1 Changes between 0.9.1 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
7 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
9 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.1:
10 ---------------------------------
12 Note: version 0.9.0 was skipped due to bugs being discovered at the last
17 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
18 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
19 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
20 edit the ".hosts" file.
21 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
22 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
23 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
24 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
25 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
26 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
27 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
28 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
29 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
30 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
32 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
33 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
34 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
35 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
36 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
37 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
38 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
39 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
40 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
41 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
42 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
43 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
44 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
45 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
46 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
47 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
48 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
49 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
50 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
51 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
52 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
54 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
55 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
56 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
57 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
59 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
61 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
62 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
64 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
65 * Glide video output module has been removed.
66 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
67 It does not work on windows for this version. Help is needed!
73 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
74 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
75 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
78 * Vastly improved playlist support:
79 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
81 * Shoutcast TV listings
82 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
84 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
85 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
86 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
89 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
90 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
91 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
92 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
93 * JACK audio input support
94 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
95 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
96 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
97 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
98 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
99 * Experimental EyeTV access module
100 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
101 (available as a separate download).
102 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
104 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
105 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
106 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
108 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
109 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
112 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
113 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
114 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
115 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
117 * APEv1/2 tags support
118 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
119 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
121 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
122 * TiVo Series 2 support
123 * CD+G karaoke Files support
128 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
129 * Flash Screen Video support
130 * CamStudio Screen Video support
131 * DosBox Capture support
132 * Karl Morton's Video support
133 * limited atrac3 support
135 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
136 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
137 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
139 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
140 * NellyMoser ASAO support
141 * APE (Monkey audio) support
142 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
143 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
146 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
147 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
148 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
149 * AQTitle subtitles support
150 * MKV USF subtitles support
151 * HTML-based subtitles support
152 * MPSub subtitles support
153 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
154 * MPL2 subtitles support
155 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
156 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
157 * Realtext subtitle support
158 * DKS subtitle support
159 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
160 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
163 * Flash Screen Video support
164 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
166 Video outputs and filters:
167 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
168 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
169 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
170 * New puzzle video output filter
171 * Re-written motion detection video filter
172 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
174 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
175 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
176 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
177 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
178 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
179 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
180 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
181 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
182 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
183 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
184 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
185 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
186 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
187 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
189 Audio outputs and filters:
190 * Replay gain support
191 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
192 new scaletempo audio filter)
193 * New spatializer audio filter
194 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
197 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
198 * New RTP payload formats:
199 * Speex voice audio codec
200 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
201 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
202 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
203 * DCCP transport for RTP
204 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
209 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
210 end-user suitable way.
211 * Improved user interaction
212 * Improved mouse gestures
213 * Vastly improved Update checker
214 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
216 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
217 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
219 * Improved video output features
220 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
221 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
222 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
223 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
224 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
226 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
227 if libncursesw is available.
228 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
229 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
230 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
232 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
233 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
234 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
235 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
236 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
237 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
238 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
239 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
242 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
243 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
244 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
247 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
248 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
249 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
250 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
251 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
252 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
255 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
256 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
266 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
267 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
268 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
271 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
272 ----------------------------------
275 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
278 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
279 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
280 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
281 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
282 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
283 * Updated Polish translation
286 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
287 ----------------------------------
290 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
291 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
292 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
295 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
296 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
297 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
298 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
299 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
300 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
301 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
302 to an unexpected application termination
303 * New Serbian translation
304 * Updated Romanian translation
307 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
308 ----------------------------------
311 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
312 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
313 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
314 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
315 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
316 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
317 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
318 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
321 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
322 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
323 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
324 * Fixed AAC resampling
325 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
326 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
329 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
330 ----------------------------------
333 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
334 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
335 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
336 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
337 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
340 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
341 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
342 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
343 * Close MMS access on network timeout
344 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
347 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
348 ----------------------------------
351 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
352 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
355 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
356 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
357 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
358 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
360 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
364 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
367 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
370 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
373 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
376 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
377 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
378 encoding on multi-cpu systems
379 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
380 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
382 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
383 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
384 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
385 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
388 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
391 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
392 ----------------------------------
395 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
396 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
397 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
399 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
400 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
402 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
403 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
406 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
408 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
409 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
