1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
22 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
23 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
24 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
25 * Support for Daala video
26 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
27 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
28 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
29 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
30 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
33 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
34 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
35 * Support Daala in Ogg
36 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
37 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
38 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
39 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
40 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
41 * Fixed selecting recorded program from TopField TS files
44 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
47 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
48 * Wayland shell surface window provider
49 * Wayland shared memory video output
50 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
51 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
52 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
55 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
56 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
59 * Chromecast output module
62 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
65 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
66 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
70 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
73 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
74 * Port to Yosemite X.10
77 * Batch convert support
80 * Support key accelerators
83 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
84 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
85 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
86 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
87 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
90 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
91 --------------------------------
94 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
95 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
98 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
99 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
100 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
101 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
104 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
105 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
106 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
107 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
109 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
110 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
113 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
114 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
115 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
116 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
117 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
118 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
119 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
120 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
121 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
122 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
123 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
124 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
125 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
126 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
127 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
128 * New jpeg image decoder
129 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
130 * New SVG image decoder
131 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
132 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
133 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
136 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
137 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
138 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
139 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
140 * New png image encoder using libpng
143 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
144 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
145 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
146 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
147 synchronization and tracks exclusion
148 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
149 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
150 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
151 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
152 * Support Opus in MKV
154 * Basic support for WebVTT
155 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
156 * Support HDPR TS files
157 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
158 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
159 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
160 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
161 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
162 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
163 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
164 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
165 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
166 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
167 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
168 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
171 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
172 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
173 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
174 * New Android native window provider module
175 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
176 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
177 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
180 * New Oldmovie effect filter
181 * New VHS effect filter
182 * New Freeze effect filter
183 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
184 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
185 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
188 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
189 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
190 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
191 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
192 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
193 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
196 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
197 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
199 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
202 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
203 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
204 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
205 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
206 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
207 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
208 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
209 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
210 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
212 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
213 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
214 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
217 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
218 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
221 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
222 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
225 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
226 * Add record button in Qt menus
227 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
228 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
229 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
232 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
233 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
234 * Fixes for advanced preferences
235 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
236 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
237 * Option to increase playlist font size
238 * Improved crash log reporting
241 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
242 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
243 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
246 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
249 * iOS video output: use ios2
250 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
251 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
254 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
255 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
256 * Update of all translations:
257 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
258 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
259 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
260 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
261 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
262 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
263 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
266 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
267 --------------------------------
270 * Fix compilation on OS/2
273 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
275 Mac OS X audio output:
276 * Fix channel ordering
277 * Increase the buffersize
280 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
281 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
282 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
285 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
288 * Correctly support video-on-top
289 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
290 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
293 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
296 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
297 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
300 * Update British English
303 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
304 --------------------------------
307 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
310 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
313 * Fix DVD playback regression
314 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
315 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
318 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
319 --------------------------------
322 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
323 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
326 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
327 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
328 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
331 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
332 by updating codec libraries
333 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
334 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
335 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
338 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
339 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
340 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
341 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
344 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
345 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
348 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
349 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
350 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
351 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
352 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
355 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
356 * Fix record file names
359 * Fix minimal size possible on start
360 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
361 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
362 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
363 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
366 * Fix album art display on Windows
369 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
370 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
371 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
372 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
373 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
374 and Simplified Chinese translations
375 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
378 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
379 --------------------------------
382 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
383 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
384 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
385 audio devices on OS X
386 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
387 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
390 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
391 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
394 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
395 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
398 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
401 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
402 * Improve A-B loop control
403 * Fix album art update when changing media
406 * Add a language option in the interface
407 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
408 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
409 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
410 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
411 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
412 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
413 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
416 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
419 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
420 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
421 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
422 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
425 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
426 --------------------------------
429 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
431 * Fix some subtitles track selection
434 * VP9 support in WebM
435 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
436 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
439 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
440 * Support Speex in ogg files
441 * Fix some .mov playlists support
442 * Support Alac in mkv
443 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
444 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
447 * Fix DVB options parsing
448 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
449 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
452 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
453 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
456 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
457 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
460 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
461 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
462 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
463 * Fix play after drag'n drop
464 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
467 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
468 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
471 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
472 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
475 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
476 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
477 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
478 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
479 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
480 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
481 * Improves interface resizings
484 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
485 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
486 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
487 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
488 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
492 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
493 --------------------------------
496 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
497 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
498 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
499 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
500 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
502 3rd party libraries (contrib):
503 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
506 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
507 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
508 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
509 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
510 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
513 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
514 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
518 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
519 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
520 * Support for Ulead DV audio
521 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
522 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
523 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
524 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
525 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
526 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
527 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
528 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
529 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
530 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
533 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
534 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
535 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
538 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
539 remove support for previous OS X releases
540 * Major improvements in DASH support
541 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
542 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
543 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
544 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
545 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
546 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
547 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
548 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
549 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
550 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
551 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
554 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
555 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
556 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
557 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
558 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
559 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
560 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
561 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
562 * Support for more MJPEG streams
563 * Add support for liveleak streams
