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
72 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead)
73 * HAL (use libudev instead)
74 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
77 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
78 --------------------------------
81 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
82 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
83 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
86 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
87 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
90 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
91 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
94 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
97 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
98 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
99 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
100 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
103 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
104 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
105 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
106 - no support for Goom and SDL
107 - limited text rendering support
108 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
111 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
112 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
113 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
114 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
115 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
116 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
117 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
118 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
119 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
123 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
126 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
129 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
130 --------------------------------
133 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
134 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
135 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
136 * Fix Dailymotion access script
137 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
138 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
141 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
142 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
145 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
146 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
147 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
150 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
153 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
154 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
157 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
158 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
159 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
160 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
161 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
162 * Fix various crashes
165 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
167 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
170 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
171 ---------------------------------
175 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
176 See 'Access:' for more info.
177 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
180 * Instantaneous pausing
181 * Frame-by-Frame playback
182 * Finer speed control
183 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
184 * Timeshift for most medias
185 * RTSP trickplay support
186 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
189 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
190 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
191 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
192 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
193 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
194 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
195 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
196 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
197 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
198 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
201 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
202 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
203 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
204 * Metadata for mod files are supported
205 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
206 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
207 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
210 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
211 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
214 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
215 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
216 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
217 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
218 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
219 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
220 * DVB scanning on linux
221 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
222 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
223 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
224 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
225 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
226 * MTP device access on Unix
227 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
228 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
231 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
232 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
233 Windows and Mac OS X.
236 * Export the playlist in HTML
237 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
238 * Better metadata handling and reading
240 Linux/Windows interface:
241 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
242 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
243 * Recently played items list
244 * Interface toolbar customizations
245 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
248 - Improvements on many dialogs
249 - New dialog for plugins listing
250 - Fixed-size mode for videos
251 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
252 * Better integration in GTK environments
255 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
256 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
257 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
258 * Additional usability improvements
261 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
262 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
263 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
264 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
265 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
268 * New Maemo port with:
269 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
270 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
273 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
276 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
277 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
278 * Support for latest iSight models
281 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
282 * Surround support for PulseAudio
285 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
286 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
287 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
288 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
289 The old image video output has been removed.
290 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
291 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
294 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
299 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
300 ---------------------------------
303 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
304 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
307 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
308 ---------------------------------
311 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
314 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
317 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
318 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
319 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
320 main controller window.
321 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
324 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
329 * Updates of other localizations
332 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
333 * Lots of small bugfixes.
334 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
335 * Telnet fixes on Windows
336 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
338 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
339 ---------------------------------
342 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
344 Bunch of small bugfixes.
347 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
348 --------------------------------
353 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
354 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
357 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
358 --------------------------------
360 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
361 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
364 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
367 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
368 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
371 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
372 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
375 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
376 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
377 * Various fixed in playlist
380 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
383 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
386 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
387 ------------------------------------
389 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
390 * Fixes several memory leaks.
393 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
394 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
395 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
398 * Stability fix for the video output.
401 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
402 --------------------------------
405 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
406 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
407 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
408 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
409 * Fixed update system bugs
410 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
413 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
414 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
415 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
416 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
417 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
418 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
419 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
420 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
421 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
422 modern Mac OS X versions
425 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
426 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
428 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
429 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
432 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
433 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
434 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
435 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
436 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
437 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
440 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
441 --------------------------------
443 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
444 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
448 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
449 --------------------------------
451 * Multiple bug fixes.
454 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
455 ---------------------------------
459 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
460 recent to work correctly
461 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
462 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
463 edit the ".hosts" file.
464 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
465 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
466 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
467 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
468 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
469 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
470 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
471 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
472 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
473 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
474 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
475 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
476 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
477 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
478 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
479 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
480 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
481 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
482 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
483 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
484 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
485 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
486 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
487 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
488 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
489 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
490 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
491 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
492 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
493 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
494 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
495 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
496 and postproc modules.
497 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
498 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
499 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
500 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
502 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
504 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
505 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
507 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
508 * Glide video output module has been removed.
