1 Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
2 -------------------------------------
6 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
7 See 'Access:' for more info.
10 * Instantaneous pausing
11 * Frame-by-Frame playback
13 * Timeshift for most medias
14 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
15 * RTSP trickplay support
19 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
22 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
23 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
24 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
25 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
28 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
29 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
30 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
33 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
34 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
37 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
38 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
39 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
40 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
41 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
42 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
43 * DVB scanning on linux
44 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
45 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
46 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
47 * MTP device access on Unix
48 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
51 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
52 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
56 * Export the playlist in HTML
57 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
58 * Better metadata handling and reading
60 Linux/Windows interface:
61 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
62 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
63 * Recently played items list
64 * Interface toolbar customizations
65 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
68 - Improvements on many dialogs
69 - New dialog for plugins listing
70 - Fixed-size mode for videos
71 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
72 * Better integration in GTK environments
75 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
76 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
77 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
78 * Additional usability improvements
81 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
82 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
83 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
84 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
85 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
88 * New Maemo port with:
89 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
90 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
93 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
96 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
97 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
100 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
101 * Surround support for PulseAudio
104 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
105 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
106 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
107 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
108 The old image video output has been removed.
109 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
110 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
113 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
115 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
116 ---------------------------------
119 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
122 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
125 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
126 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
127 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
128 main controller window.
129 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
132 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
137 * Updates of other localizations
140 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
141 * Lots of small bugfixes.
142 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
143 * Telnet fixes on Windows
144 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
146 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
147 ---------------------------------
150 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
152 Bunch of small bugfixes.
155 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
156 --------------------------------
161 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
162 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
165 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
166 --------------------------------
168 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
169 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
172 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
175 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
176 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
179 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
180 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
183 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
184 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
185 * Various fixed in playlist
188 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
191 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
194 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
195 ------------------------------------
197 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
198 * Fixes several memory leaks.
201 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
202 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
203 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
206 * Stability fix for the video output.
209 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
210 --------------------------------
213 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
214 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
215 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
216 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
217 * Fixed update system bugs
218 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
221 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
222 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
223 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
224 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
225 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
226 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
227 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
228 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
229 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
230 modern Mac OS X versions
233 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
234 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
236 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
237 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
240 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
241 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
242 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
243 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
244 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
245 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
248 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
249 --------------------------------
251 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
252 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
256 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
257 --------------------------------
259 * Multiple bug fixes.
262 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
263 ---------------------------------
267 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
268 recent to work correctly
269 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
270 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
271 edit the ".hosts" file.
272 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
273 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
274 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
275 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
276 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
277 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
278 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
279 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
280 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
281 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
282 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
283 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
284 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
285 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
286 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
287 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
288 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
289 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
290 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
291 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
292 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
293 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
294 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
295 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
296 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
297 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
298 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
299 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
300 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
301 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
302 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
303 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
304 and postproc modules.
305 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
306 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
307 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
308 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
310 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
312 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
313 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
315 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
316 * Glide video output module has been removed.
322 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
324 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
325 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
328 * Vastly improved playlist support:
329 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
331 * Shoutcast TV listings
332 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
334 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
335 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
337 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
340 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
341 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
342 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
343 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
344 * JACK audio input support
345 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
346 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
347 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
348 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
349 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
350 * Experimental EyeTV access module
351 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
352 (available as a separate download).
353 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
355 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
356 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
357 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
359 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
360 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
363 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
364 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
365 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
366 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
368 * APEv1/2 tags support
369 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
370 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
372 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
373 * TiVo Series 2 support
374 * CD+G karaoke Files support
379 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
380 * Flash Screen Video support
381 * CamStudio Screen Video support
382 * DosBox Capture support
383 * Karl Morton's Video support
384 * limited atrac3 support
386 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
387 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
388 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
390 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
391 * NellyMoser ASAO support
392 * APE (Monkey audio) support
393 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
394 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
397 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
398 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
399 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
400 * AQTitle subtitles support
401 * MKV USF subtitles support
402 * HTML-based subtitles support
403 * MPSub subtitles support
404 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
405 * MPL2 subtitles support
406 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
407 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
408 * Realtext subtitle support
409 * DKS subtitle support
410 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
411 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
414 * Flash Screen Video support
415 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
417 Video outputs and filters:
418 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
419 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
420 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
421 * New puzzle video output filter
422 * Re-written motion detection video filter
423 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
425 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
426 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
427 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
428 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
429 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
430 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
431 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
432 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
433 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
434 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
435 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
436 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
437 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
438 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
440 Audio outputs and filters:
441 * Replay gain support
442 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
443 new scaletempo audio filter)
444 * New spatializer audio filter
445 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
448 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
449 * New RTP payload formats:
450 * Speex voice audio codec
451 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
452 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
453 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
454 * DCCP transport for RTP
455 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
460 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
461 end-user suitable way.