564 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
565 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
566 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
569 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
570 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
571 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
572 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
573 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
574 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
575 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
576 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
577 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
578 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
579 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
582 * New remapping channel filter
583 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
584 * New VSXu visualization plugin
585 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
586 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
587 * New gain audio filter
590 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
591 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
592 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
593 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
594 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
595 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
596 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
597 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
598 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
601 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
602 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
603 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
604 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
605 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
606 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
607 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
610 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
611 * Options support for AVIO output module
612 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
613 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
614 * Livehttp stream encryption support
615 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
616 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
619 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
622 * configurable password for the HTTP server
623 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
624 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
625 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
626 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
627 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
628 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
629 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
633 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
636 * Add support for multiple video outputs
637 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
639 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
640 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
641 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
642 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
643 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
644 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
645 VLC's internal volume level
646 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
648 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
649 selection and to manage the list of presets
650 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
651 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
652 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
653 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
654 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
655 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
656 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
657 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
658 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
659 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
661 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
662 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
663 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
664 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
665 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
666 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
667 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
668 3rd party applications
669 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
670 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
671 (system-wide settings)
672 * Add support for the Video Title option
673 * Add support for the Boss Key
674 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
675 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
678 * Partial support for Qt5.0
679 * Menus modifications and improvements
680 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
681 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
682 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
683 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
684 * EPG display fixes and improvements
685 * Add SD pixmap sources
686 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
687 * Display playlist total duration
688 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
689 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
690 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
695 * Extend sliders, offsets options
696 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
697 * Numerous fixes and improvements
698 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
701 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
702 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
703 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
704 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
705 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
706 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
707 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
708 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
709 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
710 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
713 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
714 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
715 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
716 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
717 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
718 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
720 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
721 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
722 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
723 * Broken crop video filter
725 * OSD parser and menu
726 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
727 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
728 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
729 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
733 * Update of all translations
736 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
737 --------------------------------
740 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
741 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
744 * Fix modplug security issues
747 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
748 --------------------------------
752 * Fix crash in QTsound
753 * Fix screen mouse file location
754 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
757 * Fix use after free in sgimb
758 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
761 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
764 * Fix interface crashes
765 * Fix autostart playback option
766 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
769 * update Welsh translation
770 * New Kannada translation
773 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
774 --------------------------------
777 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
778 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
782 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
785 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
788 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
791 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
795 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
798 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
801 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
802 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
803 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
806 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
807 --------------------------------
810 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
813 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
816 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
817 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
818 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
819 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
820 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
821 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
824 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
825 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
826 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
827 * 3rd party codecs updates
830 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
831 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
832 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
833 in the advanced preferences panel
834 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
835 * Fix crash within the video output code
836 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
837 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
838 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
839 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
841 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
844 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
847 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
848 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
851 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
854 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
855 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
856 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
857 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
858 Dutch, Danish, translations
859 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
862 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
863 --------------------------------
866 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
869 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
870 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
871 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
874 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
875 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
876 * Fix koreus lua parser
877 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
878 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
879 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
880 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
883 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
884 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
887 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
890 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
891 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
892 * Fix Time counter UI look
893 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
896 * Fix https streaming
899 * Fix audio and video track selection:
900 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
901 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
904 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
905 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
906 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
907 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
908 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
911 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
912 --------------------------------
915 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
916 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
917 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
918 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
919 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
920 during playback on Mac OS X
923 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
924 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
925 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
928 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
929 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
930 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
931 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
932 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
935 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
936 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
937 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
938 * Support Youtube live streams
941 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
944 * Fix media info dialog update
945 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
946 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
947 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
948 * Fix album art display at start
951 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
952 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
953 * Fix menus display and behavior
954 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
955 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
956 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
957 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
958 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
959 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
960 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
963 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
964 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
965 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
966 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
967 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
968 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
969 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
970 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
971 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
974 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
975 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
976 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
977 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
978 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
981 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
982 --------------------------------
985 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
988 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
989 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
992 * Add GateKeeper support
993 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
994 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
995 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
998 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1001 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1002 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1003 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1004 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1005 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1008 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1009 --------------------------------
1012 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1013 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1014 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1015 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1016 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1017 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1018 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1019 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1020 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1021 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1022 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1026 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1027 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1028 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1029 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1030 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1031 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1032 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1033 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1034 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1035 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1036 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1037 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1040 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1041 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1043 * Fix MP3 free format support
1046 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1047 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1048 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1049 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1050 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1053 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1054 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1056 Audio filters and output:
1057 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1058 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1059 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1060 * Do not apply volume in file output
1061 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1062 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1065 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1066 the persistant media library
1067 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1068 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1069 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1070 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1071 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1072 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1073 press on the Play/Pause button
1074 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1075 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1076 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1077 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1078 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1079 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1080 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1081 Synchronization panel
1082 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1083 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1084 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1085 * Fix crashes on exit
1086 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1088 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1089 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1090 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1091 automatically reset on the first launch.