514 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
516 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
517 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
520 * Vastly improved playlist support:
521 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
523 * Shoutcast TV listings
524 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
526 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
527 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
529 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
532 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
533 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
534 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
535 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
536 * JACK audio input support
537 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
538 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
539 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
540 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
541 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
542 * Experimental EyeTV access module
543 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
544 (available as a separate download).
545 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
547 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
548 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
549 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
551 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
552 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
555 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
556 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
557 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
558 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
560 * APEv1/2 tags support
561 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
562 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
564 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
565 * TiVo Series 2 support
566 * CD+G karaoke Files support
571 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
572 * Flash Screen Video support
573 * CamStudio Screen Video support
574 * DosBox Capture support
575 * Karl Morton's Video support
576 * limited atrac3 support
578 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
579 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
580 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
582 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
583 * NellyMoser ASAO support
584 * APE (Monkey audio) support
585 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
586 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
589 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
590 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
591 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
592 * AQTitle subtitles support
593 * MKV USF subtitles support
594 * HTML-based subtitles support
595 * MPSub subtitles support
596 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
597 * MPL2 subtitles support
598 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
599 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
600 * Realtext subtitle support
601 * DKS subtitle support
602 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
603 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
606 * Flash Screen Video support
607 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
609 Video outputs and filters:
610 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
611 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
612 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
613 * New puzzle video output filter
614 * Re-written motion detection video filter
615 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
617 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
618 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
619 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
620 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
621 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
622 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
623 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
624 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
625 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
626 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
627 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
628 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
629 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
630 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
632 Audio outputs and filters:
633 * Replay gain support
634 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
635 new scaletempo audio filter)
636 * New spatializer audio filter
637 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
640 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
641 * New RTP payload formats:
642 * Speex voice audio codec
643 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
644 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
645 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
646 * DCCP transport for RTP
647 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
652 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
653 end-user suitable way.
654 * Improved user interaction
655 * Improved mouse gestures
656 * Vastly improved Update checker
657 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
659 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
660 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
662 * Improved video output features
663 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
664 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
665 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
666 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
667 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
669 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
670 if libncursesw is available.
671 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
672 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
673 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
675 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
676 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
677 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
678 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
679 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
680 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
681 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
682 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
685 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
686 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
687 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
690 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
691 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
692 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
693 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
694 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
695 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
698 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
699 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
709 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
710 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
711 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
714 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
715 ----------------------------------
718 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
721 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
722 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
723 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
724 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
725 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
726 * Updated Polish translation
729 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
730 ----------------------------------
733 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
734 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
735 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
738 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
739 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
740 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
741 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
742 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
743 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
744 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
745 to an unexpected application termination
746 * New Serbian translation
747 * Updated Romanian translation
750 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
751 ----------------------------------
754 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
755 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
756 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
757 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
758 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
759 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
760 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
761 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
764 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
765 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
766 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
767 * Fixed AAC resampling
768 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
769 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
772 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
773 ----------------------------------
776 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
777 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
778 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
779 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
780 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
783 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
784 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
785 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
786 * Close MMS access on network timeout
787 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
790 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
791 ----------------------------------
794 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
795 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
798 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
799 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
800 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
801 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
803 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
807 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
810 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
813 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
816 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
819 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
820 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
821 encoding on multi-cpu systems
822 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
823 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
825 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
826 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
827 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
828 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
831 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
834 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
835 ----------------------------------
838 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
839 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
840 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
842 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
843 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
845 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
846 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
849 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
851 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
852 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
853 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
854 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
855 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
856 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
858 * Support for current Ogg file formats
859 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
860 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
863 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
866 * The automatic updating facility was removed
867 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
868 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
869 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
872 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
873 ----------------------------------
875 Various bugfixes, notably:
876 * Windows Vista compatibility
877 * Cropping in Direct3D
878 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
879 * RSS filter string overflow
881 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
883 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
884 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
887 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
888 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
891 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
894 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
897 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
900 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
901 ----------------------------------
903 Various bugfixes, notably:
904 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
905 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
