3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
9 to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
10 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
11 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
12 edit the ".hosts" file.
13 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
14 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
15 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
16 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
17 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
18 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
19 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
20 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
21 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
22 - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced
23 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
24 features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6
25 * The behavior of --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
35 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
36 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
37 of options is available to m3u playlists.
43 * Vastly improved playlist support:
44 * Media library support
46 * Shoutcast TV listings
47 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
49 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
50 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
51 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
52 share/luameta/README.txt
55 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
56 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
57 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
58 * JACK audio input support
59 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
60 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
61 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
62 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
63 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
65 * APEv1/2 tags support
66 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
67 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
69 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
70 * TiVo Series 2 support
71 * v4l2 access module support
72 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
73 * CD+G karaoke Files support
77 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
78 * MKV USF subtitles support
79 * HTML-based subtitles support
80 * Flash Screen Video support
81 * CamStudio Screen Video support
82 * DosBox Capture support
83 * Karl Morton's Video support
84 * limited atrac3 support
85 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
86 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
87 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
88 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
90 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
91 * NellyMoser ASAO support
92 * APE (Monkey audio) support
93 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
96 * Flash Screen Video support
98 Video output and filters:
99 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
100 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
101 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
102 * New puzzle video output filter
103 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
104 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
106 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
107 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
108 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML
110 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
111 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
112 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
113 was previously part of the mosaic module.
114 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
115 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
116 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
117 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
119 Audio output and filters
120 * Replay gain support
121 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
122 * New spatializer audio filter
123 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
126 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
127 * New RTP payload formats:
128 * Speex voice audio codec
129 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
130 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
131 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
132 * DCCP transport for RTP
133 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
137 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
139 * Improved user interaction
140 * Improved mouse gestures
141 * Fastly improved Update checker
142 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
144 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available (not by default on MacOSX)
145 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
147 * Improved video output features
148 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
149 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
151 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
152 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
153 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
154 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
155 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
156 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
157 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
158 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
161 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
162 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
163 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
166 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
167 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
168 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
171 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
172 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
180 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
181 ----------------------------------
184 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
185 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
186 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
187 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
188 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
190 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
191 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
194 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
196 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
197 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
198 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
199 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
200 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
201 * Support for current Ogg file formats
202 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
205 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
208 * The automatic updating facility was removed
209 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
210 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
213 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
214 ----------------------------------
216 Various bugfixes, notably:
217 * Windows Vista compatibility
218 * Cropping in Direct3D
219 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
220 * RSS filter string overflow
222 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
224 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
225 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
228 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
231 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
234 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
237 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
240 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
241 ----------------------------------
243 Various bugfixes, notably:
244 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
245 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
246 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
247 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
248 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
249 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
252 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
253 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
256 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
258 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
259 * Diverse usability improvements
260 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
261 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
262 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
265 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
266 ---------------------------------
269 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
272 * Fullscreen controller improvements
275 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
276 --------------------------------
279 * Shoutcast TV listings support
282 * Support for RTSP authentication
283 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
284 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
285 * ATSC support for DVB input
286 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
287 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
288 * Improved support for Flash Video files
291 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
292 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
293 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
294 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
295 * Matroska WavPack support
296 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
297 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
298 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
301 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
302 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
303 * Improved libcaca support
307 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
308 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
310 * Systray support in skins
312 * Support for Apple Remote control
313 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
314 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
315 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
316 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
318 * Notifications using notification-daemon
321 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
323 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
324 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
325 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
326 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
327 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
329 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
330 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
339 * Updates to the libvlc API
340 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
343 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
344 --------------------------------
347 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
348 * Support for downloading updates
352 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
353 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
354 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
355 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
357 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
358 * Improved subtitles encoding support
359 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
362 * Cook (Real audio) support
364 Playlist / Services discovery:
365 * XSPF playlist support
367 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
370 * New JACK audio output
374 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
375 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
376 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
377 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
378 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
379 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
382 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
385 * System to inform the user and request information
386 - HTTP authentication
390 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
391 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
392 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
395 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
396 - Improved playlist handling
397 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
399 - Embedded Video output
400 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
401 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
402 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
403 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
404 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
406 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
407 - A bunch of new RPN functions
410 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
413 * Mac-Intel compatibility
414 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
415 * Growl "Now playing" support
418 * Ability to log to syslog
419 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
422 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
424 * A bit more automatic testing
427 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
428 ---------------------------------
431 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
432 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
435 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
436 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
439 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
442 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
443 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
449 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
452 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
453 --------------------------------
456 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
460 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
461 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
462 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
465 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
466 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
467 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
468 * GnomeVFS input module
469 * Support for RTP packet reordering
470 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
473 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
474 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
475 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
478 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
479 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
485 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
486 Mixer and Dolby Surround
489 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
490 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
491 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
494 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
496 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
497 - New extended controls panel
498 - New bookmarks window
499 - Fixed playlist sorting