1092 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1093 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1094 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1097 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1098 * Fixes for icecast SD
1101 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1102 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1103 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1104 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1105 * Fix tags and file names display
1106 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1109 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1110 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1113 * Fix display of some buttons
1114 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1115 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1118 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1119 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1120 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1123 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1124 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1125 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1126 Thai translations update
1127 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1130 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1131 --------------------------------
1134 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1135 * fix the samba module compilation
1136 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1137 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1138 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1139 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1142 * Support for MXPEG files
1143 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1144 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1147 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1148 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1149 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1152 * Fix ogm header creation
1155 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1156 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1159 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1160 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1161 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1162 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1165 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1168 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1169 * allow to hide the sidebar
1170 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1171 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1172 * noticebly faster launch time
1173 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1174 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1175 * improve track synchronization panel
1176 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1177 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1180 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1181 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1182 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1183 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1186 * fix for menus display
1187 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1188 * documentation update
1191 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1192 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1195 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1196 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1197 * Update Jamendo selections
1201 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1202 * fix a crash on VLM close
1205 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1206 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1207 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1208 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1211 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1214 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1215 ---------------------------------
1218 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1219 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1220 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1221 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1222 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1223 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1224 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1225 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1226 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1227 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1228 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1229 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1230 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1231 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1232 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1233 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1234 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1235 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1236 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1237 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1238 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1239 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1240 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1241 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1242 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1243 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1245 Important changes for packagers:
1246 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1247 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1248 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1249 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1250 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1251 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1252 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1253 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1254 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1255 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1258 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1259 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1260 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1261 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1262 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1263 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1264 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1267 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1268 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1269 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1270 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1271 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1272 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1273 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1274 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1275 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1276 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1277 * PulseAudio audio input support
1278 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1279 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1280 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1281 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1282 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1283 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1284 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1285 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1288 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1289 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1290 are notably concerned.
1291 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1292 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1293 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1294 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1295 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1296 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1297 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1298 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1299 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1300 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1301 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1302 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1303 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1304 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1305 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1308 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1309 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1310 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1311 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1312 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1313 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1314 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1315 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1316 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1317 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1318 * Improved support of tracker files
1319 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1322 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1323 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1324 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1325 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1326 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1327 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1328 and important cleanups and optimisations
1329 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1330 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1331 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1332 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1333 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1334 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1335 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1336 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1337 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1338 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1339 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1340 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1341 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1342 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1343 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1344 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1345 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1346 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1347 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1348 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1349 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1352 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1353 * New video output for iOS platform
1354 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1355 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1356 * Various vmem improvements
1357 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1358 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1359 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1360 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1361 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1362 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1364 Audio Output and Filters:
1365 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1366 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1367 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1368 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1369 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1370 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1371 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1372 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1373 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1374 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1377 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1378 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1379 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1380 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1381 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1382 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1383 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1384 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1385 * New anti-flickering filter
1386 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1387 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1388 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1389 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1390 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1391 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1392 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1395 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1396 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1397 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1398 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1399 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1400 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1401 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1402 * Major rework of VoD support
1403 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1404 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1405 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1406 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1407 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1408 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1409 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1410 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1411 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1412 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1415 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1416 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1419 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1420 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1421 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1422 list of available audio and video filters
1423 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1424 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1425 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1428 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1429 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1430 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1431 * id3tag: use taglib
1432 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1433 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1434 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1435 * removal of the noise filter
1436 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1437 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1438 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1439 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1442 * Update of translations for most languages.
1443 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1446 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1447 ----------------------------------
1450 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1451 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1454 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1455 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1458 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1459 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1460 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1463 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1466 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1467 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1470 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1473 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1474 ----------------------------------
1477 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1478 including support for OS X Lion
1479 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1480 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1483 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1486 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1487 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1488 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1491 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1494 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1495 ----------------------------------
1498 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1499 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1502 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1503 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1504 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1505 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1506 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1508 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1509 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1510 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1512 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1513 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1516 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1519 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1522 * Fix quitting on Linux
1523 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1527 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1530 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1533 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1534 ---------------------------------
1536 Windows and Mac OS X:
1537 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1540 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1541 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1544 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1547 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1550 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1552 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1553 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1555 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1556 * RTP output and XML export
1557 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1561 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1562 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1563 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1564 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1567 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1568 --------------------------------
1570 Windows and Mac OS X:
1571 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1574 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1577 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1578 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1579 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1580 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1581 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1582 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1585 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1586 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1590 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1591 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1592 * New Luganda Translation
1595 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1596 --------------------------------
1599 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1602 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1603 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1604 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1605 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1608 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1610 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1611 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1612 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1613 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1614 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1615 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1616 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1617 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1619 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1620 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1621 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1622 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1623 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1624 * Configure and build system improvements
1625 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1628 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1629 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1630 * New icelandic translation
1633 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1634 --------------------------------
1637 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1638 #234484 and #260719.
