1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
11 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
12 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
13 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
14 * Support for Daala video
17 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
20 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
23 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
26 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
29 * Support key accelerators
32 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
33 --------------------------------
36 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
37 notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
40 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
41 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
42 * Add extensions download from external repositories
43 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
46 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
47 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
48 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
49 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
51 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
52 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
55 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
56 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
57 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
58 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
59 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
60 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
61 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
62 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
63 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
64 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
65 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
66 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
67 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
68 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
69 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
70 * New jpeg image decoder
71 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
72 * New SVG image decoder
73 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
74 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
75 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
78 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
79 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
80 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
81 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
82 * New png image encoder using libpng
85 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
86 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
87 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
88 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
89 synchronization and tracks exclusion
90 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
91 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
92 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
93 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
96 * Basic support for WebVTT
97 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
98 * Support HDPR TS files
99 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
100 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
101 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
102 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
103 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
104 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
105 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
106 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
107 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
108 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
109 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
110 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
113 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
114 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
115 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
116 * New Android native window provider module
117 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
118 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
119 * Add mmal based video output
122 * New Oldmovie effect filter
123 * New VHS effect filter
124 * New Freeze effect filter
125 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
126 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
127 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
130 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
131 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
132 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
133 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
134 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
135 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
138 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
139 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
141 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
144 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
145 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
146 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
147 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
148 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
149 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
150 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
151 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
152 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
154 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
155 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
156 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
159 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
160 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
163 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
164 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
167 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
168 * Add record button in Qt menus
169 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
170 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
171 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
174 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
175 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
176 * Fixes for advanced preferences
177 * Option to increase playlist font size
180 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
181 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
182 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
185 * ios video output: use ios2
186 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
187 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
190 * Update of all translations
193 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
194 --------------------------------
197 * Fix compilation on OS/2
200 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
202 Mac OS X audio output:
203 * Fix channel ordering
204 * Increase the buffersize
207 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
208 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
209 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
212 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
215 * Correctly support video-on-top
216 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
217 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
220 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
223 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
224 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
227 * Update British English
230 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
231 --------------------------------
234 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
237 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
240 * Fix DVD playback regression
241 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
242 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
245 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
246 --------------------------------
249 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
250 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
253 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
254 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
255 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
258 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
259 by updating codec libraries
260 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
261 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
262 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
265 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
266 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
267 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
268 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
271 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
272 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
275 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
276 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
277 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
278 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
279 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
282 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
283 * Fix record file names
286 * Fix minimal size possible on start
287 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
288 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
289 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
290 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
293 * Fix album art display on Windows
296 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
297 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
298 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
299 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
300 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
301 and Simplified Chinese translations
302 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
305 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
306 --------------------------------
309 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
310 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
311 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
312 audio devices on OS X
313 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
314 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
317 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
318 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
321 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
322 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
325 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
328 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
329 * Improve A-B loop control
330 * Fix album art update when changing media
333 * Add a language option in the interface
334 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
335 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
336 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
337 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
338 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
339 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
340 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
343 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
346 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
347 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
348 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
349 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
352 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
353 --------------------------------
356 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
358 * Fix some subtitles track selection
361 * VP9 support in WebM
362 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
363 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
366 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
367 * Support Speex in ogg files
368 * Fix some .mov playlists support
369 * Support Alac in mkv
370 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
371 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
374 * Fix DVB options parsing
375 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
376 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
379 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
380 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
383 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
384 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
387 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
388 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
389 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
390 * Fix play after drag'n drop
391 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
394 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
395 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
398 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
399 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
402 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
403 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
404 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
405 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
406 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
407 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
408 * Improves interface resizings
411 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
412 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
413 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
414 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
415 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
419 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
420 --------------------------------
423 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
424 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
425 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
426 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
427 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
429 3rd party libraries (contrib):
430 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
433 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
434 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
435 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
436 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
437 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
440 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
441 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
445 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
446 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
447 * Support for Ulead DV audio
448 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
449 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
450 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
451 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
452 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
453 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
454 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
455 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
456 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
457 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
460 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
461 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
462 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
465 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
466 remove support for previous OS X releases
467 * Major improvements in DASH support
468 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
469 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
470 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
471 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
472 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
473 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
474 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
475 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
476 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
477 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
478 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
481 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
482 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
483 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
484 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
485 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
486 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
487 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
488 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
489 * Support for more MJPEG streams
490 * Add support for liveleak streams
491 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
492 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
493 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
496 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
497 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
498 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
499 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
500 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
501 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
502 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
503 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
504 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
505 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
506 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
509 * New remapping channel filter
510 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
511 * New VSXu visualization plugin
512 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
513 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
514 * New gain audio filter
517 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
518 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
