3 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released):
4 -----------------------------------------------------
7 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
11 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
12 * New --monitor-aspect-ratio option
15 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
16 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
17 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
18 * GnomeVFS input module
21 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
22 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
23 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th oct 2005 or later)
26 * UPnP service discovery
27 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
33 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
34 Mixer and Dolby Surround
37 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
38 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
42 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
43 - New extended controls panel
44 - New bookmarks window
45 - Fixed playlist sorting
46 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
48 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
49 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
51 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
55 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
56 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
58 - Include macro to include other files
62 * Should now work outside IE as well
65 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
68 The following languages were added:
73 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
74 --------------------------------
77 * Rewrite of the playlist
79 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
80 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
81 * Preferences improvements:
82 - New organization, designed to improve usability
83 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
85 * Core image manipulation support
86 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
87 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
88 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
89 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
90 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
91 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
92 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
93 now separated by ':' instead of ','
94 * Access filter architecture
95 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
96 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
100 * Support for SOCKS proxy
101 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
102 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
103 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
104 * Better support for Kasenna streams
105 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
106 * Massive Matroska improvements
107 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
109 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
110 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
111 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
112 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
113 * Support for FTP over IPv6
116 * Dirac decoder and encoder
117 * PNG decoder/encoder
118 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
119 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
122 * New Record and Timeshift filters
125 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
126 * Brand new SAP module
127 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
128 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
129 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
130 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
131 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
132 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
136 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
139 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
140 * Image file video output (png)
141 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
142 * Improvements to wall video filter
143 * Support for font color and opacity
149 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
150 - Seeking support in VoD streams
151 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
155 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
156 - Improved preferences
157 - Improvements to the wizard
158 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
160 - Redesigned playlist
161 - Improved preferences
163 - Support for multiple actions
166 - Support for the new playlist system
168 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
171 * Screensaver disabling fix
172 * DirectShow tuner configuration
173 * Support for no-decoration windows
176 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
177 * The OpenGL video output is back
178 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
179 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
180 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
181 is not yet available in the new module
182 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
185 * Support for single-buffered overlay
194 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
197 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
200 The following languages were added:
206 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
207 -----------------------------------------------------
210 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
211 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
214 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
215 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
216 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
219 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
222 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
225 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
228 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
229 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
230 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
234 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
236 * Support of playlist group announcement
238 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
239 -----------------------------------------------------
242 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
243 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
244 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
245 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
246 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
247 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
250 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
251 (Stream your desktop)
252 * Improved DVD support:
253 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
254 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
255 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
256 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
257 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
258 (selection of titles/chapters).
261 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
262 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
263 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
264 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
265 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
266 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
267 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
268 * Improved Ogg demuxer
269 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
270 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
273 * G.726 audio support
274 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
275 * MPEG-4 text support
276 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
277 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
278 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
282 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
283 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
284 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
285 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
286 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
287 * DVB subtitles encoder
288 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
289 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
291 * Text track muxing for mp4
292 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
293 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
294 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
295 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
296 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
299 * H.263 RTP streaming support
300 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
301 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
304 * New audio equalizer filter
305 * Very trivial volume normalizer
306 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
307 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
308 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
311 * Roku HD1000 Video output
312 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
313 with support for effects.
314 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
315 - New filters can be streamed.
316 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
317 - Centralized scaling and blending
319 - "time", to display current time
320 - "marq", to display a marquee
323 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
324 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
325 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
326 * A few skins2 improvements
327 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
328 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
329 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
330 * Improved CORBA control module
333 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
334 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
335 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
338 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
339 * Experimental SVG rendering module
340 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
343 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
344 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
345 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
346 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
347 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
350 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
353 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
354 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
357 * Server/client network synchronization module
358 * VBrick streams fully supported
359 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
362 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
363 --------------------------------
366 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
367 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
368 * Improved HTTP daemon.
369 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
372 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
373 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
374 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
375 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
376 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
377 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
378 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
381 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
382 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
383 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
384 * Improved directory access module.
385 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
386 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
387 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
388 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
389 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
392 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
393 * mmsh streaming fixes.
394 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
397 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
398 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
399 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
402 * Improved session announcement system.
403 * Minimize threads usage by default.
404 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
405 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
406 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
407 * Improved transrater.
408 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
409 * New configuration system.
410 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
413 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
414 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
415 * Supports live streams and VoD.
416 * Supports scheduling.
417 * Telnet interface for vlm.
418 * HTTP interface for vlm.
421 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
422 - Ability to embed video output.
423 - Support for bitmap fonts.
424 - Lots of improvements.
425 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
426 - New design and set of icons.
427 - Ability to embed video output.
428 - Support for hotkeys.
429 - Support for bookmarks.
431 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
432 - Better hotkeys handling.
435 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
436 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
437 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
438 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
441 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
442 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
443 * Improved Windows installer.
449 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
450 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
452 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
453 ---------------------------------
456 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
457 * Playing MOD files is working now.
460 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
461 ---------------------------------
464 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
465 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
468 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
469 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
470 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
471 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
474 * Internal improvments
475 * Improved import/export
478 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
480 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
481 small and strange formats.
483 * New MOD audio demux.
484 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
485 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
486 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
487 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
490 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
491 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
492 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
498 * New opengl video output plugin.
501 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
502 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
504 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
505 ---------------------------------
508 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
509 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
510 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
511 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
512 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
513 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
514 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
515 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
518 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
523 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
524 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
525 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
526 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
527 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
528 * Reworked DVB tuning.
