1 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
9 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
10 * Invmem modules improvements
13 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
14 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
15 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
16 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
17 * Various EGP improvements
20 * WPL playlist support
21 * ZPL playlist support
22 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
23 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
26 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
27 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
28 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
29 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
30 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
31 * NEON assembly audio converter module
34 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
35 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
36 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
37 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
38 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
39 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
42 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
43 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
44 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
45 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
46 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
49 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
52 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
53 * Service discovery based on libudev
56 * New smem module, streaming to memory
59 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
62 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
65 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
73 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interface
76 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
77 --------------------------------
80 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
81 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
82 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
85 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
86 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
89 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
90 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
93 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
96 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
97 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
98 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
99 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
102 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
103 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
104 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
105 - no support for Goom and SDL
106 - limited text rendering support
107 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
110 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
111 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
112 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
113 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
114 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
115 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
116 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
117 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
118 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
122 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
125 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
128 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
129 --------------------------------
132 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
133 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
134 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
135 * Fix Dailymotion access script
136 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
137 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
140 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
141 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
144 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
145 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
146 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
149 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
152 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
153 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
156 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
157 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
158 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
159 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
160 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
161 * Fix various crashes
164 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
166 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
169 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
170 ---------------------------------
174 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
175 See 'Access:' for more info.
176 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
179 * Instantaneous pausing
180 * Frame-by-Frame playback
181 * Finer speed control
182 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
183 * Timeshift for most medias
184 * RTSP trickplay support
185 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
188 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
189 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
190 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
191 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
192 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
193 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
194 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
195 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
196 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
197 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
200 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
201 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
202 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
203 * Metadata for mod files are supported
204 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
205 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
206 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
209 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
210 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
213 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
214 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
215 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
216 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
217 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
218 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
219 * DVB scanning on linux
220 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
221 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
222 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
223 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
224 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
225 * MTP device access on Unix
226 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
227 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
230 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
231 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
232 Windows and Mac OS X.
235 * Export the playlist in HTML
236 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
237 * Better metadata handling and reading
239 Linux/Windows interface:
240 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
241 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
242 * Recently played items list
243 * Interface toolbar customizations
244 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
247 - Improvements on many dialogs
248 - New dialog for plugins listing
249 - Fixed-size mode for videos
250 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
251 * Better integration in GTK environments
254 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
255 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
256 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
257 * Additional usability improvements
260 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
261 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
262 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
263 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
264 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
267 * New Maemo port with:
268 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
269 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
272 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
275 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
276 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
277 * Support for latest iSight models
280 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
281 * Surround support for PulseAudio
284 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
285 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
286 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
287 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
288 The old image video output has been removed.
289 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
290 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
293 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
298 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
299 ---------------------------------
302 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
303 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
306 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
307 ---------------------------------
310 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
313 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
316 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
317 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
318 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
319 main controller window.
320 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
323 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
328 * Updates of other localizations
331 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
332 * Lots of small bugfixes.
333 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
334 * Telnet fixes on Windows
335 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
337 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
338 ---------------------------------
341 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
343 Bunch of small bugfixes.
346 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
347 --------------------------------
352 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
353 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
356 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
357 --------------------------------
359 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
360 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
363 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
366 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
367 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
370 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
371 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
374 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
375 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
376 * Various fixed in playlist
379 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
382 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
385 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
386 ------------------------------------
388 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
389 * Fixes several memory leaks.
392 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
393 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
394 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
397 * Stability fix for the video output.
400 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
401 --------------------------------
404 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
405 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
406 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
407 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
408 * Fixed update system bugs
409 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
412 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
413 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
414 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
415 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
416 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
417 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
418 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
419 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
420 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
421 modern Mac OS X versions
424 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
425 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
427 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
428 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
431 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
432 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
433 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
434 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
435 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
436 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
439 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
440 --------------------------------
442 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
443 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
447 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
448 --------------------------------
450 * Multiple bug fixes.
453 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
454 ---------------------------------
458 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
459 recent to work correctly
460 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
461 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
462 edit the ".hosts" file.
