 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1553 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1554 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1555 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1556 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1559 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1560 --------------------------------
1563 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1565 Decoders/Packetizers:
1566 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1569 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1570 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1571 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1572 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1573 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1576 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1577 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1580 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1581 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1584 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1585 and Walloon translations updated
1586 * Sinhala translation started
1589 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1590 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1593 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1594 --------------------------------
1597 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1598 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1601 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1604 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1605 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1608 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1609 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1610 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1611 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1614 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1615 --------------------------------
1618 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1619 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1622 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1623 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1626 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1627 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1630 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1633 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1634 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1637 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1638 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1641 * New Walloon translation
1642 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1645 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1646 --------------------------------
1649 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1650 regressions in most popular drivers
1651 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1654 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1655 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1656 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1659 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1660 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1663 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1664 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1665 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1666 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1667 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1670 * New udev module for linux
1673 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1676 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1679 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1680 --------------------------------
1683 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1684 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1685 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1688 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1689 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1692 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1693 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1696 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1699 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1700 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1701 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1702 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1705 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1706 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1707 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1708 - no support for Goom and SDL
1709 - limited text rendering support
1710 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1713 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1714 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1715 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1716 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1717 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1718 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1719 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1720 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1721 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1725 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1728 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1731 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1732 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1733 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1734 Arabic and French translation updates
1737 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1738 --------------------------------
1741 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1742 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1743 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1744 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1745 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1746 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1749 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1750 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1751 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1754 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1755 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1756 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1759 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1762 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1763 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1766 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1767 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1768 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1769 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1770 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1771 * Fix various crashes
1774 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1776 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1780 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1781 ---------------------------------
1785 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1786 See 'Access:' for more info.
1787 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1790 * Instantaneous pausing
1791 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1792 * Finer speed control
1793 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1794 * Timeshift for most medias
1795 * RTSP trickplay support
1796 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1799 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1800 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1801 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1802 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1803 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1804 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1805 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1806 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1807 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1808 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1811 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1812 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1813 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1814 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1815 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1816 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1817 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1820 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1821 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1824 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1825 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1826 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1827 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1828 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1829 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1830 * DVB scanning on linux
1831 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1832 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1833 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1834 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1835 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1836 * MTP device access on Unix
1837 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1838 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1841 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1842 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1843 Windows and Mac OS X.
1846 * Export the playlist in HTML
1847 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1848 * Better metadata handling and reading
1850 Linux/Windows interface:
1851 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1852 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1853 * Recently played items list
1854 * Interface toolbar customizations
1855 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1856 - More menus actions
1857 - Finer speed slider
1858 - Improvements on many dialogs
1859 - New dialog for plugins listing
1860 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1861 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1862 * Better integration in GTK environments
1865 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1866 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1867 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1868 * Additional usability improvements
1871 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1872 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1873 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1874 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1875 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1878 * New Maemo port with:
1879 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1880 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1883 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1886 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1887 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1888 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1889 * Support for latest iSight models
1892 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1893 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1896 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1897 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1898 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1899 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1900 The old image video output has been removed.
1901 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1902 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1905 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1913 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1914 --------------------------------------
1920 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1921 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1922 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1923 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1924 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1925 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1926 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1928 Various fixes to the following modules:
1931 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1932 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1933 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1935 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1940 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1941 ---------------------------------
1944 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1945 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1948 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1949 ---------------------------------
1952 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1955 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1958 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1959 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1960 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1961 main controller window.
1962 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1965 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1970 * Updates of other localizations
1973 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1974 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1975 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1976 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1977 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1980 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1981 ---------------------------------
1984 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1986 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1989 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1990 --------------------------------
1995 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1996 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1999 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2000 --------------------------------
2002 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2003 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2006 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2009 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2010 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2013 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2014 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2017 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2018 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2019 * Various fixed in playlist
2022 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2025 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2028 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2029 ------------------------------------
2031 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2032 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2035 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2036 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2037 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2040 * Stability fix for the video output.
2043 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2044 --------------------------------
2047 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2048 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2049 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2050 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2051 * Fixed update system bugs
2052 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2055 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2056 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2057 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2058 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2059 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2060 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2061 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2062 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2063 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2064 modern Mac OS X versions
2067 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2068 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2070 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2071 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2074 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2075 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2076 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2077 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2078 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2079 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2082 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2083 --------------------------------
2085 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2086 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2087 * Multiple bugfixes.
