3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
40 * Vastly improved playlist support:
41 * Media library support
43 * Shoutcast TV listings
44 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
45 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
46 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
49 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
50 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
51 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
52 * JACK audio input support
53 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
54 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
55 * Fixed aiff stereo file
56 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
57 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
59 * APEv1/2 tags support
60 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
61 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
63 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
64 * Tivo Series 2 support
65 * v4l2 access module support
66 * CD+G karaoke Files support
69 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
70 * MKV USF subtitles support
71 * HTML based subtitles support
72 * Flash Screen Video support
73 * CamStudio Screen Video support
74 * DosBox Capture support
75 * Karl Morton's Video support
76 * limited atrac3 support
77 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
78 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
79 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
80 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC)
82 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
83 * NellyMoser ASAO support
84 * APE ( Monkey audio ) support
87 * Flash Screen Video support
89 Video output and filters:
90 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
91 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
92 * New puzzle video output filter
93 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
94 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
96 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
97 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
98 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
100 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
101 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
102 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
103 was previously part of the mosaic module.
104 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
105 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
106 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
107 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
109 Audio output and filters
110 * Replay gain support.
111 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
112 * New spatializer audio filter.
115 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
116 * New RTP payload formats:
117 * Speex voice audio codec
118 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
119 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
120 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
121 * DCCP transport for RTP
122 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
126 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
128 * Improved user interaction
129 * Improved mouse gestures
131 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
132 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
133 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
134 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
135 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
136 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
137 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
138 when using an UTF-8 locale.
139 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
142 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
143 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
144 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
147 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
148 applications. (Google Summer Of Code Student project).
151 * Event management and various improvement in libvlc.
152 (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project).
155 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
164 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
165 ----------------------------------
167 Various bugfixes, notably:
168 * Windows Vista compatibility
169 * Cropping in Direct3D
170 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
171 * RSS filter string overflow
173 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
175 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
176 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
179 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
182 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
185 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
188 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
191 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
192 ----------------------------------
194 Various bugfixes, notably:
195 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
196 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
197 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
198 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
199 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
200 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
203 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
204 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
207 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
209 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
210 * Diverse usability improvements
211 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
212 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
213 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
216 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
217 ---------------------------------
220 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
223 * Fullscreen controller improvements
226 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
227 --------------------------------
230 * Shoutcast TV listings support
233 * Support for RTSP authentication
234 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
235 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
236 * ATSC support for DVB input
237 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
238 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
239 * Improved support for Flash Video files
242 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
243 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
244 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
245 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
246 * Matroska WavPack support
247 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
248 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
249 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
252 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
253 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
254 * Improved libcaca support
258 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
259 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
261 * Systray support in skins
263 * Support for Apple Remote control
264 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
265 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
266 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
267 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
269 * Notifications using notification-daemon
272 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
274 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
275 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
276 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
277 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
278 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
280 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
281 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
290 * Updates to the libvlc API
291 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
294 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
295 --------------------------------
298 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
299 * Support for downloading updates
303 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
304 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
305 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
306 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
308 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
309 * Improved subtitles encoding support
310 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
313 * Cook (Real audio) support
315 Playlist / Services discovery:
316 * XSPF playlist support
318 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
321 * New JACK audio output
325 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
326 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
327 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
328 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
329 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
330 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
333 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
336 * System to inform the user and request information
337 - HTTP authentication
341 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
342 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
343 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
346 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
347 - Improved playlist handling
348 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
350 - Embedded Video output
351 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
352 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
353 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
354 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
355 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
357 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
358 - A bunch of new RPN functions
361 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
364 * Mac-Intel compatibility
365 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
366 * Growl "Now playing" support
369 * Ability to log to syslog
370 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
373 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
375 * A bit more automatic testing
378 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
379 ---------------------------------
382 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
383 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
386 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
387 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
390 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
393 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
394 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
400 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
403 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
404 --------------------------------
407 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
411 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
412 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
413 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
416 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
417 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
418 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
419 * GnomeVFS input module
420 * Support for RTP packet reordering
421 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
424 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
425 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
426 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
429 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
430 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
436 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
437 Mixer and Dolby Surround
440 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
441 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
442 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
445 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
447 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
448 - New extended controls panel
449 - New bookmarks window
450 - Fixed playlist sorting
451 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
453 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
454 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
455 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
456 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
460 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
461 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
463 - Include macro to include other files
467 * Should now work outside IE as well
470 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
473 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
474 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
477 The following languages were added:
482 The following languages were re-added:
486 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
487 --------------------------------
490 * Rewrite of the playlist
492 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
493 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
494 * Preferences improvements:
495 - New organization, designed to improve usability
496 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
498 * Core image manipulation support
499 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
500 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
501 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
502 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
503 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
504 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
505 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
506 now separated by ':' instead of ','
507 * Access filter architecture
508 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
509 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
513 * Support for SOCKS proxy
514 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
515 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
516 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
517 * Better support for Kasenna streams
518 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