463 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
464 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
465 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
466 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
467 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
468 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
469 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
470 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
471 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
472 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
473 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
474 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
475 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
476 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
477 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
478 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
479 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
480 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
481 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
482 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
483 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
484 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
485 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
486 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
487 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
488 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
489 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
490 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
491 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
492 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
493 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
494 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
495 and postproc modules.
496 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
497 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
498 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
499 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
501 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
503 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
504 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
506 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
507 * Glide video output module has been removed.
513 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
515 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
516 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
519 * Vastly improved playlist support:
520 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
522 * Shoutcast TV listings
523 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
525 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
526 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
528 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
531 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
532 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
533 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
534 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
535 * JACK audio input support
536 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
537 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
538 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
539 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
540 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
541 * Experimental EyeTV access module
542 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
543 (available as a separate download).
544 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
546 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
547 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
548 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
550 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
551 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
554 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
555 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
556 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
557 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
559 * APEv1/2 tags support
560 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
561 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
563 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
564 * TiVo Series 2 support
565 * CD+G karaoke Files support
570 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
571 * Flash Screen Video support
572 * CamStudio Screen Video support
573 * DosBox Capture support
574 * Karl Morton's Video support
575 * limited atrac3 support
577 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
578 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
579 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
581 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
582 * NellyMoser ASAO support
583 * APE (Monkey audio) support
584 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
585 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
588 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
589 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
590 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
591 * AQTitle subtitles support
592 * MKV USF subtitles support
593 * HTML-based subtitles support
594 * MPSub subtitles support
595 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
596 * MPL2 subtitles support
597 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
598 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
599 * Realtext subtitle support
600 * DKS subtitle support
601 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
602 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
605 * Flash Screen Video support
606 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
608 Video outputs and filters:
609 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
610 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
611 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
612 * New puzzle video output filter
613 * Re-written motion detection video filter
614 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
616 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
617 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
618 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
619 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
620 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
621 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
622 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
623 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
624 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
625 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
626 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
627 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
628 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
629 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
631 Audio outputs and filters:
632 * Replay gain support
633 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
634 new scaletempo audio filter)
635 * New spatializer audio filter
636 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
639 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
640 * New RTP payload formats:
641 * Speex voice audio codec
642 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
643 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
644 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
645 * DCCP transport for RTP
646 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
651 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
652 end-user suitable way.
653 * Improved user interaction
654 * Improved mouse gestures
655 * Vastly improved Update checker
656 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
658 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
659 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
661 * Improved video output features
662 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
663 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
664 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
665 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
666 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
668 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
669 if libncursesw is available.
670 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
671 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
672 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
674 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
675 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
676 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
677 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
678 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
679 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
680 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
681 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
684 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
685 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
686 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
689 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
690 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
691 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
692 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
693 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
694 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
697 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
698 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
708 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
709 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
710 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
713 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
714 ----------------------------------
717 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
720 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
721 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
722 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
723 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
724 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
725 * Updated Polish translation
728 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
729 ----------------------------------
732 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
733 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
734 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
737 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
738 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
739 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
740 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
741 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
742 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
743 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
744 to an unexpected application termination
745 * New Serbian translation
746 * Updated Romanian translation
749 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
750 ----------------------------------
753 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
754 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
755 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
756 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
757 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
758 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
759 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
760 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
763 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
764 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
765 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
766 * Fixed AAC resampling
767 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
768 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
771 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
772 ----------------------------------
775 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
776 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
777 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
778 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
779 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
782 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
783 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
784 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
785 * Close MMS access on network timeout
786 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
789 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
790 ----------------------------------
793 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
794 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
797 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
798 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
799 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
800 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
802 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
806 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
809 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
812 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
815 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
818 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
819 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
820 encoding on multi-cpu systems
821 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
822 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
824 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
825 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
826 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
827 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
830 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
833 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
834 ----------------------------------
837 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
838 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
839 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
841 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
842 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
844 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
845 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
848 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
850 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
851 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
852 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
853 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
854 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
855 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
857 * Support for current Ogg file formats
858 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
859 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
862 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
865 * The automatic updating facility was removed
