1 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0-test3:
2 ---------------------------------------
6 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
7 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
8 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
9 edit the ".hosts" file.
10 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
11 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
12 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
13 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
14 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
15 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
16 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
17 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
18 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
19 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
21 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
22 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
23 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
24 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
25 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
26 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
27 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
28 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
29 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
30 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
31 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
32 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
33 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
34 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
35 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
36 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
37 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
38 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
39 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
40 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
41 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
42 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
44 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
46 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
47 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
49 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
50 * Glide video output module has been removed.
56 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
59 * Vastly improved playlist support:
60 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
62 * Shoutcast TV listings
63 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
65 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
66 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
67 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
68 share/lua/meta/README.txt
71 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
72 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
73 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
74 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
75 * JACK audio input support
76 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
77 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
78 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
79 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
80 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
81 * Experimental EyeTV access module
82 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
83 (available as a separate download).
85 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
86 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
87 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
89 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
90 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
93 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
94 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
95 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
96 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
98 * APEv1/2 tags support
99 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
100 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
102 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
103 * TiVo Series 2 support
104 * CD+G karaoke Files support
109 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
110 * Flash Screen Video support
111 * CamStudio Screen Video support
112 * DosBox Capture support
113 * Karl Morton's Video support
114 * limited atrac3 support
116 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
117 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
118 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
120 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
121 * NellyMoser ASAO support
122 * APE (Monkey audio) support
123 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
124 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
127 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
128 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
129 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
130 * AQTitle subtitles support
131 * MKV USF subtitles support
132 * HTML-based subtitles support
133 * MPSub subtitles support
134 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
135 * MPL2 subtitles support
136 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
137 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
138 * Realtext subtitle support
139 * DKS subtitle support
140 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
141 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
144 * Flash Screen Video support
145 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
147 Video outputs and filters:
148 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
149 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
150 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
151 * New puzzle video output filter
152 * Re-written motion detection video filter
153 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
155 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
156 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
157 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
158 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
159 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
160 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
161 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
162 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
163 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
164 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
165 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
166 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
167 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
169 Audio outputs and filters:
170 * Replay gain support
171 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
172 * New spatializer audio filter
173 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
176 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
177 * New RTP payload formats:
178 * Speex voice audio codec
179 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
180 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
181 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
182 * DCCP transport for RTP
183 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
188 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
189 end-user suitable way.
190 * Improved user interaction
191 * Improved mouse gestures
192 * Vastly improved Update checker
193 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
195 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
196 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
198 * Improved video output features
199 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
200 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
201 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
202 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
203 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
205 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
206 if libncursesw is available.
207 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
208 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
210 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
211 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
212 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
213 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
214 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
215 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
216 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
217 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
220 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
221 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
222 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
225 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
226 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
227 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
228 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
229 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
230 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
233 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
234 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
243 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
244 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
245 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
248 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
249 ----------------------------------
252 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
255 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
256 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
257 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
258 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
259 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
260 * Updated Polish translation
263 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
264 ----------------------------------
267 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
268 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
269 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
272 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
273 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
274 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
275 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
276 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
277 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
278 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
279 to an unexpected application termination
280 * New Serbian translation
281 * Updated Romanian translation
284 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
285 ----------------------------------
288 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
289 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
290 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
291 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
292 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
293 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
294 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
295 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
298 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
299 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
300 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
301 * Fixed AAC resampling
302 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
303 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
306 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
307 ----------------------------------
310 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
311 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
312 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
313 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
314 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
317 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
318 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
319 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
320 * Close MMS access on network timeout
321 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
324 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
325 ----------------------------------
328 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
329 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
332 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
333 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
334 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
335 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
337 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
341 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
344 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
347 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
350 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
353 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
354 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
355 encoding on multi-cpu systems
356 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
357 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
359 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
360 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
361 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
362 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
365 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
368 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
369 ----------------------------------
372 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
373 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
374 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
376 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
377 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
379 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
380 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
383 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
385 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
386 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
387 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
388 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
389 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
390 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
392 * Support for current Ogg file formats
393 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
394 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
397 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