519 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
520 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
521 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
522 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
523 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
524 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
525 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
528 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
529 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
530 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
531 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
532 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
533 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
534 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
537 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
538 * Options support for AVIO output module
539 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
540 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
541 * Livehttp stream encryption support
542 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
543 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
546 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
549 * configurable password for the HTTP server
550 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
551 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
552 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
553 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
554 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
555 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
556 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
560 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
563 * Add support for multiple video outputs
564 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
566 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
567 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
568 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
569 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
570 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
571 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
572 VLC's internal volume level
573 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
575 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
576 selection and to manage the list of presets
577 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
578 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
579 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
580 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
581 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
582 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
583 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
584 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
585 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
586 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
588 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
589 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
590 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
591 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
592 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
593 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
594 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
595 3rd party applications
596 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
597 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
598 (system-wide settings)
599 * Add support for the Video Title option
600 * Add support for the Boss Key
601 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
602 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
605 * Partial support for Qt5.0
606 * Menus modifications and improvements
607 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
608 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
609 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
610 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
611 * EPG display fixes and improvements
612 * Add SD pixmap sources
613 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
614 * Display playlist total duration
615 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
616 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
617 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
622 * Extend sliders, offsets options
623 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
624 * Numerous fixes and improvements
625 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
628 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
629 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
630 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
631 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
632 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
633 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
634 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
635 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
636 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
637 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
640 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
641 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
642 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
643 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
644 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
645 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
647 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
648 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
649 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
650 * Broken crop video filter
652 * OSD parser and menu
653 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
654 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
655 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
656 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
660 * Update of all translations
663 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
664 --------------------------------
667 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
668 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
671 * Fix modplug security issues
674 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
675 --------------------------------
679 * Fix crash in QTsound
680 * Fix screen mouse file location
681 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
684 * Fix use after free in sgimb
685 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
688 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
691 * Fix interface crashes
692 * Fix autostart playback option
693 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
696 * update Welsh translation
697 * New Kannada translation
700 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
701 --------------------------------
704 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
705 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
709 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
712 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
715 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
718 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
722 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
725 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
728 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
729 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
730 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
733 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
734 --------------------------------
737 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
740 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
743 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
744 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
745 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
746 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
747 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
748 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
751 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
752 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
753 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
754 * 3rd party codecs updates
757 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
758 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
759 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
760 in the advanced preferences panel
761 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
762 * Fix crash within the video output code
763 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
764 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
765 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
766 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
768 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
771 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
774 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
775 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
778 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
781 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
782 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
783 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
784 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
785 Dutch, Danish, translations
786 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
789 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
790 --------------------------------
793 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
796 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
797 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
798 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
801 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
802 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
803 * Fix koreus lua parser
804 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
805 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
806 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
807 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
810 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
811 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
814 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
817 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
818 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
819 * Fix Time counter UI look
820 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
823 * Fix https streaming
826 * Fix audio and video track selection:
827 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
828 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
831 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
832 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
833 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
834 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
835 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
838 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
839 --------------------------------
842 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
843 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
844 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
845 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
846 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
847 during playback on Mac OS X
850 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
851 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
852 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
855 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
856 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
857 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
858 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
859 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
862 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
863 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
864 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
865 * Support Youtube live streams
868 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
871 * Fix media info dialog update
872 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
873 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
874 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
875 * Fix album art display at start
878 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
879 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
880 * Fix menus display and behavior
881 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
882 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
883 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
884 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
885 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
886 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
887 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
890 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
891 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
892 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
893 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
894 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
895 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
896 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
897 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
898 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
901 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
902 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
903 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
904 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
905 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
908 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
909 --------------------------------
912 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
915 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
916 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
919 * Add GateKeeper support
920 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
921 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
922 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
925 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
928 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
929 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
930 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
931 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
932 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
935 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
936 --------------------------------
939 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
940 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
941 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
942 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
943 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
944 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
945 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
946 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
947 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
948 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
949 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
953 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
954 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
955 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
956 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
957 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
958 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
959 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
960 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
961 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
962 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
963 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
964 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
967 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
968 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
970 * Fix MP3 free format support
973 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
974 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
975 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
976 * Fix for DVB channels file support
977 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
980 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
981 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
983 Audio filters and output:
984 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
985 * Fix DirectSound device selection
986 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
987 * Do not apply volume in file output
988 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
989 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
992 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
993 the persistant media library
994 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
995 to the media library or the temporary playlist
996 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
997 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
998 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
999 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1000 press on the Play/Pause button
1001 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1002 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1003 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1004 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1005 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1006 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1007 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1008 Synchronization panel
1009 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1010 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1011 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1012 * Fix crashes on exit
1013 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1015 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1016 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1017 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1018 automatically reset on the first launch.