2090 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2091 --------------------------------
2093 * Multiple bug fixes.
2096 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2097 ---------------------------------
2101 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2102 recent to work correctly
2103 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2104 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2105 edit the ".hosts" file.
2106 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2107 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2108 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2109 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2110 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2111 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2112 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2113 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2114 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2115 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2116 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2117 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2118 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2119 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2120 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2121 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2122 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2123 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2124 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2125 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2126 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2127 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2128 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2129 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2130 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2131 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2132 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2133 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2134 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2135 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2136 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2137 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2138 and postproc modules.
2139 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2140 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2141 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2142 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2144 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2145 filter. For example:
2146 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2147 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2149 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2150 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2156 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2158 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2159 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2162 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2163 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2165 * Shoutcast TV listings
2166 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2168 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2169 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2171 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2174 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2175 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2176 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2177 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2178 * JACK audio input support
2179 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2180 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2181 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2182 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2183 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2184 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2185 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2186 (available as a separate download).
2187 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2188 * RTMP input support
2189 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2190 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2191 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2193 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2194 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2197 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2198 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2199 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2200 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2202 * APEv1/2 tags support
2203 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2204 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2206 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2207 * TiVo Series 2 support
2208 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2213 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2214 * Flash Screen Video support
2215 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2216 * DosBox Capture support
2217 * Karl Morton's Video support
2218 * limited atrac3 support
2220 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2221 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2222 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2223 * H.264 PAFF support
2224 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2225 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2226 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2227 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2228 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2231 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2232 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2233 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2234 * AQTitle subtitles support
2235 * MKV USF subtitles support
2236 * HTML-based subtitles support
2237 * MPSub subtitles support
2238 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2239 * MPL2 subtitles support
2240 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2241 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2242 * Realtext subtitle support
2243 * DKS subtitle support
2244 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2245 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2248 * Flash Screen Video support
2249 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2251 Video outputs and filters:
2252 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2253 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2254 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2255 * New puzzle video output filter
2256 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2257 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2259 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2260 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2261 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2262 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2263 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2264 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2265 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2266 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2267 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2268 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2269 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2270 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2271 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2272 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2274 Audio outputs and filters:
2275 * Replay gain support
2276 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2277 new scaletempo audio filter)
2278 * New spatializer audio filter
2279 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2282 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2283 * New RTP payload formats:
2284 * Speex voice audio codec
2285 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2286 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2287 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2288 * DCCP transport for RTP
2289 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2294 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2295 end-user suitable way.
2296 * Improved user interaction
2297 * Improved mouse gestures
2298 * Vastly improved Update checker
2299 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2301 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2302 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2304 * Improved video output features
2305 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2306 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2307 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2308 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2309 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2311 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2312 if libncursesw is available.
2313 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2314 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2315 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2317 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2318 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2319 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2320 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2321 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2322 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2323 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2324 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2327 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2328 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2329 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2332 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2333 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2334 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2335 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2336 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2337 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2340 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2341 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2351 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2352 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2353 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2356 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2357 ----------------------------------
2360 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2363 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2364 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2365 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2366 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2367 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2368 * Updated Polish translation
2371 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2372 ----------------------------------
2375 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2376 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2377 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2380 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2381 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2382 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2383 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2384 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2385 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2386 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2387 to an unexpected application termination
2388 * New Serbian translation
2389 * Updated Romanian translation
2392 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2393 ----------------------------------
2396 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2397 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2398 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2399 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2400 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2401 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2402 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2403 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2406 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2407 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2408 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2409 * Fixed AAC resampling
2410 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2411 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2414 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2415 ----------------------------------
2418 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2419 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2420 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2421 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2422 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2425 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2426 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2427 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2428 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2429 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2432 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2433 ----------------------------------
2436 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2437 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2440 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2441 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2442 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2443 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2445 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2449 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2452 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2455 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2458 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2461 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2462 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2463 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2464 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2465 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2467 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2468 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2469 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2470 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2473 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2476 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2477 ----------------------------------
2480 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2481 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2482 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2484 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2485 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2487 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2488 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2491 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2493 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2494 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2495 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2496 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2497 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2498 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2499 two different movies
