-Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
+Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Support wayland surface type
+
+Access:
+ * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
+ * New SMB access module using libdsm
+ * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
+ MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
+ * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
+ * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
+ * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
+ * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
+ domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
+ * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
+ * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
+ * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
+ * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
+ * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
+
+Decoder:
+ * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
+ * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
+ * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
+ * Support for Daala video
+ * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
+ * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
+ * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
+ * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
+ * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
+ * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
+ * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
+ * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
+ * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
+ * Support Daala in Ogg
+ * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
+ * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
+ * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
+ * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
+ * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
+ * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
+ * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
+ * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
+ * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
+
+Stream filter:
+ * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
+
+Audio output:
+ * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
+ It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
+
+Video ouput:
+ * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
+ * Wayland shell surface window provider
+ * Wayland shared memory video output
+ * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
+ NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
+ * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
+ * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
+ * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
+
+Video filter:
+ * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
+ * New video filter to convert between fps rates
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Chromecast output module
+ * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
+
+Encoder:
+ * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
+
+Muxers:
+ * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
+ * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
+ * Daala in Ogg
+
+Service Discovery:
+ * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
+ * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
+
+Mac OS X Interface
+ * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
+ * Port to Yosemite X.10
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Batch convert support
+
+Skins2:
+ * Support key accelerators
+
+libVLC:
+ * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
+ * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
+ libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
+ This allows to attach media events between create and start.
+ * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
+ * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
+ * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
+ * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
+ identifier (if there is one available)
+
+Logging
+ * Support for the SystemD Journal
+ * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
+ messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
+ * New Android module for logging
+
+Misc
+ * remove langfromtelx
+ * remove ZPL playlist format
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
--------------------------------
Important changes:
- * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
+ * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
+ notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
Core:
+ * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
+ * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
+ * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
* Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
Access:
- * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
- New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
+ * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
+ New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
* MMS audio selection on split audio streams
- * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
- * Digital Cinema Package support
+ * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
+ and BD-J navigation
+ * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
+ * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
+ * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
Decoder:
+ * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
+ * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
+ * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
+ * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
+ * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
+ supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
* Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
* libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
- * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
+ * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
+ Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
* Teletext subtitles display improvements
* Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
* Support setting the post processing level in Theora
- * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
+ * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
* Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
* New jpeg image decoder
+ * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
+ * New SVG image decoder
+ * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
+ * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
+ * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
Encoder:
* Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
* Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
* Support for Opus encoding using libopus
* New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
+ * New png image encoder using libpng
Demuxer:
- * New CAF format module
- * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
- * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
- * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
- * FLAC packets validation using CRC
+ * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
+ * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
+ streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
+ * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
+ synchronization and tracks exclusion
+ * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
+ * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
+ * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
+ and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
* Support Opus in MKV
* Support VP8 in OGG
* Basic support for WebVTT
- * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
+ * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
* Support HDPR TS files
+ * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
+ * FLAC packets validation using CRC
* Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
- * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
+ * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
* Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
-
-Muxers:
- * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
- * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
- * Support VP8 in OGG
+ * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
+ * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
+ * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
+ * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
+ * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
+ * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
+ * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
Video Output:
* Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
- * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
* New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
* New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
* New Android native window provider module
* Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
* Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
+ * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
Video Filter:
* New Oldmovie effect filter
* New Freeze effect filter
* Support I422 and J422 in transform
* NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
+ * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
Audio Output:
* Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
+ * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
+ * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
+ * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
+ * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
+ * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
+
+Muxers:
+ * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
+ * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
+ * Support VP8 in OGG
+ * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
Streaming:
* Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
* GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
* HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
* new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
+ * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
+ * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
+ with --no-sout-all
+ * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
+ --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
+ * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
libVLC:
* add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
* Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
* Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
-Interaces:
+Interfaces:
* Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
+ * Add record button in Qt menus
+ * New module for core dialogs on iOS
+ * New layout for Qt buttons customization
+ * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Support for OS X Yosemite
+ * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
+ * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
+ * Fixes for advanced preferences
+ * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
+ * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
+ * Option to increase playlist font size
+ * Improved crash log reporting
Misc:
* New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
+ * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
+ * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
+ * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
+
+Security:
+ * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
Removed modules:
- * ios video output: use ios2
+ * iOS video output: use ios2
* OpenMash H.261 video decoder
* dirac encoder: use schroedinger
+Translations:
+ * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
+ Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
+ * Update of all translations:
+ Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
+ Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
+ Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
+ Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
+ Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
+ Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
+ Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix OSS stuttering
+
+Security:
+ * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
+ * Fix buffer overflow in updater
+ * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
+ * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
+ * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
+ * Fix SRTP integer overflow
+ * Fix potential crash in zip access
+ * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
+
+Win32 installer:
+ * Update translations and greek encoding
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix compilation on OS/2
+
+Access:
+ * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
+
+Mac OS X audio output:
+ * Fix channel ordering
+ * Increase the buffersize
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
+ * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
+ * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Correctly support video-on-top
+ * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
+ * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
+
+Streaming:
+ * Fix transcode when audio format changes
+
+Security contents:
+ * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
+ * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update British English
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
+
+Video Output:
+ * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix DVD playback regression
+ * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
+ * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
+ * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
+ * Fix encrypted DVD playback
+ * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
+ by updating codec libraries
+ * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
+ * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
+ * Fix teletext crash on Windows
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
+ * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
+ * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
+ * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
+ * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
+
+Video Output:
+ * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
+ * Fix transform off-by-one issue
+ * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
+ * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
+ * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
+ * Fix record file names
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix minimal size possible on start
+ * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
+ * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
+ * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
+ * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
+
+HTTP interface:
+ * Fix album art display on Windows
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
+ Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
+ Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
+ Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
+ Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
+ and Simplified Chinese translations
+ * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
+ * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
+ * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
+ audio devices on OS X
+ * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
+ * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
+ * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
+ * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
+ * Improve A-B loop control
+ * Fix album art update when changing media
+
+Mac OS X interface:
+ * Add a language option in the interface
+ * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
+ * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
+ * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
+ * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
+ * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
+ * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
+ * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
+
+Win32 installer:
+ * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
+ French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
+ Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
+ Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
+
Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
--------------------------------
Translations:
* Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
- Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
+ Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
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