1019 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1020 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1021 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1024 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1025 * Fixes for icecast SD
1028 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1029 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1030 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1031 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1032 * Fix tags and file names display
1033 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1036 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1037 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1040 * Fix display of some buttons
1041 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1042 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1045 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1046 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1047 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1050 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1051 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1052 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1053 Thai translations update
1054 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1057 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1058 --------------------------------
1061 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1062 * fix the samba module compilation
1063 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1064 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1065 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1066 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1069 * Support for MXPEG files
1070 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1071 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1074 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1075 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1076 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1079 * Fix ogm header creation
1082 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1083 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1086 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1087 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1088 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1089 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1092 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1095 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1096 * allow to hide the sidebar
1097 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1098 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1099 * noticebly faster launch time
1100 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1101 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1102 * improve track synchronization panel
1103 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1104 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1107 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1108 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1109 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1110 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1113 * fix for menus display
1114 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1115 * documentation update
1118 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1119 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1122 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1123 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1124 * Update Jamendo selections
1128 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1129 * fix a crash on VLM close
1132 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1133 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1134 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1135 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1138 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1141 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1142 ---------------------------------
1145 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1146 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1147 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1148 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1149 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1150 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1151 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1152 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1153 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1154 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1155 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1156 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1157 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1158 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1159 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1160 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1161 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1162 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1163 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1164 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1165 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1166 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1167 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1168 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1169 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1170 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1172 Important changes for packagers:
1173 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1174 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1175 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1176 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1177 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1178 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1179 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1180 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1181 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1182 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1185 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1186 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1187 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1188 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1189 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1190 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1191 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1194 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1195 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1196 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1197 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1198 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1199 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1200 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1201 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1202 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1203 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1204 * PulseAudio audio input support
1205 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1206 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1207 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1208 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1209 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1210 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1211 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1212 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1215 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1216 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1217 are notably concerned.
1218 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1219 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1220 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1221 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1222 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1223 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1224 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1225 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1226 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1227 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1228 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1229 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1230 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1231 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1232 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1235 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1236 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1237 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1238 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1239 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1240 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1241 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1242 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1243 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1244 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1245 * Improved support of tracker files
1246 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1249 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1250 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1251 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1252 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1253 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1254 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1255 and important cleanups and optimisations
1256 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1257 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1258 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1259 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1260 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1261 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1262 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1263 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1264 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1265 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1266 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1267 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1268 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1269 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1270 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1271 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1272 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1273 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1274 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1275 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1276 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1279 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1280 * New video output for iOS platform
1281 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1282 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1283 * Various vmem improvements
1284 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1285 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1286 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1287 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1288 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1289 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1291 Audio Output and Filters:
1292 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1293 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1294 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1295 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1296 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1297 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1298 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1299 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1300 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1301 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1304 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1305 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1306 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1307 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1308 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1309 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1310 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1311 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1312 * New anti-flickering filter
1313 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1314 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1315 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1316 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1317 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1318 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1319 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1322 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1323 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1324 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1325 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1326 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1327 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1328 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1329 * Major rework of VoD support
1330 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1331 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1332 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1333 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1334 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1335 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1336 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1337 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1338 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1339 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1342 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1343 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1346 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1347 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1348 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1349 list of available audio and video filters
1350 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1351 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1352 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1355 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1356 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1357 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1358 * id3tag: use taglib
1359 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1360 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1361 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1362 * removal of the noise filter
1363 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1364 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1365 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1366 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1369 * Update of translations for most languages.
1370 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1373 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1374 ----------------------------------
1377 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1378 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1381 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1382 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1385 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1386 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1387 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1390 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1393 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1394 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1397 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1400 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1401 ----------------------------------
1404 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1405 including support for OS X Lion
1406 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1407 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1410 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1413 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1414 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1415 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1418 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1421 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1422 ----------------------------------
1425 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1426 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1429 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1430 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1431 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1432 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1433 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1435 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1436 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1437 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1439 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1440 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1443 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1446 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1449 * Fix quitting on Linux
1450 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1454 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1457 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1460 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1461 ---------------------------------
1463 Windows and Mac OS X:
1464 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1467 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1468 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1471 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1474 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1477 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1479 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1480 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1482 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1483 * RTP output and XML export
1484 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1488 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1489 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1490 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1491 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1494 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1495 --------------------------------
1497 Windows and Mac OS X:
1498 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1501 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1504 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1505 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1506 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1507 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1508 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1509 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1512 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1513 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1517 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1518 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1519 * New Luganda Translation
1522 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1523 --------------------------------
1526 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1529 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1530 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1531 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1532 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1535 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1537 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1538 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1539 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1540 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1541 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1542 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1543 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1544 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1546 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1547 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1548 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1549 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1550 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1551 * Configure and build system improvements
1552 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1555 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1556 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1557 * New icelandic translation
1560 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1561 --------------------------------
1564 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1565 #234484 and #260719.