400 * The automatic updating facility was removed
401 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
402 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
403 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
406 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
407 ----------------------------------
409 Various bugfixes, notably:
410 * Windows Vista compatibility
411 * Cropping in Direct3D
412 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
413 * RSS filter string overflow
415 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
417 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
418 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
421 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
422 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
425 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
428 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
431 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
434 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
435 ----------------------------------
437 Various bugfixes, notably:
438 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
439 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
440 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
441 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
442 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
443 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
446 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
447 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
450 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
452 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
453 * Diverse usability improvements
454 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
455 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
456 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
459 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
460 ---------------------------------
463 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
466 * Fullscreen controller improvements
469 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
470 --------------------------------
473 * Shoutcast TV listings support
476 * Support for RTSP authentication
477 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
478 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
479 * ATSC support for DVB input
480 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
481 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
482 * Improved support for Flash Video files
485 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
486 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
487 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
488 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
489 * Matroska WavPack support
490 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
491 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
492 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
495 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
496 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
497 * Improved libcaca support
501 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
502 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
504 * Systray support in skins
506 * Support for Apple Remote control
507 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
508 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
509 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
510 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
512 * Notifications using notification-daemon
515 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
517 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
518 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
519 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
520 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
521 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
523 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
524 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
533 * Updates to the libvlc API
534 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
537 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
538 --------------------------------
541 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
542 * Support for downloading updates
546 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
547 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
548 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
549 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
551 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
552 * Improved subtitles encoding support
553 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
556 * Cook (Real audio) support
558 Playlist / Services discovery:
559 * XSPF playlist support
561 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
564 * New JACK audio output
568 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
569 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
570 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
571 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
572 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
573 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
576 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
579 * System to inform the user and request information
580 - HTTP authentication
584 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
585 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
586 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
589 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
590 - Improved playlist handling
591 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
593 - Embedded Video output
594 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
595 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
596 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
597 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
598 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
600 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
601 - A bunch of new RPN functions
604 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
607 * Mac-Intel compatibility
608 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
609 * Growl "Now playing" support
612 * Ability to log to syslog
613 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
616 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
618 * A bit more automatic testing
621 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
622 ---------------------------------
625 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
626 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
629 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
630 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
633 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
636 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
637 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
643 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
646 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
647 --------------------------------
650 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
654 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
655 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
656 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
659 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
660 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
661 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
662 * GnomeVFS input module
663 * Support for RTP packet reordering
664 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
667 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
668 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
669 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
672 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
673 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
679 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
680 Mixer and Dolby Surround
683 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
684 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
685 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
688 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
690 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
691 - New extended controls panel
692 - New bookmarks window
693 - Fixed playlist sorting
694 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
696 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
697 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
698 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
699 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
703 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
704 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
706 - Include macro to include other files
710 * Should now work outside IE as well
713 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
716 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
717 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
720 The following languages were added:
725 The following languages were re-added:
729 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
730 --------------------------------
733 * Rewrite of the playlist
735 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
736 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
737 * Preferences improvements:
738 - New organization, designed to improve usability
739 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
741 * Core image manipulation support
742 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
743 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
744 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
745 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
746 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
747 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
748 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
749 now separated by ':' instead of ','
750 * Access filter architecture
751 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
752 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
756 * Support for SOCKS proxy
757 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
758 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
759 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
760 * Better support for Kasenna streams
761 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
762 * Massive Matroska improvements
763 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
765 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
766 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
767 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
768 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
769 * Support for FTP over IPv6
772 * Dirac decoder and encoder
773 * PNG decoder/encoder
774 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
775 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
778 * New Record and Timeshift filters
781 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
782 * Brand new SAP module
783 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
784 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
785 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
786 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
787 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
788 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
792 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
795 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
796 * Image file video output (png)
797 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
798 * Improvements to wall video filter
799 * Support for font color and opacity
805 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
806 - Seeking support in VoD streams
807 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
811 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
812 - Improved preferences
813 - Improvements to the wizard
814 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
816 - Redesigned playlist
817 - Improved preferences
819 - Support for multiple actions
822 - Support for the new playlist system
824 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
827 * Screensaver disabling fix
828 * DirectShow tuner configuration
829 * Support for no-decoration windows
832 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
833 * The OpenGL video output is back
834 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
835 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
836 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
837 is not yet available in the new module
838 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
841 * Support for single-buffered overlay
850 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
853 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
856 The following languages were added:
862 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
863 --------------------------------
866 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
867 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
870 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
871 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
872 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
875 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
878 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
881 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
884 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
885 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
886 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
890 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
892 * Support of playlist group announcement
895 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
896 --------------------------------
899 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
900 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
901 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
902 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
903 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
904 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
907 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
908 (Stream your desktop)
909 * Improved DVD support:
910 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
911 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
912 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
913 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
914 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
915 (selection of titles/chapters).