906 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
907 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
908 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
909 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
912 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
913 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
916 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
918 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
919 * Diverse usability improvements
920 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
921 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
922 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
925 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
926 ---------------------------------
929 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
932 * Fullscreen controller improvements
935 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
936 --------------------------------
939 * Shoutcast TV listings support
942 * Support for RTSP authentication
943 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
944 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
945 * ATSC support for DVB input
946 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
947 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
948 * Improved support for Flash Video files
951 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
952 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
953 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
954 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
955 * Matroska WavPack support
956 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
957 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
958 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
961 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
962 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
963 * Improved libcaca support
967 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
968 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
970 * Systray support in skins
972 * Support for Apple Remote control
973 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
974 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
975 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
976 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
978 * Notifications using notification-daemon
981 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
983 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
984 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
985 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
986 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
987 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
989 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
990 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
999 * Updates to the libvlc API
1000 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1003 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1004 --------------------------------
1007 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1008 * Support for downloading updates
1012 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1013 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1014 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1015 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1017 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1018 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1019 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1022 * Cook (Real audio) support
1024 Playlist / Services discovery:
1025 * XSPF playlist support
1027 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1030 * New JACK audio output
1033 * New video filters:
1034 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1035 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1036 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1037 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1038 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1039 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1042 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1045 * System to inform the user and request information
1046 - HTTP authentication
1050 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1051 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1052 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1055 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1056 - Improved playlist handling
1057 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1059 - Embedded Video output
1060 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1061 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1062 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1063 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1064 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1066 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1067 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1070 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1073 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1074 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1075 * Growl "Now playing" support
1078 * Ability to log to syslog
1079 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1082 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1084 * A bit more automatic testing
1087 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1088 ---------------------------------
1091 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1092 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1095 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1096 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1099 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1102 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1103 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1109 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1112 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1113 --------------------------------
1116 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1120 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1121 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1122 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1125 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1126 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1127 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1128 * GnomeVFS input module
1129 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1130 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1133 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1134 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1135 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1138 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1139 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1145 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1146 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1149 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1150 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1151 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1154 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1156 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1157 - New extended controls panel
1158 - New bookmarks window
1159 - Fixed playlist sorting
1160 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1162 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1163 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1164 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1165 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1169 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1170 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1172 - Include macro to include other files
1176 * Should now work outside IE as well
1179 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1182 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1183 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1186 The following languages were added:
1190 * Simplified Chinese
1191 The following languages were re-added:
1195 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1196 --------------------------------
1199 * Rewrite of the playlist
1201 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1202 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1203 * Preferences improvements:
1204 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1205 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1207 * Core image manipulation support
1208 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1209 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1210 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1211 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1212 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1213 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1214 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1215 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1216 * Access filter architecture
1217 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1218 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1222 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1223 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1224 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1225 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1226 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1227 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1228 * Massive Matroska improvements
1229 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1231 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1232 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1233 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1234 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1235 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1237 Decoders / Encoders:
1238 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1239 * PNG decoder/encoder
1240 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1241 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1244 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1247 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1248 * Brand new SAP module
1249 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1250 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1251 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1252 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1253 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1254 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1258 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1261 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1262 * Image file video output (png)
1263 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1264 * Improvements to wall video filter
1265 * Support for font color and opacity
1271 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1272 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1273 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1277 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1278 - Improved preferences
1279 - Improvements to the wizard
1280 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1282 - Redesigned playlist
1283 - Improved preferences
1285 - Support for multiple actions
1288 - Support for the new playlist system
1290 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1293 * Screensaver disabling fix
1294 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1295 * Support for no-decoration windows
1298 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1299 * The OpenGL video output is back
1300 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1301 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1302 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1303 is not yet available in the new module
1304 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1307 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1316 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1319 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1322 The following languages were added:
1328 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1329 --------------------------------
1332 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1333 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1336 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1337 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1338 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1341 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1344 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1347 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1350 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1351 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1352 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1356 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1358 * Support of playlist group announcement
1361 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1362 --------------------------------
1365 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1366 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1367 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1368 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1369 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1370 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1373 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1374 (Stream your desktop)
1375 * Improved DVD support:
1376 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1377 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1378 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1379 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1380 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1381 (selection of titles/chapters).