1641 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1642 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1643 and stability reasons
1646 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1650 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1653 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1654 ----------------------------------
1657 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1660 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1661 ---------------------------------
1664 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1665 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1666 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1667 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1670 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1673 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1674 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1675 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1676 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1679 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1680 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1681 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1683 Subtitles and renderer:
1684 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1685 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1686 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1687 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1688 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1691 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1692 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1693 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1694 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1697 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1698 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1700 Miscellaneous fixes:
1701 * KDE device solid actions
1703 * Transcode integer overflow
1704 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1705 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1708 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1709 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1710 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1713 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1714 ----------------------------------
1717 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1721 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1724 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1727 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1728 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1729 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1730 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1733 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1737 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1740 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1743 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1744 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1746 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1750 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1751 * Miscellaneous fixes
1754 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1755 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1756 French and Ukrainian
1757 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1758 * New Asturian translation
1761 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1762 ----------------------------------
1765 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1767 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1770 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1773 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1774 * Various fixes for Windows
1777 * New Armenian translation
1778 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1779 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1782 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1783 --------------------------------
1786 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1787 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1788 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1791 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1792 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1795 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1796 --------------------------------
1798 Access and demuxers:
1799 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1800 * fix for podcasts parsing
1801 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1804 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1805 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1808 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1809 * fix m3u playlists exports
1812 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1815 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1818 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1821 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1824 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1827 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1828 --------------------------------
1831 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1832 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1835 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1836 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1839 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1840 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1841 * fix console output encoding
1843 Interface and extensions:
1844 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1845 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1848 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1849 --------------------------------
1852 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1853 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1854 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1855 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1856 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1857 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1858 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1859 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1860 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1861 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1862 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1863 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1864 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1865 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1866 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1867 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1871 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1872 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1873 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1874 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1875 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1878 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1881 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1882 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1883 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1887 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1890 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1891 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1892 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1895 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1896 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1897 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1898 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1901 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1902 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1905 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1906 --------------------------------
1908 Important changes for users:
1909 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1910 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1912 Important changes for packagers:
1913 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1914 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1915 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1916 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1917 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1919 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1921 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1922 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1923 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1924 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1925 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1928 * Support for the sftp protocol
1929 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1930 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1931 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1932 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1933 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1936 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1937 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1938 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1940 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1941 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1942 * Invmem module improvements
1943 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1944 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1945 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1946 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1947 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1948 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1949 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1950 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1951 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1952 * Support for VP8 codec
1953 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1956 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1957 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1958 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1959 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1960 * Various EGP improvements
1961 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1962 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1965 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1966 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1967 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1968 * Podcast images are now displayed
1971 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1972 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1973 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1974 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1975 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1976 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1977 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1978 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1979 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1980 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1981 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1984 * New content extensions lua framework
1987 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1988 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1989 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1990 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1991 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1992 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1993 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1996 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1997 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1998 * Service discovery based on libudev
1999 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2002 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2003 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2004 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2005 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2006 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2007 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2008 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2011 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2012 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2013 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2016 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2018 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2019 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2022 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2025 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2026 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2027 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2028 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2029 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2030 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2031 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2034 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2035 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2038 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2039 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2040 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2044 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2045 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2046 * Improved Solaris port
2049 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2050 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2053 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2054 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2055 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2056 * transrate: broken since too long
2057 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2058 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2059 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2060 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2061 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2062 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2063 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2064 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2065 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2066 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2067 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2068 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2069 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2070 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2073 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2074 --------------------------------
2077 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2079 Decoders/Packetizers:
2080 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2083 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2084 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2085 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2086 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2087 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2090 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2091 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2094 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2095 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2098 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2099 and Walloon translations updated
2100 * Sinhala translation started
2103 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2104 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2107 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2108 --------------------------------
2111 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2112 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2115 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2118 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2119 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2122 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2123 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2124 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2125 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2128 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2129 --------------------------------
2132 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2133 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2136 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2137 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2140 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2141 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2144 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2147 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2148 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2151 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2152 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2155 * New Walloon translation
2156 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2159 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2160 --------------------------------
2163 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2164 regressions in most popular drivers
2165 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2168 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2169 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2170 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2173 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2174 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2177 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2178 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2179 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2180 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2181 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2184 * New udev module for linux
2187 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2190 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2193 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2194 --------------------------------
2197 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2198 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2199 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2202 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2203 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2206 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2207 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2210 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2213 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2214 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2215 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2216 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2219 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2220 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2221 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2222 - no support for Goom and SDL
2223 - limited text rendering support
2224 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2227 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2228 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2229 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2230 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2231 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2232 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2233 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2234 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2235 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2239 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2242 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2245 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2246 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2247 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2248 Arabic and French translation updates
2251 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2252 --------------------------------
2255 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2256 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2257 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2258 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2259 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2260 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2263 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2264 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2265 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2268 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2269 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2270 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2273 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2276 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2277 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2280 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2281 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2282 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2283 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2284 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2285 * Fix various crashes
2288 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2290 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2294 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2295 ---------------------------------
2299 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2300 See 'Access:' for more info.
