1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
64 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
65 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
66 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
67 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
68 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
69 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
70 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
71 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
74 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
75 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
76 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
77 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
78 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
79 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
80 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
81 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
84 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
85 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
86 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
87 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
88 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
89 and important cleanups and optimisations
90 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
91 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
92 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
93 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
94 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
95 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
96 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
97 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
98 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
99 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
100 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
101 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
102 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
105 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
106 * New video output for iOS platform
107 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
108 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
109 * Various vmem improvements
110 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
112 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
113 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
114 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
117 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
118 * New audio output in memory (amem)
119 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
120 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
121 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
124 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
125 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
126 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
127 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
128 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
129 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
130 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
131 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
132 * New anti-flickering filter
133 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
134 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
135 blackbox and customizable shadow
138 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
141 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
142 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
143 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
144 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
145 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
146 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
147 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
148 * Major rework of VoD support
149 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
150 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
151 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
152 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
153 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
154 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
155 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
156 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
157 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
160 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
161 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
164 * New capabilities for libVLC:
165 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
166 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
167 list of available audio and video filters
168 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
169 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
172 * asademux: use libass only
173 * subsass: use libass
174 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
175 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
177 * upnp: use upnp_intel
178 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
179 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
180 * removal of the noise filter
181 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
182 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
183 removed in Growl's next release, too.
186 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
187 ----------------------------------
190 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
191 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
194 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
195 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
196 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
197 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
198 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
200 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
201 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
202 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
204 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
205 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
208 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
211 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
214 * Fix quitting on Linux
215 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
219 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
222 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
225 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
226 ---------------------------------
228 Windows and Mac OS X:
229 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
232 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
233 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
236 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
239 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
242 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
244 Miscellaneous fixes in:
245 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
247 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
248 * RTP output and XML export
249 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
253 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
254 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
255 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
256 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
259 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
260 --------------------------------
262 Windows and Mac OS X:
263 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
266 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
269 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
270 * Improve Apple Remote handling
271 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
272 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
273 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
274 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
277 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
278 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
282 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
283 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
284 * New Luganda Translation
287 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
288 --------------------------------
291 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
294 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
295 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
296 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
297 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
300 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
302 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
303 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
304 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
305 * mp4 demuxer improvements
306 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
307 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
308 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
309 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
311 Miscellaneous fixes in:
312 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
313 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
314 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
315 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
316 * Configure and build system improvements
317 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
320 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
321 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
322 * New icelandic translation
325 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
326 --------------------------------
329 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
333 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
334 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
335 and stability reasons
338 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
342 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
345 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
346 ----------------------------------
349 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
352 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
353 ---------------------------------
356 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
357 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
358 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
359 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
362 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
365 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
366 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
367 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
368 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
371 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
372 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
373 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
375 Subtitles and renderer:
376 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
377 * Mark more freetype options as safe
378 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
379 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
380 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
383 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
384 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
385 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
386 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
389 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
390 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
393 * KDE device solid actions
395 * Transcode integer overflow
396 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
397 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
400 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
