1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
28 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
29 * Add Media Foundation Transform decoder
30 * Add decoder module based on GStreamer. Currently supports only video decode.
33 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
34 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
35 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
36 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
37 * New png image encoder using libpng
40 * New CAF format module
41 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
42 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
43 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
44 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
47 * Basic support for WebVTT
48 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
49 * Support HDPR TS files
50 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
51 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
52 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
53 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
54 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
55 * AVI fixes for uncompressed and indexed bitmaps
56 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
59 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
60 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
62 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4
65 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
66 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
67 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
68 * New Android native window provider module
69 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
70 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
71 * Add mmal based video output
74 * New Oldmovie effect filter
75 * New VHS effect filter
76 * New Freeze effect filter
77 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
78 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
81 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
82 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
85 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
86 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
87 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
88 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
89 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
90 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
91 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
92 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
93 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
95 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
96 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
99 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
100 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
103 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
104 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
107 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
108 * Add record button in Qt menus
109 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
110 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
113 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off
114 * Fixes for advanced preferences
115 * Option to increase playlist font size
118 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
119 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
120 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
123 * ios video output: use ios2
124 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
125 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
128 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
129 --------------------------------
132 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
133 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
136 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
137 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
138 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
141 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
142 by updating codec libraries
143 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
144 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
145 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
148 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
149 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
150 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
151 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
154 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
155 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
158 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
159 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
160 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
161 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
162 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
165 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
166 * Fix record file names
169 * Fix minimal size possible on start
170 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
171 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
172 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
173 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
176 * Fix album art display on Windows
179 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
180 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
181 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
182 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
183 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
184 and Simplified Chinese translations
185 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
188 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
189 --------------------------------
192 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
193 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
194 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
195 audio devices on OS X
196 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
197 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
200 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
201 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
204 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
205 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
208 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
211 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
212 * Improve A-B loop control
213 * Fix album art update when changing media
216 * Add a language option in the interface
217 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
218 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
219 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
220 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
221 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
222 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
223 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
226 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
229 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
230 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
231 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
232 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
235 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
236 --------------------------------
239 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
241 * Fix some subtitles track selection
244 * VP9 support in WebM
245 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
246 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
249 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
250 * Support Speex in ogg files
251 * Fix some .mov playlists support
252 * Support Alac in mkv
253 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
254 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
257 * Fix DVB options parsing
258 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
259 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
262 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
263 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
266 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
267 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
270 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
271 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
272 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
273 * Fix play after drag'n drop
274 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
277 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
278 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
281 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
282 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
285 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
286 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
287 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
288 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
289 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
290 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
291 * Improves interface resizings
294 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
295 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
296 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
297 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
298 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
302 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
303 --------------------------------
306 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
307 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
308 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
309 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
310 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
312 3rd party libraries (contrib):
313 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
316 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
317 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
318 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
319 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
320 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
323 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
324 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
328 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
329 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
330 * Support for Ulead DV audio
331 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
332 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
333 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
334 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
335 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
336 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
337 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
338 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
339 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
340 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
343 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
344 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
345 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
348 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
349 remove support for previous OS X releases
350 * Major improvements in DASH support
351 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
352 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
353 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
354 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
355 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
356 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
357 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
358 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
359 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
360 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
361 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
364 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
365 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
366 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
367 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
368 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
369 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
370 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
371 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
372 * Support for more MJPEG streams
373 * Add support for liveleak streams
374 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
375 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
376 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
379 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
380 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
381 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
382 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
383 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
384 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
385 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
386 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
387 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
388 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
389 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
392 * New remapping channel filter
393 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
394 * New VSXu visualization plugin
395 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
396 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
397 * New gain audio filter
400 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
401 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
402 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
403 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
404 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
405 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
406 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
407 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
408 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
411 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
412 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
413 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
414 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
415 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
416 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
417 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
420 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
421 * Options support for AVIO output module
422 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
423 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
424 * Livehttp stream encryption support
425 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
426 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
429 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
432 * configurable password for the HTTP server
433 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
434 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
435 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
436 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
437 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
438 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
439 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
443 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
446 * Add support for multiple video outputs
447 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
449 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
450 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
451 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
452 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
453 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
454 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
455 VLC's internal volume level
456 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
458 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
459 selection and to manage the list of presets
460 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
461 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
462 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
463 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
464 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
465 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
466 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
467 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
468 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
469 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
471 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
472 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
473 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
474 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
475 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
476 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
477 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
478 3rd party applications
479 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
480 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
481 (system-wide settings)
482 * Add support for the Video Title option
483 * Add support for the Boss Key
484 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
485 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
488 * Partial support for Qt5.0
489 * Menus modifications and improvements
490 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
491 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
492 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
493 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
494 * EPG display fixes and improvements
495 * Add SD pixmap sources
496 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
497 * Display playlist total duration
498 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
499 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
500 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
505 * Extend sliders, offsets options
506 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
507 * Numerous fixes and improvements
508 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
511 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
512 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
513 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
514 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
515 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
516 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
517 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
518 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
519 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
520 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
523 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
524 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
525 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
526 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
527 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
528 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
530 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
531 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
532 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
533 * Broken crop video filter
535 * OSD parser and menu
536 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
537 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
538 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
539 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
543 * Update of all translations
546 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
547 --------------------------------
550 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
