1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
6 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
9 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
12 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
15 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
16 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
17 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
20 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
21 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
24 * New Oldmovie effect filter
25 * New VHS effect filter
26 * New Freeze effect filter
29 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
32 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
35 * ios video output: use ios2
36 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
39 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
40 --------------------------------
43 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
44 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
45 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
46 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
47 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
49 3rd party libraries (contrib):
50 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
54 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
55 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
56 * Partial support for Windows Store App
58 * Add an audio fingerprinter
59 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
62 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
63 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
64 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
65 * Support for Ulead DV audio
66 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
67 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
68 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
69 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
70 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
71 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
72 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
73 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
76 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
77 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
80 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
81 remove support for previous OS X releases
82 * Major improvements in DASH support
83 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
84 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
85 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
86 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
87 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
88 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
89 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
90 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
91 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
92 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
95 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
96 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
97 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
98 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
99 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
100 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
101 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
102 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
103 * Support for more MJPEG streams
104 * Add support for liveleak streams
105 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
106 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
107 program to terminate.
108 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
111 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
112 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
113 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
114 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
115 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
116 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
117 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
118 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
119 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
120 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
121 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
124 * New remapping channel filter
125 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
126 * New VSXu visualization plugin
127 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
128 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
131 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
132 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
133 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
134 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
135 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
136 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
137 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
138 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
141 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
142 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
143 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
144 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
145 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
146 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
147 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
150 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
151 * Options support for AVIO output module
152 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
153 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
154 * Livehttp stream encryption support
155 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
156 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
159 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
162 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
163 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
164 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
165 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
166 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
167 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
171 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
174 * Add support for multiple video outputs
175 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
177 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
178 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
179 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
180 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
181 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
182 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
183 VLC's internal volume level
184 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
186 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
187 selection and to manage the list of presets
188 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
189 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
190 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
191 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
192 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
193 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
194 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
195 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
196 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
197 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
199 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
200 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
201 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
202 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
203 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
204 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
205 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
206 3rd party applications
207 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
208 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
209 (system-wide settings)
210 * Add support for the Video Title option
211 * Add support for the Boss Key
212 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
213 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
216 * Partial support for Qt5.0
217 * Menus modifications and improvements
218 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
219 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
220 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
221 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
222 * EPG display fixes and improvements
223 * Add SD pixmap sources
224 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
225 * Display playlist total duration
226 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
228 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
229 * Remove language preference
230 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
235 * Extend sliders, offsets options
236 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
237 * Numerous fixes and improvements
238 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
241 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
242 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
243 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
244 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
245 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
246 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
247 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
248 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
249 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
250 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
253 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
254 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
255 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
256 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
257 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
258 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
260 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
261 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
262 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
263 * Broken crop video filter
265 * OSD parser and menu
266 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
267 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
268 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
269 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
273 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
274 --------------------------------
277 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
278 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
282 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
285 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
288 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
291 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
295 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
298 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
301 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
302 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
303 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
306 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
307 --------------------------------
310 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
313 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
316 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
317 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
318 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
319 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
320 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
321 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
324 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
325 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
326 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
327 * 3rd party codecs updates
330 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
331 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
332 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
333 in the advanced preferences panel
334 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
335 * Fix crash within the video output code
336 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
337 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
338 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
339 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
341 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
344 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
347 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
348 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
351 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
354 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
355 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
356 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
357 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
358 Dutch, Danish, translations
359 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
362 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
363 --------------------------------
366 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
369 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
370 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
371 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
374 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
375 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
376 * Fix koreus lua parser
377 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
378 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
379 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
380 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
383 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
384 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
387 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
390 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
391 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
392 * Fix Time counter UI look
393 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
396 * Fix https streaming
399 * Fix audio and video track selection:
400 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
401 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
404 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
405 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
406 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
407 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
408 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
411 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
412 --------------------------------
415 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
416 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
417 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
418 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
419 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
420 during playback on Mac OS X
423 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
424 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
425 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
428 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
429 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
430 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
431 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
432 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
435 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
436 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
437 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
438 * Support Youtube live streams
441 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
444 * Fix media info dialog update
445 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
446 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
447 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
448 * Fix album art display at start
451 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
452 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
453 * Fix menus display and behavior
454 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
455 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
456 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
457 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
458 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
459 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
460 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
463 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
464 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
465 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
466 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
467 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
468 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
469 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
470 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
471 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
474 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
475 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
476 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
477 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
478 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
481 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
482 --------------------------------
485 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
488 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
489 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
492 * Add GateKeeper support
493 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
494 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
495 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
498 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
501 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
502 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
503 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
504 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
505 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
508 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
509 --------------------------------
512 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
513 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
514 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
515 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
516 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
517 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
518 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
519 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
520 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
521 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
522 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
526 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
527 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
528 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
529 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
530 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
531 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
532 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
533 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
534 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
535 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
536 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
537 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
540 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
541 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
543 * Fix MP3 free format support
546 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
547 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
548 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
549 * Fix for DVB channels file support
550 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
553 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
554 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
556 Audio filters and output:
557 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
558 * Fix DirectSound device selection
559 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
560 * Do not apply volume in file output
561 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
562 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
565 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
566 the persistant media library
567 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
568 to the media library or the temporary playlist
569 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
570 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
571 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
572 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
573 press on the Play/Pause button
574 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
575 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
576 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
577 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
578 * Many Fullscreen fixes
579 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
580 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
581 Synchronization panel
582 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
583 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
584 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
585 * Fix crashes on exit
586 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
588 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
589 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
590 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
591 automatically reset on the first launch.
