1 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
9 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
10 * Invmem modules improvements
13 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
14 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
15 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
16 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
17 * Various EGP improvements
20 * WPL playlist support
21 * ZPL playlist support
22 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
23 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
26 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
27 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
30 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
31 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
32 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
33 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
34 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
35 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
38 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
39 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
40 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
41 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
42 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
45 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
48 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
51 * New smem module, streaming to memory
54 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
57 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
60 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
68 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interface
71 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
72 --------------------------------
75 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
76 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
77 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
80 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
81 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
84 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
85 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
88 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
91 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
92 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
93 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
94 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
97 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
98 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
99 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
100 - no support for Goom and SDL
101 - limited text rendering support
102 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
105 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
106 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
107 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
108 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
109 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
110 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
111 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
112 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
113 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
117 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
120 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
123 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
124 --------------------------------
127 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
128 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
129 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
130 * Fix Dailymotion access script
131 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
132 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
135 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
136 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
139 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
140 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
141 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
144 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
147 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
148 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
151 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
152 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
153 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
154 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
155 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
156 * Fix various crashes
159 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
161 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
164 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
165 ---------------------------------
169 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
170 See 'Access:' for more info.
171 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
174 * Instantaneous pausing
175 * Frame-by-Frame playback
176 * Finer speed control
177 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
178 * Timeshift for most medias
179 * RTSP trickplay support
180 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
183 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
184 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
185 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
186 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
187 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
188 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
189 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
190 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
191 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
192 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
195 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
196 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
197 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
198 * Metadata for mod files are supported
199 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
200 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
201 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
204 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
205 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
208 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
209 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
210 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
211 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
212 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
213 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
214 * DVB scanning on linux
215 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
216 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
217 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
218 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
219 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
220 * MTP device access on Unix
221 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
222 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
225 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
226 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
227 Windows and Mac OS X.
230 * Export the playlist in HTML
231 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
232 * Better metadata handling and reading
234 Linux/Windows interface:
235 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
236 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
237 * Recently played items list
238 * Interface toolbar customizations
239 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
242 - Improvements on many dialogs
243 - New dialog for plugins listing
244 - Fixed-size mode for videos
245 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
246 * Better integration in GTK environments
249 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
250 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
251 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
252 * Additional usability improvements
255 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
256 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
257 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
258 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
259 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
262 * New Maemo port with:
263 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
264 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
267 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
270 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
271 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
272 * Support for latest iSight models
275 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
276 * Surround support for PulseAudio
279 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
280 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
281 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
282 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
283 The old image video output has been removed.
284 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
285 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
288 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
293 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
294 ---------------------------------
297 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
298 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
301 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
302 ---------------------------------
305 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
308 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
311 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
312 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
313 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
314 main controller window.
315 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
318 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
323 * Updates of other localizations
326 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
327 * Lots of small bugfixes.
328 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
329 * Telnet fixes on Windows
330 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
332 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
333 ---------------------------------
336 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
338 Bunch of small bugfixes.
341 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
342 --------------------------------
347 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
348 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
351 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
352 --------------------------------
354 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
355 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
358 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
361 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
362 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
365 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
366 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
369 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
370 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
371 * Various fixed in playlist
374 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
377 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
380 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
381 ------------------------------------
383 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
384 * Fixes several memory leaks.
387 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
388 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
389 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
392 * Stability fix for the video output.
395 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
396 --------------------------------
399 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
400 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
401 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
402 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
403 * Fixed update system bugs
404 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
407 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
408 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
409 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
410 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
411 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
412 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
413 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
414 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
415 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
416 modern Mac OS X versions
419 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
420 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
422 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
423 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
426 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
427 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
428 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
429 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
430 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
431 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
434 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
435 --------------------------------
437 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
438 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
442 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
443 --------------------------------
445 * Multiple bug fixes.
448 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
449 ---------------------------------
453 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
454 recent to work correctly
455 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
456 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
457 edit the ".hosts" file.