2301 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2304 * Instantaneous pausing
2305 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2306 * Finer speed control
2307 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2308 * Timeshift for most medias
2309 * RTSP trickplay support
2310 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2313 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2314 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2315 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2316 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2317 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2318 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2319 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2320 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2321 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2322 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2325 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2326 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2327 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2328 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2329 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2330 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2331 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2334 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2335 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2338 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2339 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2340 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2341 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2342 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2343 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2344 * DVB scanning on linux
2345 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2346 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2347 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2348 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2349 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2350 * MTP device access on Unix
2351 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2352 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2355 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2356 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2357 Windows and Mac OS X.
2360 * Export the playlist in HTML
2361 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2362 * Better metadata handling and reading
2364 Linux/Windows interface:
2365 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2366 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2367 * Recently played items list
2368 * Interface toolbar customizations
2369 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2370 - More menus actions
2371 - Finer speed slider
2372 - Improvements on many dialogs
2373 - New dialog for plugins listing
2374 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2375 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2376 * Better integration in GTK environments
2379 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2380 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2381 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2382 * Additional usability improvements
2385 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2386 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2387 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2388 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2389 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2392 * New Maemo port with:
2393 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2394 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2397 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2400 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2401 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2402 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2403 * Support for latest iSight models
2406 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2407 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2410 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2411 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2412 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2413 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2414 The old image video output has been removed.
2415 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2416 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2419 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2427 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2428 --------------------------------------
2434 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2435 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2436 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2437 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2438 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2439 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2440 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2442 Various fixes to the following modules:
2445 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2446 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2447 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2449 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2454 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2455 ---------------------------------
2458 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2459 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2462 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2463 ---------------------------------
2466 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2469 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2472 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2473 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2474 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2475 main controller window.
2476 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2479 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2484 * Updates of other localizations
2487 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2488 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2489 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2490 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2491 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2494 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2495 ---------------------------------
2498 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2500 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2503 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2504 --------------------------------
2509 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2510 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2513 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2514 --------------------------------
2516 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2517 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2520 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2523 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2524 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2527 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2528 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2531 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2532 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2533 * Various fixed in playlist
2536 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2539 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2542 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2543 ------------------------------------
2545 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2546 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2549 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2550 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2551 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2554 * Stability fix for the video output.
2557 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2558 --------------------------------
2561 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2562 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2563 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2564 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2565 * Fixed update system bugs
2566 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2569 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2570 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2571 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2572 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2573 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2574 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2575 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2576 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2577 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2578 modern Mac OS X versions
2581 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2582 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2584 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2585 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2588 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2589 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2590 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2591 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2592 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2593 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2596 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2597 --------------------------------
2599 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2600 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2601 * Multiple bugfixes.
2604 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2605 --------------------------------
2607 * Multiple bug fixes.
2610 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2611 ---------------------------------
2615 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2616 recent to work correctly
2617 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2618 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2619 edit the ".hosts" file.
2620 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2621 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2622 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2623 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2624 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2625 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2626 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2627 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2628 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2629 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2630 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2631 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2632 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2633 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2634 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2635 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2636 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2637 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2638 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2639 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2640 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2641 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2642 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2643 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2644 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2645 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2646 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2647 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2648 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2649 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2650 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2651 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2652 and postproc modules.
2653 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2654 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2655 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2656 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2658 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2659 filter. For example:
2660 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2661 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2663 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2664 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2670 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2672 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2673 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2676 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2677 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2679 * Shoutcast TV listings
2680 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2682 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2683 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2685 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2688 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2689 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2690 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2691 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2692 * JACK audio input support
2693 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2694 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2695 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2696 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2697 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2698 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2699 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2700 (available as a separate download).
2701 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2702 * RTMP input support
2703 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2704 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2705 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2707 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2708 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2711 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2712 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2713 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2714 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2716 * APEv1/2 tags support
2717 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2718 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2720 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2721 * TiVo Series 2 support
2722 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2727 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2728 * Flash Screen Video support
2729 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2730 * DosBox Capture support
2731 * Karl Morton's Video support
2732 * limited atrac3 support
2734 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2735 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2736 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2737 * H.264 PAFF support
2738 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2739 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2740 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2741 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2742 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2745 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2746 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2747 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2748 * AQTitle subtitles support
2749 * MKV USF subtitles support
2750 * HTML-based subtitles support
2751 * MPSub subtitles support
2752 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2753 * MPL2 subtitles support
2754 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2755 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2756 * Realtext subtitle support
2757 * DKS subtitle support
2758 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2759 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2762 * Flash Screen Video support
2763 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2765 Video outputs and filters:
2766 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2767 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2768 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2769 * New puzzle video output filter
2770 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2771 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2773 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2774 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2775 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2776 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2777 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2778 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2779 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2780 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2781 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2782 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2783 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2784 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2785 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2786 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2788 Audio outputs and filters:
2789 * Replay gain support
2790 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2791 new scaletempo audio filter)
2792 * New spatializer audio filter
2793 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2796 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2797 * New RTP payload formats:
2798 * Speex voice audio codec
2799 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2800 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2801 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2802 * DCCP transport for RTP
2803 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2808 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2809 end-user suitable way.