519 * Massive Matroska improvements
520 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
522 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
523 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
524 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
525 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
526 * Support for FTP over IPv6
529 * Dirac decoder and encoder
530 * PNG decoder/encoder
531 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
532 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
535 * New Record and Timeshift filters
538 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
539 * Brand new SAP module
540 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
541 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
542 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
543 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
544 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
545 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
549 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
552 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
553 * Image file video output (png)
554 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
555 * Improvements to wall video filter
556 * Support for font color and opacity
562 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
563 - Seeking support in VoD streams
564 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
568 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
569 - Improved preferences
570 - Improvements to the wizard
571 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
573 - Redesigned playlist
574 - Improved preferences
576 - Support for multiple actions
579 - Support for the new playlist system
581 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
584 * Screensaver disabling fix
585 * DirectShow tuner configuration
586 * Support for no-decoration windows
589 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
590 * The OpenGL video output is back
591 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
592 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
593 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
594 is not yet available in the new module
595 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
598 * Support for single-buffered overlay
607 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
610 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
613 The following languages were added:
619 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
620 --------------------------------
623 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
624 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
627 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
628 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
629 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
632 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
635 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
638 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
641 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
642 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
643 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
647 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
649 * Support of playlist group announcement
652 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
653 --------------------------------
656 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
657 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
658 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
659 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
660 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
661 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
664 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
665 (Stream your desktop)
666 * Improved DVD support:
667 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
668 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
669 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
670 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
671 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
672 (selection of titles/chapters).
675 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
676 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
677 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
678 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
679 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
680 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
681 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
682 * Improved Ogg demuxer
683 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
684 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
687 * G.726 audio support
688 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
689 * MPEG-4 text support
690 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
691 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
692 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
696 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
697 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
698 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
699 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
700 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
701 * DVB subtitles encoder
702 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
703 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
705 * Text track muxing for mp4
706 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
707 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
708 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
709 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
710 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
713 * H.263 RTP streaming support
714 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
715 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
718 * New audio equalizer filter
719 * Very trivial volume normalizer
720 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
721 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
722 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
725 * Roku HD1000 Video output
726 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
727 with support for effects.
728 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
729 - New filters can be streamed.
730 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
731 - Centralized scaling and blending
733 - "time", to display current time
734 - "marq", to display a marquee
737 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
738 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
739 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
740 * A few skins2 improvements
741 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
742 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
743 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
744 * Improved CORBA control module
747 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
748 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
749 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
752 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
753 * Experimental SVG rendering module
754 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
757 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
758 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
759 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
760 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
761 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
764 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
767 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
768 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
771 * Server/client network synchronization module
772 * VBrick streams fully supported
773 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
777 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
778 --------------------------------
781 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
782 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
783 * Improved HTTP daemon.
784 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
787 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
788 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
789 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
790 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
791 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
792 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
793 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
796 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
797 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
798 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
799 * Improved directory access module.
800 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
801 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
802 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
803 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
804 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
807 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
808 * mmsh streaming fixes.
809 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
812 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
813 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
814 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
817 * Improved session announcement system.
818 * Minimize threads usage by default.
819 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
820 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
821 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
822 * Improved transrater.
823 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
824 * New configuration system.
825 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
828 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
829 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
830 * Supports live streams and VoD.
831 * Supports scheduling.
832 * Telnet interface for vlm.
833 * HTTP interface for vlm.
836 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
837 - Ability to embed video output.
838 - Support for bitmap fonts.
839 - Lots of improvements.
840 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
841 - New design and set of icons.
842 - Ability to embed video output.
843 - Support for hotkeys.
844 - Support for bookmarks.
846 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
847 - Better hotkeys handling.
850 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
851 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
852 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
853 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
856 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
857 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
858 * Improved Windows installer.
864 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
865 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
868 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
869 ---------------------------------
872 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
873 * Playing MOD files is working now.
876 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
877 --------------------------------
880 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
881 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
884 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
885 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
886 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
887 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
890 * Internal improvments
891 * Improved import/export
894 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
896 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
897 small and strange formats.
899 * New MOD audio demux.
900 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
901 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
902 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
903 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
906 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
907 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
908 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
914 * New opengl video output plugin.
917 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
918 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
921 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
922 --------------------------------
925 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
926 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
927 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
928 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
929 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
930 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
931 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
932 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
935 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
940 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
941 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
942 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
943 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
944 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
945 * Reworked DVB tuning.
946 * Better Icecast support.
947 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
948 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
951 * Support for Theora video encoding.
952 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
953 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
954 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
955 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
956 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
957 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
960 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
961 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
962 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
963 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
964 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
965 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
966 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
967 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
968 * Preliminary RTP support.
969 * Fixes to SAP announces.
