3 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4 This version is in development and not yet released.
5 --------------------------------
8 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
9 * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
10 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
11 * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
12 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
14 * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
17 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
19 * Improved DVD support:
20 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
21 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
22 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
23 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
24 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
25 (selection of titles/chapters).
28 * Support iTunes Music Store previews
29 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
30 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
31 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
32 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
33 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
34 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
35 * Improved Ogg demuxer
39 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
41 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
42 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
46 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
47 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
48 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
49 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
50 * DVB subtitles encoder
51 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
52 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
54 * Text track muxing for mp4
55 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
56 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
57 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
58 * Experimental WAV muxer
61 * H.263 RTP streaming support
62 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
65 * New audio equalizer filter
66 * Very trivial volume normalizer
69 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
70 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
71 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
72 * A few skins2 improvements
73 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
74 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
75 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
76 * Improved CORBA control module
79 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
80 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
81 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
84 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
85 * Experimental SVG rendering module
88 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
89 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
90 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
91 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
92 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
95 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
96 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
99 * Roku HD1000 Video output
100 * Server/client network synchronization module
101 * VBrick streams fully supported
102 * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
103 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
104 * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
106 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
107 --------------------------------
110 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
111 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
112 * Improved HTTP daemon.
113 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
116 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
117 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
118 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
119 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
120 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
121 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
122 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
125 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
126 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
127 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
128 * Improved directory access module.
129 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
130 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
131 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
132 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
133 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
136 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
137 * mmsh streaming fixes.
138 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
141 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
142 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
143 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
146 * Improved session announcement system.
147 * Minimize threads usage by default.
148 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
149 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
150 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
151 * Improved transrater.
152 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
153 * New configuration system.
154 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
157 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
158 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
159 * Supports live streams and VoD.
160 * Supports scheduling.
161 * Telnet interface for vlm.
162 * HTTP interface for vlm.
165 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
166 - Ability to embed video output.
167 - Support for bitmap fonts.
168 - Lots of improvements.
169 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
170 - New design and set of icons.
171 - Ability to embed video output.
172 - Support for hotkeys.
173 - Support for bookmarks.
175 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
176 - Better hotkeys handling.
179 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
180 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
181 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
182 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
185 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
186 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
187 * Improved Windows installer.
193 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
194 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
196 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
197 ---------------------------------
200 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
201 * Playing MOD files is working now.
204 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
205 ---------------------------------
208 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
209 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
212 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
213 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
214 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
215 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
218 * Internal improvments
219 * Improved import/export
222 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
224 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
225 small and strange formats.
227 * New MOD audio demux.
228 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
229 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
230 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
231 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
234 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
235 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
236 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
242 * New opengl video output plugin.
245 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
246 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
248 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
249 ---------------------------------
252 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
253 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
254 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
255 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
256 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
257 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
258 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
259 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
262 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
267 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
268 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
269 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
270 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
271 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
272 * Reworked DVB tuning.
273 * Better Icecast support.
274 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
275 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
278 * Support for Theora video encoding.
279 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
280 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
281 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
282 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
283 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
284 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
287 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
288 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
289 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
290 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
291 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
292 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
293 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
294 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
295 * Preliminary RTP support.
296 * Fixes to SAP announces.
301 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
302 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
304 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
305 - Improvements and help in preferences
306 - New streaming wizard
307 - Revised Disc Open menu
309 - Improvements of the standard pages
310 - Support for new commands
311 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
314 * Many fixes to the SAP module
315 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
318 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
319 * Text subtitles autodetection.
320 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
321 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
322 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
323 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
324 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
325 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
326 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
329 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
331 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
332 * Support for Panther.
333 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
334 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
337 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
338 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
339 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
340 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
341 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
342 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
343 * Multimonitor support (untested).
344 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
347 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
348 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
349 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
352 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
355 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
356 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
357 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
358 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
360 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
361 ---------------------------------
364 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
367 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
368 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
371 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
372 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
375 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
378 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
379 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
382 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
385 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
388 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
389 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
392 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
393 ---------------------------------
396 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
397 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
401 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
402 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
403 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
405 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
406 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
409 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
412 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
415 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
416 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
419 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
420 ---------------------------------
423 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
424 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
428 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
429 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
430 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
431 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
432 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
435 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
436 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
437 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
440 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
441 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
442 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
445 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
446 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
447 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
448 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
449 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
452 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
453 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
454 * A new CORBA control plugin.