458 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
459 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
460 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
461 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
462 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
463 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
464 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
465 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
466 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
467 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
468 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
469 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
470 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
471 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
472 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
473 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
474 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
475 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
476 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
477 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
478 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
479 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
480 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
481 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
482 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
483 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
484 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
485 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
486 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
487 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
488 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
489 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
490 and postproc modules.
491 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
492 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
493 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
494 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
496 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
498 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
499 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
501 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
502 * Glide video output module has been removed.
508 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
510 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
511 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
514 * Vastly improved playlist support:
515 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
517 * Shoutcast TV listings
518 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
520 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
521 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
523 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
526 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
527 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
528 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
529 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
530 * JACK audio input support
531 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
532 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
533 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
534 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
535 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
536 * Experimental EyeTV access module
537 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
538 (available as a separate download).
539 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
541 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
542 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
543 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
545 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
546 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
549 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
550 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
551 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
552 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
554 * APEv1/2 tags support
555 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
556 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
558 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
559 * TiVo Series 2 support
560 * CD+G karaoke Files support
565 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
566 * Flash Screen Video support
567 * CamStudio Screen Video support
568 * DosBox Capture support
569 * Karl Morton's Video support
570 * limited atrac3 support
572 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
573 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
574 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
576 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
577 * NellyMoser ASAO support
578 * APE (Monkey audio) support
579 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
580 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
583 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
584 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
585 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
586 * AQTitle subtitles support
587 * MKV USF subtitles support
588 * HTML-based subtitles support
589 * MPSub subtitles support
590 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
591 * MPL2 subtitles support
592 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
593 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
594 * Realtext subtitle support
595 * DKS subtitle support
596 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
597 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
600 * Flash Screen Video support
601 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
603 Video outputs and filters:
604 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
605 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
606 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
607 * New puzzle video output filter
608 * Re-written motion detection video filter
609 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
611 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
612 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
613 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
614 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
615 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
616 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
617 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
618 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
619 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
620 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
621 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
622 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
623 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
624 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
626 Audio outputs and filters:
627 * Replay gain support
628 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
629 new scaletempo audio filter)
630 * New spatializer audio filter
631 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
634 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
635 * New RTP payload formats:
636 * Speex voice audio codec
637 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
638 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
639 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
640 * DCCP transport for RTP
641 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
646 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
647 end-user suitable way.
648 * Improved user interaction
649 * Improved mouse gestures
650 * Vastly improved Update checker
651 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
653 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
654 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
656 * Improved video output features
657 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
658 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
659 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
660 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
661 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
663 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
664 if libncursesw is available.
665 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
666 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
667 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
669 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
670 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
671 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
672 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
673 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
674 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
675 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
676 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
679 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
680 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
681 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
684 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
685 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
686 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
687 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
688 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
689 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
692 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
693 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
703 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
704 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
705 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
708 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
709 ----------------------------------
712 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
715 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
716 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
717 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
718 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
719 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
720 * Updated Polish translation
723 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
724 ----------------------------------
727 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
728 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
729 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
732 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
733 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
734 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
735 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
736 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
737 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
738 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
739 to an unexpected application termination
740 * New Serbian translation
741 * Updated Romanian translation
744 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
745 ----------------------------------
748 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
749 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
750 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
751 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
752 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
753 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
754 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
755 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
758 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
759 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
760 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
761 * Fixed AAC resampling
762 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
763 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
766 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
767 ----------------------------------
770 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
771 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
772 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
773 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
774 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
777 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
778 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
779 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
780 * Close MMS access on network timeout
781 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
784 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
785 ----------------------------------
788 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
789 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
792 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
793 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
794 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
795 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
797 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
801 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
804 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
807 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
810 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
813 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
814 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
815 encoding on multi-cpu systems
816 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
817 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
819 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
820 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
821 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
822 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
825 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
828 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
829 ----------------------------------
832 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
833 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
834 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
836 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
837 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
839 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
840 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
843 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
845 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
846 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
847 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
848 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
849 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
850 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
852 * Support for current Ogg file formats
853 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
854 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
857 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