551 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
554 * Fix modplug security issues
557 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
558 --------------------------------
562 * Fix crash in QTsound
563 * Fix screen mouse file location
564 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
567 * Fix use after free in sgimb
568 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
571 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
574 * Fix interface crashes
575 * Fix autostart playback option
576 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
579 * update Welsh translation
580 * New Kannada translation
583 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
584 --------------------------------
587 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
588 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
592 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
595 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
598 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
601 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
605 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
608 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
611 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
612 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
613 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
616 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
617 --------------------------------
620 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
623 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
626 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
627 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
628 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
629 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
630 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
631 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
634 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
635 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
636 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
637 * 3rd party codecs updates
640 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
641 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
642 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
643 in the advanced preferences panel
644 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
645 * Fix crash within the video output code
646 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
647 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
648 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
649 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
651 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
654 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
657 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
658 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
661 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
664 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
665 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
666 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
667 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
668 Dutch, Danish, translations
669 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
672 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
673 --------------------------------
676 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
679 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
680 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
681 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
684 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
685 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
686 * Fix koreus lua parser
687 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
688 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
689 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
690 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
693 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
694 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
697 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
700 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
701 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
702 * Fix Time counter UI look
703 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
706 * Fix https streaming
709 * Fix audio and video track selection:
710 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
711 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
714 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
715 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
716 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
717 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
718 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
721 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
722 --------------------------------
725 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
726 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
727 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
728 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
729 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
730 during playback on Mac OS X
733 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
734 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
735 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
738 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
739 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
740 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
741 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
742 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
745 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
746 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
747 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
748 * Support Youtube live streams
751 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
754 * Fix media info dialog update
755 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
756 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
757 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
758 * Fix album art display at start
761 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
762 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
763 * Fix menus display and behavior
764 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
765 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
766 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
767 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
768 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
769 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
770 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
773 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
774 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
775 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
776 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
777 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
778 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
779 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
780 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
781 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
784 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
785 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
786 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
787 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
788 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
791 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
792 --------------------------------
795 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
798 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
799 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
802 * Add GateKeeper support
803 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
804 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
805 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
808 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
811 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
812 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
813 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
814 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
815 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
818 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
819 --------------------------------
822 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
823 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
824 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
825 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
826 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
827 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
828 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
829 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
830 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
831 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
832 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
836 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
837 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
838 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
839 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
840 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
841 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
842 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
843 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
844 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
845 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
846 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
847 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
850 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
851 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
853 * Fix MP3 free format support
856 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
857 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
858 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
859 * Fix for DVB channels file support
860 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
863 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
864 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
866 Audio filters and output:
867 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
868 * Fix DirectSound device selection
869 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
870 * Do not apply volume in file output
871 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
872 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
875 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
876 the persistant media library
877 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
878 to the media library or the temporary playlist
879 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
880 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
881 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
882 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
883 press on the Play/Pause button
884 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
885 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
886 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
887 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
888 * Many Fullscreen fixes
889 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
890 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
891 Synchronization panel
892 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
893 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
894 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
895 * Fix crashes on exit
896 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
898 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
899 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
900 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
901 automatically reset on the first launch.
902 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
903 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
904 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
907 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
908 * Fixes for icecast SD
911 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
912 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
913 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
914 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
915 * Fix tags and file names display
916 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
919 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
920 * Fix for key events and focus loss
923 * Fix display of some buttons
924 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
925 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
928 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
929 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
930 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
933 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
934 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
935 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
936 Thai translations update
937 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
940 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
941 --------------------------------
944 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
945 * fix the samba module compilation
946 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
947 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
948 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
949 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
952 * Support for MXPEG files
953 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
954 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
957 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
958 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
959 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
962 * Fix ogm header creation
965 * limit spatializer filter distortions
966 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
969 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
970 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
971 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
972 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
975 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
978 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
979 * allow to hide the sidebar
980 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
981 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
982 * noticebly faster launch time
983 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
984 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
985 * improve track synchronization panel
986 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
987 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
990 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
991 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
992 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
993 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
996 * fix for menus display
997 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
998 * documentation update
1001 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1002 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1005 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1006 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1007 * Update Jamendo selections
1011 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1012 * fix a crash on VLM close
1015 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1016 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1017 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1018 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1021 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1024 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1025 ---------------------------------
1028 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1029 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1030 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1031 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1032 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1033 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1034 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1035 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1036 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1037 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1038 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1039 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1040 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1041 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1042 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1043 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1044 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1045 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1046 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1047 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1048 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1049 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1050 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1051 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1052 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1053 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1055 Important changes for packagers:
1056 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1057 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1058 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1059 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1060 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1061 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1062 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1063 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1064 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1065 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1068 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1069 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1070 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1071 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1072 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1073 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1074 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1077 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1078 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1079 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1080 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1081 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1082 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1083 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1084 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1085 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1086 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1087 * PulseAudio audio input support
1088 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1089 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1090 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1091 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1092 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1093 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1094 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1095 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1098 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1099 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1100 are notably concerned.
