-Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
+Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-pre1:
------------------------------------
+Important notes:
+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
+ conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
+ from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
+ title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
+ * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
+ - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
+ - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
+ - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
+ - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
+ All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
+ * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
+ - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
+ By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
+ - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
+ By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
+ - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
+ --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
+ --http-crl (optional CRL).
+ * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
+ Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
+ * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
+ output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
+ * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
+ Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
+
Important changes for packagers:
* The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
- * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
+ Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
+ * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
+ variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
+ * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
+ * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
+ configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
* The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
* The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
-Access
+Core:
+ * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
+ Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
+ x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
+ * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
+ * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
+ * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
+ * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
+
+Access:
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
* BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
- * DVB-S scanning support
+ * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
+ * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
* DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
- * Support for VDR recordings files and folders
- * Blu-Ray Disc integration using libbluray
+ * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
+ * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
* HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
- * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
+ * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
+ * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
+ * PulseAudio audio input support
+ * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
+ in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
+ * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
+ * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
+ * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
+ * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
+ * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
-Codecs
+Codecs:
* You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
* Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
-
-Core:
- * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
+ * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
+ * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
+ * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
+ * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
+ * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
+ The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
+ * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
+ * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
+ * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
+ * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
+ * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
+ * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
+ * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
Demuxers:
- * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib)
- * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- * Ogg seeking improvements
- * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten from scratch using the C api
+ * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
+ * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
+ * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
+ * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
+ * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
+ * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
+ * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
+ * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
+ * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
+ * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
+ * Improved support of tracker files
-Interfaces
- * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
- * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
- * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
+Interfaces:
+ * Qt: effects dialogs rework
+ * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
+ * Qt: small look improvements
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
+ * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
+ and important cleanups and optimisations
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
+ * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
+ * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
+ * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
+ * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
+ * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
+ * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
-
-Video Core:
- * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
+ * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
+ * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
+ * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
+ * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
+ * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
+ * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
+ * Qt: preferences are now searchable
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
* New video output for iOS platform
- * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 2.0
+ * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
+ * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
* Various vmem improvements
+ * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
+ chroma conversion
+ * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
+ * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
+ * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
+
+Audio Output and Filters:
+ * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
+ * New audio output in memory (amem)
+ * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
+ * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
+ * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
+ * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+ * New simplistic Karaoke filter
+ * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
* New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
* Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
-
-Audio Output:
- * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
-
-Audio Filter:
- * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+ * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
+ * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
+ * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
+ * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
+ * New anti-flickering filter
+ * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
+ * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
+ blackbox and customizable shadow.
+ NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
+ the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
+ The Win32 font selection was improved too.
Stream output:
* New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
+ * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
+ * Major rework of VoD support
+ * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
+ #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
+ * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
+ #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
+ * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
+ a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
+ * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
+ #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
+ #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
+ * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
+ * Upnp module was ported to Win32
libVLC:
* New capabilities for libVLC:
** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
+ ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
+ list of available audio and video filters
+ ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
+ libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
+ allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
+
+Removed modules:
+ * asademux: use libass only
+ * subsass: use libass
+ * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
+ * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
+ * id3tag: use taglib
+ * upnp: use upnp_intel
+ * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
+ * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
+ * removal of the noise filter
+ * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
+ * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
+ removed in Growl's next release, too.
+ * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
+----------------------------------
+
+Audio outputs:
+ * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
+ including support for OS X Lion
+ * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
+ * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
+
+Unix port:
+ * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
+
+Misc:
+ * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
+ * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
+ * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
+ and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
+ * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
+ * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
+ * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
+ * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
+
+Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
+ * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
+ * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
+
+Demuxers/Meta Readers:
+ * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
+
+Muxers/Output:
+ * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
+
+Extensions:
+ * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Fix quitting on Linux
+ * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
+ * Miscellaneous
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
+---------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
+ * Fix for various crashes and small issues
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
+
+Audio output:
+ * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
+
+Miscellaneous fixes in:
+ * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
+ * Qt interface
+ * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
+ * RTP output and XML export
+ * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
+ * v4l2 access
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
+ Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
+ Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
+ * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
+--------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
+
+Demuxers:
+ * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
+ * Improve Apple Remote handling
+ * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
+ * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
+ * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
+ * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Fix Growl local notification plugin
+ * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
+ * Fixes for eyeTV
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
+ German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
+ * New Luganda Translation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
+--------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
+ * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
+ * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
+ * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
+
+Encoder:
+ * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
+
+Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
+ * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
+ * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
+ * mp4 demuxer improvements
+ * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
+ * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
+ * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
+ * fix a crash in malformed ape files
+
+Miscellaneous fixes in:
+ * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
+ * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
+ * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
+ See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
+ * Configure and build system improvements
+ * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
+
+Translations:
+ * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
+ Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
+ * New icelandic translation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
+--------------------------------
+
+Linux port:
+ * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
+ #234484 and #260719.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
+ * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
+ and stability reasons
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
+ VideoLAN-SA-1102
+
+Translations:
+ * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
+----------------------------------
+
+Source:
+ * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
+ PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
+ Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
+ and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
+
+Access:
+ * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
+ * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
+ * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
+ * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
+ * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
+ * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
+
+Subtitles and renderer:
+ * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
+ * Mark more freetype options as safe
+ * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
+ * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
+ discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
+
+Visualization:
+ * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
+ * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
+ * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
+ * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
+ * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
+
+Miscellaneous fixes:
+ * KDE device solid actions
+ * XDG screensaver
+ * Transcode integer overflow
+ * HTTP Icy metadata reading
+ * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
+ Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
+ Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
+ VideoLAN-SA-1006
+
+Access:
+ * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
+ * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
+ * Playback of live http .Webm streams
+ * Taglib thread-safety fix
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
+ "Puget Systems"
+
+Skins:
+ * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
+
+Video Output:
+ * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
+
+Interfaces:
+ * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
+ * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
+
+Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
+ TS-mux, Qt)
+
+libLVC:
+ * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
+ * Miscellaneous fixes
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
+ Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
+ French and Ukrainian
+ * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
+ * New Asturian translation
Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
* 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
- * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
- resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
+ * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
+ resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
* NEON assembly audio converter module
* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
Access:
* Add extra caching for files on network shares
- * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
+ * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
+ DZCORE Labs, Algeria
Decoders:
* Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
Windows port:
* The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
-Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
+Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
+Lithuanian
Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
- - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
+ - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
main controller window.
* Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
* JACK audio input support
* Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
* BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
+ * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
* Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
* Experimental EyeTV access module
* Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
* New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
- * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
+ * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
This was previously part of the mosaic module.
* Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
* Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
* Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
* Simplified Extended Controls panel
* Ncurses:
- * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
+ * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
if libncursesw is available.
* Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
* Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
* Unix
* Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
- * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
- (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
- interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
+ * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
+ (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
+ interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
* Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
* Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
Various bugfixes:
* Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
- * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
+ * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
* Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
- (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
+ (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
SAP services discovery, http control interface)
* Updated Polish translation
----------------------------------
Security updates:
- * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
+ * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
* Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
Goodies:
* Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
* Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
- (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
+ (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
* Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
* More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
----------------------------------
Security updates:
- * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
+ * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
(CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
- * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
+ * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
(CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
* Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
* Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
* Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
* Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
* Fixed AAC resampling
- * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
+ * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
* Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
* Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
VideoLAN-SA-0801)
- * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
+ * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
VideoLAN-SA-0802)
Audio filter:
Encoders:
* Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
- * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
+ * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
encoding on multi-cpu systems
- Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
- Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
Windows and Mac OS Binaries
- * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
+ * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
Active X plugin:
* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
-
+
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
* Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
+ * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
- * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
+ * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats
- NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
+ NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
Encoders:
* Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
* Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
* Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
-
+
Video output:
* Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
* Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
Windows port:
* Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
- Windows 9x/ME users:
+ Windows 9x/ME users:
- Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
* Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
* Improvements to the Audio CD input
- - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- - Support for CDDB
+ - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
+ - Support for CDDB
* Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
* Improved subtitles encoding support
* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
* New JACK audio output
Video output:
- * New video filters:
+ * New video filters:
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
Interfaces:
- * System to inform the user and request information
+ * System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
- * Skins2
+ * Skins2
- New default skin
- Support for Winamp 2 skins
- Improved playlist handling
OS X Port:
* Mac-Intel compatibility
- * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
* Growl "Now playing" support
*Nix port:
* SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
* UPnP fixes
* Avahi 0.6 support
-
+
Interfaces:
* Mac OS X
- - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+ - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
-
+
Interfaces:
- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
* Mac OS X
* Rewrite of the playlist
- Tree structure
- Input preparsing (for meta-data)
- - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
- * Preferences improvements:
+ - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements:
- New organization, designed to improve usability
- New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
* XML parsers
Services discovery:
* New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
* Brand new SAP module
- * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
+ * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
* Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
* Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
+ * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
(Stream your desktop)
* Improved DVD support:
- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
* Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
* Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
- * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
(selection of titles/chapters).
Demuxers:
* DVB subtitles encoder
* MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
* Improved vorbis/theora encoding
- Muxers:
+ Muxers:
* Text track muxing for mp4
* Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
* 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
with support for effects.
* Improved filter and subpictures support :
- New filters can be streamed.
- - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- Centralized scaling and blending
- * New filters :
- - "time", to display current time
+ * New filters :
+ - "time", to display current time
- "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
* Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
Input:
- * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
+ * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
* Improved directory access module.
Playlist:
* Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
- * Playlist sorting
+ * Playlist sorting
Input:
* RTP/RTSP support.
* Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
* Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
-iPaq port:
+iPaq port:
* Brand new Gtk 2 interface
Miscellaneous:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
Input access:
- * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
+ * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
+ (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
* Fixed large file support on Windows
* Video 4 Linux support
* CD Digital Audio support
* New HTTP remote control interface
Stream output:
- * 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.
+ * 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.
* The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
* Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
* SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
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