401 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
402 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
405 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
406 ----------------------------------
409 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
413 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
416 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
419 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
420 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
421 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
422 * Taglib thread-safety fix
425 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
429 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
432 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
435 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
436 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
438 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
442 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
443 * Miscellaneous fixes
446 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
447 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
449 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
450 * New Asturian translation
453 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
454 ----------------------------------
457 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
459 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
462 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
465 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
466 * Various fixes for Windows
469 * New Armenian translation
470 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
471 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
474 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
475 --------------------------------
478 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
480 * Fix folders opening from the interface
483 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
484 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
487 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
488 --------------------------------
491 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
492 * fix for podcasts parsing
493 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
496 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
497 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
500 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
501 * fix m3u playlists exports
504 * fix video autoresize behaviour
507 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
510 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
513 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
516 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
519 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
520 --------------------------------
523 * Avformat fps displaying fix
524 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
527 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
528 of mono streams, especially on Windows
531 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
532 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
533 * fix console output encoding
535 Interface and extensions:
536 * Youtube and other scripts updates
537 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
540 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
541 --------------------------------
544 * New capabilities for libVLC:
545 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
546 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
547 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
548 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
549 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
550 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
551 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
552 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
553 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
554 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
555 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
556 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
557 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
558 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
559 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
563 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
564 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
565 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
566 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
567 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
570 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
573 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
574 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
575 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
579 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
582 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
583 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
584 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
587 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
588 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
589 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
590 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
593 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
594 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
597 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
598 --------------------------------
600 Important changes for users:
601 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
602 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
604 Important changes for packagers:
605 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
606 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
607 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
608 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
609 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
611 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
613 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
614 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
615 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
616 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
617 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
620 * Support for the sftp protocol
621 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
622 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
623 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
624 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
625 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
628 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
629 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
630 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
632 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
633 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
634 * Invmem module improvements
635 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
636 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
637 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
638 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
639 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
640 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
641 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
642 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
643 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
644 * Support for VP8 codec
645 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
648 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
649 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
650 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
651 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
652 * Various EGP improvements
653 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
654 * Metadata and cover art improvements
657 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
658 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
659 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
660 * Podcast images are now displayed
663 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
664 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
665 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
666 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
667 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
668 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
669 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
670 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
671 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
672 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
673 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
676 * New content extensions lua framework
679 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
680 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
681 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
682 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
683 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
684 * NEON assembly audio converter module
685 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
688 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
689 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
690 * Service discovery based on libudev
691 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
694 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
695 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
696 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
697 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
698 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
699 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
700 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
703 * New smem module, streaming to memory
704 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
705 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
708 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
710 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
711 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
714 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
717 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
718 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
719 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
720 by Andy Matuschak et al.
721 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
722 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
723 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
726 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
727 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
730 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
731 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
732 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
736 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
737 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
738 * Improved Solaris port
741 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
742 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
745 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
746 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
747 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
748 * transrate: broken since too long
749 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
750 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
751 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
752 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
753 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
754 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
755 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
756 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
757 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
758 * cddax: use cdda instead.