1101 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1102 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1103 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1104 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1105 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1106 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1107 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1108 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1109 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1110 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1111 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1112 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1113 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1114 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1115 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1118 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1119 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1120 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1121 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1122 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1123 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1124 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1125 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1126 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1127 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1128 * Improved support of tracker files
1129 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1132 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1133 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1134 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1135 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1136 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1137 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1138 and important cleanups and optimisations
1139 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1140 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1141 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1142 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1143 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1144 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1145 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1146 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1147 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1148 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1149 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1150 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1151 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1152 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1153 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1154 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1155 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1156 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1157 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1158 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1159 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1162 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1163 * New video output for iOS platform
1164 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1165 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1166 * Various vmem improvements
1167 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1168 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1169 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1170 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1171 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1172 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1174 Audio Output and Filters:
1175 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1176 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1177 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1178 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1179 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1180 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1181 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1182 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1183 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1184 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1187 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1188 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1189 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1190 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1191 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1192 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1193 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1194 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1195 * New anti-flickering filter
1196 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1197 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1198 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1199 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1200 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1201 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1202 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1205 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1206 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1207 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1208 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1209 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1210 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1211 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1212 * Major rework of VoD support
1213 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1214 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1215 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1216 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1217 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1218 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1219 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1220 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1221 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1222 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1225 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1226 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1229 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1230 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1231 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1232 list of available audio and video filters
1233 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1234 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1235 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1238 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1239 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1240 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1241 * id3tag: use taglib
1242 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1243 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1244 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1245 * removal of the noise filter
1246 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1247 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1248 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1249 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1252 * Update of translations for most languages.
1253 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1256 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1257 ----------------------------------
1260 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1261 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1264 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1265 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1268 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1269 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1270 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1273 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1276 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1277 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1280 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1283 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1284 ----------------------------------
1287 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1288 including support for OS X Lion
1289 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1290 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1293 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1296 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1297 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1298 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1301 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1304 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1305 ----------------------------------
1308 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1309 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1312 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1313 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1314 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1315 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1316 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1318 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1319 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1320 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1322 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1323 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1326 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1329 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1332 * Fix quitting on Linux
1333 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1337 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1340 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1343 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1344 ---------------------------------
1346 Windows and Mac OS X:
1347 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1350 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1351 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1354 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1357 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1360 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1362 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1363 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1365 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1366 * RTP output and XML export
1367 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1371 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1372 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1373 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1374 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1377 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1378 --------------------------------
1380 Windows and Mac OS X:
1381 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1384 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1387 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1388 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1389 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1390 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1391 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1392 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1395 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1396 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1400 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1401 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1402 * New Luganda Translation
1405 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1406 --------------------------------
1409 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1412 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1413 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1414 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1415 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1418 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1420 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1421 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1422 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1423 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1424 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1425 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1426 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1427 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1429 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1430 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1431 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1432 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1433 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1434 * Configure and build system improvements
1435 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1438 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1439 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1440 * New icelandic translation
1443 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1444 --------------------------------
1447 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1448 #234484 and #260719.
