3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and MacOS X.3 (Panther)
9 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
10 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
11 edit the ".hosts" file.
12 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
13 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
14 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
15 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
16 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
17 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
18 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
19 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
20 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
21 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
22 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
23 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
24 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
25 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
26 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
27 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
28 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
29 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
30 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
31 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
32 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
33 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
34 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
35 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
36 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
37 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
38 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
39 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
40 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
41 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
42 states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
43 FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
44 reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
45 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
47 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
48 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
50 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
56 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
59 * Vastly improved playlist support:
60 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
62 * Shoutcast TV listings
63 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
65 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
66 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
67 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
68 share/lua/meta/README.txt
71 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
72 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
73 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
74 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
75 * JACK audio input support
76 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
77 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
78 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
79 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
80 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
81 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
82 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
83 (available as a separate download).
85 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
86 taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
87 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
89 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
90 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
93 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
94 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
95 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
96 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
98 * APEv1/2 tags support
99 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
100 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
102 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
103 * TiVo Series 2 support
104 * CD+G karaoke Files support
109 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
110 * Flash Screen Video support
111 * CamStudio Screen Video support
112 * DosBox Capture support
113 * Karl Morton's Video support
114 * limited atrac3 support
115 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
116 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
117 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
119 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
120 * NellyMoser ASAO support
121 * APE (Monkey audio) support
122 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
125 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
126 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
127 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
128 * AQTitle subtitles support
129 * MKV USF subtitles support
130 * HTML-based subtitles support
131 * MPSub subtitles support
132 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
133 * MPL2 subtitles support
134 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
135 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
136 * Realtext subtitle support
137 * DKS subtitle support
138 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
139 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
142 * Flash Screen Video support
143 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
145 Video outputs and filters:
146 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
147 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
148 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
149 * New puzzle video output filter
150 * Re-written motion detection video filter
151 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
153 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
154 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
155 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
156 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
157 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
158 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
159 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
160 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
161 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
162 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
163 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
164 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
165 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
167 Audio outputs and filters:
168 * Replay gain support
169 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
170 * New spatializer audio filter
171 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
174 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
175 * New RTP payload formats:
176 * Speex voice audio codec
177 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
178 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
179 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
180 * DCCP transport for RTP
181 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
186 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
187 end-user suitable way.
188 * Improved user interaction
189 * Improved mouse gestures
190 * Vastly improved Update checker
191 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
193 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
194 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
196 * Improved video output features
197 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
198 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
199 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
200 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
202 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
203 if libncursesw is available.
204 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
205 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
207 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
208 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
209 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
210 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
211 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
212 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
213 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
214 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
217 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
218 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
219 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
222 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
223 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
224 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
225 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
226 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
227 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
230 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
231 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
239 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
240 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
241 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
244 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
245 ----------------------------------
248 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
249 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
250 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
253 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
254 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
255 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
256 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
257 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
258 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
259 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
260 to an unexpected application termination
261 * New Serbian translation
262 * Updated Romanian translation
265 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
266 ----------------------------------
269 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
270 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
271 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
272 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
273 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
274 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
275 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
276 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
279 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
280 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
281 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
282 * Fixed AAC resampling
283 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
284 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
287 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
288 ----------------------------------
291 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
292 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
293 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
294 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
295 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
298 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
299 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
300 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
301 * Close MMS access on network timeout
302 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
305 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
306 ----------------------------------
309 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
310 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
313 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
314 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
315 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
316 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
318 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
322 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
325 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
328 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
331 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
334 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
335 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
336 encoding on multi-cpu systems
337 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
338 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
340 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
341 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
342 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
343 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
346 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
349 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
350 ----------------------------------
353 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
354 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
355 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
357 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
358 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
360 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
361 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
364 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
366 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
367 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
368 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
369 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
370 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
371 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
373 * Support for current Ogg file formats
374 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
375 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
378 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
381 * The automatic updating facility was removed
382 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
383 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
384 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
387 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