759 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
760 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
761 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
762 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
765 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
771 Decoders/Packetizers:
772 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
775 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
776 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
777 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
778 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
779 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
782 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
783 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
786 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
787 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
790 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
791 and Walloon translations updated
792 * Sinhala translation started
795 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
796 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
799 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
800 --------------------------------
803 * SubRip extra styles improvements
804 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
807 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
810 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
811 increase performance and fix x264 issues
814 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
815 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
816 Russian, Slovak translation updates
817 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
820 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
821 --------------------------------
824 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
825 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
828 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
829 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
832 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
833 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
836 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
839 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
840 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
843 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
844 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
847 * New Walloon translation
848 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
851 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
852 --------------------------------
855 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
856 regressions in most popular drivers
857 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
860 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
861 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
862 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
865 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
866 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
869 * Update for appletrailers lua script
870 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
871 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
872 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
873 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
876 * New udev module for linux
879 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
882 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
885 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
886 --------------------------------
889 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
890 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
891 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
894 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
895 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
898 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
899 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
902 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
905 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
906 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
907 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
908 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
911 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
912 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
913 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
914 - no support for Goom and SDL
915 - limited text rendering support
916 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
919 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
920 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
921 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
922 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
923 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
924 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
925 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
926 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
927 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
931 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
934 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
937 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
938 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
939 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
940 Arabic and French translation updates
943 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
944 --------------------------------
947 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
948 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
949 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
950 * Fix Dailymotion access script
951 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
952 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
955 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
956 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
959 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
960 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
961 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
964 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
967 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
968 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
971 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
972 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
973 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
974 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
975 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
976 * Fix various crashes
979 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
981 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
984 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
985 ---------------------------------
989 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
990 See 'Access:' for more info.
991 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
994 * Instantaneous pausing
995 * Frame-by-Frame playback
996 * Finer speed control
997 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
998 * Timeshift for most medias
999 * RTSP trickplay support
1000 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1003 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1004 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1005 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1006 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1007 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1008 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1009 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1010 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1011 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1012 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1015 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1016 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1017 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1018 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1019 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1020 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1021 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1024 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1025 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1028 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1029 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1030 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1031 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1032 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1033 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1034 * DVB scanning on linux
1035 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1036 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1037 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1038 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1039 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1040 * MTP device access on Unix
1041 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1042 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1045 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1046 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1047 Windows and Mac OS X.
1050 * Export the playlist in HTML
1051 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1052 * Better metadata handling and reading
1054 Linux/Windows interface:
1055 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1056 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1057 * Recently played items list
1058 * Interface toolbar customizations
1059 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1060 - More menus actions
1061 - Finer speed slider
1062 - Improvements on many dialogs
1063 - New dialog for plugins listing
1064 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1065 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1066 * Better integration in GTK environments
1069 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1070 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1071 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1072 * Additional usability improvements
1075 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1076 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1077 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1078 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1079 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1082 * New Maemo port with:
1083 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1084 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1087 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1090 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1091 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1092 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1093 * Support for latest iSight models
1096 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1097 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1100 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1101 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1102 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1103 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1104 The old image video output has been removed.
1105 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1106 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1109 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1117 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1118 --------------------------------------
1124 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1125 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1126 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1127 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1128 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1129 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1130 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1132 Various fixes to the following modules:
1135 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1136 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1137 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1139 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1144 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1145 ---------------------------------
1148 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1149 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1152 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1153 ---------------------------------
1156 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1159 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1162 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1163 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1164 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1165 main controller window.
1166 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1169 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1174 * Updates of other localizations
1177 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1178 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1179 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1180 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1181 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1184 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1185 ---------------------------------
1188 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1190 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1193 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1194 --------------------------------
1199 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1200 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1203 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1204 --------------------------------
1206 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1207 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1210 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1213 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1214 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1217 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1218 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1221 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1222 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1223 * Various fixed in playlist
1226 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1229 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1232 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1233 ------------------------------------
1235 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1236 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1239 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1240 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1241 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1244 * Stability fix for the video output.
1247 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1248 --------------------------------
1251 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1252 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1253 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1254 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1255 * Fixed update system bugs
1256 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1259 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1260 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1261 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1262 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1263 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1264 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1265 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1266 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1267 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1268 modern Mac OS X versions
1271 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1272 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1274 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1275 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1278 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1279 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1280 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1281 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1282 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1283 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1286 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1287 --------------------------------
1289 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1290 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1291 * Multiple bugfixes.
1294 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1295 --------------------------------
1297 * Multiple bug fixes.
1300 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1301 ---------------------------------
1305 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1306 recent to work correctly
1307 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1308 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1309 edit the ".hosts" file.
1310 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1311 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1312 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1313 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1314 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1315 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1316 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1317 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1318 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1319 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1320 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1321 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1322 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1323 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1324 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1325 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1326 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1327 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1328 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1329 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1330 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1331 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1332 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1333 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1334 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1335 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1336 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1337 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1338 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1339 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1340 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1341 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1342 and postproc modules.
1343 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1344 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1345 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1346 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1348 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1349 filter. For example:
1350 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1351 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1353 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1354 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1360 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1362 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1363 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1366 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1367 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1369 * Shoutcast TV listings
1370 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1372 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1373 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1375 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1378 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1379 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1380 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1381 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1382 * JACK audio input support
1383 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1384 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1385 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1386 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1387 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1388 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1389 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1390 (available as a separate download).