1451 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1452 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1453 and stability reasons
1456 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1460 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1463 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1464 ----------------------------------
1467 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1470 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1471 ---------------------------------
1474 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1475 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1476 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1477 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1480 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1483 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1484 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1485 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1486 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1489 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1490 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1491 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1493 Subtitles and renderer:
1494 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1495 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1496 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1497 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1498 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1501 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1502 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1503 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1504 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1507 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1508 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1510 Miscellaneous fixes:
1511 * KDE device solid actions
1513 * Transcode integer overflow
1514 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1515 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1518 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1519 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1520 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1523 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1524 ----------------------------------
1527 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1531 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1534 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1537 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1538 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1539 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1540 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1543 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1547 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1550 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1553 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1554 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1556 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1560 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1561 * Miscellaneous fixes
1564 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1565 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1566 French and Ukrainian
1567 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1568 * New Asturian translation
1571 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1572 ----------------------------------
1575 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1577 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1580 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1583 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1584 * Various fixes for Windows
1587 * New Armenian translation
1588 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1589 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1592 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1593 --------------------------------
1596 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1597 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1598 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1601 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1602 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1605 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1606 --------------------------------
1608 Access and demuxers:
1609 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1610 * fix for podcasts parsing
1611 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1614 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1615 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1618 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1619 * fix m3u playlists exports
1622 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1625 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1628 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1631 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1634 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1637 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1642 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1645 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1646 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1649 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1650 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1651 * fix console output encoding
1653 Interface and extensions:
1654 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1655 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1658 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1659 --------------------------------
1662 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1663 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1664 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1665 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1666 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1667 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1668 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1669 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1670 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1671 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1672 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1673 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1674 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1675 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1676 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1677 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1681 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1682 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1683 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1684 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1685 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1688 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1691 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1692 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1693 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1697 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1700 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1701 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1702 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1705 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1706 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1707 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1708 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1711 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1712 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1715 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1716 --------------------------------
1718 Important changes for users:
1719 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1720 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1722 Important changes for packagers:
1723 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1724 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1725 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1726 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1727 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1729 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1731 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1732 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1733 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1734 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1735 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1738 * Support for the sftp protocol
1739 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1740 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1741 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1742 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1743 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1746 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1747 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1748 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1750 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1751 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1752 * Invmem module improvements
1753 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1754 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1755 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1756 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1757 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1758 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1759 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1760 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1761 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1762 * Support for VP8 codec
1763 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1766 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1767 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1768 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1769 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1770 * Various EGP improvements
1771 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1772 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1775 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1776 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1777 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1778 * Podcast images are now displayed
1781 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1782 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1783 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1784 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1785 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1786 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1787 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1788 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1789 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1790 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1791 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1794 * New content extensions lua framework
1797 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1798 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1799 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1800 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1801 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1802 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1803 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1806 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1807 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1808 * Service discovery based on libudev
1809 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1812 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1813 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1814 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1815 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1816 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1817 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1818 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1821 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1822 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1823 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1826 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1828 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1829 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1832 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1835 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1836 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1837 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1838 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1839 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1840 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1841 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1844 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1845 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1848 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1849 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1850 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1854 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1855 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1856 * Improved Solaris port
1859 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1860 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1863 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1864 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1865 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1866 * transrate: broken since too long
1867 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1868 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1869 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1870 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1871 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1872 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1873 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1874 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1875 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1876 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1877 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1878 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1879 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1880 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1883 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1884 --------------------------------
1887 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1889 Decoders/Packetizers:
1890 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1893 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1894 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1895 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1896 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1897 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1900 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1901 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1904 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1905 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1908 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1909 and Walloon translations updated
1910 * Sinhala translation started
1913 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1914 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1917 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1918 --------------------------------
1921 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1922 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1925 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1928 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1929 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1932 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1933 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1934 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1935 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1938 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1939 --------------------------------
1942 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1943 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1946 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1947 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1950 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1951 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1954 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1957 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1958 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1961 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1962 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1965 * New Walloon translation
1966 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1969 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1970 --------------------------------
1973 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1974 regressions in most popular drivers
1975 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1978 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1979 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1980 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1983 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1984 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1987 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1988 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1989 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1990 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1991 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1994 * New udev module for linux
1997 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2000 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2003 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2004 --------------------------------
2007 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2008 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2009 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2012 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2013 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2016 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2017 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2020 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2023 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2024 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2025 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2026 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2029 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2030 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2031 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2032 - no support for Goom and SDL
2033 - limited text rendering support
2034 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2037 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2038 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2039 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2040 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2041 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2042 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2043 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2044 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2045 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2049 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2052 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2055 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2056 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2057 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2058 Arabic and French translation updates
2061 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2062 --------------------------------
2065 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2066 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2067 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2068 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2069 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2070 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2073 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2074 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2075 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2078 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2079 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2080 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2083 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2086 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2087 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2090 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2091 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2092 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2093 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2094 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2095 * Fix various crashes
2098 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2100 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2104 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2105 ---------------------------------
2109 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2110 See 'Access:' for more info.
2111 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2114 * Instantaneous pausing
2115 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2116 * Finer speed control
2117 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2118 * Timeshift for most medias
2119 * RTSP trickplay support
2120 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2123 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2124 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2125 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2126 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2127 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2128 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2129 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2130 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2131 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2132 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2135 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2136 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2137 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2138 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2139 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2140 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2141 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2144 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2145 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2148 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2149 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2150 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2151 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2152 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2153 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2154 * DVB scanning on linux
2155 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2156 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2157 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2158 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2159 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2160 * MTP device access on Unix
2161 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2162 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2165 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2166 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2167 Windows and Mac OS X.