1568 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1569 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1570 and stability reasons
1573 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1577 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1580 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1581 ----------------------------------
1584 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1587 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1588 ---------------------------------
1591 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1592 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1593 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1594 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1597 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1600 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1601 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1602 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1603 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1606 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1607 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1608 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1610 Subtitles and renderer:
1611 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1612 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1613 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1614 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1615 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1618 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1619 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1620 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1621 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1624 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1625 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1627 Miscellaneous fixes:
1628 * KDE device solid actions
1630 * Transcode integer overflow
1631 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1632 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1635 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1636 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1637 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1640 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1641 ----------------------------------
1644 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1648 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1651 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1654 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1655 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1656 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1657 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1660 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1664 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1667 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1670 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1671 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1673 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1677 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1678 * Miscellaneous fixes
1681 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1682 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1683 French and Ukrainian
1684 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1685 * New Asturian translation
1688 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1689 ----------------------------------
1692 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1694 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1697 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1700 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1701 * Various fixes for Windows
1704 * New Armenian translation
1705 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1706 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1709 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1710 --------------------------------
1713 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1714 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1715 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1718 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1719 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1722 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1723 --------------------------------
1725 Access and demuxers:
1726 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1727 * fix for podcasts parsing
1728 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1731 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1732 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1735 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1736 * fix m3u playlists exports
1739 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1742 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1745 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1748 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1751 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1754 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1755 --------------------------------
1758 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1759 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1762 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1763 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1766 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1767 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1768 * fix console output encoding
1770 Interface and extensions:
1771 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1772 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1775 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1776 --------------------------------
1779 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1780 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1781 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1782 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1783 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1784 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1785 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1786 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1787 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1788 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1789 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1790 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1791 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1792 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1793 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1794 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1798 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1799 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1800 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1801 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1802 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1805 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1808 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1809 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1810 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1814 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1817 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1818 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1819 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1822 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1823 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1824 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1825 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1828 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1829 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1832 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1833 --------------------------------
1835 Important changes for users:
1836 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1837 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1839 Important changes for packagers:
1840 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1841 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1842 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1843 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1844 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1846 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1848 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1849 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1850 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1851 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1852 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1855 * Support for the sftp protocol
1856 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1857 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1858 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1859 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1860 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1863 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1864 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1865 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1867 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1868 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1869 * Invmem module improvements
1870 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1871 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1872 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1873 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1874 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1875 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1876 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1877 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1878 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1879 * Support for VP8 codec
1880 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1883 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1884 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1885 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1886 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1887 * Various EGP improvements
1888 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1889 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1892 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1893 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1894 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1895 * Podcast images are now displayed
1898 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1899 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1900 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1901 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1902 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1903 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1904 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1905 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1906 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1907 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1908 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1911 * New content extensions lua framework
1914 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1915 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1916 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1917 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1918 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1919 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1920 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1923 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1924 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1925 * Service discovery based on libudev
1926 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1929 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1930 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1931 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1932 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1933 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1934 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1935 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1938 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1939 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1940 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1943 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1945 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1946 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1949 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1952 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1953 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1954 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1955 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1956 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1957 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1958 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1961 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1962 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1965 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1966 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1967 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1971 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1972 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1973 * Improved Solaris port
1976 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1977 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1980 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1981 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1982 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1983 * transrate: broken since too long
1984 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1985 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1986 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1987 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1988 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1989 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1990 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1991 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1992 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1993 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1994 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1995 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1996 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1997 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2000 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2001 --------------------------------
2004 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2006 Decoders/Packetizers:
2007 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2010 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2011 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2012 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2013 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2014 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2017 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2018 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2021 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2022 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2025 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2026 and Walloon translations updated
2027 * Sinhala translation started
2030 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2031 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2034 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2035 --------------------------------
2038 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2039 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2042 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2045 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2046 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2049 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2050 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2051 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2052 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2055 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2056 --------------------------------
2059 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2060 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2063 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2064 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2067 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2068 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2071 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2074 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2075 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2078 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2079 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2082 * New Walloon translation
2083 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2086 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2087 --------------------------------
2090 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2091 regressions in most popular drivers
2092 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2095 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2096 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2097 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2100 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2101 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2104 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2105 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2106 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2107 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2108 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2111 * New udev module for linux
2114 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2117 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2120 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2121 --------------------------------
2124 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2125 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2126 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2129 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2130 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2133 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2134 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2137 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2140 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2141 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2142 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2143 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2146 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2147 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2148 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2149 - no support for Goom and SDL
2150 - limited text rendering support
2151 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2154 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2155 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2156 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2157 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2158 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2159 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2160 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2161 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2162 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2166 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2169 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2172 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2173 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2174 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2175 Arabic and French translation updates
2178 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2183 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2184 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2185 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2186 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2187 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2190 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2191 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2192 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2195 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2196 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2197 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2200 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2203 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2204 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2207 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2208 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2209 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2210 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2211 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2212 * Fix various crashes
2215 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2217 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2221 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2222 ---------------------------------
2226 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2227 See 'Access:' for more info.