388 ----------------------------------
390 Various bugfixes, notably:
391 * Windows Vista compatibility
392 * Cropping in Direct3D
393 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
394 * RSS filter string overflow
396 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
398 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
399 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
402 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
403 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
406 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
409 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
412 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
415 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
416 ----------------------------------
418 Various bugfixes, notably:
419 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
420 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
421 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
422 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
423 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
424 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
427 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
428 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
431 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
433 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
434 * Diverse usability improvements
435 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
436 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
437 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
440 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
441 ---------------------------------
444 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
447 * Fullscreen controller improvements
450 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
451 --------------------------------
454 * Shoutcast TV listings support
457 * Support for RTSP authentication
458 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
459 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
460 * ATSC support for DVB input
461 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
462 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
463 * Improved support for Flash Video files
466 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
467 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
468 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
469 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
470 * Matroska WavPack support
471 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
472 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
473 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
476 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
477 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
478 * Improved libcaca support
482 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
483 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
485 * Systray support in skins
487 * Support for Apple Remote control
488 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
489 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
490 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
491 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
493 * Notifications using notification-daemon
496 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
498 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
499 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
500 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
501 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
502 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
504 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
505 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
514 * Updates to the libvlc API
515 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
518 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
519 --------------------------------
522 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
523 * Support for downloading updates
527 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
528 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
529 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
530 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
532 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
533 * Improved subtitles encoding support
534 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
537 * Cook (Real audio) support
539 Playlist / Services discovery:
540 * XSPF playlist support
542 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
545 * New JACK audio output
549 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
550 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
551 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
552 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
553 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
554 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
557 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
560 * System to inform the user and request information
561 - HTTP authentication
565 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
566 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
567 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
570 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
571 - Improved playlist handling
572 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
574 - Embedded Video output
575 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
576 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
577 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
578 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
579 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
581 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
582 - A bunch of new RPN functions
585 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
588 * Mac-Intel compatibility
589 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
590 * Growl "Now playing" support
593 * Ability to log to syslog
594 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
597 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
599 * A bit more automatic testing
602 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
603 ---------------------------------
606 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
607 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
610 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
611 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
614 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
617 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
618 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
624 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
627 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
628 --------------------------------
631 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
635 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
636 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
637 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
640 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
641 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
642 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
643 * GnomeVFS input module
644 * Support for RTP packet reordering
645 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
648 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
649 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
650 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
653 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
654 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
660 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
661 Mixer and Dolby Surround
664 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
665 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
666 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
669 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
671 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
672 - New extended controls panel
673 - New bookmarks window
674 - Fixed playlist sorting
675 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
677 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
678 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
679 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
680 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
684 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
685 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
687 - Include macro to include other files
691 * Should now work outside IE as well
694 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
697 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
698 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
701 The following languages were added:
706 The following languages were re-added:
710 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
711 --------------------------------
714 * Rewrite of the playlist
716 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
717 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
718 * Preferences improvements:
719 - New organization, designed to improve usability
720 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
722 * Core image manipulation support
723 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
724 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
725 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
726 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
727 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
728 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
729 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
730 now separated by ':' instead of ','
731 * Access filter architecture
732 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
733 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
737 * Support for SOCKS proxy
738 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
739 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
740 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
741 * Better support for Kasenna streams
742 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
743 * Massive Matroska improvements
744 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
746 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
747 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
748 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
749 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
750 * Support for FTP over IPv6
753 * Dirac decoder and encoder
754 * PNG decoder/encoder
755 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
756 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
759 * New Record and Timeshift filters
762 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
763 * Brand new SAP module
764 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
765 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
766 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
767 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
768 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
769 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
773 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
776 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
777 * Image file video output (png)
778 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
779 * Improvements to wall video filter
780 * Support for font color and opacity
786 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
787 - Seeking support in VoD streams
788 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
792 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
793 - Improved preferences
794 - Improvements to the wizard
795 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
797 - Redesigned playlist
798 - Improved preferences
800 - Support for multiple actions
803 - Support for the new playlist system
805 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
808 * Screensaver disabling fix
809 * DirectShow tuner configuration
810 * Support for no-decoration windows
813 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
814 * The OpenGL video output is back
815 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
816 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
817 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
818 is not yet available in the new module
819 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
822 * Support for single-buffered overlay
831 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
834 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
837 The following languages were added:
843 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
844 --------------------------------
847 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
848 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
851 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
852 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
853 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
856 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
859 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
862 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
865 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
866 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
867 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
871 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
873 * Support of playlist group announcement
876 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
877 --------------------------------
880 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
881 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
882 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
883 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
884 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
885 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
888 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
889 (Stream your desktop)
890 * Improved DVD support:
891 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
892 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
893 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
894 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
895 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
896 (selection of titles/chapters).