2810 * Improved user interaction
2811 * Improved mouse gestures
2812 * Vastly improved Update checker
2813 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2815 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2816 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2818 * Improved video output features
2819 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2820 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2821 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2822 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2823 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2825 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2826 if libncursesw is available.
2827 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2828 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2829 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2831 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2832 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2833 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2834 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2835 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2836 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2837 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2838 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2841 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2842 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2843 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2846 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2847 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2848 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2849 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2850 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2851 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2854 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2855 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2865 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2866 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2867 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2870 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2871 ----------------------------------
2874 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2877 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2878 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2879 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2880 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2881 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2882 * Updated Polish translation
2885 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2886 ----------------------------------
2889 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2890 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2891 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2894 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2895 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2896 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2897 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2898 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2899 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2900 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2901 to an unexpected application termination
2902 * New Serbian translation
2903 * Updated Romanian translation
2906 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2907 ----------------------------------
2910 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2911 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2912 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2913 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2914 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2915 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2916 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2917 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2920 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2921 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2922 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2923 * Fixed AAC resampling
2924 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2925 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2928 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2929 ----------------------------------
2932 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2933 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2934 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2935 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2936 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2939 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2940 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2941 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2942 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2943 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2946 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2947 ----------------------------------
2950 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2951 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2954 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2955 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2956 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2957 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2959 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2963 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2966 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2969 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2972 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2975 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2976 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2977 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2978 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2979 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2981 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2982 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2983 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2984 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2987 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2990 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2991 ----------------------------------
2994 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2995 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2996 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2998 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2999 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3001 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3002 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3005 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3007 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3008 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3009 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3010 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3011 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3012 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3013 two different movies
3014 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3015 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3016 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3019 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3022 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3023 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3024 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3025 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3028 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3029 ----------------------------------
3031 Various bugfixes, notably:
3032 * Windows Vista compatibility
3033 * Cropping in Direct3D
3034 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3035 * RSS filter string overflow
3037 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3039 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3040 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3043 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3044 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3047 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3050 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3053 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3056 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3057 ----------------------------------
3059 Various bugfixes, notably:
3060 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3061 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3062 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3063 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3064 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3065 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3068 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3069 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3072 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3074 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3075 * Diverse usability improvements
3076 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3077 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3078 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3081 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3082 ---------------------------------
3084 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3085 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3088 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3091 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3092 --------------------------------
3095 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3098 * Support for RTSP authentication
3099 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3100 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3101 * ATSC support for DVB input
3102 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3103 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3104 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3107 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3108 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3109 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3110 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3111 * Matroska WavPack support
3112 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3113 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3114 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3117 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3118 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3119 * Improved libcaca support
3123 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3124 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3126 * Systray support in skins
3128 * Support for Apple Remote control
3129 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3130 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3131 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3132 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3134 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3137 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3138 Windows 9x/ME users:
3139 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3140 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3141 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3142 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3143 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3145 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3146 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3155 * Updates to the libvlc API
3156 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3159 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3160 --------------------------------
3163 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3164 * Support for downloading updates
3168 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3169 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3170 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3171 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3173 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3174 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3175 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3178 * Cook (Real audio) support
3180 Playlist / Services discovery:
3181 * XSPF playlist support
3183 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3186 * New JACK audio output
3189 * New video filters:
3190 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3191 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3192 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3193 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3194 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3195 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3198 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3201 * System to inform the user and request information
3202 - HTTP authentication
3206 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3207 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3208 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3211 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3212 - Improved playlist handling
3213 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3215 - Embedded Video output
3216 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3217 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3218 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3219 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3220 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3222 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3223 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3226 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3229 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3230 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3231 * Growl "Now playing" support
3234 * Ability to log to syslog
3235 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3238 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3240 * A bit more automatic testing
3243 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3244 ---------------------------------
3247 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3248 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3251 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3252 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3255 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3258 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3259 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3265 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3268 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3269 --------------------------------
3272 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3276 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3277 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3278 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3281 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3282 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3283 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3284 * GnomeVFS input module
3285 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3286 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3289 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3290 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3291 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3294 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3295 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3301 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3302 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3305 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3306 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3307 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3310 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3312 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3313 - New extended controls panel
3314 - New bookmarks window
3315 - Fixed playlist sorting
3316 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3318 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3319 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3320 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3321 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3325 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3326 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3328 - Include macro to include other files
3332 * Should now work outside IE as well