2500 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2501 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2502 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2505 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2508 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2509 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2510 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2511 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2514 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2515 ----------------------------------
2517 Various bugfixes, notably:
2518 * Windows Vista compatibility
2519 * Cropping in Direct3D
2520 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2521 * RSS filter string overflow
2523 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2525 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2526 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2529 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2530 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2533 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2536 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2539 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2542 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2543 ----------------------------------
2545 Various bugfixes, notably:
2546 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2547 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2548 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2549 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2550 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2551 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2554 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2555 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2558 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2560 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2561 * Diverse usability improvements
2562 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2563 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2564 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2567 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2568 ---------------------------------
2570 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2571 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2574 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2577 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2578 --------------------------------
2581 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2584 * Support for RTSP authentication
2585 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2586 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2587 * ATSC support for DVB input
2588 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2589 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2590 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2593 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2594 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2595 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2596 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2597 * Matroska WavPack support
2598 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2599 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2600 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2603 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2604 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2605 * Improved libcaca support
2609 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2610 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2612 * Systray support in skins
2614 * Support for Apple Remote control
2615 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2616 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2617 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2618 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2620 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2623 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2624 Windows 9x/ME users:
2625 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2626 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2627 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2628 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2629 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2631 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2632 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2641 * Updates to the libvlc API
2642 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2645 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2646 --------------------------------
2649 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2650 * Support for downloading updates
2654 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2655 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2656 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2657 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2659 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2660 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2661 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2664 * Cook (Real audio) support
2666 Playlist / Services discovery:
2667 * XSPF playlist support
2669 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2672 * New JACK audio output
2675 * New video filters:
2676 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2677 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2678 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2679 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2680 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2681 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2684 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2687 * System to inform the user and request information
2688 - HTTP authentication
2692 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2693 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2694 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2697 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2698 - Improved playlist handling
2699 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2701 - Embedded Video output
2702 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2703 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2704 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2705 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2706 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2708 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2709 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2712 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2715 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2716 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2717 * Growl "Now playing" support
2720 * Ability to log to syslog
2721 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2724 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2726 * A bit more automatic testing
2729 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2730 ---------------------------------
2733 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2734 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2737 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2738 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2741 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2744 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2745 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2751 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2754 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2755 --------------------------------
2758 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2762 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2763 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2764 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2767 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2768 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2769 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2770 * GnomeVFS input module
2771 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2772 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2775 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2776 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2777 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2780 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2781 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2787 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2788 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2791 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2792 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2793 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2796 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2798 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2799 - New extended controls panel
2800 - New bookmarks window
2801 - Fixed playlist sorting
2802 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2804 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2805 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2806 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2807 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2811 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2812 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2814 - Include macro to include other files
2818 * Should now work outside IE as well
2821 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2824 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2825 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2828 The following languages were added:
2832 * Simplified Chinese
2833 The following languages were re-added:
2837 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2838 --------------------------------
2841 * Rewrite of the playlist
2843 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2844 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2845 * Preferences improvements:
2846 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2847 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2849 * Core image manipulation support
2850 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2851 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2852 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2853 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2854 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2855 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2856 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2857 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2858 * Access filter architecture
2859 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2860 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2864 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2865 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2866 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2867 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2868 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2869 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2870 * Massive Matroska improvements
2871 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2873 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2874 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2875 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2876 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2877 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2879 Decoders / Encoders:
2880 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2881 * PNG decoder/encoder
2882 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2883 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2886 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2889 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2890 * Brand new SAP module
2891 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2892 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2893 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2894 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2895 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2896 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2900 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2903 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2904 * Image file video output (png)
2905 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2906 * Improvements to wall video filter
2907 * Support for font color and opacity
2913 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2914 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2915 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2919 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2920 - Improved preferences
2921 - Improvements to the wizard
2922 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2924 - Redesigned playlist
2925 - Improved preferences
2927 - Support for multiple actions
2930 - Support for the new playlist system
2932 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2935 * Screensaver disabling fix
2936 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2937 * Support for no-decoration windows
2940 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2941 * The OpenGL video output is back
2942 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2943 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2944 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2945 is not yet available in the new module
2946 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2949 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2958 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2961 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2964 The following languages were added:
2970 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2971 --------------------------------
2974 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2975 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2978 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2979 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2980 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2983 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2986 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2989 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2992 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2993 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2994 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2998 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3000 * Support of playlist group announcement
3003 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3004 --------------------------------
3007 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3008 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3009 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3010 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3011 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3012 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3015 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3016 (Stream your desktop)
3017 * Improved DVD support:
3018 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3019 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3020 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3021 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3022 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3023 (selection of titles/chapters).