2170 * Export the playlist in HTML
2171 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2172 * Better metadata handling and reading
2174 Linux/Windows interface:
2175 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2176 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2177 * Recently played items list
2178 * Interface toolbar customizations
2179 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2180 - More menus actions
2181 - Finer speed slider
2182 - Improvements on many dialogs
2183 - New dialog for plugins listing
2184 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2185 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2186 * Better integration in GTK environments
2189 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2190 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2191 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2192 * Additional usability improvements
2195 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2196 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2197 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2198 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2199 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2202 * New Maemo port with:
2203 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2204 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2207 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2210 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2211 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2212 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2213 * Support for latest iSight models
2216 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2217 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2220 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2221 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2222 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2223 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2224 The old image video output has been removed.
2225 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2226 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2229 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2237 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2238 --------------------------------------
2244 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2245 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2246 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2247 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2248 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2249 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2250 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2252 Various fixes to the following modules:
2255 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2256 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2257 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2259 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2264 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2265 ---------------------------------
2268 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2269 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2272 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2273 ---------------------------------
2276 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2279 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2282 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2283 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2284 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2285 main controller window.
2286 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2289 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2294 * Updates of other localizations
2297 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2298 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2299 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2300 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2301 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2304 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2305 ---------------------------------
2308 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2310 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2313 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2314 --------------------------------
2319 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2320 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2323 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2324 --------------------------------
2326 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2327 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2330 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2333 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2334 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2337 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2338 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2341 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2342 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2343 * Various fixed in playlist
2346 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2349 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2352 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2353 ------------------------------------
2355 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2356 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2359 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2360 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2361 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2364 * Stability fix for the video output.
2367 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2368 --------------------------------
2371 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2372 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2373 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2374 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2375 * Fixed update system bugs
2376 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2379 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2380 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2381 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2382 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2383 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2384 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2385 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2386 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2387 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2388 modern Mac OS X versions
2391 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2392 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2394 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2395 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2398 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2399 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2400 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2401 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2402 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2403 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2406 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2407 --------------------------------
2409 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2410 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2411 * Multiple bugfixes.
2414 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2415 --------------------------------
2417 * Multiple bug fixes.
2420 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2421 ---------------------------------
2425 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2426 recent to work correctly
2427 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2428 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2429 edit the ".hosts" file.
2430 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2431 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2432 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2433 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2434 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2435 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2436 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2437 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2438 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2439 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2440 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2441 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2442 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2443 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2444 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2445 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2446 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2447 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2448 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2449 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2450 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2451 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2452 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2453 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2454 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2455 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2456 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2457 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2458 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2459 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2460 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2461 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2462 and postproc modules.
2463 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2464 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2465 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2466 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2468 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2469 filter. For example:
2470 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2471 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2473 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2474 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2480 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2482 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2483 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2486 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2487 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2489 * Shoutcast TV listings
2490 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2492 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2493 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2495 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2498 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2499 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2500 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2501 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2502 * JACK audio input support
2503 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2504 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2505 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2506 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2507 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2508 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2509 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2510 (available as a separate download).
2511 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2512 * RTMP input support
2513 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2514 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2515 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2517 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2518 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2521 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2522 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2523 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2524 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2526 * APEv1/2 tags support
2527 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2528 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2530 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2531 * TiVo Series 2 support
2532 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2537 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2538 * Flash Screen Video support
2539 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2540 * DosBox Capture support
2541 * Karl Morton's Video support
2542 * limited atrac3 support
2544 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2545 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2546 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2547 * H.264 PAFF support
2548 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2549 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2550 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2551 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2552 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2555 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2556 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2557 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2558 * AQTitle subtitles support
2559 * MKV USF subtitles support
2560 * HTML-based subtitles support
2561 * MPSub subtitles support
2562 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2563 * MPL2 subtitles support
2564 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2565 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2566 * Realtext subtitle support
2567 * DKS subtitle support
2568 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2569 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2572 * Flash Screen Video support
2573 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2575 Video outputs and filters:
2576 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2577 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2578 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2579 * New puzzle video output filter
2580 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2581 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2583 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2584 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2585 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2586 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2587 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2588 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2589 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2590 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2591 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2592 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2593 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2594 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2595 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2596 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2598 Audio outputs and filters:
2599 * Replay gain support
2600 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2601 new scaletempo audio filter)
2602 * New spatializer audio filter
2603 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2606 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2607 * New RTP payload formats:
2608 * Speex voice audio codec
2609 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2610 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2611 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2612 * DCCP transport for RTP
2613 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2618 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2619 end-user suitable way.