462 * Improved user interaction
463 * Improved mouse gestures
464 * Vastly improved Update checker
465 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
467 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
468 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
470 * Improved video output features
471 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
472 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
473 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
474 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
475 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
477 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
478 if libncursesw is available.
479 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
480 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
481 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
483 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
484 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
485 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
486 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
487 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
488 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
489 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
490 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
493 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
494 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
495 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
498 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
499 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
500 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
501 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
502 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
503 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
506 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
507 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
517 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
518 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
519 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
522 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
523 ----------------------------------
526 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
529 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
530 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
531 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
532 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
533 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
534 * Updated Polish translation
537 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
538 ----------------------------------
541 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
542 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
543 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
546 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
547 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
548 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
549 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
550 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
551 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
552 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
553 to an unexpected application termination
554 * New Serbian translation
555 * Updated Romanian translation
558 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
559 ----------------------------------
562 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
563 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
564 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
565 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
566 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
567 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
568 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
569 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
572 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
573 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
574 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
575 * Fixed AAC resampling
576 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
577 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
580 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
581 ----------------------------------
584 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
585 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
586 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
587 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
588 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
591 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
592 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
593 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
594 * Close MMS access on network timeout
595 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
598 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
599 ----------------------------------
602 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
603 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
606 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
607 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
608 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
609 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
611 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
615 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
618 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
621 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
624 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
627 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
628 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
629 encoding on multi-cpu systems
630 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
631 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
633 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
634 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
635 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
636 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
639 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
642 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
643 ----------------------------------
646 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
647 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
648 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
650 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
651 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
653 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
654 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
657 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
659 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
660 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
661 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
662 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
663 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
664 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
666 * Support for current Ogg file formats
667 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
668 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
671 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
674 * The automatic updating facility was removed
675 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
676 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
677 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
680 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
681 ----------------------------------
683 Various bugfixes, notably:
684 * Windows Vista compatibility
685 * Cropping in Direct3D
686 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
687 * RSS filter string overflow
689 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
691 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
692 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
695 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
696 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
699 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
702 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
705 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
708 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
709 ----------------------------------
711 Various bugfixes, notably:
712 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
713 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
714 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
715 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
716 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
717 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
720 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
721 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
724 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
726 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
727 * Diverse usability improvements
728 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
729 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
730 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
733 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
734 ---------------------------------
737 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
740 * Fullscreen controller improvements
743 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
744 --------------------------------
747 * Shoutcast TV listings support
750 * Support for RTSP authentication
751 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
752 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
753 * ATSC support for DVB input
754 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
755 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
756 * Improved support for Flash Video files
759 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
760 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
761 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
762 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
763 * Matroska WavPack support
764 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
765 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
766 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
769 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
770 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
771 * Improved libcaca support
775 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
776 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
778 * Systray support in skins
780 * Support for Apple Remote control
781 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
782 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
783 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
784 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
786 * Notifications using notification-daemon
789 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
791 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
792 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
793 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
794 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
795 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
797 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
798 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
807 * Updates to the libvlc API
808 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
811 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
812 --------------------------------
815 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
816 * Support for downloading updates
820 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
821 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
822 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
823 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
825 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
826 * Improved subtitles encoding support
827 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
830 * Cook (Real audio) support
832 Playlist / Services discovery:
833 * XSPF playlist support
835 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
838 * New JACK audio output
842 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
843 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
844 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
845 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
846 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
847 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
850 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
853 * System to inform the user and request information
854 - HTTP authentication
858 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
859 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
860 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
863 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
864 - Improved playlist handling
865 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
867 - Embedded Video output
868 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
869 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
870 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
871 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
872 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
874 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
875 - A bunch of new RPN functions
878 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
881 * Mac-Intel compatibility
882 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
883 * Growl "Now playing" support
886 * Ability to log to syslog
887 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
890 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
892 * A bit more automatic testing
895 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
896 ---------------------------------
899 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
900 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
903 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
904 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
907 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
910 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
911 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
917 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
920 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
921 --------------------------------
924 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
928 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
929 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
930 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
933 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
934 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
935 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
936 * GnomeVFS input module
937 * Support for RTP packet reordering
938 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
941 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
942 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
943 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
946 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
947 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
953 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