3026 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3027 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3028 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3029 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3030 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3031 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3032 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3033 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3034 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3035 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3038 * G.726 audio support
3039 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3040 * MPEG-4 text support
3041 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3042 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3043 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3047 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3048 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3049 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3050 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3051 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3052 * DVB subtitles encoder
3053 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3054 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3056 * Text track muxing for mp4
3057 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3058 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3059 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3060 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3061 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3062 * Improved ASF muxer
3064 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3065 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3066 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3069 * New audio equalizer filter
3070 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3071 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3072 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3073 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3076 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3077 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3078 with support for effects.
3079 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3080 - New filters can be streamed.
3081 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3082 - Centralized scaling and blending
3084 - "time", to display current time
3085 - "marq", to display a marquee
3088 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3089 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3090 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3091 * A few skins2 improvements
3092 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3093 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3094 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3095 * Improved CORBA control module
3098 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3099 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3100 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3103 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3104 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3105 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3108 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3109 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3110 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3111 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3112 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3115 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3118 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3119 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3122 * Server/client network synchronization module
3123 * VBrick streams fully supported
3124 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3128 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3129 --------------------------------
3132 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3133 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3134 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3135 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3138 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3139 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3140 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3141 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3142 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3143 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3144 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3147 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3148 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3149 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3150 * Improved directory access module.
3151 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3152 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3153 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3154 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3155 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3158 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3159 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3160 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3163 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3164 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3165 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3168 * Improved session announcement system.
3169 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3170 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3171 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3172 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3173 * Improved transrater.
3174 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3175 * New configuration system.
3176 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3179 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3180 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3181 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3182 * Supports scheduling.
3183 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3184 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3187 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3188 - Ability to embed video output.
3189 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3190 - Lots of improvements.
3191 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3192 - New design and set of icons.
3193 - Ability to embed video output.
3194 - Support for hotkeys.
3195 - Support for bookmarks.
3197 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3198 - Better hotkeys handling.
3201 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3202 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3203 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3204 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3207 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3208 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3209 * Improved Windows installer.
3215 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3216 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3219 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3220 ---------------------------------
3223 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3224 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3227 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3228 --------------------------------
3231 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3232 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3235 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3236 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3237 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3238 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3241 * Internal improvments
3242 * Improved import/export
3245 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3247 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3248 small and strange formats.
3250 * New MOD audio demux.
3251 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3252 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3253 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3254 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3257 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3258 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3259 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3265 * New opengl video output plugin.
3268 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3269 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3272 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3273 --------------------------------
3276 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3277 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3278 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3279 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3280 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3281 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3282 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3283 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3286 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3291 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3292 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3293 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3294 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3295 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3296 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3297 * Better Icecast support.
3298 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3299 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3302 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3303 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3304 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3305 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3306 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3307 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3308 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3311 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3312 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3313 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3314 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3315 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3316 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3317 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3318 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3319 * Preliminary RTP support.
3320 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3325 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3326 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3328 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3329 - Improvements and help in preferences
3330 - New streaming wizard
3331 - Revised Disc Open menu
3333 - Improvements of the standard pages
3334 - Support for new commands
3335 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3338 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3339 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3342 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3343 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3344 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3345 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3346 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3347 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3348 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3349 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3350 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3353 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3355 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3356 * Support for Panther.