2228 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2231 * Instantaneous pausing
2232 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2233 * Finer speed control
2234 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2235 * Timeshift for most medias
2236 * RTSP trickplay support
2237 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2240 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2241 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2242 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2243 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2244 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2245 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2246 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2247 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2248 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2249 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2252 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2253 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2254 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2255 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2256 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2257 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2258 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2261 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2262 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2265 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2266 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2267 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2268 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2269 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2270 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2271 * DVB scanning on linux
2272 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2273 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2274 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2275 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2276 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2277 * MTP device access on Unix
2278 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2279 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2282 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2283 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2284 Windows and Mac OS X.
2287 * Export the playlist in HTML
2288 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2289 * Better metadata handling and reading
2291 Linux/Windows interface:
2292 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2293 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2294 * Recently played items list
2295 * Interface toolbar customizations
2296 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2297 - More menus actions
2298 - Finer speed slider
2299 - Improvements on many dialogs
2300 - New dialog for plugins listing
2301 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2302 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2303 * Better integration in GTK environments
2306 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2307 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2308 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2309 * Additional usability improvements
2312 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2313 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2314 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2315 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2316 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2319 * New Maemo port with:
2320 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2321 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2324 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2327 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2328 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2329 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2330 * Support for latest iSight models
2333 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2334 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2337 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2338 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2339 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2340 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2341 The old image video output has been removed.
2342 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2343 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2346 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2354 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2355 --------------------------------------
2361 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2362 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2363 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2364 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2365 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2366 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2367 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2369 Various fixes to the following modules:
2372 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2373 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2374 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2376 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2381 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2382 ---------------------------------
2385 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2386 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2389 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2390 ---------------------------------
2393 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2396 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2399 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2400 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2401 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2402 main controller window.
2403 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2406 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2411 * Updates of other localizations
2414 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2415 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2416 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2417 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2418 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2421 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2422 ---------------------------------
2425 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2427 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2430 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2431 --------------------------------
2436 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2437 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2440 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2441 --------------------------------
2443 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2444 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2447 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2450 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2451 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2454 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2455 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2458 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2459 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2460 * Various fixed in playlist
2463 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2466 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2469 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2470 ------------------------------------
2472 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2473 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2476 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2477 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2478 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2481 * Stability fix for the video output.
2484 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2485 --------------------------------
2488 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2489 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2490 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2491 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2492 * Fixed update system bugs
2493 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2496 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2497 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2498 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2499 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2500 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2501 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2502 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2503 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2504 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2505 modern Mac OS X versions
2508 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2509 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2511 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2512 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2515 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2516 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2517 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2518 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2519 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2520 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2523 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2524 --------------------------------
2526 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2527 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2528 * Multiple bugfixes.
2531 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2532 --------------------------------
2534 * Multiple bug fixes.
2537 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2538 ---------------------------------
2542 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2543 recent to work correctly
2544 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2545 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2546 edit the ".hosts" file.
2547 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2548 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2549 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2550 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2551 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2552 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2553 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2554 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2555 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2556 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2557 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2558 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2559 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2560 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2561 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2562 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2563 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2564 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2565 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2566 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2567 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2568 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2569 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2570 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2571 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2572 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2573 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2574 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2575 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2576 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2577 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2578 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2579 and postproc modules.
2580 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2581 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2582 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2583 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2585 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2586 filter. For example:
2587 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2588 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2590 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2591 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2597 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2599 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2600 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2603 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2604 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2606 * Shoutcast TV listings
2607 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2609 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2610 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2612 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2615 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2616 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2617 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2618 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2619 * JACK audio input support
2620 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2621 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2622 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2623 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2624 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2625 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2626 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2627 (available as a separate download).
2628 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2629 * RTMP input support
2630 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2631 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2632 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2634 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2635 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2638 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2639 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2640 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2641 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2643 * APEv1/2 tags support
2644 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2645 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2647 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2648 * TiVo Series 2 support
2649 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2654 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2655 * Flash Screen Video support
2656 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2657 * DosBox Capture support
2658 * Karl Morton's Video support
2659 * limited atrac3 support
2661 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2662 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2663 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2664 * H.264 PAFF support
2665 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2666 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2667 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2668 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2669 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2672 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2673 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2674 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2675 * AQTitle subtitles support
2676 * MKV USF subtitles support
2677 * HTML-based subtitles support
2678 * MPSub subtitles support
2679 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2680 * MPL2 subtitles support
2681 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2682 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2683 * Realtext subtitle support
2684 * DKS subtitle support
2685 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2686 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2689 * Flash Screen Video support
2690 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2692 Video outputs and filters:
2693 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2694 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2695 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2696 * New puzzle video output filter
2697 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2698 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2700 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2701 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2702 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2703 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2704 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2705 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2706 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2707 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2708 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2709 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2710 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2711 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2712 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2713 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2715 Audio outputs and filters:
2716 * Replay gain support
2717 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2718 new scaletempo audio filter)
2719 * New spatializer audio filter
2720 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2723 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2724 * New RTP payload formats:
2725 * Speex voice audio codec
2726 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2727 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2728 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2729 * DCCP transport for RTP
2730 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2735 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2736 end-user suitable way.