3335 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3338 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3339 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3342 The following languages were added:
3346 * Simplified Chinese
3347 The following languages were re-added:
3351 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3352 --------------------------------
3355 * Rewrite of the playlist
3357 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3358 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3359 * Preferences improvements:
3360 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3361 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3363 * Core image manipulation support
3364 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3365 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3366 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3367 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3368 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3369 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3370 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3371 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3372 * Access filter architecture
3373 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3374 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3378 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3379 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3380 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3381 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3382 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3383 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3384 * Massive Matroska improvements
3385 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3387 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3388 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3389 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3390 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3391 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3393 Decoders / Encoders:
3394 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3395 * PNG decoder/encoder
3396 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3397 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3400 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3403 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3404 * Brand new SAP module
3405 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3406 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3407 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3408 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3409 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3410 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3414 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3417 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3418 * Image file video output (png)
3419 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3420 * Improvements to wall video filter
3421 * Support for font color and opacity
3427 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3428 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3429 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3433 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3434 - Improved preferences
3435 - Improvements to the wizard
3436 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3438 - Redesigned playlist
3439 - Improved preferences
3441 - Support for multiple actions
3444 - Support for the new playlist system
3446 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3449 * Screensaver disabling fix
3450 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3451 * Support for no-decoration windows
3454 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3455 * The OpenGL video output is back
3456 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3457 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3458 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3459 is not yet available in the new module
3460 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3463 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3472 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3475 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3478 The following languages were added:
3484 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3485 --------------------------------
3488 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3489 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3492 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3493 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3494 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3497 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3500 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3503 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3506 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3507 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3508 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3512 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3514 * Support of playlist group announcement
3517 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3518 --------------------------------
3521 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3522 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3523 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3524 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3525 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3526 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3529 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3530 (Stream your desktop)
3531 * Improved DVD support:
3532 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3533 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3534 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3535 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3536 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3537 (selection of titles/chapters).
3540 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3541 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3542 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3543 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3544 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3545 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3546 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3547 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3548 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3549 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3552 * G.726 audio support
3553 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3554 * MPEG-4 text support
3555 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3556 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3557 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3561 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3562 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3563 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3564 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3565 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3566 * DVB subtitles encoder
3567 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3568 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3570 * Text track muxing for mp4
3571 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3572 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3573 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3574 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3575 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3576 * Improved ASF muxer
3578 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3579 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3580 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3583 * New audio equalizer filter
3584 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3585 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3586 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3587 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3590 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3591 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3592 with support for effects.
3593 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3594 - New filters can be streamed.
3595 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3596 - Centralized scaling and blending
3598 - "time", to display current time
3599 - "marq", to display a marquee
3602 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3603 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3604 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3605 * A few skins2 improvements
3606 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3607 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3608 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3609 * Improved CORBA control module
3612 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3613 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3614 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3617 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3618 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3619 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3622 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3623 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3624 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3625 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3626 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3629 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3632 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3633 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3636 * Server/client network synchronization module
3637 * VBrick streams fully supported
3638 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3642 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3643 --------------------------------
3646 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3647 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3648 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3649 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3652 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3653 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3654 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3655 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3656 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3657 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3658 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3661 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3662 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3663 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3664 * Improved directory access module.
3665 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3666 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3667 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3668 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3669 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3672 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3673 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3674 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3677 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3678 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3679 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3682 * Improved session announcement system.
3683 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3684 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3685 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3686 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3687 * Improved transrater.
3688 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3689 * New configuration system.
3690 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3693 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3694 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3695 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3696 * Supports scheduling.
3697 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3698 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3701 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3702 - Ability to embed video output.
3703 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3704 - Lots of improvements.
3705 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3706 - New design and set of icons.
3707 - Ability to embed video output.
3708 - Support for hotkeys.
3709 - Support for bookmarks.
3711 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3712 - Better hotkeys handling.
3715 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3716 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3717 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3718 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3721 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3722 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3723 * Improved Windows installer.
3729 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3730 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3733 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3734 ---------------------------------
3737 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3738 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3741 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3742 --------------------------------
3745 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3746 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3749 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3750 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3751 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3752 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3755 * Internal improvments
3756 * Improved import/export
3759 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3761 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3762 small and strange formats.
3764 * New MOD audio demux.
3765 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3766 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3767 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3768 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3771 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3772 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3773 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3779 * New opengl video output plugin.
3782 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3783 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3786 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3787 --------------------------------
3790 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3791 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3792 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3793 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3794 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3795 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3796 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3797 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3800 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3805 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3806 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3807 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3808 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3809 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3810 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3811 * Better Icecast support.
3812 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3813 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3816 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3817 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3818 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3819 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3820 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3821 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3822 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3825 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3826 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3827 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3828 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3829 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3830 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3831 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3832 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3833 * Preliminary RTP support.