2620 * Improved user interaction
2621 * Improved mouse gestures
2622 * Vastly improved Update checker
2623 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2625 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2626 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2628 * Improved video output features
2629 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2630 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2631 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2632 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2633 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2635 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2636 if libncursesw is available.
2637 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2638 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2639 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2641 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2642 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2643 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2644 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2645 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2646 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2647 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2648 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2651 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2652 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2653 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2656 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2657 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2658 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2659 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2660 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2661 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2664 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2665 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2675 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2676 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2677 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2680 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2681 ----------------------------------
2684 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2687 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2688 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2689 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2690 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2691 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2692 * Updated Polish translation
2695 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2696 ----------------------------------
2699 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2700 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2701 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2704 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2705 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2706 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2707 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2708 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2709 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2710 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2711 to an unexpected application termination
2712 * New Serbian translation
2713 * Updated Romanian translation
2716 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2717 ----------------------------------
2720 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2721 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2722 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2723 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2724 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2725 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2726 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2727 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2730 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2731 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2732 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2733 * Fixed AAC resampling
2734 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2735 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2738 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2739 ----------------------------------
2742 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2743 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2744 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2745 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2746 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2749 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2750 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2751 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2752 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2753 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2756 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2757 ----------------------------------
2760 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2761 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2764 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2765 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2766 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2767 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2769 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2773 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2776 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2779 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2782 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2785 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2786 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2787 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2788 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2789 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2791 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2792 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2793 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2794 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2797 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2800 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2801 ----------------------------------
2804 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2805 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2806 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2808 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2809 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2811 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2812 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2815 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2817 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2818 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2819 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2820 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2821 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2822 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2823 two different movies
2824 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2825 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2826 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2829 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2832 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2833 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2834 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2835 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2838 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2839 ----------------------------------
2841 Various bugfixes, notably:
2842 * Windows Vista compatibility
2843 * Cropping in Direct3D
2844 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2845 * RSS filter string overflow
2847 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2849 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2850 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2853 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2854 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2857 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2860 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2863 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2866 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2867 ----------------------------------
2869 Various bugfixes, notably:
2870 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2871 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2872 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2873 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2874 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2875 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2878 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2879 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2882 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2884 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2885 * Diverse usability improvements
2886 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2887 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2888 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2891 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2892 ---------------------------------
2894 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2895 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2898 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2901 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2902 --------------------------------
2905 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2908 * Support for RTSP authentication
2909 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2910 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2911 * ATSC support for DVB input
2912 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2913 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2914 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2917 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2918 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2919 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2920 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2921 * Matroska WavPack support
2922 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2923 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2924 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2927 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2928 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2929 * Improved libcaca support
2933 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2934 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2936 * Systray support in skins
2938 * Support for Apple Remote control
2939 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2940 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2941 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2942 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2944 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2947 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2948 Windows 9x/ME users:
2949 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2950 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2951 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2952 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2953 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2955 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2956 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2965 * Updates to the libvlc API
2966 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2969 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2970 --------------------------------
2973 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2974 * Support for downloading updates
2978 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2979 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2980 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2981 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2983 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2984 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2985 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2988 * Cook (Real audio) support
2990 Playlist / Services discovery:
2991 * XSPF playlist support
2993 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2996 * New JACK audio output
2999 * New video filters:
3000 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3001 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3002 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3003 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3004 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3005 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3008 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3011 * System to inform the user and request information
3012 - HTTP authentication
3016 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3017 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3018 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3021 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3022 - Improved playlist handling
3023 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3025 - Embedded Video output
3026 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3027 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3028 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3029 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3030 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3032 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3033 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3036 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3039 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3040 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3041 * Growl "Now playing" support
3044 * Ability to log to syslog
3045 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3048 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3050 * A bit more automatic testing
3053 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3054 ---------------------------------
3057 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3058 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3061 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3062 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3065 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3068 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3069 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3075 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3078 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3079 --------------------------------
3082 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3086 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3087 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3088 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3091 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3092 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3093 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3094 * GnomeVFS input module
3095 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3096 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3099 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3100 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3101 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3104 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3105 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3111 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3112 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3115 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3116 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3117 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3120 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3122 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3123 - New extended controls panel
3124 - New bookmarks window
3125 - Fixed playlist sorting
3126 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3128 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3129 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3130 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3131 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3135 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3136 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3138 - Include macro to include other files
3142 * Should now work outside IE as well