2737 * Improved user interaction
2738 * Improved mouse gestures
2739 * Vastly improved Update checker
2740 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2742 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2743 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2745 * Improved video output features
2746 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2747 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2748 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2749 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2750 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2752 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2753 if libncursesw is available.
2754 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2755 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2756 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2758 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2759 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2760 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2761 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2762 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2763 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2764 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2765 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2768 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2769 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2770 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2773 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2774 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2775 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2776 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2777 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2778 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2781 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2782 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2792 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2793 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2794 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2797 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2798 ----------------------------------
2801 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2804 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2805 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2806 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2807 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2808 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2809 * Updated Polish translation
2812 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2813 ----------------------------------
2816 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2817 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2818 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2821 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2822 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2823 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2824 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2825 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2826 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2827 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2828 to an unexpected application termination
2829 * New Serbian translation
2830 * Updated Romanian translation
2833 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2834 ----------------------------------
2837 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2838 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2839 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2840 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2841 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2842 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2843 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2844 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2847 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2848 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2849 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2850 * Fixed AAC resampling
2851 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2852 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2855 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2856 ----------------------------------
2859 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2860 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2861 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2862 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2863 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2866 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2867 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2868 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2869 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2870 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2873 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2874 ----------------------------------
2877 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2878 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2881 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2882 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2883 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2884 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2886 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2890 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2893 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2896 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2899 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2902 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2903 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2904 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2905 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2906 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2908 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2909 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2910 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2911 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2914 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2917 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2918 ----------------------------------
2921 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2922 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2923 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2925 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2926 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2928 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2929 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2932 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2934 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2935 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2936 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2937 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2938 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2939 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2940 two different movies
2941 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2942 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2943 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2946 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2949 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2950 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2951 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2952 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2955 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2956 ----------------------------------
2958 Various bugfixes, notably:
2959 * Windows Vista compatibility
2960 * Cropping in Direct3D
2961 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2962 * RSS filter string overflow
2964 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2966 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2967 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2970 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2971 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2974 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2977 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2980 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2983 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2984 ----------------------------------
2986 Various bugfixes, notably:
2987 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2988 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2989 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2990 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2991 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2992 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2995 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2996 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2999 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3001 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3002 * Diverse usability improvements
3003 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3004 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3005 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3008 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3009 ---------------------------------
3011 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3012 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3015 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3018 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3019 --------------------------------
3022 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3025 * Support for RTSP authentication
3026 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3027 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3028 * ATSC support for DVB input
3029 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3030 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3031 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3034 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3035 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3036 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3037 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3038 * Matroska WavPack support
3039 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3040 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3041 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3044 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3045 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3046 * Improved libcaca support
3050 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3051 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3053 * Systray support in skins
3055 * Support for Apple Remote control
3056 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3057 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3058 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3059 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3061 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3064 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3065 Windows 9x/ME users:
3066 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3067 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3068 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3069 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3070 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3072 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3073 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3082 * Updates to the libvlc API
3083 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3086 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3087 --------------------------------
3090 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3091 * Support for downloading updates
3095 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3096 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3097 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3098 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3100 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3101 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3102 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3105 * Cook (Real audio) support
3107 Playlist / Services discovery:
3108 * XSPF playlist support
3110 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3113 * New JACK audio output
3116 * New video filters:
3117 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3118 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3119 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3120 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3121 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3122 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3125 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3128 * System to inform the user and request information
3129 - HTTP authentication
3133 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3134 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3135 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3138 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3139 - Improved playlist handling
3140 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3142 - Embedded Video output
3143 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3144 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3145 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3146 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3147 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3149 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3150 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3153 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3156 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3157 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3158 * Growl "Now playing" support
3161 * Ability to log to syslog
3162 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3165 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3167 * A bit more automatic testing
3170 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3171 ---------------------------------
3174 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3175 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3178 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3179 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3182 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3185 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3186 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3192 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3195 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3196 --------------------------------
3199 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3203 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3204 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3205 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3208 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3209 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3210 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3211 * GnomeVFS input module
3212 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3213 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3216 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3217 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3218 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3221 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3222 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3228 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3229 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3232 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3233 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3234 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3237 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3239 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3240 - New extended controls panel
3241 - New bookmarks window
3242 - Fixed playlist sorting
3243 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3245 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3246 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3247 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3248 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3252 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3253 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3255 - Include macro to include other files
3259 * Should now work outside IE as well