899 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
900 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
901 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
902 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
903 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
904 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
905 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
906 * Improved Ogg demuxer
907 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
908 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
911 * G.726 audio support
912 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
913 * MPEG-4 text support
914 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
915 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
916 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
920 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
921 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
922 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
923 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
924 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
925 * DVB subtitles encoder
926 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
927 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
929 * Text track muxing for mp4
930 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
931 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
932 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
933 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
934 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
937 * H.263 RTP streaming support
938 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
939 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
942 * New audio equalizer filter
943 * Very trivial volume normalizer
944 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
945 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
946 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
949 * Roku HD1000 Video output
950 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
951 with support for effects.
952 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
953 - New filters can be streamed.
954 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
955 - Centralized scaling and blending
957 - "time", to display current time
958 - "marq", to display a marquee
961 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
962 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
963 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
964 * A few skins2 improvements
965 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
966 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
967 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
968 * Improved CORBA control module
971 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
972 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
973 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
976 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
977 * Experimental SVG rendering module
978 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
981 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
982 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
983 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
984 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
985 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
988 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
991 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
992 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
995 * Server/client network synchronization module
996 * VBrick streams fully supported
997 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1001 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1002 --------------------------------
1005 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1006 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1007 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1008 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1011 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1012 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1013 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1014 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1015 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1016 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1017 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1020 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1021 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1022 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1023 * Improved directory access module.
1024 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1025 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1026 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1027 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1028 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1031 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1032 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1033 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1036 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1037 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1038 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1041 * Improved session announcement system.
1042 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1043 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1044 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1045 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1046 * Improved transrater.
1047 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1048 * New configuration system.
1049 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1052 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1053 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1054 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1055 * Supports scheduling.
1056 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1057 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1060 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1061 - Ability to embed video output.
1062 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1063 - Lots of improvements.
1064 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1065 - New design and set of icons.
1066 - Ability to embed video output.
1067 - Support for hotkeys.
1068 - Support for bookmarks.
1070 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1071 - Better hotkeys handling.
1074 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1075 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1076 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1077 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1080 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1081 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1082 * Improved Windows installer.
1088 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1089 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1092 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1093 ---------------------------------
1096 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1097 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1100 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1101 --------------------------------
1104 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1105 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1108 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1109 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1110 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1111 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1114 * Internal improvments
1115 * Improved import/export
1118 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1120 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1121 small and strange formats.
1123 * New MOD audio demux.
1124 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1125 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1126 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1127 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1130 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1131 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1132 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1138 * New opengl video output plugin.
1141 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1142 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1145 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1146 --------------------------------
1149 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1150 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1151 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1152 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1153 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1154 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1155 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1156 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1159 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1164 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1165 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1166 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1167 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1168 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1169 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1170 * Better Icecast support.
1171 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1172 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1175 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1176 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1177 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1178 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1179 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1180 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1181 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1184 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1185 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1186 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1187 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1188 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1189 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1190 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1191 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1192 * Preliminary RTP support.
1193 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1198 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1199 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1201 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1202 - Improvements and help in preferences
1203 - New streaming wizard
1204 - Revised Disc Open menu
1206 - Improvements of the standard pages
1207 - Support for new commands
1208 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1211 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1212 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1215 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1216 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1217 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1218 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1219 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1220 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1221 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1222 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1223 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1226 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1228 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1229 * Support for Panther.