1391 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1392 * RTMP input support
1393 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1394 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1395 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1397 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1398 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1401 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1402 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1403 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1404 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1406 * APEv1/2 tags support
1407 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1408 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1410 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1411 * TiVo Series 2 support
1412 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1417 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1418 * Flash Screen Video support
1419 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1420 * DosBox Capture support
1421 * Karl Morton's Video support
1422 * limited atrac3 support
1424 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1425 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1426 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1427 * H.264 PAFF support
1428 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1429 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1430 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1431 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1432 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1435 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1436 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1437 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1438 * AQTitle subtitles support
1439 * MKV USF subtitles support
1440 * HTML-based subtitles support
1441 * MPSub subtitles support
1442 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1443 * MPL2 subtitles support
1444 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1445 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1446 * Realtext subtitle support
1447 * DKS subtitle support
1448 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1449 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1452 * Flash Screen Video support
1453 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1455 Video outputs and filters:
1456 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1457 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1458 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1459 * New puzzle video output filter
1460 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1461 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1463 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1464 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1465 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1466 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1467 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1468 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1469 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1470 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1471 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1472 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1473 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1474 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1475 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1476 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1478 Audio outputs and filters:
1479 * Replay gain support
1480 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1481 new scaletempo audio filter)
1482 * New spatializer audio filter
1483 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1486 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1487 * New RTP payload formats:
1488 * Speex voice audio codec
1489 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1490 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1491 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1492 * DCCP transport for RTP
1493 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1498 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1499 end-user suitable way.
1500 * Improved user interaction
1501 * Improved mouse gestures
1502 * Vastly improved Update checker
1503 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1505 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1506 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1508 * Improved video output features
1509 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1510 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1511 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1512 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1513 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1515 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1516 if libncursesw is available.
1517 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1518 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1519 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1521 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1522 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1523 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1524 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1525 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1526 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1527 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1528 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1531 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1532 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1533 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1536 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1537 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1538 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1539 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1540 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1541 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1544 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1545 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1555 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1556 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1557 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1560 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1561 ----------------------------------
1564 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1567 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1568 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1569 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1570 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1571 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1572 * Updated Polish translation
1575 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1576 ----------------------------------
1579 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1580 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1581 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1584 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1585 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1586 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1587 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1588 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1589 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1590 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1591 to an unexpected application termination
1592 * New Serbian translation
1593 * Updated Romanian translation
1596 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1597 ----------------------------------
1600 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1601 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1602 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1603 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1604 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1605 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1606 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1607 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1610 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1611 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1612 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1613 * Fixed AAC resampling
1614 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1615 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1618 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1619 ----------------------------------
1622 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1623 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1624 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1625 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1626 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1629 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1630 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1631 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1632 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1633 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1636 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1637 ----------------------------------
1640 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1641 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1644 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1645 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1646 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1647 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1649 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1653 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1656 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1659 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1662 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1665 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1666 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1667 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1668 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1669 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1671 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1672 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1673 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1674 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1677 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1680 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1681 ----------------------------------
1684 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1685 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1686 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1688 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1689 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1691 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1692 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1695 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1697 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1698 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1699 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1700 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1701 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1702 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1703 two different movies
1704 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1705 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1706 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1709 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1712 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1713 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1714 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1715 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1718 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1719 ----------------------------------
1721 Various bugfixes, notably:
1722 * Windows Vista compatibility
1723 * Cropping in Direct3D
1724 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1725 * RSS filter string overflow
1727 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1729 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1730 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1733 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1734 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1737 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1740 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1743 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1746 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1747 ----------------------------------
1749 Various bugfixes, notably:
1750 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1751 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1752 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1753 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1754 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1755 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1758 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1759 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1762 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1764 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1765 * Diverse usability improvements