860 * The automatic updating facility was removed
861 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
862 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
863 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
866 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
867 ----------------------------------
869 Various bugfixes, notably:
870 * Windows Vista compatibility
871 * Cropping in Direct3D
872 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
873 * RSS filter string overflow
875 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
877 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
878 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
881 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
882 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
885 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
888 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
891 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
894 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
895 ----------------------------------
897 Various bugfixes, notably:
898 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
899 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
900 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
901 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
902 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
903 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
906 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
907 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
910 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
912 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
913 * Diverse usability improvements
914 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
915 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
916 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
919 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
920 ---------------------------------
923 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
926 * Fullscreen controller improvements
929 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
930 --------------------------------
933 * Shoutcast TV listings support
936 * Support for RTSP authentication
937 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
938 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
939 * ATSC support for DVB input
940 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
941 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
942 * Improved support for Flash Video files
945 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
946 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
947 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
948 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
949 * Matroska WavPack support
950 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
951 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
952 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
955 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
956 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
957 * Improved libcaca support
961 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
962 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
964 * Systray support in skins
966 * Support for Apple Remote control
967 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
968 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
969 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
970 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
972 * Notifications using notification-daemon
975 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
977 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
978 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
979 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
980 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
981 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
983 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
984 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
993 * Updates to the libvlc API
994 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
997 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
998 --------------------------------
1001 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1002 * Support for downloading updates
1006 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1007 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1008 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1009 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1011 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1012 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1013 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1016 * Cook (Real audio) support
1018 Playlist / Services discovery:
1019 * XSPF playlist support
1021 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1024 * New JACK audio output
1027 * New video filters:
1028 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1029 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1030 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1031 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1032 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1033 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1036 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1039 * System to inform the user and request information
1040 - HTTP authentication
1044 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1045 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1046 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1049 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1050 - Improved playlist handling
1051 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1053 - Embedded Video output
1054 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1055 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1056 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1057 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1058 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1060 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1061 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1064 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1067 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1068 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1069 * Growl "Now playing" support
1072 * Ability to log to syslog
1073 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1076 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1078 * A bit more automatic testing
1081 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1082 ---------------------------------
1085 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1086 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1089 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1090 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1093 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1096 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1097 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1103 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1106 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1107 --------------------------------
1110 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1114 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1115 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1116 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1119 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1120 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1121 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1122 * GnomeVFS input module
1123 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1124 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1127 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1128 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1129 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1132 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1133 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1139 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1140 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1143 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1144 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1145 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1148 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1150 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1151 - New extended controls panel
1152 - New bookmarks window
1153 - Fixed playlist sorting
1154 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1156 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1157 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1158 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1159 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1163 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1164 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1166 - Include macro to include other files
1170 * Should now work outside IE as well
1173 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1176 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1177 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1180 The following languages were added:
1184 * Simplified Chinese
1185 The following languages were re-added:
1189 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * Rewrite of the playlist
1195 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1196 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1197 * Preferences improvements:
1198 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1199 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1201 * Core image manipulation support
1202 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1203 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1204 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1205 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1206 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1207 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1208 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1209 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1210 * Access filter architecture
1211 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1212 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1216 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1217 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1218 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1219 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1220 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1221 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1222 * Massive Matroska improvements
1223 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1225 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1226 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1227 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1228 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1229 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1231 Decoders / Encoders:
1232 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1233 * PNG decoder/encoder
1234 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1235 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1238 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1241 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1242 * Brand new SAP module
1243 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1244 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1245 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1246 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1247 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1248 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1252 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1255 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1256 * Image file video output (png)
1257 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1258 * Improvements to wall video filter
1259 * Support for font color and opacity
1265 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1266 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1267 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1271 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1272 - Improved preferences
1273 - Improvements to the wizard
1274 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1276 - Redesigned playlist
1277 - Improved preferences
1279 - Support for multiple actions
1282 - Support for the new playlist system
1284 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1287 * Screensaver disabling fix
1288 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1289 * Support for no-decoration windows
1292 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1293 * The OpenGL video output is back
1294 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1295 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1296 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1297 is not yet available in the new module
1298 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1301 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1310 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1313 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1316 The following languages were added:
1322 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1323 --------------------------------
1326 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1327 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1330 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1331 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1332 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1335 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1338 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1341 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1344 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1345 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1346 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1350 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1352 * Support of playlist group announcement
1355 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1356 --------------------------------
1359 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1360 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1361 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1362 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1363 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1364 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1367 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1368 (Stream your desktop)
1369 * Improved DVD support:
1370 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1371 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1372 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1373 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1374 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1375 (selection of titles/chapters).
