-$Id$
-
-CVE IDs pending: 2008-0295, 2008-0296, 2007-6681, 2007-6682, 2007-6683
-
-Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
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+Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0-test3:
+---------------------------------------
Important notes:
----------------
- * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
- to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
+ * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
* 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 a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
- - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced
- by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
- features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6
- * The behavior of --sout-keep has 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
- These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
- * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
+ * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
+ This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
+ "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
+ If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
+ * 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
+ 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.:
- Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
- New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
+ Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
+ New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
* 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 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-??)
+
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
+ * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
* Album art support
- * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ * 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/luameta/README.txt
+ share/lua/meta/README.txt
+
+Inputs:
+ * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
+ * Proxy support for MMSH stream
+ * 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
+ using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
+ * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
+ * Experimental EyeTV access module
+ This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
+ (available as a separate download).
+ * RTMP input support
+ * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
+ 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
+ frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
-Input/Demuxers:
- * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
- * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
- * Proxy support for MMSH stream
- * JACK audio input support
- * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
- * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
- * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
- * Fixed audio glitch on seek
- * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
- * AAC tags support
- * APEv1/2 tags support
- * Improved ID3v2 tags support
- * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
- * Raw video support
- * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
- * TiVo Series 2 support
- * v4l2 access module support
- * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * CD+G karaoke Files support
- * MXF files support
+Demuxers:
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
+ * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
+ * TiVo Series 2 support
+ * CD+G karaoke Files support
+ * MXF files support
+ * OMA support
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
- * MKV USF subtitles support
- * HTML-based subtitles support
* Flash Screen Video support
* CamStudio Screen Video 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
+ * HTML-based subtitles support
+ * MPSub subtitles support
+ * JacoSub subtitles basic support
+ * MPL2 subtitles support
+ * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
+ * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
+ * Realtext subtitle support
+ * DKS subtitle support
+ * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
+ * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
+ * Improved H.264 encoding speed
-Video output and filters:
- * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+Video outputs and filters:
+ * 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
- * Rewrite motion detection video filter
+ * Re-written motion detection video filter
* New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
video)
* New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
- * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
- * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML
- tags
+ * 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*.
* 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.
- * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
+ * 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
* 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 output and filters
+Audio outputs and filters:
* Replay gain support
* Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
* New spatializer audio filter
* UDP-Lite transport for RTP
* DCCP transport for RTP
* Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
+ * 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 user interaction
* Improved mouse gestures
- * Fastly improved Update checker
- * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
- * Ncurses:
- * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available (not by default on MacOSX)
- * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
+ * 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
- * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
+ * 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
* 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
finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
- * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+ * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
* Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
* Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
(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
- applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
+ * 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 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
LibVLC:
* Event management and various improvements in libvlc
* Persian
* Polish
+Developers:
+ * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
+ A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
+ * 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:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * 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,
+ 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
+ * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
+ to an unexpected application termination
+ * New Serbian translation
+ * Updated Romanian translation
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
+ (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
+ * 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 libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
+ * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
+ * 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,
+ if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
+ * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
+ * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
+ * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
+ - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
+ * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
+ * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
+ * Close MMS access on network timeout
+ * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
+ * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
+
+Security updates:
+ * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
+ * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
+ * 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,
+ VideoLAN-SA-0802)
+
+Audio filter:
+ * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
+
+Access:
+ * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
+
+Encoders:
+ * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
+ * 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)
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
+ * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
+ * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
+
+Localization:
+ * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
+
Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
----------------------------------
Various bugfixes:
* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
* Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
- * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
+ * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
+ in input
* Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
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 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
- * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
+ * 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
+ two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats
- NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
+ 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 encoding speed on Mac OS X
* 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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