592 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
593 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
594 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
597 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
598 * Fixes for icecast SD
601 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
602 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
603 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
604 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
605 * Fix tags and file names display
606 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
609 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
610 * Fix for key events and focus loss
613 * Fix display of some buttons
614 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
615 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
618 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
619 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
620 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
623 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
624 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
625 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
626 Thai translations update
627 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
630 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
631 --------------------------------
634 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
635 * fix the samba module compilation
636 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
637 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
638 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
639 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
642 * Support for MXPEG files
643 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
644 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
647 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
648 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
649 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
652 * Fix ogm header creation
655 * limit spatializer filter distortions
656 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
659 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
660 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
661 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
662 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
665 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
668 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
669 * allow to hide the sidebar
670 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
671 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
672 * noticebly faster launch time
673 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
674 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
675 * improve track synchronization panel
676 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
677 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
680 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
681 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
682 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
683 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
686 * fix for menus display
687 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
688 * documentation update
691 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
692 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
695 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
696 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
697 * Update Jamendo selections
701 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
702 * fix a crash on VLM close
705 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
706 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
707 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
708 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
711 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
714 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
715 ---------------------------------
718 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
719 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
720 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
721 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
722 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
723 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
724 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
725 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
726 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
727 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
728 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
729 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
730 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
731 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
732 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
733 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
734 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
735 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
736 --http-crl (optional CRL).
737 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
738 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
739 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
740 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
741 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
742 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
743 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
745 Important changes for packagers:
746 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
747 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
748 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
749 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
750 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
751 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
752 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
753 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
754 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
755 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
758 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
759 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
760 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
761 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
762 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
763 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
764 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
767 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
768 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
769 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
770 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
771 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
772 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
773 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
774 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
775 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
776 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
777 * PulseAudio audio input support
778 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
779 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
780 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
781 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
782 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
783 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
784 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
785 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
788 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
789 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
790 are notably concerned.
791 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
792 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
793 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
794 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
795 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
796 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
797 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
798 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
799 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
800 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
801 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
802 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
803 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
804 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
805 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
808 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
809 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
810 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
811 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
812 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
813 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
814 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
815 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
816 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
817 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
818 * Improved support of tracker files
819 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
822 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
823 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
824 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
825 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
826 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
827 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
828 and important cleanups and optimisations
829 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
830 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
831 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
832 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
833 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
834 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
835 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
836 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
837 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
838 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
839 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
840 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
841 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
842 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
843 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
844 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
845 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
846 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
847 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
848 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
849 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
852 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
853 * New video output for iOS platform
854 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
855 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
856 * Various vmem improvements
857 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
858 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
859 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
860 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
861 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
862 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
864 Audio Output and Filters:
865 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
866 * New audio output in memory (amem)
867 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
868 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
869 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
870 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
871 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
872 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
873 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
874 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
877 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
878 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
879 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
880 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
881 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
882 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
883 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
884 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
885 * New anti-flickering filter
886 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
887 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
888 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
889 blackbox and customizable shadow.