1766 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1767 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1768 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1771 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1772 ---------------------------------
1774 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1775 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1778 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1781 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1782 --------------------------------
1785 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1788 * Support for RTSP authentication
1789 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1790 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1791 * ATSC support for DVB input
1792 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1793 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1794 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1797 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1798 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1799 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1800 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1801 * Matroska WavPack support
1802 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1803 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1804 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1807 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1808 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1809 * Improved libcaca support
1813 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1814 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1816 * Systray support in skins
1818 * Support for Apple Remote control
1819 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1820 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1821 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1822 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1824 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1827 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1828 Windows 9x/ME users:
1829 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1830 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1831 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1832 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1833 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1835 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1836 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1845 * Updates to the libvlc API
1846 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1849 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1850 --------------------------------
1853 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1854 * Support for downloading updates
1858 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1859 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1860 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1861 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1863 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1864 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1865 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1868 * Cook (Real audio) support
1870 Playlist / Services discovery:
1871 * XSPF playlist support
1873 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1876 * New JACK audio output
1879 * New video filters:
1880 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1881 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1882 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1883 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1884 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1885 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1888 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1891 * System to inform the user and request information
1892 - HTTP authentication
1896 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1897 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1898 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1901 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1902 - Improved playlist handling
1903 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1905 - Embedded Video output
1906 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1907 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1908 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1909 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1910 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1912 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1913 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1916 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1919 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1920 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1921 * Growl "Now playing" support
1924 * Ability to log to syslog
1925 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1928 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1930 * A bit more automatic testing
1933 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1934 ---------------------------------
1937 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1938 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1941 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1942 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1945 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1948 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1949 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1955 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1958 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1959 --------------------------------
1962 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1966 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1967 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1968 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1971 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1972 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1973 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1974 * GnomeVFS input module
1975 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1976 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1979 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1980 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1981 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1984 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1985 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1991 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1992 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1995 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1996 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1997 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2000 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2002 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2003 - New extended controls panel
2004 - New bookmarks window
2005 - Fixed playlist sorting
2006 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2008 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2009 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2010 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2011 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2015 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2016 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2018 - Include macro to include other files
2022 * Should now work outside IE as well
2025 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2028 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2029 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2032 The following languages were added:
2036 * Simplified Chinese
2037 The following languages were re-added:
2041 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2042 --------------------------------
2045 * Rewrite of the playlist
2047 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2048 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2049 * Preferences improvements:
2050 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2051 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2053 * Core image manipulation support
2054 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2055 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2056 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2057 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2058 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2059 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2060 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2061 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2062 * Access filter architecture
2063 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2064 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2068 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2069 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2070 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2071 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2072 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2073 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2074 * Massive Matroska improvements
2075 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2077 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2078 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2079 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2080 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2081 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2083 Decoders / Encoders:
2084 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2085 * PNG decoder/encoder
2086 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2087 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2090 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2093 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2094 * Brand new SAP module
2095 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2096 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2097 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2098 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2099 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2100 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2104 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2107 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2108 * Image file video output (png)
2109 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2110 * Improvements to wall video filter
2111 * Support for font color and opacity
2117 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2118 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2119 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2123 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2124 - Improved preferences
2125 - Improvements to the wizard
2126 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2128 - Redesigned playlist
2129 - Improved preferences
2131 - Support for multiple actions
2134 - Support for the new playlist system
2136 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2139 * Screensaver disabling fix
2140 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2141 * Support for no-decoration windows
2144 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2145 * The OpenGL video output is back
2146 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2147 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2148 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2149 is not yet available in the new module
2150 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2153 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2162 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2165 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2168 The following languages were added:
2174 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2175 --------------------------------
2178 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2179 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2182 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2183 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2184 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2187 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2190 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2193 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2196 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2197 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2198 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2202 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2204 * Support of playlist group announcement
2207 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2208 --------------------------------
2211 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2212 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2213 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2214 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2215 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2216 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2219 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2220 (Stream your desktop)
2221 * Improved DVD support:
2222 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2223 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2224 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2225 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2226 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2227 (selection of titles/chapters).