974 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
975 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
977 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
978 - Improvements and help in preferences
979 - New streaming wizard
980 - Revised Disc Open menu
982 - Improvements of the standard pages
983 - Support for new commands
984 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
987 * Many fixes to the SAP module
988 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
991 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
992 * Text subtitles autodetection.
993 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
994 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
995 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
996 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
997 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
998 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
999 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1002 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1004 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1005 * Support for Panther.
1006 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1007 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1010 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1011 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1012 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1013 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1014 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1015 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1016 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1017 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1020 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1021 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1022 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1025 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1028 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1029 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1030 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1031 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1034 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1035 --------------------------------
1038 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1041 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1042 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1045 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1046 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1049 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1052 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1053 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1056 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1059 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1062 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1063 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1067 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1068 --------------------------------
1071 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1072 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1076 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1077 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1078 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1080 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1081 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1084 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1087 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1090 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1091 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1095 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1096 --------------------------------
1099 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1100 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1104 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1105 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1106 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1107 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1108 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1111 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1112 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1113 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1116 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1117 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1118 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1121 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1122 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1123 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1124 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1125 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1128 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1129 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1130 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1133 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1136 * Improved build system.
1137 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1138 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1139 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1140 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1143 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1144 --------------------------------
1147 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1150 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1151 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1152 * Video 4 Linux support
1153 * CD Digital Audio support
1154 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1157 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1158 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1159 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1160 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1163 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1164 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1165 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1166 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1167 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1168 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1169 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1172 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1173 * New HTTP remote control interface
1176 * 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.
1177 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1178 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1179 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1182 * New reset option for the preferences
1183 * You can set your language in the prefences
1184 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1185 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1186 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1187 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1190 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1191 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1192 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1195 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1196 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1197 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1198 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1199 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1200 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1201 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1202 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1203 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1204 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1207 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1208 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1209 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1210 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1211 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1212 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1213 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1216 * Interface localization
1217 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1218 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1219 * New full-featured Preferences window
1222 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1223 --------------------------------
1226 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1227 * support for skins at the interface level
1228 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1229 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1230 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1231 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1232 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1235 * fixed HTTP redirects
1236 * support for opening an entire directory
1237 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1238 * new video4linux access plug-in
1239 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1242 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1243 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1244 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1247 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1248 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1249 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1250 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1251 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1252 * new codec for raw I420 video
1253 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1256 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1257 (although it still misses some important features)
1258 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1261 * new HTTP output support
1262 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1263 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1266 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1269 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1272 * reorderable playlist
1273 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1274 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1275 * support for mono audio output devices
1276 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1277 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1278 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1279 * the messages window remembers more lines
1280 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1281 * http and ogg stream output options
1282 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1285 * new skinnable interface
1286 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1288 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1289 * support for FLAC audio format
1290 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1292 * network tab in the interface
1293 * "apply" handling in preferences
1296 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1297 ---------------------------------
1300 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1301 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1302 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1303 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1305 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1306 * DTS S/PDIF support
1309 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1310 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1311 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1312 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1315 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1316 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1319 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1322 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1325 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1327 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1328 * rc interface is now fully useable
1329 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1332 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1333 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1334 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1335 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1336 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1338 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1339 * support for mouse gestures
1340 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1343 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1344 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1347 * improved ID3 tag detection
1348 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1349 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1350 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1352 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1355 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1356 ---------------------------------
1359 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1360 English was set as the preferred language
1363 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1364 --------------------------------
1367 * new mouse gesture interface
1368 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1372 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1373 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1374 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1377 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1378 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1382 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1385 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1386 without the user consent
1389 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1391 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1392 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1393 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1396 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1397 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1398 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1399 * playlist enhancements
1400 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1401 * new step forward/step backward commands
1402 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1403 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1404 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1407 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1408 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1409 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1412 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1413 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1416 * native video output is working again
1417 * only commandline interface support
1418 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1421 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1422 --------------------------------
1425 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1426 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1427 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1428 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1429 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1430 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1431 and A/52 streams are supported)
1432 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1437 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1438 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1439 * VCD entry points support
1440 * VCD image file support
1443 * support for *.asf format
1444 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1445 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1446 * support for ogg encapsulation
1447 * support for raw DV format
1448 * support for *.wav format
1449 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1452 Stream discovery & playlists:
1453 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1454 * support for .m3u file format
1455 * support for .asx file format
1456 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1459 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1460 (only available with the .avi demux)
1461 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1462 * support for raw PCM data
1463 * support for Cinepak video codec
1464 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1465 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1466 * support for Xvid codec
1467 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1468 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1469 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1471 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1473 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1476 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1479 * new WxWindows interface
1480 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1481 device and the channels configuration
1482 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1483 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1484 format that VLC can play
1485 * new swedish translation
1486 * enhancements of the playlist window
1487 * new messages window to see debug info
1488 * fixed a few crashes
1491 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1492 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1493 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1494 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working