3262 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3265 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3266 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3269 The following languages were added:
3273 * Simplified Chinese
3274 The following languages were re-added:
3278 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3279 --------------------------------
3282 * Rewrite of the playlist
3284 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3285 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3286 * Preferences improvements:
3287 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3288 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3290 * Core image manipulation support
3291 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3292 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3293 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3294 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3295 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3296 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3297 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3298 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3299 * Access filter architecture
3300 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3301 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3305 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3306 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3307 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3308 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3309 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3310 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3311 * Massive Matroska improvements
3312 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3314 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3315 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3316 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3317 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3318 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3320 Decoders / Encoders:
3321 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3322 * PNG decoder/encoder
3323 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3324 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3327 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3330 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3331 * Brand new SAP module
3332 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3333 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3334 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3335 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3336 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3337 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3341 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3344 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3345 * Image file video output (png)
3346 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3347 * Improvements to wall video filter
3348 * Support for font color and opacity
3354 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3355 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3356 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3360 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3361 - Improved preferences
3362 - Improvements to the wizard
3363 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3365 - Redesigned playlist
3366 - Improved preferences
3368 - Support for multiple actions
3371 - Support for the new playlist system
3373 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3376 * Screensaver disabling fix
3377 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3378 * Support for no-decoration windows
3381 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3382 * The OpenGL video output is back
3383 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3384 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3385 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3386 is not yet available in the new module
3387 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3390 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3399 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3402 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3405 The following languages were added:
3411 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3412 --------------------------------
3415 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3416 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3419 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3420 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3421 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3424 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3427 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3430 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3433 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3434 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3435 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3439 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3441 * Support of playlist group announcement
3444 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3445 --------------------------------
3448 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3449 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3450 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3451 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3452 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3453 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3456 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3457 (Stream your desktop)
3458 * Improved DVD support:
3459 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3460 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3461 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3462 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3463 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3464 (selection of titles/chapters).
3467 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3468 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3469 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3470 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3471 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3472 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3473 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3474 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3475 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3476 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3479 * G.726 audio support
3480 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3481 * MPEG-4 text support
3482 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3483 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3484 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3488 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3489 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3490 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3491 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3492 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3493 * DVB subtitles encoder
3494 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3495 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3497 * Text track muxing for mp4
3498 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3499 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3500 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3501 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3502 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3503 * Improved ASF muxer
3505 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3506 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3507 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3510 * New audio equalizer filter
3511 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3512 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3513 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3514 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3517 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3518 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3519 with support for effects.
3520 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3521 - New filters can be streamed.
3522 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3523 - Centralized scaling and blending
3525 - "time", to display current time
3526 - "marq", to display a marquee
3529 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3530 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3531 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3532 * A few skins2 improvements
3533 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3534 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3535 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3536 * Improved CORBA control module
3539 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3540 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3541 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3544 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3545 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3546 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3549 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3550 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3551 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3552 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3553 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3556 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3559 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3560 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3563 * Server/client network synchronization module
3564 * VBrick streams fully supported
3565 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3569 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3570 --------------------------------
3573 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3574 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3575 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3576 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3579 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3580 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3581 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3582 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3583 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3584 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3585 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3588 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3589 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3590 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3591 * Improved directory access module.
3592 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3593 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3594 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3595 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3596 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3599 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3600 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3601 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3604 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3605 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3606 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3609 * Improved session announcement system.
3610 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3611 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3612 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3613 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3614 * Improved transrater.
3615 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3616 * New configuration system.
3617 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3620 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3621 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3622 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3623 * Supports scheduling.
3624 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3625 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3628 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3629 - Ability to embed video output.
3630 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3631 - Lots of improvements.
3632 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3633 - New design and set of icons.
3634 - Ability to embed video output.
3635 - Support for hotkeys.
3636 - Support for bookmarks.
3638 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3639 - Better hotkeys handling.
3642 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3643 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3644 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3645 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3648 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3649 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3650 * Improved Windows installer.
3656 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3657 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3660 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3661 ---------------------------------
3664 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3665 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3668 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3669 --------------------------------
3672 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3673 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3676 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3677 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3678 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3679 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3682 * Internal improvments
3683 * Improved import/export
3686 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3688 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3689 small and strange formats.
3691 * New MOD audio demux.
3692 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3693 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3694 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3695 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3698 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3699 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3700 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3706 * New opengl video output plugin.
3709 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3710 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3713 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3714 --------------------------------
3717 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3718 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3719 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3720 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3721 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3722 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3723 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3724 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3727 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3732 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3733 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3734 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3735 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3736 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3737 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3738 * Better Icecast support.
3739 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3740 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3743 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3744 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3745 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3746 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3747 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3748 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3749 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3752 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3753 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3754 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3755 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3756 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3757 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3758 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3759 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3760 * Preliminary RTP support.