918 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
919 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
920 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
921 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
922 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
923 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
924 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
925 * Improved Ogg demuxer
926 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
927 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
930 * G.726 audio support
931 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
932 * MPEG-4 text support
933 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
934 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
935 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
939 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
940 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
941 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
942 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
943 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
944 * DVB subtitles encoder
945 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
946 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
948 * Text track muxing for mp4
949 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
950 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
951 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
952 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
953 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
956 * H.263 RTP streaming support
957 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
958 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
961 * New audio equalizer filter
962 * Very trivial volume normalizer
963 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
964 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
965 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
968 * Roku HD1000 Video output
969 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
970 with support for effects.
971 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
972 - New filters can be streamed.
973 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
974 - Centralized scaling and blending
976 - "time", to display current time
977 - "marq", to display a marquee
980 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
981 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
982 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
983 * A few skins2 improvements
984 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
985 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
986 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
987 * Improved CORBA control module
990 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
991 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
992 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
995 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
996 * Experimental SVG rendering module
997 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1000 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1001 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1002 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1003 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1004 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1007 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1010 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1011 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1014 * Server/client network synchronization module
1015 * VBrick streams fully supported
1016 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1020 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1021 --------------------------------
1024 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1025 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1026 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1027 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1030 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1031 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1032 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1033 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1034 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1035 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1036 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1039 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1040 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1041 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1042 * Improved directory access module.
1043 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1044 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1045 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1046 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1047 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1050 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1051 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1052 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1055 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1056 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1057 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1060 * Improved session announcement system.
1061 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1062 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1063 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1064 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1065 * Improved transrater.
1066 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1067 * New configuration system.
1068 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1071 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1072 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1073 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1074 * Supports scheduling.
1075 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1076 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1079 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1080 - Ability to embed video output.
1081 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1082 - Lots of improvements.
1083 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1084 - New design and set of icons.
1085 - Ability to embed video output.
1086 - Support for hotkeys.
1087 - Support for bookmarks.
1089 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1090 - Better hotkeys handling.
1093 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1094 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1095 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1096 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1099 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1100 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1101 * Improved Windows installer.
1107 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1108 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1111 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1112 ---------------------------------
1115 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1116 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1119 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1120 --------------------------------
1123 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1124 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1127 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1128 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1129 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1130 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1133 * Internal improvments
1134 * Improved import/export
1137 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1139 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1140 small and strange formats.
1142 * New MOD audio demux.
1143 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1144 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1145 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1146 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1149 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1150 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1151 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1157 * New opengl video output plugin.
1160 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1161 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1164 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1165 --------------------------------
1168 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1169 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1170 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1171 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1172 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1173 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1174 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1175 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1178 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1183 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1184 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1185 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1186 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1187 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1188 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1189 * Better Icecast support.
1190 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1191 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1194 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1195 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1196 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1197 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1198 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1199 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1200 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1203 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1204 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1205 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1206 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1207 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1208 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1209 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1210 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1211 * Preliminary RTP support.
1212 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1217 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1218 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1220 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1221 - Improvements and help in preferences
1222 - New streaming wizard
1223 - Revised Disc Open menu
1225 - Improvements of the standard pages
1226 - Support for new commands
1227 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1230 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1231 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1234 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1235 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1236 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1237 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1238 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1239 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1240 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1241 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1242 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1245 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1247 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1248 * Support for Panther.