410 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
411 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
412 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
413 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
415 * Support for current Ogg file formats
416 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
417 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
420 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
423 * The automatic updating facility was removed
424 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
425 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
426 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
429 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
430 ----------------------------------
432 Various bugfixes, notably:
433 * Windows Vista compatibility
434 * Cropping in Direct3D
435 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
436 * RSS filter string overflow
438 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
440 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
441 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
444 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
445 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
448 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
451 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
454 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
457 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
458 ----------------------------------
460 Various bugfixes, notably:
461 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
462 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
463 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
464 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
465 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
466 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
469 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
470 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
473 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
475 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
476 * Diverse usability improvements
477 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
478 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
479 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
482 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
483 ---------------------------------
486 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
489 * Fullscreen controller improvements
492 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
493 --------------------------------
496 * Shoutcast TV listings support
499 * Support for RTSP authentication
500 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
501 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
502 * ATSC support for DVB input
503 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
504 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
505 * Improved support for Flash Video files
508 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
509 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
510 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
511 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
512 * Matroska WavPack support
513 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
514 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
515 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
518 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
519 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
520 * Improved libcaca support
524 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
525 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
527 * Systray support in skins
529 * Support for Apple Remote control
530 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
531 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
532 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
533 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
535 * Notifications using notification-daemon
538 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
540 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
541 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
542 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
543 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
544 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
546 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
547 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
556 * Updates to the libvlc API
557 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
560 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
561 --------------------------------
564 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
565 * Support for downloading updates
569 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
570 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
571 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
572 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
574 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
575 * Improved subtitles encoding support
576 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
579 * Cook (Real audio) support
581 Playlist / Services discovery:
582 * XSPF playlist support
584 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
587 * New JACK audio output
591 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
592 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
593 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
594 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
595 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
596 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
599 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
602 * System to inform the user and request information
603 - HTTP authentication
607 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
608 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
609 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
612 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
613 - Improved playlist handling
614 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
616 - Embedded Video output
617 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
618 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
619 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
620 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
621 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
623 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
624 - A bunch of new RPN functions
627 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
630 * Mac-Intel compatibility
631 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
632 * Growl "Now playing" support
635 * Ability to log to syslog
636 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
639 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
641 * A bit more automatic testing
644 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
645 ---------------------------------
648 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
649 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
652 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
653 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
656 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
659 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
660 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
666 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
669 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
670 --------------------------------
673 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
677 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
678 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
679 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
682 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
683 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
684 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
685 * GnomeVFS input module
686 * Support for RTP packet reordering
687 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
690 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
691 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
692 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
695 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
696 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
702 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
703 Mixer and Dolby Surround
706 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
707 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
708 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
711 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
713 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
714 - New extended controls panel
715 - New bookmarks window
716 - Fixed playlist sorting
717 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
719 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
720 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
721 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
722 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
726 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
727 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
729 - Include macro to include other files
733 * Should now work outside IE as well
736 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
739 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
740 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
743 The following languages were added:
748 The following languages were re-added:
752 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
753 --------------------------------
756 * Rewrite of the playlist
758 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
759 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
760 * Preferences improvements:
761 - New organization, designed to improve usability
762 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
764 * Core image manipulation support
765 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
766 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
767 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
768 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
769 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
770 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
771 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
772 now separated by ':' instead of ','
773 * Access filter architecture
774 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
775 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
779 * Support for SOCKS proxy
780 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
781 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
782 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
783 * Better support for Kasenna streams
784 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
785 * Massive Matroska improvements
786 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
788 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
789 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
790 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
791 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
792 * Support for FTP over IPv6
795 * Dirac decoder and encoder
796 * PNG decoder/encoder
797 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
798 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
801 * New Record and Timeshift filters
804 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
805 * Brand new SAP module
806 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
807 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
808 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
809 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
810 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
811 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
815 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
818 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
819 * Image file video output (png)
820 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
821 * Improvements to wall video filter
822 * Support for font color and opacity
828 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
829 - Seeking support in VoD streams
830 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
834 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
835 - Improved preferences
836 - Improvements to the wizard
837 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
839 - Redesigned playlist
840 - Improved preferences
842 - Support for multiple actions
845 - Support for the new playlist system
847 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
850 * Screensaver disabling fix
851 * DirectShow tuner configuration
852 * Support for no-decoration windows
855 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
856 * The OpenGL video output is back
857 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
858 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
859 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
860 is not yet available in the new module
861 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
864 * Support for single-buffered overlay
873 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
876 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
879 The following languages were added:
885 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
886 --------------------------------
889 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
890 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
893 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
894 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
895 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
898 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
901 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
904 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
907 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
908 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
909 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
913 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
915 * Support of playlist group announcement
918 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
919 --------------------------------
922 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
923 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
924 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
925 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
926 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
927 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
930 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
931 (Stream your desktop)
932 * Improved DVD support:
933 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
934 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
935 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
936 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
937 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
938 (selection of titles/chapters).