866 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
867 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
868 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
871 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
872 ----------------------------------
874 Various bugfixes, notably:
875 * Windows Vista compatibility
876 * Cropping in Direct3D
877 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
878 * RSS filter string overflow
880 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
882 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
883 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
886 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
887 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
890 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
893 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
896 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
899 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
900 ----------------------------------
902 Various bugfixes, notably:
903 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
904 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
905 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
906 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
907 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
908 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
911 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
912 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
915 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
917 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
918 * Diverse usability improvements
919 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
920 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
921 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
924 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
925 ---------------------------------
928 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
931 * Fullscreen controller improvements
934 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
935 --------------------------------
938 * Shoutcast TV listings support
941 * Support for RTSP authentication
942 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
943 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
944 * ATSC support for DVB input
945 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
946 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
947 * Improved support for Flash Video files
950 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
951 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
952 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
953 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
954 * Matroska WavPack support
955 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
956 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
957 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
960 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
961 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
962 * Improved libcaca support
966 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
967 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
969 * Systray support in skins
971 * Support for Apple Remote control
972 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
973 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
974 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
975 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
977 * Notifications using notification-daemon
980 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
982 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
983 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
984 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
985 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
986 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
988 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
989 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
998 * Updates to the libvlc API
999 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1002 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1003 --------------------------------
1006 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1007 * Support for downloading updates
1011 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1012 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1013 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1014 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1016 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1017 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1018 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1021 * Cook (Real audio) support
1023 Playlist / Services discovery:
1024 * XSPF playlist support
1026 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1029 * New JACK audio output
1032 * New video filters:
1033 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1034 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1035 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1036 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1037 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1038 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1041 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1044 * System to inform the user and request information
1045 - HTTP authentication
1049 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1050 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1051 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1054 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1055 - Improved playlist handling
1056 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1058 - Embedded Video output
1059 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1060 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1061 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1062 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1063 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1065 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1066 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1069 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1072 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1073 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1074 * Growl "Now playing" support
1077 * Ability to log to syslog
1078 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1081 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1083 * A bit more automatic testing
1086 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1087 ---------------------------------
1090 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1091 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1094 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1095 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1098 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1101 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1102 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1108 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1111 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1112 --------------------------------
1115 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1119 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1120 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1121 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1124 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1125 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1126 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1127 * GnomeVFS input module
1128 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1129 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1132 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1133 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1134 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1137 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1138 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1144 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1145 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1148 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1149 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1150 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1153 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1155 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1156 - New extended controls panel
1157 - New bookmarks window
1158 - Fixed playlist sorting
1159 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1161 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1162 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1163 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1164 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1168 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1169 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1171 - Include macro to include other files
1175 * Should now work outside IE as well
1178 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1181 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1182 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1185 The following languages were added:
1189 * Simplified Chinese
1190 The following languages were re-added:
1194 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1195 --------------------------------
1198 * Rewrite of the playlist
1200 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1201 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1202 * Preferences improvements:
1203 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1204 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1206 * Core image manipulation support
1207 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1208 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1209 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1210 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1211 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1212 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1213 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1214 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1215 * Access filter architecture
1216 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1217 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1221 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1222 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1223 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1224 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1225 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1226 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1227 * Massive Matroska improvements
1228 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1230 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1231 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1232 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1233 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1234 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1236 Decoders / Encoders:
1237 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1238 * PNG decoder/encoder
1239 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1240 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1243 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1246 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1247 * Brand new SAP module
1248 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1249 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1250 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1251 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1252 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1253 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1257 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1260 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1261 * Image file video output (png)
1262 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1263 * Improvements to wall video filter
1264 * Support for font color and opacity
1270 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1271 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1272 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1276 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1277 - Improved preferences
1278 - Improvements to the wizard
1279 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1281 - Redesigned playlist
1282 - Improved preferences
1284 - Support for multiple actions
1287 - Support for the new playlist system
1289 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1292 * Screensaver disabling fix
1293 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1294 * Support for no-decoration windows
1297 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1298 * The OpenGL video output is back
1299 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1300 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1301 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1302 is not yet available in the new module
1303 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1306 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1315 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1318 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1321 The following languages were added:
1327 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1328 --------------------------------
1331 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1332 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1335 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1336 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1337 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1340 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1343 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1346 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1349 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1350 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1351 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1355 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1357 * Support of playlist group announcement
1360 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1361 --------------------------------
1364 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1365 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1366 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1367 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1368 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1369 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1372 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1373 (Stream your desktop)
1374 * Improved DVD support:
1375 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1376 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1377 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1378 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1379 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1380 (selection of titles/chapters).