890 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
891 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
892 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
895 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
896 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
897 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
898 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
899 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
900 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
901 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
902 * Major rework of VoD support
903 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
904 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
905 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
906 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
907 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
908 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
909 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
910 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
911 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
912 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
915 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
916 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
919 * New capabilities for libVLC:
920 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
921 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
922 list of available audio and video filters
923 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
924 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
925 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
928 * asademux, subsass: use libass
929 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
930 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
932 * upnp: use upnp_intel
933 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
934 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
935 * removal of the noise filter
936 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
937 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
938 removed in Growl's next release, too.
939 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
942 * Update of translations for most languages.
943 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
946 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
947 ----------------------------------
950 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
951 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
954 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
955 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
958 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
959 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
960 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
963 * Camtasia decoding fix.
966 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
967 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
970 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
973 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
974 ----------------------------------
977 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
978 including support for OS X Lion
979 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
980 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
983 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
986 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
987 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
988 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
991 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
994 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
995 ----------------------------------
998 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
999 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1002 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1003 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1004 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1005 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1006 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1008 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1009 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1010 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1012 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1013 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1016 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1019 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1022 * Fix quitting on Linux
1023 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1027 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1030 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1033 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1034 ---------------------------------
1036 Windows and Mac OS X:
1037 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1040 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1041 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1044 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1047 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1050 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1052 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1053 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1055 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1056 * RTP output and XML export
1057 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1061 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1062 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1063 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1064 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1067 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1068 --------------------------------
1070 Windows and Mac OS X:
1071 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1074 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1077 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1078 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1079 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1080 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1081 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1082 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1085 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1086 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1090 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1091 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1092 * New Luganda Translation
1095 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1096 --------------------------------
1099 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1102 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1103 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1104 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1105 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1108 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1110 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1111 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1112 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1113 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1114 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1115 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1116 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1117 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1119 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1120 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1121 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1122 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1123 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1124 * Configure and build system improvements
1125 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1128 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1129 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1130 * New icelandic translation
1133 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1134 --------------------------------
1137 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1138 #234484 and #260719.
1141 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1142 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1143 and stability reasons
1146 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1150 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1153 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1154 ----------------------------------
1157 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1160 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1161 ---------------------------------
1164 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1165 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1166 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1167 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1170 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1173 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1174 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1175 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1176 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1179 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1180 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1181 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1183 Subtitles and renderer:
1184 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1185 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1186 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1187 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1188 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1191 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1192 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1193 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1194 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1197 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1198 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1200 Miscellaneous fixes:
1201 * KDE device solid actions
1203 * Transcode integer overflow
1204 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1205 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1208 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1209 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1210 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1213 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1214 ----------------------------------
1217 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1221 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1224 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1227 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1228 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1229 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1230 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1233 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1237 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1240 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1243 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1244 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1246 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1250 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1251 * Miscellaneous fixes
1254 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1255 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1256 French and Ukrainian
1257 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1258 * New Asturian translation
1261 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1262 ----------------------------------
1265 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1267 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1270 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1273 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1274 * Various fixes for Windows
1277 * New Armenian translation
1278 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1279 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1282 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1283 --------------------------------
1286 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1287 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1288 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1291 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1292 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1295 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1296 --------------------------------
1298 Access and demuxers:
1299 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1300 * fix for podcasts parsing
1301 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1304 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1305 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1308 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1309 * fix m3u playlists exports
1312 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1315 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1318 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1321 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1324 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1327 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1328 --------------------------------
1331 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1332 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1335 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1336 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1339 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1340 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1341 * fix console output encoding
1343 Interface and extensions:
1344 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1345 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1348 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1349 --------------------------------
1352 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1353 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1354 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1355 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1356 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1357 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1358 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1359 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1360 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1361 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1362 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1363 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1364 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1365 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1366 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1367 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1371 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1372 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1373 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1374 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1375 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1378 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1381 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1382 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1383 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1387 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1390 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1391 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1392 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1395 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1396 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1397 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1398 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1401 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1402 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1405 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1406 --------------------------------
1408 Important changes for users:
1409 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1410 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1412 Important changes for packagers:
1413 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1414 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1415 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1416 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1417 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1419 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1421 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1422 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1423 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1424 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1425 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1428 * Support for the sftp protocol
1429 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1430 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1431 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1432 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1433 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1436 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1437 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1438 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1440 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1441 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1442 * Invmem module improvements
1443 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1444 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1445 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1446 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1447 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1448 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1449 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1450 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1451 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1452 * Support for VP8 codec
