-Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
+Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-pre1:
--------------------------------
-Important changes for packagers:
+Important changes:
+ * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
+ * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
+ VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
* The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
3rd party libraries (contrib):
- * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
-Codecs:
+Core:
+ * Audio core rewrite
+ * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
+ * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
+ * Partial support for Windows Store App
+ * Removed SQL support
+ * Add an audio fingerprinter
+ * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for OPUS via libopus.
* Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
- * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
+ * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
* Support for Ulead DV audio
* Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
- Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
+ Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
* Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
+ * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
+ * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
+ * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
+ * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
+ * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
Access:
- * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
+ * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
+ remove support for previous OS X releases
* Major improvements in DASH support
* Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
* Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
+ * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
+ * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
+ * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
+ * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
+ * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
+ * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
+ vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
+ * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
Demuxers:
* MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
* Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
* AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
* Support for more MJPEG streams
+ * Add support for liveleak streams
+ * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
+ * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
+ * Android AudioTrack audio output support
+ * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
+ * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
+ * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
+ This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
+ distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
+ * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
+ * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
Audio Filters:
- * new remapping channel filter
- * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
- * new VSXu visualization plugin
+ * New remapping channel filter
+ * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
+ * New VSXu visualization plugin
+ * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
+ * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
Video Outputs:
+ * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
+ * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
* OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
+ * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
+ * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
+ Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
* Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
+ * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
Video Filters:
- * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
+ * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
* Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
* Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
* Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
+ * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
Stream Output:
* Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
+ * Options support for AVIO output module
+ * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
+ * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
+ * Livehttp stream encryption support
+ * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
+ * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
+
+Fingerprinters:
+ * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
* configurable password for the HTTP server.
* .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
- * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
+ * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
* Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
* Hotkey support for TS program selection
+ * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
-Mac OS X Port:
- * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
- * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
-
-Mac OS X Interface:
- * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
- * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP A/V subtitles
+ * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
+
+OS X Interface:
+ * Add support for multiple video outputs
+ * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
+ controller
+ * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
+ * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
+ * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
+ - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
+ * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
+ * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
VLC's internal volume level
- * add an option to show next / previous buttons
- * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
- * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
- date and language.
- * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
- * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
- * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
+ * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
+ playback
+ * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
+ selection and to manage the list of presets
+ * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
+ multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
+ * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
+ * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
+ * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
+ * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
+ * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
+ * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
+ * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
+ * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
+ date and language
+ * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
+ * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
+ * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
+ * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
+ * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
+ * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
+ when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
+ 3rd party applications
+ * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
+ handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
+ (system-wide settings)
+ * Add support for the Video Title option
+ * Add support for the Boss Key
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
- deprecated now
+ deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
Qt:
* Partial support for Qt5.0
* Menus modifications and improvements
* Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
* Streaming output wizard rewrite
+ * Add bitrate graph in information panels
+ * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
+ * EPG display fixes and improvements
+ * Add SD pixmap sources
+ * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
+ * Display playlist total duration
+ * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
* Numerous fixes
+ * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
+ * Remove language preference
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
+ Added new profiles.
+
+Skins2:
+ * Port to OS/2
+ * Extend sliders, offsets options
+ * New bitmaps caching mechanism
+ * Numerous fixes and improvements
+ * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
libVLC:
* new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
- * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
+ * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
+ * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
+ media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
+ * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
+ * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
+ libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
+ * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
Removed modules:
* portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
* X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
* Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
+ * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
* RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
* RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
* Hildon GUI
* MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
* Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
+ * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
+ * Broken crop video filter
+ * Switcher module
+ * OSD parser and menu
+ * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
+ * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
+ * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
+ * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
+ * htcpcp :)
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
+--------------------------------
+
+Input:
+ * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
+ * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
+ playlist files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
+
+Video output:
+ * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
+
+Mac OS X Interface
+ * Minor improvements
+ * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
+
+HTTP Interface
+ * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
+ * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
+ * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
+ * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
+ * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
+ * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
+ * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
+ * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
+ * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
+ * 3rd party codecs updates
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
+ * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
+ * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
+ in the advanced preferences panel
+ * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
+ * Fix crash within the video output code
+ * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
+ folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
+ * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
+ * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
+ lua extensions, ...)
+ * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
+
+GNU/Linux:
+ * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
+ * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
+
+Windows:
+ * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
+ Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
+ Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
+ Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
+ Dutch, Danish, translations
+ * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
+ (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
+ * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
+ * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
+ * Fix koreus lua parser
+ * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
+ * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
+ * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
+ * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
+ * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
+ * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
+ * Fix Time counter UI look
+ * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix https streaming
+
+libVLC:
+ * Fix audio and video track selection:
+ The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
+ incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
+ Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
+ Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
+ * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
+ * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
+ * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
+ * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
+ * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
+ during playback on Mac OS X
+
+Access:
+ * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
+ * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
+ * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
+ * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
+ * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
+ * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
+ * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
+ * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
+ * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
+ * Support Youtube live streams
+
+Windows:
+ * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix media info dialog update
+ * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
+ * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
+ * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
+ * Fix album art display at start
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
+ * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
+ * Fix menus display and behavior
+ * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
+ streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
+ * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
+ * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
+ allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
+ * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
+ * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
+ * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
+ * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
+ * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
+ * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
+ * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
+ * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
+ * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
+ * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
+ Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
+ Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
+ Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
+ * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
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