2230 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2231 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2232 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2233 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2234 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2235 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2236 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2237 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2238 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2239 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2242 * G.726 audio support
2243 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2244 * MPEG-4 text support
2245 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2246 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2247 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2251 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2252 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2253 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2254 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2255 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2256 * DVB subtitles encoder
2257 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2258 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2260 * Text track muxing for mp4
2261 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2262 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2263 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2264 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2265 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2266 * Improved ASF muxer
2268 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2269 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2270 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2273 * New audio equalizer filter
2274 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2275 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2276 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2277 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2280 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2281 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2282 with support for effects.
2283 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2284 - New filters can be streamed.
2285 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2286 - Centralized scaling and blending
2288 - "time", to display current time
2289 - "marq", to display a marquee
2292 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2293 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2294 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2295 * A few skins2 improvements
2296 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2297 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2298 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2299 * Improved CORBA control module
2302 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2303 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2304 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2307 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2308 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2309 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2312 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2313 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2314 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2315 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2316 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2319 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2322 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2323 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2326 * Server/client network synchronization module
2327 * VBrick streams fully supported
2328 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2332 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2333 --------------------------------
2336 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2337 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2338 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2339 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2342 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2343 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2344 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2345 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2346 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2347 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2348 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2351 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2352 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2353 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2354 * Improved directory access module.
2355 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2356 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2357 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2358 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2359 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2362 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2363 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2364 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2367 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2368 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2369 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2372 * Improved session announcement system.
2373 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2374 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2375 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2376 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2377 * Improved transrater.
2378 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2379 * New configuration system.
2380 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2383 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2384 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2385 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2386 * Supports scheduling.
2387 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2388 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2391 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2392 - Ability to embed video output.
2393 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2394 - Lots of improvements.
2395 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2396 - New design and set of icons.
2397 - Ability to embed video output.
2398 - Support for hotkeys.
2399 - Support for bookmarks.
2401 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2402 - Better hotkeys handling.
2405 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2406 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2407 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2408 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2411 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2412 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2413 * Improved Windows installer.
2419 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2420 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2423 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2424 ---------------------------------
2427 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2428 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2431 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2432 --------------------------------
2435 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2436 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2439 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2440 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2441 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2442 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2445 * Internal improvments
2446 * Improved import/export
2449 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2451 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2452 small and strange formats.
2454 * New MOD audio demux.
2455 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2456 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2457 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2458 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2461 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2462 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2463 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2469 * New opengl video output plugin.
2472 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2473 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2476 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2477 --------------------------------
2480 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2481 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2482 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2483 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2484 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2485 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2486 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2487 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2490 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2495 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2496 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2497 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2498 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2499 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2500 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2501 * Better Icecast support.
2502 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2503 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2506 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2507 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2508 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2509 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2510 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2511 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2512 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2515 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2516 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2517 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2518 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2519 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2520 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2521 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2522 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2523 * Preliminary RTP support.
2524 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2529 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2530 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2532 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2533 - Improvements and help in preferences
2534 - New streaming wizard
2535 - Revised Disc Open menu
2537 - Improvements of the standard pages
2538 - Support for new commands
2539 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2542 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2543 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2546 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2547 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2548 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2549 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2550 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2551 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2552 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2553 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2554 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2557 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2559 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2560 * Support for Panther.
2561 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2562 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2565 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2566 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2567 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2568 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2569 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2570 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2571 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2572 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2575 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2576 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2577 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2580 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2583 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2584 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2585 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2586 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2589 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2590 --------------------------------
2593 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2596 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2597 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2600 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2601 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2604 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2607 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2608 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2611 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2614 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2617 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2618 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2622 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2623 --------------------------------
2626 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2627 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2631 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2632 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2633 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2635 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2636 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2639 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2642 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2645 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2646 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2650 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2651 --------------------------------
2654 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2655 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2659 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2660 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2661 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2662 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2663 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2666 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2667 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2668 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2671 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2672 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2673 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2676 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2677 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2678 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2679 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2680 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2683 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2684 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2685 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2688 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2691 * Improved build system.