1453 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1456 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1457 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1458 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1459 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1460 * Various EGP improvements
1461 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1462 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1465 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1466 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1467 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1468 * Podcast images are now displayed
1471 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1472 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1473 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1474 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1475 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1476 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1477 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1478 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1479 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1480 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1481 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1484 * New content extensions lua framework
1487 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1488 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1489 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1490 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1491 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1492 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1493 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1496 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1497 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1498 * Service discovery based on libudev
1499 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1502 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1503 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1504 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1505 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1506 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1507 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1508 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1511 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1512 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1513 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1516 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1518 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1519 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1522 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1525 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1526 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1527 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1528 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1529 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1530 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1531 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1534 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1535 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1538 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1539 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1540 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1544 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1545 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1546 * Improved Solaris port
1549 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1550 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1553 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1554 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1555 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1556 * transrate: broken since too long
1557 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1558 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1559 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1560 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1561 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1562 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1563 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1564 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1565 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1566 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1567 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1568 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1569 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1570 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1573 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1574 --------------------------------
1577 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1579 Decoders/Packetizers:
1580 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1583 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1584 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1585 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1586 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1587 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1590 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1591 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1594 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1595 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1598 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1599 and Walloon translations updated
1600 * Sinhala translation started
1603 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1604 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1607 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1608 --------------------------------
1611 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1612 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1615 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1618 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1619 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1622 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1623 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1624 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1625 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1628 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1629 --------------------------------
1632 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1633 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1636 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1637 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1640 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1641 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1644 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1647 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1648 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1651 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1652 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1655 * New Walloon translation
1656 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1659 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1660 --------------------------------
1663 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1664 regressions in most popular drivers
1665 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1668 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1669 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1670 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1673 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1674 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1677 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1678 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1679 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1680 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1681 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1684 * New udev module for linux
1687 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1690 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1693 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1694 --------------------------------
1697 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1698 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1699 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1702 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1703 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1706 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1707 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1710 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1713 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1714 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1715 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1716 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1719 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1720 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1721 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1722 - no support for Goom and SDL
1723 - limited text rendering support
1724 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1727 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1728 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1729 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1730 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1731 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1732 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1733 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1734 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1735 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1739 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1742 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1745 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1746 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1747 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1748 Arabic and French translation updates
1751 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1752 --------------------------------
1755 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1756 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1757 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1758 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1759 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1760 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1763 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1764 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1765 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1768 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1769 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1770 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1773 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1776 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1777 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1780 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1781 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1782 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1783 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1784 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1785 * Fix various crashes
1788 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1790 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1794 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1795 ---------------------------------
1799 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1800 See 'Access:' for more info.
1801 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1804 * Instantaneous pausing
1805 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1806 * Finer speed control
1807 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1808 * Timeshift for most medias
1809 * RTSP trickplay support
1810 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1813 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1814 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1815 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1816 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1817 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1818 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1819 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1820 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1821 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1822 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1825 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1826 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1827 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1828 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1829 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1830 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1831 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1834 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1835 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1838 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1839 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1840 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1841 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1842 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1843 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1844 * DVB scanning on linux
1845 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1846 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1847 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1848 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1849 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1850 * MTP device access on Unix
1851 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1852 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1855 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1856 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1857 Windows and Mac OS X.
1860 * Export the playlist in HTML
1861 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1862 * Better metadata handling and reading
1864 Linux/Windows interface:
1865 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1866 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1867 * Recently played items list
1868 * Interface toolbar customizations
1869 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1870 - More menus actions
1871 - Finer speed slider
1872 - Improvements on many dialogs
1873 - New dialog for plugins listing
1874 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1875 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1876 * Better integration in GTK environments
1879 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1880 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1881 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1882 * Additional usability improvements
1885 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1886 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1887 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1888 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1889 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1892 * New Maemo port with:
1893 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1894 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1897 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1900 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1901 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1902 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1903 * Support for latest iSight models
1906 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1907 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1910 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1911 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1912 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1913 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1914 The old image video output has been removed.
1915 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1916 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1919 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1927 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1928 --------------------------------------
1934 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1935 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1936 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1937 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1938 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1939 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1940 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1942 Various fixes to the following modules:
1945 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1946 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1947 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1949 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1954 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1955 ---------------------------------
1958 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1959 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1962 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1963 ---------------------------------
1966 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1969 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1972 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1973 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1974 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1975 main controller window.