3145 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3148 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3149 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3152 The following languages were added:
3156 * Simplified Chinese
3157 The following languages were re-added:
3161 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3162 --------------------------------
3165 * Rewrite of the playlist
3167 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3168 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3169 * Preferences improvements:
3170 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3171 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3173 * Core image manipulation support
3174 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3175 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3176 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3177 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3178 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3179 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3180 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3181 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3182 * Access filter architecture
3183 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3184 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3188 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3189 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3190 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3191 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3192 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3193 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3194 * Massive Matroska improvements
3195 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3197 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3198 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3199 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3200 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3201 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3203 Decoders / Encoders:
3204 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3205 * PNG decoder/encoder
3206 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3207 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3210 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3213 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3214 * Brand new SAP module
3215 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3216 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3217 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3218 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3219 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3220 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3224 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3227 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3228 * Image file video output (png)
3229 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3230 * Improvements to wall video filter
3231 * Support for font color and opacity
3237 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3238 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3239 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3243 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3244 - Improved preferences
3245 - Improvements to the wizard
3246 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3248 - Redesigned playlist
3249 - Improved preferences
3251 - Support for multiple actions
3254 - Support for the new playlist system
3256 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3259 * Screensaver disabling fix
3260 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3261 * Support for no-decoration windows
3264 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3265 * The OpenGL video output is back
3266 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3267 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3268 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3269 is not yet available in the new module
3270 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3273 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3282 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3285 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3288 The following languages were added:
3294 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3295 --------------------------------
3298 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3299 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3302 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3303 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3304 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3307 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3310 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3313 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3316 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3317 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3318 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3322 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3324 * Support of playlist group announcement
3327 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3328 --------------------------------
3331 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3332 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3333 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3334 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3335 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3336 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3339 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3340 (Stream your desktop)
3341 * Improved DVD support:
3342 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3343 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3344 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3345 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3346 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3347 (selection of titles/chapters).
3350 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3351 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3352 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3353 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3354 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3355 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3356 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3357 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3358 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3359 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3362 * G.726 audio support
3363 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3364 * MPEG-4 text support
3365 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3366 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3367 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3371 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3372 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3373 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3374 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3375 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3376 * DVB subtitles encoder
3377 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3378 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3380 * Text track muxing for mp4
3381 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3382 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3383 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3384 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3385 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3386 * Improved ASF muxer
3388 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3389 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3390 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3393 * New audio equalizer filter
3394 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3395 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3396 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3397 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3400 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3401 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3402 with support for effects.
3403 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3404 - New filters can be streamed.
3405 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3406 - Centralized scaling and blending
3408 - "time", to display current time
3409 - "marq", to display a marquee
3412 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3413 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3414 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3415 * A few skins2 improvements
3416 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3417 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3418 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3419 * Improved CORBA control module
3422 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3423 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3424 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3427 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3428 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3429 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3432 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3433 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3434 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3435 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3436 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3439 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3442 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3443 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3446 * Server/client network synchronization module
3447 * VBrick streams fully supported
3448 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3452 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3453 --------------------------------
3456 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3457 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3458 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3459 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3462 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3463 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3464 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3465 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3466 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3467 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3468 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3471 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3472 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3473 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3474 * Improved directory access module.
3475 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3476 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3477 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3478 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3479 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3482 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3483 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3484 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3487 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3488 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3489 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3492 * Improved session announcement system.
3493 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3494 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3495 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3496 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3497 * Improved transrater.
3498 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3499 * New configuration system.
3500 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3503 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3504 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3505 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3506 * Supports scheduling.
3507 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3508 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3511 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3512 - Ability to embed video output.
3513 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3514 - Lots of improvements.
3515 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3516 - New design and set of icons.
3517 - Ability to embed video output.
3518 - Support for hotkeys.
3519 - Support for bookmarks.
3521 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3522 - Better hotkeys handling.
3525 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3526 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3527 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3528 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3531 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3532 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3533 * Improved Windows installer.
3539 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3540 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3543 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3544 ---------------------------------
3547 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3548 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3551 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3552 --------------------------------
3555 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3556 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3559 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3560 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3561 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3562 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3565 * Internal improvments
3566 * Improved import/export
3569 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3571 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3572 small and strange formats.
3574 * New MOD audio demux.
3575 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3576 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3577 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3578 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3581 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3582 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3583 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3589 * New opengl video output plugin.
3592 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3593 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3596 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3597 --------------------------------
3600 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3601 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3602 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3603 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3604 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3605 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3606 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3607 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3610 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3615 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3616 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3617 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3618 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3619 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3620 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3621 * Better Icecast support.
3622 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3623 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3626 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3627 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3628 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3629 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3630 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3631 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3632 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3635 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3636 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3637 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3638 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3639 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3640 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3641 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3642 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3643 * Preliminary RTP support.