2692 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2693 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2694 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2695 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2698 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2699 --------------------------------
2702 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2705 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2706 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2707 * Video 4 Linux support
2708 * CD Digital Audio support
2709 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2712 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2713 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2714 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2715 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2718 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2719 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2720 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2721 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2722 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2723 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2724 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2727 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2728 * New HTTP remote control interface
2731 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2732 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2733 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2734 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2737 * New reset option for the preferences
2738 * You can set your language in the prefences
2739 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2740 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2741 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2742 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2745 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2746 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2747 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2750 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2751 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2752 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2753 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2754 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2755 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2756 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2757 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2758 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2759 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2762 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2763 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2764 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2765 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2766 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2767 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2768 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2771 * Interface localization
2772 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2773 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2774 * New full-featured Preferences window
2777 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2778 --------------------------------
2781 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2782 * support for skins at the interface level
2783 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2784 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2785 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2786 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2787 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2790 * fixed HTTP redirects
2791 * support for opening an entire directory
2792 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2793 * new video4linux access plug-in
2794 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2797 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2798 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2799 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2802 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2803 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2804 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2805 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2806 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2807 * new codec for raw I420 video
2808 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2811 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2812 (although it still misses some important features)
2813 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2816 * new HTTP output support
2817 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2818 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2821 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2824 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2827 * reorderable playlist
2828 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2829 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2830 * support for mono audio output devices
2831 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2832 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2833 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2834 * the messages window remembers more lines
2835 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2836 * http and ogg stream output options
2837 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2840 * new skinnable interface
2841 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2843 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2844 * support for FLAC audio format
2845 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2847 * network tab in the interface
2848 * "apply" handling in preferences
2851 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2852 ---------------------------------
2855 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2856 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2857 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2858 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2860 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2861 * DTS S/PDIF support
2864 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2865 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2866 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2867 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2870 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2871 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2874 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2877 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2880 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2882 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2883 * rc interface is now fully useable
2884 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2887 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2888 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2889 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2890 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2891 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2893 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2894 * support for mouse gestures
2895 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2898 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2899 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2902 * improved ID3 tag detection
2903 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2904 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2905 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2907 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2910 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2911 ---------------------------------
2914 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2915 English was set as the preferred language
2918 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2919 --------------------------------
2922 * new mouse gesture interface
2923 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2927 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2928 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2929 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2932 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2933 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2937 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2940 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2941 without the user consent
2944 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2946 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2947 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2948 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2951 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2952 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2953 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2954 * playlist enhancements
2955 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2956 * new step forward/step backward commands
2957 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2958 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2959 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2962 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2963 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2964 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2967 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2968 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2971 * native video output is working again
2972 * only commandline interface support
2973 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2976 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2977 --------------------------------
2980 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2981 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2982 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2983 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2984 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2985 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2986 and A/52 streams are supported)
2987 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2992 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2993 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2994 * VCD entry points support
2995 * VCD image file support
2998 * support for *.asf format
2999 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3000 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3001 * support for ogg encapsulation
3002 * support for raw DV format
3003 * support for *.wav format
3004 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3007 Stream discovery & playlists:
3008 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3009 * support for .m3u file format
3010 * support for .asx file format
3011 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3014 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3015 (only available with the .avi demux)
3016 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3017 * support for raw PCM data
3018 * support for Cinepak video codec
3019 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3020 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3021 * support for Xvid codec
3022 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3023 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3024 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3026 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3028 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3031 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3034 * new WxWindows interface
3035 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3036 device and the channels configuration
3037 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3038 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3039 format that VLC can play
3040 * new swedish translation
3041 * enhancements of the playlist window
3042 * new messages window to see debug info
3043 * fixed a few crashes
3046 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3047 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3048 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3049 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working