1976 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1979 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1984 * Updates of other localizations
1987 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1988 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1989 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1990 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1991 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1994 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1995 ---------------------------------
1998 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2000 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2003 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2004 --------------------------------
2009 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2010 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2013 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2014 --------------------------------
2016 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2017 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2020 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2023 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2024 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2027 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2028 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2031 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2032 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2033 * Various fixed in playlist
2036 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2039 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2042 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2043 ------------------------------------
2045 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2046 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2049 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2050 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2051 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2054 * Stability fix for the video output.
2057 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2058 --------------------------------
2061 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2062 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2063 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2064 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2065 * Fixed update system bugs
2066 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2069 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2070 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2071 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2072 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2073 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2074 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2075 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2076 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2077 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2078 modern Mac OS X versions
2081 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2082 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2084 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2085 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2088 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2089 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2090 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2091 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2092 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2093 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2096 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2097 --------------------------------
2099 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2100 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2101 * Multiple bugfixes.
2104 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2105 --------------------------------
2107 * Multiple bug fixes.
2110 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2111 ---------------------------------
2115 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2116 recent to work correctly
2117 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2118 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2119 edit the ".hosts" file.
2120 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2121 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2122 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2123 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2124 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2125 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2126 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2127 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2128 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2129 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2130 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2131 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2132 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2133 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2134 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2135 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2136 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2137 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2138 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2139 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2140 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2141 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2142 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2143 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2144 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2145 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2146 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2147 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2148 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2149 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2150 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2151 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2152 and postproc modules.
2153 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2154 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2155 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2156 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2158 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2159 filter. For example:
2160 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2161 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2163 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2164 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2170 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2172 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2173 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2176 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2177 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2179 * Shoutcast TV listings
2180 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2182 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2183 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2185 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2188 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2189 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2190 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2191 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2192 * JACK audio input support
2193 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2194 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2195 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2196 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2197 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2198 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2199 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2200 (available as a separate download).
2201 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2202 * RTMP input support
2203 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2204 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2205 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2207 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2208 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2211 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2212 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2213 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2214 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2216 * APEv1/2 tags support
2217 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2218 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2220 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2221 * TiVo Series 2 support
2222 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2227 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2228 * Flash Screen Video support
2229 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2230 * DosBox Capture support
2231 * Karl Morton's Video support
2232 * limited atrac3 support
2234 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2235 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2236 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2237 * H.264 PAFF support
2238 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2239 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2240 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2241 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2242 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2245 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2246 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2247 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2248 * AQTitle subtitles support
2249 * MKV USF subtitles support
2250 * HTML-based subtitles support
2251 * MPSub subtitles support
2252 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2253 * MPL2 subtitles support
2254 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2255 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2256 * Realtext subtitle support
2257 * DKS subtitle support
2258 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2259 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2262 * Flash Screen Video support
2263 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2265 Video outputs and filters:
2266 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2267 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2268 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2269 * New puzzle video output filter
2270 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2271 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2273 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2274 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2275 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2276 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2277 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2278 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2279 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2280 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2281 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2282 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2283 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2284 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2285 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2286 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2288 Audio outputs and filters:
2289 * Replay gain support
2290 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2291 new scaletempo audio filter)
2292 * New spatializer audio filter
2293 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2296 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2297 * New RTP payload formats:
2298 * Speex voice audio codec
2299 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2300 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2301 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2302 * DCCP transport for RTP
2303 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2308 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2309 end-user suitable way.
2310 * Improved user interaction
2311 * Improved mouse gestures
2312 * Vastly improved Update checker
2313 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2315 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2316 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2318 * Improved video output features
2319 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2320 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2321 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2322 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2323 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2325 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2326 if libncursesw is available.