1384 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1385 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1386 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1387 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1388 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1389 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1390 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1391 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1392 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1393 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1396 * G.726 audio support
1397 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1398 * MPEG-4 text support
1399 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1400 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1401 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1405 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1406 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1407 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1408 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1409 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1410 * DVB subtitles encoder
1411 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1412 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1414 * Text track muxing for mp4
1415 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1416 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1417 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1418 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1419 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1420 * Improved ASF muxer
1422 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1423 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1424 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1427 * New audio equalizer filter
1428 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1429 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1430 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1431 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1434 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1435 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1436 with support for effects.
1437 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1438 - New filters can be streamed.
1439 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1440 - Centralized scaling and blending
1442 - "time", to display current time
1443 - "marq", to display a marquee
1446 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1447 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1448 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1449 * A few skins2 improvements
1450 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1451 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1452 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1453 * Improved CORBA control module
1456 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1457 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1458 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1461 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1462 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1463 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1466 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1467 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1468 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1469 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1470 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1473 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1476 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1477 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1480 * Server/client network synchronization module
1481 * VBrick streams fully supported
1482 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1486 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1487 --------------------------------
1490 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1491 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1492 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1493 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1496 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1497 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1498 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1499 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1500 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1501 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1502 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1505 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1506 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1507 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1508 * Improved directory access module.
1509 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1510 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1511 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1512 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1513 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1516 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1517 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1518 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1521 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1522 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1523 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1526 * Improved session announcement system.
1527 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1528 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1529 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1530 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1531 * Improved transrater.
1532 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1533 * New configuration system.
1534 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1537 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1538 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1539 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1540 * Supports scheduling.
1541 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1542 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1545 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1546 - Ability to embed video output.
1547 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1548 - Lots of improvements.
1549 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1550 - New design and set of icons.
1551 - Ability to embed video output.
1552 - Support for hotkeys.
1553 - Support for bookmarks.
1555 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1556 - Better hotkeys handling.
1559 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1560 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1561 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1562 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1565 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1566 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1567 * Improved Windows installer.
1573 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1574 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1577 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1578 ---------------------------------
1581 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1582 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1585 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1586 --------------------------------
1589 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1590 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1593 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1594 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1595 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1596 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1599 * Internal improvments
1600 * Improved import/export
1603 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1605 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1606 small and strange formats.
1608 * New MOD audio demux.
1609 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1610 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1611 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1612 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1615 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1616 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1617 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1623 * New opengl video output plugin.
1626 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1627 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1630 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1631 --------------------------------
1634 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1635 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1636 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1637 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1638 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1639 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1640 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1641 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1644 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1649 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1650 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1651 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1652 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1653 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1654 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1655 * Better Icecast support.
1656 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1657 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1660 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1661 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1662 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1663 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1664 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1665 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1666 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1669 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1670 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1671 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1672 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1673 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1674 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1675 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1676 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1677 * Preliminary RTP support.
1678 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1683 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1684 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1686 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1687 - Improvements and help in preferences
1688 - New streaming wizard
1689 - Revised Disc Open menu
1691 - Improvements of the standard pages
1692 - Support for new commands
1693 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1696 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1697 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1700 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1701 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1702 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1703 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1704 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1705 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1706 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1707 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1708 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1711 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1713 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1714 * Support for Panther.
1715 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1716 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1719 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1720 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1721 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1722 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1723 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1724 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1725 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1726 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1729 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1730 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1731 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1734 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1737 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1738 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1739 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1740 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1743 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1744 --------------------------------
1747 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1750 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1751 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1754 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1755 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1758 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1761 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1762 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1765 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1768 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1771 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1772 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1776 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1781 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1785 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1786 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1787 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1789 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1790 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1793 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1796 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1799 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1800 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1804 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1805 --------------------------------
1808 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1809 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1813 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1814 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1815 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1816 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1817 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1820 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1821 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1822 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1825 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1826 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1827 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1830 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1831 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1832 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1833 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1834 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1837 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1838 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1839 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1842 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1845 * Improved build system.