941 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
942 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
943 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
944 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
945 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
946 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
947 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
948 * Improved Ogg demuxer
949 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
950 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
953 * G.726 audio support
954 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
955 * MPEG-4 text support
956 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
957 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
958 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
962 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
963 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
964 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
965 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
966 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
967 * DVB subtitles encoder
968 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
969 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
971 * Text track muxing for mp4
972 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
973 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
974 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
975 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
976 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
979 * H.263 RTP streaming support
980 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
981 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
984 * New audio equalizer filter
985 * Very trivial volume normalizer
986 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
987 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
988 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
991 * Roku HD1000 Video output
992 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
993 with support for effects.
994 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
995 - New filters can be streamed.
996 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
997 - Centralized scaling and blending
999 - "time", to display current time
1000 - "marq", to display a marquee
1003 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1004 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1005 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1006 * A few skins2 improvements
1007 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1008 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1009 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1010 * Improved CORBA control module
1013 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1014 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1015 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1018 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1019 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1020 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1023 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1024 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1025 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1026 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1027 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1030 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1033 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1034 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1037 * Server/client network synchronization module
1038 * VBrick streams fully supported
1039 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1043 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1044 --------------------------------
1047 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1048 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1049 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1050 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1053 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1054 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1055 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1056 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1057 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1058 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1059 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1062 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1063 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1064 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1065 * Improved directory access module.
1066 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1067 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1068 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1069 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1070 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1073 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1074 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1075 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1078 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1079 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1080 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1083 * Improved session announcement system.
1084 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1085 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1086 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1087 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1088 * Improved transrater.
1089 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1090 * New configuration system.
1091 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1094 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1095 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1096 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1097 * Supports scheduling.
1098 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1099 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1102 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1103 - Ability to embed video output.
1104 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1105 - Lots of improvements.
1106 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1107 - New design and set of icons.
1108 - Ability to embed video output.
1109 - Support for hotkeys.
1110 - Support for bookmarks.
1112 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1113 - Better hotkeys handling.
1116 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1117 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1118 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1119 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1122 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1123 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1124 * Improved Windows installer.
1130 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1131 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1134 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1135 ---------------------------------
1138 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1139 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1142 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1143 --------------------------------
1146 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1147 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1150 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1151 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1152 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1153 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1156 * Internal improvments
1157 * Improved import/export
1160 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1162 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1163 small and strange formats.
1165 * New MOD audio demux.
1166 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1167 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1168 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1169 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1172 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1173 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1174 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1180 * New opengl video output plugin.
1183 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1184 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1187 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1188 --------------------------------
1191 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1192 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1193 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1194 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1195 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1196 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1197 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1198 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1201 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1206 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1207 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1208 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1209 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1210 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1211 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1212 * Better Icecast support.
1213 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1214 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1217 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1218 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1219 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1220 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1221 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1222 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1223 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1226 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1227 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1228 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1229 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1230 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1231 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1232 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1233 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1234 * Preliminary RTP support.
1235 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1240 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1241 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1243 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1244 - Improvements and help in preferences
1245 - New streaming wizard
1246 - Revised Disc Open menu
1248 - Improvements of the standard pages
1249 - Support for new commands
1250 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1253 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1254 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1257 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1258 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1259 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1260 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1261 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1262 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1263 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1264 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1265 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1268 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1270 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1271 * Support for Panther.