1378 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1379 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1380 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1381 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1382 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1383 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1384 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1385 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1386 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1387 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1390 * G.726 audio support
1391 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1392 * MPEG-4 text support
1393 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1394 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1395 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1399 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1400 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1401 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1402 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1403 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1404 * DVB subtitles encoder
1405 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1406 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1408 * Text track muxing for mp4
1409 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1410 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1411 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1412 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1413 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1414 * Improved ASF muxer
1416 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1417 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1418 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1421 * New audio equalizer filter
1422 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1423 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1424 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1425 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1428 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1429 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1430 with support for effects.
1431 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1432 - New filters can be streamed.
1433 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1434 - Centralized scaling and blending
1436 - "time", to display current time
1437 - "marq", to display a marquee
1440 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1441 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1442 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1443 * A few skins2 improvements
1444 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1445 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1446 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1447 * Improved CORBA control module
1450 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1451 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1452 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1455 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1456 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1457 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1460 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1461 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1462 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1463 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1464 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1467 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1470 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1471 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1474 * Server/client network synchronization module
1475 * VBrick streams fully supported
1476 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1480 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1481 --------------------------------
1484 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1485 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1486 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1487 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1490 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1491 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1492 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1493 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1494 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1495 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1496 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1499 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1500 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1501 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1502 * Improved directory access module.
1503 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1504 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1505 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1506 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1507 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1510 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1511 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1512 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1515 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1516 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1517 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1520 * Improved session announcement system.
1521 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1522 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1523 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1524 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1525 * Improved transrater.
1526 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1527 * New configuration system.
1528 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1531 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1532 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1533 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1534 * Supports scheduling.
1535 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1536 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1539 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1540 - Ability to embed video output.
1541 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1542 - Lots of improvements.
1543 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1544 - New design and set of icons.
1545 - Ability to embed video output.
1546 - Support for hotkeys.
1547 - Support for bookmarks.
1549 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1550 - Better hotkeys handling.
1553 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1554 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1555 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1556 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1559 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1560 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1561 * Improved Windows installer.
1567 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1568 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1571 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1572 ---------------------------------
1575 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1576 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1579 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1580 --------------------------------
1583 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1584 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1587 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1588 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1589 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1590 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1593 * Internal improvments
1594 * Improved import/export
1597 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1599 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1600 small and strange formats.
1602 * New MOD audio demux.
1603 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1604 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1605 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1606 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1609 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1610 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1611 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1617 * New opengl video output plugin.
1620 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1621 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1624 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1625 --------------------------------
1628 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1629 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1630 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1631 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1632 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1633 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1634 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1635 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1638 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1643 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1644 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1645 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1646 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1647 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1648 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1649 * Better Icecast support.
1650 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1651 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1654 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1655 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1656 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1657 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1658 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1659 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1660 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1663 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1664 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1665 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1666 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1667 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1668 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1669 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1670 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1671 * Preliminary RTP support.
1672 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1677 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1678 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1680 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1681 - Improvements and help in preferences
1682 - New streaming wizard
1683 - Revised Disc Open menu
1685 - Improvements of the standard pages
1686 - Support for new commands
1687 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1690 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1691 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1694 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1695 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1696 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1697 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1698 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1699 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1700 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1701 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1702 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1705 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1707 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1708 * Support for Panther.
1709 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1710 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1713 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1714 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1715 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1716 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1717 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1718 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1719 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1720 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1723 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1724 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1725 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1728 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1731 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1732 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1733 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1734 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1737 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1738 --------------------------------
1741 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1744 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1745 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1748 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1749 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1752 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1755 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1756 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1759 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1762 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1765 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1766 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1770 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1771 --------------------------------
1774 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1775 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1779 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1780 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1781 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1783 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1784 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1787 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1790 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1793 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1794 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1798 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1799 --------------------------------
1802 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1803 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1807 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1808 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1809 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1810 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1811 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1814 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1815 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1816 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1819 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1820 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1821 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1824 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1825 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1826 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1827 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1828 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1831 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1832 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1833 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1836 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1839 * Improved build system.