3761 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3766 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3767 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3769 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3770 - Improvements and help in preferences
3771 - New streaming wizard
3772 - Revised Disc Open menu
3774 - Improvements of the standard pages
3775 - Support for new commands
3776 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3779 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3780 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3783 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3784 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3785 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3786 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3787 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3788 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3789 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3790 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3791 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3794 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3796 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3797 * Support for Panther.
3798 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3799 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3802 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3803 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3804 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3805 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3806 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3807 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3808 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3809 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3812 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3813 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3814 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3817 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3820 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3821 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3822 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3823 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3826 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3827 --------------------------------
3830 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3833 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3834 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3837 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3838 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3841 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3844 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3845 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3848 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3851 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3854 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3855 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3859 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3860 --------------------------------
3863 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3864 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3868 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3869 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3870 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3872 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3873 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3876 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3879 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3882 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3883 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3887 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3888 --------------------------------
3891 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3892 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3896 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3897 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3898 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3899 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3900 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3903 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3904 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3905 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3908 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3909 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3910 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3913 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3914 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3915 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3916 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3917 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3920 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3921 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3922 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3925 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3928 * Improved build system.
3929 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3930 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3931 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3932 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3935 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3936 --------------------------------
3939 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3942 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3943 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3944 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3945 * Video 4 Linux support
3946 * CD Digital Audio support
3947 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3950 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3951 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3952 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3953 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3956 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3957 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3958 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3959 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3960 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3961 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3962 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3965 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3966 * New HTTP remote control interface
3969 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3970 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3971 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3972 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3973 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3976 * New reset option for the preferences
3977 * You can set your language in the prefences
3978 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3979 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3980 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3981 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3984 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3985 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3986 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3989 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3990 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3991 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3992 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3993 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3994 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3995 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3996 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3997 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3998 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4001 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4002 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4003 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4004 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4005 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4006 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4007 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4010 * Interface localization
4011 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4012 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4013 * New full-featured Preferences window
4016 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4017 --------------------------------
4020 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4021 * support for skins at the interface level
4022 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4023 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4024 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4025 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4026 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4029 * fixed HTTP redirects
4030 * support for opening an entire directory
4031 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4032 * new video4linux access plug-in
4033 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4036 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4037 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4038 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4041 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4042 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4043 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4044 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4045 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4046 * new codec for raw I420 video
4047 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4050 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4051 (although it still misses some important features)
4052 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4055 * new HTTP output support
4056 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4057 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4060 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4063 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4066 * reorderable playlist
4067 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4068 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4069 * support for mono audio output devices
4070 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4071 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4072 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4073 * the messages window remembers more lines
4074 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4075 * http and ogg stream output options
4076 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4079 * new skinnable interface
4080 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4082 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4083 * support for FLAC audio format
4084 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4086 * network tab in the interface
4087 * "apply" handling in preferences
4090 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4091 ---------------------------------
4094 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4095 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4096 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4097 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4099 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4100 * DTS S/PDIF support
4103 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4104 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4105 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4106 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4109 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4110 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4113 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4116 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4119 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4121 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4122 * rc interface is now fully useable
4123 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4126 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4127 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4128 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4129 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4130 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4132 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4133 * support for mouse gestures
4134 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4137 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4138 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4141 * improved ID3 tag detection
4142 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4143 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4144 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4146 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4149 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4150 ---------------------------------
4153 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4154 English was set as the preferred language
4157 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4158 --------------------------------
4161 * new mouse gesture interface
4162 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4166 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4167 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4168 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4171 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4172 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4176 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4179 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4180 without the user consent
4183 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4185 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4186 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4187 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4190 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4191 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4192 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4193 * playlist enhancements
4194 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4195 * new step forward/step backward commands
4196 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4197 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4198 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4201 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4202 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4203 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4206 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4207 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4210 * native video output is working again
4211 * only commandline interface support
4212 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4215 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4216 --------------------------------
4219 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4220 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4221 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4222 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4223 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4224 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4225 and A/52 streams are supported)
4226 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4231 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4232 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4233 * VCD entry points support
4234 * VCD image file support
4237 * support for *.asf format
4238 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4239 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4240 * support for ogg encapsulation
4241 * support for raw DV format
4242 * support for *.wav format
4243 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4246 Stream discovery & playlists:
4247 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4248 * support for .m3u file format
4249 * support for .asx file format
4250 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4253 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4254 (only available with the .avi demux)
4255 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4256 * support for raw PCM data
4257 * support for Cinepak video codec
4258 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4259 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4260 * support for Xvid codec
4261 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4262 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4263 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4265 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4267 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4270 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4273 * new WxWindows interface
4274 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4275 device and the channels configuration
4276 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4277 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4278 format that VLC can play
4279 * new swedish translation
4280 * enhancements of the playlist window
4281 * new messages window to see debug info
4282 * fixed a few crashes
4285 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4286 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4287 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4288 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working