3357 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3358 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3361 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3362 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3363 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3364 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3365 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3366 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3367 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3368 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3371 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3372 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3373 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3376 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3379 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3380 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3381 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3382 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3385 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3386 --------------------------------
3389 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3392 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3393 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3396 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3397 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3400 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3403 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3404 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3407 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3410 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3413 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3414 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3418 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3419 --------------------------------
3422 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3423 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3427 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3428 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3429 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3431 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3432 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3435 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3438 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3441 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3442 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3446 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3447 --------------------------------
3450 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3451 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3455 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3456 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3457 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3458 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3459 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3462 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3463 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3464 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3467 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3468 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3469 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3472 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3473 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3474 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3475 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3476 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3479 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3480 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3481 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3484 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3487 * Improved build system.
3488 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3489 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3490 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3491 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3494 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3495 --------------------------------
3498 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3501 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3502 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3503 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3504 * Video 4 Linux support
3505 * CD Digital Audio support
3506 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3509 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3510 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3511 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3512 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3515 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3516 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3517 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3518 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3519 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3520 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3521 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3524 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3525 * New HTTP remote control interface
3528 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3529 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3530 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3531 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3532 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3535 * New reset option for the preferences
3536 * You can set your language in the prefences
3537 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3538 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3539 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3540 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3543 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3544 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3545 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3548 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3549 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3550 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3551 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3552 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3553 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3554 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3555 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3556 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3557 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3560 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3561 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3562 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3563 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3564 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3565 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3566 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3569 * Interface localization
3570 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3571 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3572 * New full-featured Preferences window
3575 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3576 --------------------------------
3579 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3580 * support for skins at the interface level
3581 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3582 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3583 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3584 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3585 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3588 * fixed HTTP redirects
3589 * support for opening an entire directory
3590 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3591 * new video4linux access plug-in
3592 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3595 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3596 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3597 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3600 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3601 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3602 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3603 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3604 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3605 * new codec for raw I420 video
3606 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3609 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3610 (although it still misses some important features)
3611 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3614 * new HTTP output support
3615 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3616 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3619 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3622 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3625 * reorderable playlist
3626 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3627 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3628 * support for mono audio output devices
3629 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3630 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3631 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3632 * the messages window remembers more lines
3633 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3634 * http and ogg stream output options
3635 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3638 * new skinnable interface
3639 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3641 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3642 * support for FLAC audio format
3643 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3645 * network tab in the interface
3646 * "apply" handling in preferences
3649 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3650 ---------------------------------
3653 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3654 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3655 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3656 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3658 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3659 * DTS S/PDIF support
3662 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3663 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3664 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3665 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3668 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3669 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3672 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3675 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3678 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3680 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3681 * rc interface is now fully useable
3682 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3685 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3686 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3687 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3688 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3689 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3691 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3692 * support for mouse gestures
3693 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3696 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3697 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3700 * improved ID3 tag detection
3701 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3702 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3703 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3705 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3708 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3709 ---------------------------------
3712 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3713 English was set as the preferred language
3716 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3717 --------------------------------
3720 * new mouse gesture interface
3721 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3725 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3726 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3727 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3730 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3731 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3735 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3738 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3739 without the user consent
3742 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3744 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3745 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3746 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3749 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3750 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3751 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3752 * playlist enhancements
3753 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3754 * new step forward/step backward commands
3755 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3756 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3757 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3760 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3761 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3762 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3765 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3766 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3769 * native video output is working again
3770 * only commandline interface support
3771 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3774 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3775 --------------------------------
3778 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3779 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3780 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3781 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3782 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3783 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3784 and A/52 streams are supported)
3785 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3790 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3791 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3792 * VCD entry points support
3793 * VCD image file support
3796 * support for *.asf format
3797 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3798 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3799 * support for ogg encapsulation
3800 * support for raw DV format
3801 * support for *.wav format
3802 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3805 Stream discovery & playlists:
3806 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3807 * support for .m3u file format
3808 * support for .asx file format
3809 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3812 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3813 (only available with the .avi demux)
3814 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3815 * support for raw PCM data
3816 * support for Cinepak video codec
3817 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3818 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3819 * support for Xvid codec
3820 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3821 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3822 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3824 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3826 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3829 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3832 * new WxWindows interface
3833 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3834 device and the channels configuration
3835 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3836 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3837 format that VLC can play
3838 * new swedish translation
3839 * enhancements of the playlist window
3840 * new messages window to see debug info
3841 * fixed a few crashes
3844 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3845 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3846 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3847 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working