1383 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1384 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1385 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1386 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1387 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1388 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1389 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1390 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1391 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1392 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1395 * G.726 audio support
1396 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1397 * MPEG-4 text support
1398 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1399 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1400 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1404 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1405 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1406 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1407 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1408 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1409 * DVB subtitles encoder
1410 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1411 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1413 * Text track muxing for mp4
1414 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1415 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1416 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1417 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1418 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1419 * Improved ASF muxer
1421 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1422 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1423 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1426 * New audio equalizer filter
1427 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1428 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1429 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1430 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1433 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1434 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1435 with support for effects.
1436 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1437 - New filters can be streamed.
1438 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1439 - Centralized scaling and blending
1441 - "time", to display current time
1442 - "marq", to display a marquee
1445 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1446 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1447 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1448 * A few skins2 improvements
1449 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1450 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1451 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1452 * Improved CORBA control module
1455 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1456 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1457 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1460 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1461 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1462 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1465 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1466 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1467 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1468 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1469 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1472 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1475 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1476 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1479 * Server/client network synchronization module
1480 * VBrick streams fully supported
1481 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1485 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1486 --------------------------------
1489 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1490 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1491 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1492 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1495 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1496 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1497 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1498 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1499 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1500 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1501 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1504 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1505 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1506 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1507 * Improved directory access module.
1508 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1509 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1510 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1511 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1512 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1515 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1516 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1517 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1520 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1521 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1522 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1525 * Improved session announcement system.
1526 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1527 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1528 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1529 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1530 * Improved transrater.
1531 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1532 * New configuration system.
1533 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1536 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1537 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1538 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1539 * Supports scheduling.
1540 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1541 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1544 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1545 - Ability to embed video output.
1546 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1547 - Lots of improvements.
1548 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1549 - New design and set of icons.
1550 - Ability to embed video output.
1551 - Support for hotkeys.
1552 - Support for bookmarks.
1554 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1555 - Better hotkeys handling.
1558 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1559 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1560 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1561 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1564 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1565 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1566 * Improved Windows installer.
1572 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1573 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1576 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1577 ---------------------------------
1580 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1581 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1584 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1585 --------------------------------
1588 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1589 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1592 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1593 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1594 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1595 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1598 * Internal improvments
1599 * Improved import/export
1602 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1604 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1605 small and strange formats.
1607 * New MOD audio demux.
1608 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1609 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1610 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1611 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1614 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1615 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1616 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1622 * New opengl video output plugin.
1625 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1626 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1629 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1630 --------------------------------
1633 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1634 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1635 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1636 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1637 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1638 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1639 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1640 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1643 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1648 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1649 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1650 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1651 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1652 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1653 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1654 * Better Icecast support.
1655 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1656 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1659 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1660 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1661 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1662 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1663 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1664 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1665 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1668 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1669 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1670 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1671 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1672 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1673 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1674 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1675 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1676 * Preliminary RTP support.
1677 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1682 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1683 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1685 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1686 - Improvements and help in preferences
1687 - New streaming wizard
1688 - Revised Disc Open menu
1690 - Improvements of the standard pages
1691 - Support for new commands
1692 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1695 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1696 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1699 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1700 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1701 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1702 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1703 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1704 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1705 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1706 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1707 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1710 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1712 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1713 * Support for Panther.
1714 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1715 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1718 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1719 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1720 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1721 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1722 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1723 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1724 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1725 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1728 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1729 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1730 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1733 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1736 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1737 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1738 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1739 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1742 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1743 --------------------------------
1746 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1749 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1750 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1753 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1754 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1757 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1760 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1761 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1764 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1767 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1770 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1771 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1775 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1776 --------------------------------
1779 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1780 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1784 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1785 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1786 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1788 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1789 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1792 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1795 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1798 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1799 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1803 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1804 --------------------------------
1807 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1808 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1812 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1813 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1814 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1815 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1816 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1819 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1820 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1821 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1824 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1825 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1826 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1829 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1830 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1831 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1832 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1833 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1836 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1837 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1838 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1841 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1844 * Improved build system.