2327 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2328 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2329 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2331 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2332 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2333 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2334 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2335 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2336 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2337 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2338 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2341 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2342 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2343 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2346 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2347 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2348 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2349 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2350 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2351 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2354 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2355 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2365 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2366 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2367 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2370 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2371 ----------------------------------
2374 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2377 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2378 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2379 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2380 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2381 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2382 * Updated Polish translation
2385 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2386 ----------------------------------
2389 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2390 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2391 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2394 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2395 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2396 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2397 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2398 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2399 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2400 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2401 to an unexpected application termination
2402 * New Serbian translation
2403 * Updated Romanian translation
2406 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2407 ----------------------------------
2410 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2411 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2412 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2413 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2414 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2415 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2416 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2417 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2420 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2421 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2422 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2423 * Fixed AAC resampling
2424 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2425 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2428 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2429 ----------------------------------
2432 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2433 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2434 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2435 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2436 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2439 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2440 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2441 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2442 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2443 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2446 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2447 ----------------------------------
2450 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2451 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2454 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2455 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2456 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2457 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2459 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2463 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2466 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2469 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2472 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2475 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2476 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2477 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2478 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2479 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2481 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2482 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2483 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2484 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2487 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2490 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2491 ----------------------------------
2494 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2495 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2496 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2498 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2499 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2501 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2502 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2505 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2507 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2508 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2509 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2510 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2511 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2512 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2513 two different movies
2514 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2515 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2516 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2519 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2522 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2523 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2524 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2525 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2528 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2529 ----------------------------------
2531 Various bugfixes, notably:
2532 * Windows Vista compatibility
2533 * Cropping in Direct3D
2534 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2535 * RSS filter string overflow
2537 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2539 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2540 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2543 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2544 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2547 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2550 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2553 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2556 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2557 ----------------------------------
2559 Various bugfixes, notably:
2560 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2561 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2562 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2563 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2564 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2565 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2568 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2569 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2572 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2574 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2575 * Diverse usability improvements
2576 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2577 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2578 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2581 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2582 ---------------------------------
2584 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2585 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2588 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2591 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2592 --------------------------------
2595 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2598 * Support for RTSP authentication
2599 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2600 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2601 * ATSC support for DVB input
2602 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2603 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2604 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2607 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2608 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2609 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2610 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2611 * Matroska WavPack support
2612 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2613 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2614 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2617 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2618 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2619 * Improved libcaca support
2623 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2624 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2626 * Systray support in skins
2628 * Support for Apple Remote control
2629 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2630 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2631 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2632 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2634 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2637 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2638 Windows 9x/ME users:
2639 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2640 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2641 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2642 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2643 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2645 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2646 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2655 * Updates to the libvlc API
2656 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2659 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2660 --------------------------------
2663 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2664 * Support for downloading updates
2668 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2669 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2670 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2671 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2673 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2674 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2675 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2678 * Cook (Real audio) support
2680 Playlist / Services discovery:
2681 * XSPF playlist support
2683 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2686 * New JACK audio output
2689 * New video filters:
2690 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2691 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2692 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2693 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2694 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2695 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2698 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2701 * System to inform the user and request information
2702 - HTTP authentication
2706 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2707 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2708 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2711 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2712 - Improved playlist handling
2713 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2715 - Embedded Video output
2716 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2717 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2718 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2719 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2720 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2722 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2723 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2726 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2729 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2730 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2731 * Growl "Now playing" support
2734 * Ability to log to syslog
2735 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2738 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2740 * A bit more automatic testing
2743 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2744 ---------------------------------
2747 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2748 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2751 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2752 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2755 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2758 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2759 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2765 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2768 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2769 --------------------------------
2772 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2776 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2777 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2778 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2781 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2782 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2783 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2784 * GnomeVFS input module
2785 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2786 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2789 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2790 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2791 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2794 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2795 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2801 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2802 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2805 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2806 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2807 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2810 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2812 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2813 - New extended controls panel
2814 - New bookmarks window
2815 - Fixed playlist sorting
2816 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2818 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2819 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2820 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2821 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2825 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2826 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2828 - Include macro to include other files
2832 * Should now work outside IE as well
2835 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2838 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2839 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2842 The following languages were added:
2846 * Simplified Chinese
2847 The following languages were re-added:
2851 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2852 --------------------------------
2855 * Rewrite of the playlist
2857 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2858 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2859 * Preferences improvements:
2860 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2861 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2863 * Core image manipulation support
2864 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2865 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2866 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2867 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2868 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2869 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2870 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2871 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2872 * Access filter architecture
2873 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2874 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2878 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2879 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2880 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2881 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2882 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2883 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2884 * Massive Matroska improvements
2885 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2887 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2888 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2889 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2890 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2891 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2893 Decoders / Encoders:
2894 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2895 * PNG decoder/encoder
2896 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2897 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2900 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2903 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2904 * Brand new SAP module
2905 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2906 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2907 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2908 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2909 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2910 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2914 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2917 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2918 * Image file video output (png)
2919 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2920 * Improvements to wall video filter
2921 * Support for font color and opacity
2927 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2928 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2929 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2933 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2934 - Improved preferences
2935 - Improvements to the wizard
2936 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2938 - Redesigned playlist
2939 - Improved preferences
2941 - Support for multiple actions
2944 - Support for the new playlist system
2946 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2949 * Screensaver disabling fix
2950 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2951 * Support for no-decoration windows
2954 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2955 * The OpenGL video output is back
2956 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2957 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2958 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2959 is not yet available in the new module
2960 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2963 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2972 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2975 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2978 The following languages were added:
2984 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2985 --------------------------------
2988 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2989 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2992 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2993 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2994 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2997 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3000 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3003 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3006 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3007 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3008 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3012 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3014 * Support of playlist group announcement
3017 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3018 --------------------------------
3021 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3022 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3023 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3024 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3025 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3026 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3029 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3030 (Stream your desktop)
3031 * Improved DVD support:
3032 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3033 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3034 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3035 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3036 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3037 (selection of titles/chapters).