500 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
502 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
503 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
504 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
505 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
509 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
510 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
512 - Include macro to include other files
516 * Should now work outside IE as well
519 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
522 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
523 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
526 The following languages were added:
531 The following languages were re-added:
535 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Rewrite of the playlist
541 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
542 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
543 * Preferences improvements:
544 - New organization, designed to improve usability
545 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
547 * Core image manipulation support
548 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
549 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
550 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
551 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
552 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
553 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
554 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
555 now separated by ':' instead of ','
556 * Access filter architecture
557 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
558 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
562 * Support for SOCKS proxy
563 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
564 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
565 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
566 * Better support for Kasenna streams
567 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
568 * Massive Matroska improvements
569 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
571 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
572 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
573 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
574 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
575 * Support for FTP over IPv6
578 * Dirac decoder and encoder
579 * PNG decoder/encoder
580 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
581 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
584 * New Record and Timeshift filters
587 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
588 * Brand new SAP module
589 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
590 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
591 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
592 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
593 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
594 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
598 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
601 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
602 * Image file video output (png)
603 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
604 * Improvements to wall video filter
605 * Support for font color and opacity
611 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
612 - Seeking support in VoD streams
613 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
617 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
618 - Improved preferences
619 - Improvements to the wizard
620 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
622 - Redesigned playlist
623 - Improved preferences
625 - Support for multiple actions
628 - Support for the new playlist system
630 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
633 * Screensaver disabling fix
634 * DirectShow tuner configuration
635 * Support for no-decoration windows
638 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
639 * The OpenGL video output is back
640 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
641 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
642 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
643 is not yet available in the new module
644 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
647 * Support for single-buffered overlay
656 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
659 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
662 The following languages were added:
668 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
669 --------------------------------
672 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
673 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
676 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
677 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
678 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
681 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
684 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
687 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
690 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
691 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
692 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
696 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
698 * Support of playlist group announcement
701 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
702 --------------------------------
705 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
706 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
707 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
708 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
709 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
710 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
713 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
714 (Stream your desktop)
715 * Improved DVD support:
716 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
717 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
718 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
719 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
720 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
721 (selection of titles/chapters).
724 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
725 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
726 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
727 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
728 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
729 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
730 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
731 * Improved Ogg demuxer
732 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
733 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
736 * G.726 audio support
737 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
738 * MPEG-4 text support
739 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
740 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
741 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
745 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
746 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
747 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
748 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
749 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
750 * DVB subtitles encoder
751 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
752 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
754 * Text track muxing for mp4
755 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
756 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
757 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
758 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
759 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
762 * H.263 RTP streaming support
763 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
764 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
767 * New audio equalizer filter
768 * Very trivial volume normalizer
769 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
770 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
771 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
774 * Roku HD1000 Video output
775 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
776 with support for effects.
777 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
778 - New filters can be streamed.
779 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
780 - Centralized scaling and blending
782 - "time", to display current time
783 - "marq", to display a marquee
786 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
787 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
788 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
789 * A few skins2 improvements
790 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
791 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
792 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
793 * Improved CORBA control module
796 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
797 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
798 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
801 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
802 * Experimental SVG rendering module
803 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
806 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
807 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
808 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
809 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
810 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
813 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
816 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
817 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
820 * Server/client network synchronization module
821 * VBrick streams fully supported
822 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
826 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
827 --------------------------------
830 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
831 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
832 * Improved HTTP daemon.
833 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
836 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
837 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
838 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
839 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
840 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
841 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
842 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
845 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
846 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
847 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
848 * Improved directory access module.
849 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
850 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
851 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
852 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
853 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
856 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
857 * mmsh streaming fixes.
858 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
861 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
862 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
863 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
866 * Improved session announcement system.
867 * Minimize threads usage by default.
868 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
869 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
870 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
871 * Improved transrater.
872 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
873 * New configuration system.
874 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
877 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
878 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
879 * Supports live streams and VoD.
880 * Supports scheduling.
881 * Telnet interface for vlm.
882 * HTTP interface for vlm.
885 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
886 - Ability to embed video output.
887 - Support for bitmap fonts.
888 - Lots of improvements.
889 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
890 - New design and set of icons.
891 - Ability to embed video output.
892 - Support for hotkeys.
893 - Support for bookmarks.
895 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
896 - Better hotkeys handling.
899 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
900 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
901 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
902 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
905 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
906 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
907 * Improved Windows installer.
913 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
914 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
917 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
918 ---------------------------------
921 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
922 * Playing MOD files is working now.
925 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
926 --------------------------------
929 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
930 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
933 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
934 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
935 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
936 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
939 * Internal improvments
940 * Improved import/export
943 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
945 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
946 small and strange formats.
948 * New MOD audio demux.
949 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
950 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
951 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
952 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
955 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
956 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
957 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
963 * New opengl video output plugin.
966 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
967 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
970 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
971 --------------------------------
974 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
975 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
976 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
977 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
978 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
979 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
980 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
981 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
984 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
989 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
990 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
991 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
992 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
993 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
994 * Reworked DVB tuning.
995 * Better Icecast support.