1846 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1847 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1848 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1849 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1852 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1853 --------------------------------
1856 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1859 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1860 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1861 * Video 4 Linux support
1862 * CD Digital Audio support
1863 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1866 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1867 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1868 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1869 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1872 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1873 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1874 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1875 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1876 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1877 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1878 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1881 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1882 * New HTTP remote control interface
1885 * 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.
1886 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1887 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1888 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1891 * New reset option for the preferences
1892 * You can set your language in the prefences
1893 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1894 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1895 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1896 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1899 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1900 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1901 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1904 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1905 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1906 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1907 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1908 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1909 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1910 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1911 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1912 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1913 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1916 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1917 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1918 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1919 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1920 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1921 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1922 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1925 * Interface localization
1926 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1927 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1928 * New full-featured Preferences window
1931 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1932 --------------------------------
1935 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1936 * support for skins at the interface level
1937 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1938 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1939 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1940 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1941 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1944 * fixed HTTP redirects
1945 * support for opening an entire directory
1946 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1947 * new video4linux access plug-in
1948 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1951 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1952 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1953 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1956 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1957 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1958 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1959 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1960 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1961 * new codec for raw I420 video
1962 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1965 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1966 (although it still misses some important features)
1967 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1970 * new HTTP output support
1971 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1972 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1975 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1978 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1981 * reorderable playlist
1982 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1983 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1984 * support for mono audio output devices
1985 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1986 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1987 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1988 * the messages window remembers more lines
1989 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1990 * http and ogg stream output options
1991 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1994 * new skinnable interface
1995 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1997 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1998 * support for FLAC audio format
1999 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2001 * network tab in the interface
2002 * "apply" handling in preferences
2005 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2006 ---------------------------------
2009 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2010 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2011 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2012 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2014 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2015 * DTS S/PDIF support
2018 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2019 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2020 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2021 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2024 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2025 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2028 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2031 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2034 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2036 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2037 * rc interface is now fully useable
2038 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2041 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2042 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2043 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2044 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2045 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2047 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2048 * support for mouse gestures
2049 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2052 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2053 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2056 * improved ID3 tag detection
2057 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2058 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2059 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2061 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2064 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2065 ---------------------------------
2068 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2069 English was set as the preferred language
2072 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2073 --------------------------------
2076 * new mouse gesture interface
2077 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2081 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2082 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2083 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2086 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2087 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2091 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2094 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2095 without the user consent
2098 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2100 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2101 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2102 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2105 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2106 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2107 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2108 * playlist enhancements
2109 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2110 * new step forward/step backward commands
2111 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2112 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2113 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2116 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2117 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2118 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2121 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2122 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2125 * native video output is working again
2126 * only commandline interface support
2127 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2130 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2131 --------------------------------
2134 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2135 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2136 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2137 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2138 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2139 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2140 and A/52 streams are supported)
2141 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2146 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2147 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2148 * VCD entry points support
2149 * VCD image file support
2152 * support for *.asf format
2153 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2154 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2155 * support for ogg encapsulation
2156 * support for raw DV format
2157 * support for *.wav format
2158 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2161 Stream discovery & playlists:
2162 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2163 * support for .m3u file format
2164 * support for .asx file format
2165 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2168 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2169 (only available with the .avi demux)
2170 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2171 * support for raw PCM data
2172 * support for Cinepak video codec
2173 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2174 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2175 * support for Xvid codec
2176 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2177 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2178 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2180 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2182 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2185 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2188 * new WxWindows interface
2189 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2190 device and the channels configuration
2191 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2192 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2193 format that VLC can play
2194 * new swedish translation
2195 * enhancements of the playlist window
2196 * new messages window to see debug info
2197 * fixed a few crashes
2200 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2201 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2202 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2203 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working