3834 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3839 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3840 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3842 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3843 - Improvements and help in preferences
3844 - New streaming wizard
3845 - Revised Disc Open menu
3847 - Improvements of the standard pages
3848 - Support for new commands
3849 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3852 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3853 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3856 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3857 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3858 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3859 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3860 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3861 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3862 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3863 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3864 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3867 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3869 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3870 * Support for Panther.
3871 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3872 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3875 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3876 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3877 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3878 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3879 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3880 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3881 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3882 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3885 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3886 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3887 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3890 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3893 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3894 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3895 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3896 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3899 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3900 --------------------------------
3903 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3906 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3907 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3910 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3911 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3914 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3917 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3918 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3921 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3924 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3927 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3928 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3932 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3933 --------------------------------
3936 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3937 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3941 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3942 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3943 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3945 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3946 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3949 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3952 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3955 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3956 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3960 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3961 --------------------------------
3964 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3965 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3969 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3970 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3971 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3972 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3973 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3976 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3977 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3978 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3981 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3982 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3983 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3986 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3987 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3988 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3989 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3990 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3993 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3994 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3995 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3998 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4001 * Improved build system.
4002 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4003 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4004 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4005 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4008 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4009 --------------------------------
4012 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4015 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4016 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4017 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4018 * Video 4 Linux support
4019 * CD Digital Audio support
4020 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4023 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4024 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4025 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4026 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4029 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4030 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4031 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4032 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4033 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4034 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4035 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4038 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4039 * New HTTP remote control interface
4042 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4043 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4044 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4045 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4046 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4049 * New reset option for the preferences
4050 * You can set your language in the prefences
4051 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4052 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4053 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4054 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4057 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4058 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4059 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4062 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4063 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4064 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4065 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4066 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4067 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4068 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4069 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4070 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4071 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4074 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4075 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4076 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4077 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4078 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4079 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4080 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4083 * Interface localization
4084 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4085 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4086 * New full-featured Preferences window
4089 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4090 --------------------------------
4093 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4094 * support for skins at the interface level
4095 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4096 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4097 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4098 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4099 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4102 * fixed HTTP redirects
4103 * support for opening an entire directory
4104 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4105 * new video4linux access plug-in
4106 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4109 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4110 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4111 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4114 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4115 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4116 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4117 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4118 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4119 * new codec for raw I420 video
4120 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4123 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4124 (although it still misses some important features)
4125 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4128 * new HTTP output support
4129 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4130 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4133 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4136 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4139 * reorderable playlist
4140 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4141 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4142 * support for mono audio output devices
4143 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4144 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4145 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4146 * the messages window remembers more lines
4147 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4148 * http and ogg stream output options
4149 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4152 * new skinnable interface
4153 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4155 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4156 * support for FLAC audio format
4157 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4159 * network tab in the interface
4160 * "apply" handling in preferences
4163 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4164 ---------------------------------
4167 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4168 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4169 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4170 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4172 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4173 * DTS S/PDIF support
4176 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4177 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4178 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4179 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4182 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4183 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4186 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4189 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4192 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4194 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4195 * rc interface is now fully useable
4196 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4199 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4200 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4201 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4202 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4203 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4205 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4206 * support for mouse gestures
4207 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4210 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4211 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4214 * improved ID3 tag detection
4215 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4216 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4217 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4219 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4222 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4223 ---------------------------------
4226 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4227 English was set as the preferred language
4230 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4231 --------------------------------
4234 * new mouse gesture interface
4235 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4239 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4240 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4241 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4244 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4245 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4249 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4252 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4253 without the user consent
4256 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4258 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4259 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4260 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4263 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4264 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4265 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4266 * playlist enhancements
4267 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4268 * new step forward/step backward commands
4269 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4270 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4271 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4274 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4275 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4276 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4279 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4280 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4283 * native video output is working again
4284 * only commandline interface support
4285 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4288 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4289 --------------------------------
4292 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4293 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4294 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4295 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4296 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4297 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4298 and A/52 streams are supported)
4299 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4304 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4305 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4306 * VCD entry points support
4307 * VCD image file support
4310 * support for *.asf format
4311 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4312 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4313 * support for ogg encapsulation
4314 * support for raw DV format
4315 * support for *.wav format
4316 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4319 Stream discovery & playlists:
4320 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4321 * support for .m3u file format
4322 * support for .asx file format
4323 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4326 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4327 (only available with the .avi demux)
4328 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4329 * support for raw PCM data
4330 * support for Cinepak video codec
4331 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4332 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4333 * support for Xvid codec
4334 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4335 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4336 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4338 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4340 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4343 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4346 * new WxWindows interface
4347 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4348 device and the channels configuration
4349 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4350 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4351 format that VLC can play
4352 * new swedish translation
4353 * enhancements of the playlist window
4354 * new messages window to see debug info
4355 * fixed a few crashes
4358 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4359 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4360 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4361 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working