996 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
997 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1000 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1001 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1002 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1003 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1004 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1005 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1006 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1009 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1010 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1011 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1012 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1013 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1014 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1015 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1016 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1017 * Preliminary RTP support.
1018 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1023 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1024 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1026 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1027 - Improvements and help in preferences
1028 - New streaming wizard
1029 - Revised Disc Open menu
1031 - Improvements of the standard pages
1032 - Support for new commands
1033 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1036 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1037 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1040 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1041 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1042 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1043 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1044 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1045 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1046 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1047 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1048 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1051 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1053 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1054 * Support for Panther.
1055 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1056 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1059 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1060 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1061 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1062 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1063 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1064 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1065 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1066 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1069 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1070 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1071 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1074 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1077 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1078 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1079 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1080 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1083 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1084 --------------------------------
1087 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1090 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1091 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1094 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1095 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1098 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1101 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1102 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1105 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1108 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1111 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1112 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1116 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1117 --------------------------------
1120 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1121 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1125 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1126 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1127 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1129 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1130 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1133 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1136 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1139 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1140 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1144 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1145 --------------------------------
1148 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1149 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1153 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1154 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1155 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1156 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1157 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1160 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1161 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1162 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1165 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1166 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1167 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1170 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1171 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1172 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1173 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1174 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1177 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1178 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1179 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1182 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1185 * Improved build system.
1186 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1187 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1188 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1189 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1192 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1193 --------------------------------
1196 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1199 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1200 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1201 * Video 4 Linux support
1202 * CD Digital Audio support
1203 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1206 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1207 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1208 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1209 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1212 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1213 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1214 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1215 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1216 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1217 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1218 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1221 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1222 * New HTTP remote control interface
1225 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1226 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1227 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1228 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1231 * New reset option for the preferences
1232 * You can set your language in the prefences
1233 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1234 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1235 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1236 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1239 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1240 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1241 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1244 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1245 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1246 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1247 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1248 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1249 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1250 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1251 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1252 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1253 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1256 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1257 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1258 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1259 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1260 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1261 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1262 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1265 * Interface localization
1266 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1267 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1268 * New full-featured Preferences window
1271 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1272 --------------------------------
1275 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1276 * support for skins at the interface level
1277 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1278 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1279 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1280 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1281 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1284 * fixed HTTP redirects
1285 * support for opening an entire directory
1286 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1287 * new video4linux access plug-in
1288 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1291 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1292 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1293 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1296 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1297 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1298 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1299 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1300 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1301 * new codec for raw I420 video
1302 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1305 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1306 (although it still misses some important features)
1307 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1310 * new HTTP output support
1311 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1312 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1315 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1318 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1321 * reorderable playlist
1322 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1323 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1324 * support for mono audio output devices
1325 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1326 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1327 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1328 * the messages window remembers more lines
1329 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1330 * http and ogg stream output options
1331 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1334 * new skinnable interface
1335 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1337 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1338 * support for FLAC audio format
1339 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1341 * network tab in the interface
1342 * "apply" handling in preferences
1345 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1346 ---------------------------------
1349 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1350 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1351 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1352 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1354 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1355 * DTS S/PDIF support
1358 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1359 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1360 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1361 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1364 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1365 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1368 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1371 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1374 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1376 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1377 * rc interface is now fully useable
1378 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1381 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1382 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1383 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1384 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1385 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1387 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1388 * support for mouse gestures
1389 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1392 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1393 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1396 * improved ID3 tag detection
1397 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1398 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1399 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1401 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1404 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1405 ---------------------------------
1408 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1409 English was set as the preferred language
1412 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1413 --------------------------------
1416 * new mouse gesture interface
1417 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1421 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1422 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1423 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1426 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1427 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1431 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1434 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1435 without the user consent
1438 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1440 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1441 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1442 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1445 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1446 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1447 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1448 * playlist enhancements
1449 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1450 * new step forward/step backward commands
1451 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1452 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1453 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1456 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1457 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1458 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1461 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1462 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1465 * native video output is working again
1466 * only commandline interface support
1467 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1470 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1471 --------------------------------
1474 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1475 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1476 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1477 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1478 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1479 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1480 and A/52 streams are supported)
1481 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1486 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1487 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1488 * VCD entry points support
1489 * VCD image file support
1492 * support for *.asf format
1493 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1494 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1495 * support for ogg encapsulation
1496 * support for raw DV format
1497 * support for *.wav format
1498 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1501 Stream discovery & playlists:
1502 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1503 * support for .m3u file format
1504 * support for .asx file format
1505 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1508 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1509 (only available with the .avi demux)
1510 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1511 * support for raw PCM data
1512 * support for Cinepak video codec
1513 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1514 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1515 * support for Xvid codec
1516 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1517 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1518 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1520 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1522 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1525 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1528 * new WxWindows interface
1529 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1530 device and the channels configuration
1531 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1532 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1533 format that VLC can play
1534 * new swedish translation
1535 * enhancements of the playlist window
1536 * new messages window to see debug info
1537 * fixed a few crashes
1540 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1541 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1542 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1543 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working