3644 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3649 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3650 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3652 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3653 - Improvements and help in preferences
3654 - New streaming wizard
3655 - Revised Disc Open menu
3657 - Improvements of the standard pages
3658 - Support for new commands
3659 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3662 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3663 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3666 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3667 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3668 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3669 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3670 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3671 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3672 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3673 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3674 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3677 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3679 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3680 * Support for Panther.
3681 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3682 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3685 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3686 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3687 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3688 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3689 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3690 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3691 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3692 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3695 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3696 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3697 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3700 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3703 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3704 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3705 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3706 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3709 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3710 --------------------------------
3713 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3716 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3717 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3720 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3721 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3724 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3727 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3728 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3731 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3734 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3737 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3738 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3742 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3743 --------------------------------
3746 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3747 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3751 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3752 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3753 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3755 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3756 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3759 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3762 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3765 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3766 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3770 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3771 --------------------------------
3774 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3775 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3779 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3780 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3781 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3782 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3783 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3786 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3787 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3788 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3791 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3792 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3793 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3796 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3797 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3798 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3799 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3800 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3803 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3804 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3805 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3808 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3811 * Improved build system.
3812 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3813 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3814 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3815 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3818 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3819 --------------------------------
3822 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3825 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3826 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3827 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3828 * Video 4 Linux support
3829 * CD Digital Audio support
3830 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3833 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3834 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3835 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3836 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3839 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3840 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3841 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3842 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3843 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3844 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3845 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3848 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3849 * New HTTP remote control interface
3852 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3853 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3854 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3855 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3856 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3859 * New reset option for the preferences
3860 * You can set your language in the prefences
3861 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3862 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3863 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3864 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3867 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3868 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3869 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3872 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3873 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3874 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3875 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3876 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3877 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3878 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3879 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3880 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3881 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3884 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3885 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3886 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3887 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3888 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3889 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3890 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3893 * Interface localization
3894 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3895 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3896 * New full-featured Preferences window
3899 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3900 --------------------------------
3903 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3904 * support for skins at the interface level
3905 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3906 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3907 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3908 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3909 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3912 * fixed HTTP redirects
3913 * support for opening an entire directory
3914 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3915 * new video4linux access plug-in
3916 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3919 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3920 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3921 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3924 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3925 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3926 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3927 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3928 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3929 * new codec for raw I420 video
3930 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3933 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3934 (although it still misses some important features)
3935 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3938 * new HTTP output support
3939 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3940 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3943 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3946 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3949 * reorderable playlist
3950 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3951 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3952 * support for mono audio output devices
3953 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3954 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3955 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3956 * the messages window remembers more lines
3957 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3958 * http and ogg stream output options
3959 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3962 * new skinnable interface
3963 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3965 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3966 * support for FLAC audio format
3967 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3969 * network tab in the interface
3970 * "apply" handling in preferences
3973 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3974 ---------------------------------
3977 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3978 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3979 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3980 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3982 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3983 * DTS S/PDIF support
3986 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3987 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3988 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3989 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3992 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3993 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3996 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3999 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4002 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4004 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4005 * rc interface is now fully useable
4006 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4009 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4010 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4011 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4012 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4013 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4015 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4016 * support for mouse gestures
4017 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4020 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4021 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4024 * improved ID3 tag detection
4025 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4026 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4027 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4029 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4032 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4033 ---------------------------------
4036 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4037 English was set as the preferred language
4040 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4041 --------------------------------
4044 * new mouse gesture interface
4045 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4049 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4050 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4051 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4054 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4055 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4059 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4062 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4063 without the user consent
4066 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4068 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4069 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4070 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4073 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4074 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4075 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4076 * playlist enhancements
4077 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4078 * new step forward/step backward commands
4079 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4080 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4081 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4084 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4085 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4086 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4089 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4090 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4093 * native video output is working again
4094 * only commandline interface support
4095 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4098 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4099 --------------------------------
4102 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4103 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4104 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4105 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4106 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4107 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4108 and A/52 streams are supported)
4109 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4114 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4115 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4116 * VCD entry points support
4117 * VCD image file support
4120 * support for *.asf format
4121 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4122 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4123 * support for ogg encapsulation
4124 * support for raw DV format
4125 * support for *.wav format
4126 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4129 Stream discovery & playlists:
4130 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4131 * support for .m3u file format
4132 * support for .asx file format
4133 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4136 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4137 (only available with the .avi demux)
4138 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4139 * support for raw PCM data
4140 * support for Cinepak video codec
4141 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4142 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4143 * support for Xvid codec
4144 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4145 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4146 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4148 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4150 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4153 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4156 * new WxWindows interface
4157 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4158 device and the channels configuration
4159 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4160 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4161 format that VLC can play
4162 * new swedish translation
4163 * enhancements of the playlist window
4164 * new messages window to see debug info
4165 * fixed a few crashes
4168 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4169 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4170 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4171 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working