1272 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1273 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1276 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1277 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1278 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1279 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1280 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1281 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1282 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1283 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1286 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1287 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1288 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1291 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1294 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1295 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1296 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1297 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1300 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1301 --------------------------------
1304 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1307 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1308 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1311 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1312 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1315 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1318 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1319 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1322 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1325 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1328 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1329 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1333 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1334 --------------------------------
1337 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1338 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1342 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1343 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1344 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1346 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1347 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1350 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1353 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1356 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1357 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1361 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1362 --------------------------------
1365 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1366 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1370 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1371 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1372 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1373 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1374 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1377 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1378 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1379 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1382 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1383 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1384 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1387 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1388 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1389 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1390 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1391 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1394 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1395 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1396 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1399 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1402 * Improved build system.
1403 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1404 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1405 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1406 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1409 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1410 --------------------------------
1413 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1416 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1417 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1418 * Video 4 Linux support
1419 * CD Digital Audio support
1420 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1423 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1424 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1425 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1426 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1429 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1430 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1431 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1432 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1433 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1434 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1435 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1438 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1439 * New HTTP remote control interface
1442 * 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.
1443 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1444 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1445 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1448 * New reset option for the preferences
1449 * You can set your language in the prefences
1450 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1451 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1452 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1453 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1456 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1457 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1458 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1461 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1462 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1463 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1464 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1465 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1466 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1467 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1468 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1469 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1470 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1473 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1474 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1475 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1476 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1477 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1478 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1479 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1482 * Interface localization
1483 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1484 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1485 * New full-featured Preferences window
1488 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1489 --------------------------------
1492 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1493 * support for skins at the interface level
1494 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1495 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1496 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1497 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1498 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1501 * fixed HTTP redirects
1502 * support for opening an entire directory
1503 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1504 * new video4linux access plug-in
1505 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1508 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1509 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1510 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1513 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1514 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1515 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1516 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1517 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1518 * new codec for raw I420 video
1519 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1522 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1523 (although it still misses some important features)
1524 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1527 * new HTTP output support
1528 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1529 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1532 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1535 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1538 * reorderable playlist
1539 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1540 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1541 * support for mono audio output devices
1542 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1543 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1544 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1545 * the messages window remembers more lines
1546 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1547 * http and ogg stream output options
1548 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1551 * new skinnable interface
1552 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1554 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1555 * support for FLAC audio format
1556 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1558 * network tab in the interface
1559 * "apply" handling in preferences
1562 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1563 ---------------------------------
1566 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1567 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1568 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1569 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1571 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1572 * DTS S/PDIF support
1575 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1576 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1577 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1578 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1581 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1582 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1585 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1588 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1591 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1593 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1594 * rc interface is now fully useable
1595 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1598 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1599 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1600 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1601 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1602 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1604 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1605 * support for mouse gestures
1606 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1609 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1610 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1613 * improved ID3 tag detection
1614 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1615 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1616 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1618 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1621 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1622 ---------------------------------
1625 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1626 English was set as the preferred language
1629 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1630 --------------------------------
1633 * new mouse gesture interface
1634 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1638 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1639 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1640 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1643 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1644 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1648 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1651 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1652 without the user consent
1655 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1657 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1658 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1659 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1662 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1663 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1664 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1665 * playlist enhancements
1666 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1667 * new step forward/step backward commands
1668 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1669 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1670 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1673 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1674 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1675 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1678 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1679 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1682 * native video output is working again
1683 * only commandline interface support
1684 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1687 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1688 --------------------------------
1691 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1692 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1693 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1694 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1695 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1696 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1697 and A/52 streams are supported)
1698 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1703 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1704 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1705 * VCD entry points support
1706 * VCD image file support
1709 * support for *.asf format
1710 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1711 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1712 * support for ogg encapsulation
1713 * support for raw DV format
1714 * support for *.wav format
1715 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1718 Stream discovery & playlists:
1719 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1720 * support for .m3u file format
1721 * support for .asx file format
1722 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1725 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1726 (only available with the .avi demux)
1727 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1728 * support for raw PCM data
1729 * support for Cinepak video codec
1730 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1731 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1732 * support for Xvid codec
1733 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1734 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1735 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1737 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1739 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1742 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1745 * new WxWindows interface
1746 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1747 device and the channels configuration
1748 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1749 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1750 format that VLC can play
1751 * new swedish translation
1752 * enhancements of the playlist window
1753 * new messages window to see debug info
1754 * fixed a few crashes
1757 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1758 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1759 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1760 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working