1845 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1846 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1847 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1848 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1851 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1852 --------------------------------
1855 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1858 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1859 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1860 * Video 4 Linux support
1861 * CD Digital Audio support
1862 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1865 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1866 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1867 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1868 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1871 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1872 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1873 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1874 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1875 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1876 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1877 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1880 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1881 * New HTTP remote control interface
1884 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1885 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1886 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1887 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1890 * New reset option for the preferences
1891 * You can set your language in the prefences
1892 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1893 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1894 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1895 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1898 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1899 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1900 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1903 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1904 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1905 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1906 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1907 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1908 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1909 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1910 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1911 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1912 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1915 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1916 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1917 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1918 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1919 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1920 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1921 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1924 * Interface localization
1925 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1926 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1927 * New full-featured Preferences window
1930 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1931 --------------------------------
1934 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1935 * support for skins at the interface level
1936 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1937 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1938 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1939 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1940 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1943 * fixed HTTP redirects
1944 * support for opening an entire directory
1945 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1946 * new video4linux access plug-in
1947 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1950 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1951 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1952 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1955 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1956 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1957 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1958 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1959 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1960 * new codec for raw I420 video
1961 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1964 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1965 (although it still misses some important features)
1966 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1969 * new HTTP output support
1970 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1971 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1974 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1977 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1980 * reorderable playlist
1981 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1982 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1983 * support for mono audio output devices
1984 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1985 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1986 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1987 * the messages window remembers more lines
1988 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1989 * http and ogg stream output options
1990 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1993 * new skinnable interface
1994 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1996 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1997 * support for FLAC audio format
1998 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2000 * network tab in the interface
2001 * "apply" handling in preferences
2004 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2005 ---------------------------------
2008 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2009 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2010 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2011 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2013 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2014 * DTS S/PDIF support
2017 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2018 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2019 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2020 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2023 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2024 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2027 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2030 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2033 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2035 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2036 * rc interface is now fully useable
2037 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2040 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2041 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2042 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2043 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2044 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2046 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2047 * support for mouse gestures
2048 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2051 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2052 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2055 * improved ID3 tag detection
2056 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2057 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2058 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2060 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2063 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2064 ---------------------------------
2067 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2068 English was set as the preferred language
2071 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2072 --------------------------------
2075 * new mouse gesture interface
2076 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2080 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2081 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2082 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2085 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2086 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2090 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2093 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2094 without the user consent
2097 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2099 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2100 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2101 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2104 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2105 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2106 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2107 * playlist enhancements
2108 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2109 * new step forward/step backward commands
2110 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2111 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2112 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2115 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2116 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2117 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2120 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2121 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2124 * native video output is working again
2125 * only commandline interface support
2126 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2129 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2130 --------------------------------
2133 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2134 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2135 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2136 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2137 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2138 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2139 and A/52 streams are supported)
2140 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2145 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2146 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2147 * VCD entry points support
2148 * VCD image file support
2151 * support for *.asf format
2152 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2153 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2154 * support for ogg encapsulation
2155 * support for raw DV format
2156 * support for *.wav format
2157 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2160 Stream discovery & playlists:
2161 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2162 * support for .m3u file format
2163 * support for .asx file format
2164 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2167 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2168 (only available with the .avi demux)
2169 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2170 * support for raw PCM data
2171 * support for Cinepak video codec
2172 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2173 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2174 * support for Xvid codec
2175 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2176 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2177 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2179 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2181 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2184 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2187 * new WxWindows interface
2188 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2189 device and the channels configuration
2190 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2191 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2192 format that VLC can play
2193 * new swedish translation
2194 * enhancements of the playlist window
2195 * new messages window to see debug info
2196 * fixed a few crashes
2199 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2200 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2201 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2202 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working