1230 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1231 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1234 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1235 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1236 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1237 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1238 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1239 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1240 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1241 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1244 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1245 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1246 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1249 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1252 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1253 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1254 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1255 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1258 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1259 --------------------------------
1262 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1265 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1266 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1269 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1270 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1273 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1276 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1277 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1280 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1283 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1286 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1287 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1291 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1292 --------------------------------
1295 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1296 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1300 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1301 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1302 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1304 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1305 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1308 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1311 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1314 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1315 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1319 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1320 --------------------------------
1323 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1324 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1328 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1329 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1330 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1331 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1332 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1335 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1336 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1337 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1340 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1341 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1342 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1345 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1346 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1347 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1348 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1349 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1352 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1353 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1354 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1357 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1360 * Improved build system.
1361 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1362 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1363 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1364 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1367 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1368 --------------------------------
1371 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1374 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1375 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1376 * Video 4 Linux support
1377 * CD Digital Audio support
1378 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1381 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1382 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1383 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1384 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1387 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1388 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1389 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1390 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1391 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1392 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1393 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1396 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1397 * New HTTP remote control interface
1400 * 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.
1401 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1402 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1403 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1406 * New reset option for the preferences
1407 * You can set your language in the prefences
1408 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1409 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1410 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1411 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1414 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1415 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1416 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1419 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1420 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1421 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1422 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1423 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1424 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1425 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1426 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1427 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1428 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1431 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1432 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1433 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1434 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1435 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1436 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1437 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1440 * Interface localization
1441 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1442 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1443 * New full-featured Preferences window
1446 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1447 --------------------------------
1450 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1451 * support for skins at the interface level
1452 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1453 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1454 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1455 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1456 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1459 * fixed HTTP redirects
1460 * support for opening an entire directory
1461 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1462 * new video4linux access plug-in
1463 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1466 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1467 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1468 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1471 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1472 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1473 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1474 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1475 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1476 * new codec for raw I420 video
1477 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1480 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1481 (although it still misses some important features)
1482 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1485 * new HTTP output support
1486 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1487 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1490 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1493 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1496 * reorderable playlist
1497 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1498 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1499 * support for mono audio output devices
1500 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1501 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1502 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1503 * the messages window remembers more lines
1504 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1505 * http and ogg stream output options
1506 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1509 * new skinnable interface
1510 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1512 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1513 * support for FLAC audio format
1514 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1516 * network tab in the interface
1517 * "apply" handling in preferences
1520 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1521 ---------------------------------
1524 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1525 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1526 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1527 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1529 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1530 * DTS S/PDIF support
1533 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1534 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1535 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1536 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1539 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1540 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1543 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1546 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1549 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1551 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1552 * rc interface is now fully useable
1553 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1556 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1557 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1558 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1559 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1560 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1562 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1563 * support for mouse gestures
1564 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1567 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1568 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1571 * improved ID3 tag detection
1572 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1573 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1574 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1576 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1579 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1580 ---------------------------------
1583 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1584 English was set as the preferred language
1587 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1588 --------------------------------
1591 * new mouse gesture interface
1592 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1596 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1597 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1598 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1601 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1602 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1606 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1609 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1610 without the user consent
1613 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1615 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1616 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1617 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1620 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1621 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1622 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1623 * playlist enhancements
1624 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1625 * new step forward/step backward commands
1626 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1627 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1628 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1631 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1632 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1633 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1636 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1637 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1640 * native video output is working again
1641 * only commandline interface support
1642 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1645 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1646 --------------------------------
1649 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1650 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1651 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1652 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1653 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1654 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1655 and A/52 streams are supported)
1656 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1661 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1662 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1663 * VCD entry points support
1664 * VCD image file support
1667 * support for *.asf format
1668 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1669 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1670 * support for ogg encapsulation
1671 * support for raw DV format
1672 * support for *.wav format
1673 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1676 Stream discovery & playlists:
1677 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1678 * support for .m3u file format
1679 * support for .asx file format
1680 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1683 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1684 (only available with the .avi demux)
1685 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1686 * support for raw PCM data
1687 * support for Cinepak video codec
1688 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1689 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1690 * support for Xvid codec
1691 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1692 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1693 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1695 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1697 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1700 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1703 * new WxWindows interface
1704 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1705 device and the channels configuration
1706 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1707 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1708 format that VLC can play
1709 * new swedish translation
1710 * enhancements of the playlist window
1711 * new messages window to see debug info
1712 * fixed a few crashes
1715 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1716 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1717 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1718 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working