1249 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1250 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1253 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1254 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1255 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1256 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1257 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1258 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1259 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1260 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1263 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1264 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1265 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1268 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1271 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1272 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1273 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1274 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1277 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1278 --------------------------------
1281 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1284 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1285 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1288 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1289 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1292 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1295 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1296 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1299 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1302 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1305 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1306 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1310 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1311 --------------------------------
1314 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1315 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1319 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1320 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1321 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1323 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1324 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1327 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1330 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1333 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1334 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1338 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1339 --------------------------------
1342 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1343 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1347 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1348 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1349 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1350 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1351 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1354 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1355 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1356 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1359 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1360 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1361 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1364 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1365 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1366 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1367 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1368 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1371 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1372 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1373 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1376 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1379 * Improved build system.
1380 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1381 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1382 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1383 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1386 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1387 --------------------------------
1390 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1393 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1394 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1395 * Video 4 Linux support
1396 * CD Digital Audio support
1397 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1400 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1401 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1402 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1403 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1406 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1407 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1408 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1409 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1410 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1411 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1412 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1415 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1416 * New HTTP remote control interface
1419 * 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.
1420 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1421 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1422 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1425 * New reset option for the preferences
1426 * You can set your language in the prefences
1427 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1428 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1429 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1430 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1433 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1434 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1435 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1438 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1439 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1440 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1441 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1442 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1443 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1444 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1445 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1446 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1447 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1450 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1451 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1452 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1453 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1454 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1455 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1456 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1459 * Interface localization
1460 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1461 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1462 * New full-featured Preferences window
1465 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1466 --------------------------------
1469 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1470 * support for skins at the interface level
1471 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1472 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1473 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1474 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1475 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1478 * fixed HTTP redirects
1479 * support for opening an entire directory
1480 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1481 * new video4linux access plug-in
1482 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1485 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1486 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1487 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1490 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1491 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1492 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1493 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1494 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1495 * new codec for raw I420 video
1496 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1499 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1500 (although it still misses some important features)
1501 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1504 * new HTTP output support
1505 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1506 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1509 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1512 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1515 * reorderable playlist
1516 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1517 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1518 * support for mono audio output devices
1519 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1520 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1521 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1522 * the messages window remembers more lines
1523 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1524 * http and ogg stream output options
1525 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1528 * new skinnable interface
1529 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1531 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1532 * support for FLAC audio format
1533 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1535 * network tab in the interface
1536 * "apply" handling in preferences
1539 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1540 ---------------------------------
1543 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1544 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1545 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1546 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1548 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1549 * DTS S/PDIF support
1552 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1553 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1554 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1555 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1558 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1559 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1562 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1565 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1568 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1570 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1571 * rc interface is now fully useable
1572 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1575 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1576 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1577 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1578 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1579 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1581 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1582 * support for mouse gestures
1583 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1586 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1587 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1590 * improved ID3 tag detection
1591 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1592 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1593 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1595 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1598 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1599 ---------------------------------
1602 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1603 English was set as the preferred language
1606 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1607 --------------------------------
1610 * new mouse gesture interface
1611 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1615 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1616 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1617 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1620 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1621 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1625 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1628 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1629 without the user consent
1632 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1634 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1635 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1636 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1639 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1640 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1641 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1642 * playlist enhancements
1643 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1644 * new step forward/step backward commands
1645 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1646 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1647 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1650 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1651 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1652 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1655 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1656 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1659 * native video output is working again
1660 * only commandline interface support
1661 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1664 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1665 --------------------------------
1668 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1669 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1670 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1671 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1672 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1673 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1674 and A/52 streams are supported)
1675 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1680 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1681 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1682 * VCD entry points support
1683 * VCD image file support
1686 * support for *.asf format
1687 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1688 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1689 * support for ogg encapsulation
1690 * support for raw DV format
1691 * support for *.wav format
1692 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1695 Stream discovery & playlists:
1696 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1697 * support for .m3u file format
1698 * support for .asx file format
1699 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1702 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1703 (only available with the .avi demux)
1704 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1705 * support for raw PCM data
1706 * support for Cinepak video codec
1707 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1708 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1709 * support for Xvid codec
1710 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1711 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1712 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1714 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1716 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1719 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1722 * new WxWindows interface
1723 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1724 device and the channels configuration
1725 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1726 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1727 format that VLC can play
1728 * new swedish translation
1729 * enhancements of the playlist window
1730 * new messages window to see debug info
1731 * fixed a few crashes
1734 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1735 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1736 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1737 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working