529 * Better Icecast support.
530 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
531 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
534 * Support for Theora video encoding.
535 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
536 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
537 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
538 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
539 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
540 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
543 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
544 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
545 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
546 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
547 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
548 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
549 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
550 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
551 * Preliminary RTP support.
552 * Fixes to SAP announces.
557 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
558 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
560 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
561 - Improvements and help in preferences
562 - New streaming wizard
563 - Revised Disc Open menu
565 - Improvements of the standard pages
566 - Support for new commands
567 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
570 * Many fixes to the SAP module
571 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
574 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
575 * Text subtitles autodetection.
576 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
577 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
578 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
579 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
580 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
581 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
582 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
585 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
587 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
588 * Support for Panther.
589 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
590 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
593 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
594 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
595 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
596 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
597 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
598 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
599 * Multimonitor support (untested).
600 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
603 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
604 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
605 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
608 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
611 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
612 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
613 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
614 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
616 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
617 ---------------------------------
620 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
623 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
624 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
627 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
628 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
631 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
634 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
635 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
638 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
641 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
644 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
645 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
648 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
649 ---------------------------------
652 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
653 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
657 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
658 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
659 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
661 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
662 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
665 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
668 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
671 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
672 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
675 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
676 ---------------------------------
679 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
680 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
684 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
685 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
686 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
687 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
688 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
691 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
692 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
693 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
696 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
697 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
698 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
701 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
702 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
703 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
704 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
705 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
708 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
709 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
710 * A new CORBA control plugin.
713 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
716 * Improved build system.
717 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
718 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
719 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
720 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
723 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
724 ---------------------------------
727 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
730 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
731 * Fixed large file support on Windows
732 * Video 4 Linux support
733 * CD Digital Audio support
734 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
737 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
738 * Support for OpenDML avi files
739 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
740 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
743 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
744 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
745 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
746 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
747 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
748 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
749 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
752 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
753 * New HTTP remote control interface
756 * 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.
757 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
758 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
759 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
762 * New reset option for the preferences
763 * You can set your language in the prefences
764 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
765 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
766 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
767 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
770 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
771 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
772 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
775 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
776 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
777 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
778 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
779 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
780 * New icons by Davor Orel.
781 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
782 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
783 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
784 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
787 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
788 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
789 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
790 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
791 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
792 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
793 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
796 * Interface localization
797 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
798 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
799 * New full-featured Preferences window
801 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
802 ---------------------------------
805 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
806 * support for skins at the interface level
807 * new OSD module using Freetype2
808 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
809 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
810 input level before dropping out of date frames.
811 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
814 * fixed HTTP redirects
815 * support for opening an entire directory
816 * EOF should be detected more reliably
817 * new video4linux access plug-in
818 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
821 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
822 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
823 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
826 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
827 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
828 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
829 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
830 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
831 * new codec for raw I420 video
832 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
835 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
836 (although it still misses some important features)
837 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
840 * new HTTP output support
841 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
842 * fixed AV synchronization issues
845 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
848 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
851 * reorderable playlist
852 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
853 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
854 * support for mono audio output devices
855 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
856 * fixed several cosmetic issues
857 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
858 * the messages window remembers more lines
859 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
860 * http and ogg stream output options
861 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
864 * new skinnable interface
865 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
867 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
868 * support for FLAC audio format
869 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
871 * network tab in the interface
872 * "apply" handling in preferences
875 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
876 ---------------------------------
879 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
880 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
881 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
882 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
884 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
888 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
889 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
890 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
891 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
894 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
895 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
898 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
901 * fixed the GNU-pth support
904 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
906 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
907 * rc interface is now fully useable
908 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
911 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
912 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
913 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
914 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
915 * VLC now uses the default audio device
917 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
918 * support for mouse gestures
919 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
922 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
923 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
926 * improved ID3 tag detection
927 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
928 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
929 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
931 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
934 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
935 ---------------------------------
938 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
939 English was set as the preferred language
942 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
943 --------------------------------
946 * new mouse gesture interface
947 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
951 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
952 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
953 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
956 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
957 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
961 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
964 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
965 without the user consent
968 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
970 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
971 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
972 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
975 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
976 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
977 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
978 * playlist enhancements
979 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
980 * new step forward/step backward commands
981 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
982 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
983 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
986 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
987 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
988 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
991 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
992 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
995 * native video output is working again
996 * only commandline interface support
997 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1000 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1001 --------------------------------
1004 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1005 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1006 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1007 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1008 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1009 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1010 and A/52 streams are supported)
1011 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1016 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1017 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1018 * VCD entry points support
1019 * VCD image file support
1022 * support for *.asf format
1023 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1024 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1025 * support for ogg encapsulation
1026 * support for raw DV format
1027 * support for *.wav format
1028 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1031 Stream discovery & playlists:
1032 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1033 * support for .m3u file format
1034 * support for .asx file format
1035 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1038 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1039 (only available with the .avi demux)
1040 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1041 * support for raw PCM data
1042 * support for Cinepak video codec
1043 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1044 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1045 * support for Xvid codec
1046 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1047 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1048 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1050 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1052 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1055 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1058 * new WxWindows interface
1059 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1060 device and the channels configuration
1061 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1062 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1063 format that VLC can play
1064 * new swedish translation
1065 * enhancements of the playlist window
1066 * new messages window to see debug info
1067 * fixed a few crashes
1070 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1071 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1072 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1073 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working