1840 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1841 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1842 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1843 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1846 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1847 --------------------------------
1850 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1853 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1854 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1855 * Video 4 Linux support
1856 * CD Digital Audio support
1857 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1860 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1861 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1862 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1863 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1866 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1867 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1868 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1869 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1870 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1871 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1872 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1875 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1876 * New HTTP remote control interface
1879 * 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.
1880 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1881 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1882 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1885 * New reset option for the preferences
1886 * You can set your language in the prefences
1887 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1888 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1889 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1890 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1893 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1894 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1895 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1898 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1899 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1900 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1901 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1902 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1903 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1904 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1905 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1906 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1907 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1910 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1911 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1912 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1913 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1914 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1915 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1916 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1919 * Interface localization
1920 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1921 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1922 * New full-featured Preferences window
1925 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1926 --------------------------------
1929 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1930 * support for skins at the interface level
1931 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1932 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1933 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1934 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1935 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1938 * fixed HTTP redirects
1939 * support for opening an entire directory
1940 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1941 * new video4linux access plug-in
1942 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1945 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1946 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1947 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1950 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1951 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1952 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1953 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1954 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1955 * new codec for raw I420 video
1956 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1959 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1960 (although it still misses some important features)
1961 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1964 * new HTTP output support
1965 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1966 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1969 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1972 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1975 * reorderable playlist
1976 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1977 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1978 * support for mono audio output devices
1979 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1980 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1981 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1982 * the messages window remembers more lines
1983 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1984 * http and ogg stream output options
1985 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1988 * new skinnable interface
1989 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1991 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1992 * support for FLAC audio format
1993 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1995 * network tab in the interface
1996 * "apply" handling in preferences
1999 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2000 ---------------------------------
2003 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2004 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2005 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2006 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2008 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2009 * DTS S/PDIF support
2012 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2013 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2014 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2015 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2018 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2019 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2022 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2025 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2028 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2030 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2031 * rc interface is now fully useable
2032 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2035 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2036 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2037 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2038 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2039 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2041 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2042 * support for mouse gestures
2043 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2046 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2047 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2050 * improved ID3 tag detection
2051 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2052 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2053 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2055 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2058 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2059 ---------------------------------
2062 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2063 English was set as the preferred language
2066 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2067 --------------------------------
2070 * new mouse gesture interface
2071 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2075 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2076 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2077 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2080 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2081 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2085 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2088 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2089 without the user consent
2092 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2094 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2095 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2096 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2099 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2100 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2101 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2102 * playlist enhancements
2103 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2104 * new step forward/step backward commands
2105 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2106 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2107 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2110 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2111 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2112 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2115 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2116 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2119 * native video output is working again
2120 * only commandline interface support
2121 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2124 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2125 --------------------------------
2128 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2129 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2130 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2131 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2132 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2133 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2134 and A/52 streams are supported)
2135 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2140 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2141 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2142 * VCD entry points support
2143 * VCD image file support
2146 * support for *.asf format
2147 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2148 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2149 * support for ogg encapsulation
2150 * support for raw DV format
2151 * support for *.wav format
2152 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2155 Stream discovery & playlists:
2156 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2157 * support for .m3u file format
2158 * support for .asx file format
2159 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2162 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2163 (only available with the .avi demux)
2164 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2165 * support for raw PCM data
2166 * support for Cinepak video codec
2167 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2168 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2169 * support for Xvid codec
2170 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2171 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2172 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2174 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2176 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2179 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2182 * new WxWindows interface
2183 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2184 device and the channels configuration
2185 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2186 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2187 format that VLC can play
2188 * new swedish translation
2189 * enhancements of the playlist window
2190 * new messages window to see debug info
2191 * fixed a few crashes
2194 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2195 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2196 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2197 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working