457 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
460 * Improved build system.
461 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
462 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
463 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
464 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
467 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
468 ---------------------------------
471 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
474 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
475 * Fixed large file support on Windows
476 * Video 4 Linux support
477 * CD Digital Audio support
478 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
481 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
482 * Support for OpenDML avi files
483 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
484 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
487 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
488 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
489 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
490 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
491 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
492 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
493 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
496 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
497 * New HTTP remote control interface
500 * 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.
501 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
502 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
503 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
506 * New reset option for the preferences
507 * You can set your language in the prefences
508 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
509 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
510 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
511 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
514 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
515 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
516 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
519 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
520 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
521 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
522 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
523 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
524 * New icons by Davor Orel.
525 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
526 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
527 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
528 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
531 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
532 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
533 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
534 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
535 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
536 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
537 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
540 * Interface localization
541 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
542 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
543 * New full-featured Preferences window
545 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
546 ---------------------------------
549 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
550 * support for skins at the interface level
551 * new OSD module using Freetype2
552 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
553 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
554 input level before dropping out of date frames.
555 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
558 * fixed HTTP redirects
559 * support for opening an entire directory
560 * EOF should be detected more reliably
561 * new video4linux access plug-in
562 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
565 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
566 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
567 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
570 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
571 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
572 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
573 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
574 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
575 * new codec for raw I420 video
576 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
579 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
580 (although it still misses some important features)
581 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
584 * new HTTP output support
585 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
586 * fixed AV synchronization issues
589 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
592 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
595 * reorderable playlist
596 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
597 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
598 * support for mono audio output devices
599 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
600 * fixed several cosmetic issues
601 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
602 * the messages window remembers more lines
603 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
604 * http and ogg stream output options
605 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
608 * new skinnable interface
609 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
611 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
612 * support for FLAC audio format
613 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
615 * network tab in the interface
616 * "apply" handling in preferences
619 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
620 ---------------------------------
623 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
624 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
625 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
626 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
628 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
632 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
633 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
634 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
635 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
638 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
639 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
642 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
645 * fixed the GNU-pth support
648 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
650 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
651 * rc interface is now fully useable
652 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
655 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
656 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
657 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
658 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
659 * VLC now uses the default audio device
661 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
662 * support for mouse gestures
663 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
666 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
667 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
670 * improved ID3 tag detection
671 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
672 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
673 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
675 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
678 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
679 ---------------------------------
682 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
683 English was set as the preferred language
686 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
687 --------------------------------
690 * new mouse gesture interface
691 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
695 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
696 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
697 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
700 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
701 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
705 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
708 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
709 without the user consent
712 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
714 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
715 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
716 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
719 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
720 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
721 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
722 * playlist enhancements
723 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
724 * new step forward/step backward commands
725 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
726 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
727 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
730 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
731 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
732 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
735 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
736 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
739 * native video output is working again
740 * only commandline interface support
741 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
744 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
745 --------------------------------
748 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
749 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
750 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
751 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
752 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
753 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
754 and A/52 streams are supported)
755 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
760 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
761 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
762 * VCD entry points support
763 * VCD image file support
766 * support for *.asf format
767 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
768 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
769 * support for ogg encapsulation
770 * support for raw DV format
771 * support for *.wav format
772 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
775 Stream discovery & playlists:
776 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
777 * support for .m3u file format
778 * support for .asx file format
779 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
782 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
783 (only available with the .avi demux)
784 * support for ADPCM audio codec
785 * support for raw PCM data
786 * support for Cinepak video codec
787 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
788 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
789 * support for Xvid codec
790 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
791 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
792 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
794 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
796 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
799 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
802 * new WxWindows interface
803 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
804 device and the channels configuration
805 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
806 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
807 format that VLC can play
808 * new swedish translation
809 * enhancements of the playlist window
810 * new messages window to see debug info
811 * fixed a few crashes
814 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
815 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
816 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
817 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working