3040 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3041 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3042 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3043 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3044 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3045 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3046 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3047 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3048 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3049 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3052 * G.726 audio support
3053 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3054 * MPEG-4 text support
3055 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3056 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3057 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3061 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3062 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3063 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3064 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3065 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3066 * DVB subtitles encoder
3067 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3068 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3070 * Text track muxing for mp4
3071 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3072 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3073 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3074 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3075 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3076 * Improved ASF muxer
3078 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3079 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3080 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3083 * New audio equalizer filter
3084 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3085 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3086 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3087 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3090 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3091 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3092 with support for effects.
3093 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3094 - New filters can be streamed.
3095 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3096 - Centralized scaling and blending
3098 - "time", to display current time
3099 - "marq", to display a marquee
3102 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3103 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3104 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3105 * A few skins2 improvements
3106 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3107 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3108 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3109 * Improved CORBA control module
3112 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3113 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3114 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3117 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3118 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3119 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3122 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3123 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3124 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3125 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3126 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3129 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3132 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3133 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3136 * Server/client network synchronization module
3137 * VBrick streams fully supported
3138 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3142 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3143 --------------------------------
3146 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3147 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3148 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3149 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3152 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3153 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3154 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3155 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3156 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3157 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3158 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3161 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3162 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3163 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3164 * Improved directory access module.
3165 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3166 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3167 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3168 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3169 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3172 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3173 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3174 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3177 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3178 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3179 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3182 * Improved session announcement system.
3183 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3184 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3185 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3186 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3187 * Improved transrater.
3188 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3189 * New configuration system.
3190 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3193 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3194 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3195 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3196 * Supports scheduling.
3197 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3198 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3201 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3202 - Ability to embed video output.
3203 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3204 - Lots of improvements.
3205 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3206 - New design and set of icons.
3207 - Ability to embed video output.
3208 - Support for hotkeys.
3209 - Support for bookmarks.
3211 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3212 - Better hotkeys handling.
3215 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3216 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3217 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3218 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3221 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3222 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3223 * Improved Windows installer.
3229 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3230 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3233 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3234 ---------------------------------
3237 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3238 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3241 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3242 --------------------------------
3245 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3246 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3249 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3250 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3251 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3252 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3255 * Internal improvments
3256 * Improved import/export
3259 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3261 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3262 small and strange formats.
3264 * New MOD audio demux.
3265 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3266 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3267 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3268 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3271 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3272 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3273 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3279 * New opengl video output plugin.
3282 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3283 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3286 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3287 --------------------------------
3290 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3291 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3292 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3293 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3294 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3295 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3296 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3297 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3300 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3305 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3306 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3307 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3308 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3309 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3310 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3311 * Better Icecast support.
3312 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3313 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3316 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3317 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3318 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3319 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3320 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3321 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3322 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3325 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3326 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3327 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3328 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3329 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3330 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3331 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3332 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3333 * Preliminary RTP support.
3334 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3339 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3340 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3342 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3343 - Improvements and help in preferences
3344 - New streaming wizard
3345 - Revised Disc Open menu
3347 - Improvements of the standard pages
3348 - Support for new commands
3349 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3352 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3353 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3356 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3357 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3358 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3359 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3360 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3361 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3362 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3363 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3364 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3367 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3369 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3370 * Support for Panther.
