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+Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
+-------------------------------------
-Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
--------------------------------------------------------
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
+ See 'Access:' for more info.
+
+Playback:
+ * Instantaneous pausing
+ * Frame-by-Frame playback
+ * Finer speed control
+ * Timeshift for most medias
+ * On-the-fly recording for all medias
+ * RTSP trickplay support
+
+New Decoders:
+ * AES3 (SMPTE 302M)
+ * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
+ * True HD/MLP
+ * Blu-Ray Linear PCM
+ * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
+ * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+ * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
+ * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
+ * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
+ * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
+
+Encoders:
+ * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+ * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
+
+Access:
+ * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
+ * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
+ * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
+ * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
+ * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
+ OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
+ * DVB scanning on linux
+ * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
+ * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
+ * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
+ * MTP device access on Unix
+ * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
+
+Inputs:
+ * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
+ * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
+ Windows.
+
+Playlist:
+ * Export the playlist in HTML
+ * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+ * Better metadata handling and reading
+
+Linux/Windows interface:
+ * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
+ * Various fixes for skins2 interface
+ * Recently played items list
+ * Interface toolbar customizations
+ * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
+ - More menus actions
+ - Finer speed slider
+ - Improvements on many dialogs
+ - New dialog for plugins listing
+ - Fixed-size mode for videos
+ - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
+ * Better integration in GTK environments
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
+ * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
+ * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
+ * Additional usability improvements
+
+Stream output:
+ * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
+ * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
+ * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
+ * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
+ * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
+
+Maemo Port:
+ * New Maemo port with:
+ - an interface based on Hildon framework.
+ - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
+
+Windows CE Port:
+ EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
+ * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
+
+Audio output:
+ * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
+ * Surround support for PulseAudio
+
+Video output:
+ * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
+ * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
+ * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
+
+Miscellanous:
+ * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
+
+Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
+---------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Various fixes related to real demuxer
+
+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
+ 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
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Indonesian
+ * Bengali
+ * Updates of other localizations
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
+ * Lots of small bugfixes.
+ * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
+ * Telnet fixes on Windows
+ * Resampling fixes when transcoding
+
+Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Security update:
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
+
+Bunch of small bugfixes.
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
+--------------------------------
+New Localizations:
+ * Ukranian
+
+Security updates:
+ * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
+ * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
+--------------------------------
+Security updates:
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
+ * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
+
+Features:
+ * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
+ * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
+ * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
+ * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
+ * Various fixed in playlist
+
+Access:
+ * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
+------------------------------------
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
+ * Fixes several memory leaks.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
+ * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
+ * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
+
+Windows port:
+ * Stability fix for the video output.
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
+ * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
+ * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
+ * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
+ * Fixed update system bugs
+ * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
+ * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
+ * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
+ * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
+ * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
+ * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
+ * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
+ * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
+ * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
+ modern Mac OS X versions
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
+ * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
+ before installation
+ * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
+ * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
+
+Qt4 interface:
+ * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
+ * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
+ * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
+ * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
+ * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
+ * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+ * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
+ * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
+ * Multiple bugfixes.
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
+--------------------------------
+
+ * Multiple bug fixes.
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
+---------------------------------
Important notes:
----------------
+ * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
+ recent to work correctly
* The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
edit the ".hosts" file.
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
- On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
- * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
- interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
- It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
- If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
+ * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
+ This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
+ This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
+ 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
* The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
* The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
+ If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
+ plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
* The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
* You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
- * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
- E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
- udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
- * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
- (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
+ * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
+ with some file names. Use access://url instead.
+ E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
+ udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
+ * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
+ avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
+ and postproc modules.
+ * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
+ following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
+ STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
+ BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
+ functional atm.
+ * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
+ filter. For example:
+ transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
+ * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
+ For example:
+ transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
+ * Glide video output module has been removed.
Changes:
--------
+Security updates:
+ * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
+ CVE-2008-1807)
+ * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
+ * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
+
Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
- * Media library support
+ * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
* Album art support
* User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
- (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
- * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
- share/lua/meta/README.txt
+ (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
+ lots of other URLs)
+ * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
Inputs:
* Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
* 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 (Mac OS X only)
+ * Experimental EyeTV access module
This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
(available as a separate download).
+ * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
* RTMP input support
* QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
- taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
+ taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
* HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
Authentication.
* New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
* TiVo Series 2 support
* CD+G karaoke Files support
* MXF files support
+ * OMA support
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* DosBox Capture support
* Karl Morton's Video support
* limited atrac3 support
+ * Fraps support
* Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
* New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
- * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
* H.264 PAFF support
* DNxHD / VC-3 support
* NellyMoser ASAO support
* APE (Monkey audio) support
- * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
* RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
+ * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
Subtitles:
+ * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
+ * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
* Ogg/Kate subtitles support
* AQTitle subtitles support
* MKV USF subtitles support
* Improved H.264 encoding speed
Video outputs and filters:
- * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+ * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter
* New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
* Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
(Google Summer of Code Student project)
- * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
+ * 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).
This was previously part of the mosaic module.
* Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
* Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
* Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
+ * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
Audio outputs and filters:
* Replay gain support
- * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
+ new scaletempo audio filter)
* New spatializer audio filter
* Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
* RTMP output
Interfaces:
- * Windows/Linux
- * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* All
* New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
end-user suitable way.
* Improved mouse gestures
* Vastly improved Update checker
* Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
+ * Windows/Linux
+ * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
+ * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
* Mac OS X
* Improved video output features
* Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
* New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
* When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
* Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
+ * Simplified Extended Controls panel
* Ncurses:
* 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 for more info
+ * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
+ share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
* Unix
* Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
* D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
(which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
Mac OS X Port:
- * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
+ * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
* Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* It is now required to compile a fully featured build
- * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
+ * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
LibVLC:
* Event management and various improvements in libvlc
* Finnish
* Persian
* Polish
+ * Punjabi
+ * Bulgarian
Developers:
* LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
* Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
+Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
+ * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
+ * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
+ (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
+ SAP services discovery, http control interface)
+ * Updated Polish translation
+
+
Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
----------------------------------
* Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
with support for effects.
* Improved filter and subpictures support :
- - New filters can be streamed.
- - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- - Centralized scaling and blending
+ - New filters can be streamed.
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - Centralized scaling and blending
* New filters :
- - "time", to display current time
- - "marq", to display a marquee
+ - "time", to display current time
+ - "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information
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