3371 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3372 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3375 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3376 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3377 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3378 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3379 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3380 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3381 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3382 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3385 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3386 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3387 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3390 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3393 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3394 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3395 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3396 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3399 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3400 --------------------------------
3403 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3406 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3407 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3410 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3411 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3414 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3417 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3418 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3421 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3424 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3427 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3428 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3432 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3433 --------------------------------
3436 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3437 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3441 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3442 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3443 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3445 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3446 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3449 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3452 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3455 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3456 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3460 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3461 --------------------------------
3464 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3465 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3469 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3470 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3471 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3472 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3473 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3476 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3477 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3478 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3481 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3482 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3483 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3486 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3487 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3488 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3489 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3490 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3493 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3494 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3495 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3498 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3501 * Improved build system.
3502 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3503 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3504 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3505 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3508 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3509 --------------------------------
3512 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3515 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3516 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3517 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3518 * Video 4 Linux support
3519 * CD Digital Audio support
3520 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3523 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3524 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3525 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3526 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3529 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3530 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3531 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3532 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3533 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3534 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3535 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3538 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3539 * New HTTP remote control interface
3542 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3543 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3544 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3545 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3546 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3549 * New reset option for the preferences
3550 * You can set your language in the prefences
3551 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3552 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3553 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3554 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3557 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3558 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3559 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3562 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3563 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3564 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3565 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3566 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3567 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3568 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3569 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3570 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3571 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3574 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3575 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3576 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3577 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3578 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3579 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3580 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3583 * Interface localization
3584 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3585 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3586 * New full-featured Preferences window
3589 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3590 --------------------------------
3593 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3594 * support for skins at the interface level
3595 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3596 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3597 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3598 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3599 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3602 * fixed HTTP redirects
3603 * support for opening an entire directory
3604 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3605 * new video4linux access plug-in
3606 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3609 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3610 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3611 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3614 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3615 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3616 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3617 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3618 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3619 * new codec for raw I420 video
3620 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3623 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3624 (although it still misses some important features)
3625 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3628 * new HTTP output support
3629 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3630 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3633 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3636 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3639 * reorderable playlist
3640 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3641 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3642 * support for mono audio output devices
3643 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3644 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3645 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3646 * the messages window remembers more lines
3647 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3648 * http and ogg stream output options
3649 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3652 * new skinnable interface
3653 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3655 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3656 * support for FLAC audio format
3657 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3659 * network tab in the interface
3660 * "apply" handling in preferences
3663 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3664 ---------------------------------
3667 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3668 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3669 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3670 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3672 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3673 * DTS S/PDIF support
3676 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3677 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3678 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3679 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3682 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3683 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3686 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3689 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3692 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3694 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3695 * rc interface is now fully useable
3696 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3699 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3700 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3701 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3702 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3703 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3705 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3706 * support for mouse gestures
3707 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3710 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3711 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3714 * improved ID3 tag detection
3715 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3716 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3717 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3719 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3722 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3723 ---------------------------------
3726 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3727 English was set as the preferred language
3730 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3731 --------------------------------
3734 * new mouse gesture interface
3735 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3739 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3740 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3741 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3744 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3745 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3749 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3752 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3753 without the user consent
3756 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3758 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3759 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3760 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3763 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3764 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3765 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3766 * playlist enhancements
3767 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3768 * new step forward/step backward commands
3769 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3770 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3771 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3774 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3775 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3776 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3779 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3780 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3783 * native video output is working again
3784 * only commandline interface support
3785 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3788 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3789 --------------------------------
3792 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3793 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3794 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3795 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3796 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3797 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3798 and A/52 streams are supported)
3799 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3804 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3805 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3806 * VCD entry points support
3807 * VCD image file support
3810 * support for *.asf format
3811 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3812 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3813 * support for ogg encapsulation
3814 * support for raw DV format
3815 * support for *.wav format
3816 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3819 Stream discovery & playlists:
3820 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3821 * support for .m3u file format
3822 * support for .asx file format
3823 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3826 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3827 (only available with the .avi demux)
3828 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3829 * support for raw PCM data
3830 * support for Cinepak video codec
3831 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3832 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3833 * support for Xvid codec
3834 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3835 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3836 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3838 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3840 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3843 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3846 * new WxWindows interface
3847 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3848 device and the channels configuration
3849 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3850 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3851 format that VLC can play
3852 * new swedish translation
3853 * enhancements of the playlist window
3854 * new messages window to see debug info
3855 * fixed a few crashes
3858 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3859 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3860 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3861 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working