954 Mixer and Dolby Surround
957 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
958 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
959 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
962 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
964 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
965 - New extended controls panel
966 - New bookmarks window
967 - Fixed playlist sorting
968 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
970 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
971 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
972 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
973 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
977 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
978 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
980 - Include macro to include other files
984 * Should now work outside IE as well
987 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
990 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
991 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
994 The following languages were added:
999 The following languages were re-added:
1003 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1004 --------------------------------
1007 * Rewrite of the playlist
1009 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1010 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1011 * Preferences improvements:
1012 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1013 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1015 * Core image manipulation support
1016 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1017 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1018 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1019 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1020 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1021 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1022 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1023 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1024 * Access filter architecture
1025 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1026 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1030 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1031 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1032 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1033 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1034 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1035 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1036 * Massive Matroska improvements
1037 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1039 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1040 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1041 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1042 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1043 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1045 Decoders / Encoders:
1046 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1047 * PNG decoder/encoder
1048 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1049 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1052 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1055 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1056 * Brand new SAP module
1057 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1058 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1059 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1060 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1061 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1062 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1066 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1069 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1070 * Image file video output (png)
1071 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1072 * Improvements to wall video filter
1073 * Support for font color and opacity
1079 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1080 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1081 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1085 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1086 - Improved preferences
1087 - Improvements to the wizard
1088 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1090 - Redesigned playlist
1091 - Improved preferences
1093 - Support for multiple actions
1096 - Support for the new playlist system
1098 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1101 * Screensaver disabling fix
1102 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1103 * Support for no-decoration windows
1106 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1107 * The OpenGL video output is back
1108 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1109 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1110 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1111 is not yet available in the new module
1112 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1115 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1124 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1127 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1130 The following languages were added:
1136 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1137 --------------------------------
1140 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1141 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1144 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1145 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1146 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1149 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1152 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1155 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1158 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1159 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1160 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1164 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1166 * Support of playlist group announcement
1169 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1170 --------------------------------
1173 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1174 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1175 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1176 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1177 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1178 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1181 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1182 (Stream your desktop)
1183 * Improved DVD support:
1184 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1185 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1186 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1187 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1188 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1189 (selection of titles/chapters).
1192 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1193 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1194 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1195 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1196 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1197 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1198 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1199 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1200 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1201 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1204 * G.726 audio support
1205 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1206 * MPEG-4 text support
1207 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1208 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1209 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1213 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1214 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1215 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1216 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1217 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1218 * DVB subtitles encoder
1219 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1220 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1222 * Text track muxing for mp4
1223 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1224 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1225 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1226 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1227 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1228 * Improved ASF muxer
1230 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1231 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1232 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1235 * New audio equalizer filter
1236 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1237 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1238 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1239 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1242 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1243 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1244 with support for effects.
1245 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1246 - New filters can be streamed.
1247 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1248 - Centralized scaling and blending
1250 - "time", to display current time
1251 - "marq", to display a marquee
1254 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1255 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1256 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1257 * A few skins2 improvements
1258 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1259 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1260 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1261 * Improved CORBA control module
1264 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1265 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1266 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1269 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1270 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1271 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1274 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1275 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1276 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1277 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1278 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1281 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1284 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1285 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1288 * Server/client network synchronization module
1289 * VBrick streams fully supported
1290 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1294 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1295 --------------------------------
1298 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1299 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1300 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1301 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1304 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1305 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1306 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1307 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1308 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1309 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1310 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1313 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1314 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1315 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1316 * Improved directory access module.
1317 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1318 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1319 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1320 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1321 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1324 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1325 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1326 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1329 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1330 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1331 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1334 * Improved session announcement system.
1335 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1336 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1337 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1338 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1339 * Improved transrater.
1340 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1341 * New configuration system.
1342 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1345 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1346 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1347 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1348 * Supports scheduling.
1349 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1350 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1353 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1354 - Ability to embed video output.
1355 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1356 - Lots of improvements.
1357 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1358 - New design and set of icons.
1359 - Ability to embed video output.
1360 - Support for hotkeys.
1361 - Support for bookmarks.
1363 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1364 - Better hotkeys handling.
1367 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1368 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1369 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1370 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1373 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1374 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1375 * Improved Windows installer.
1381 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1382 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1385 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1386 ---------------------------------
1389 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1390 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1393 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1394 --------------------------------
1397 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1398 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1401 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1402 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1403 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1404 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1407 * Internal improvments
1408 * Improved import/export
1411 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1413 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1414 small and strange formats.
1416 * New MOD audio demux.
1417 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1418 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1419 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1420 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1423 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1424 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1425 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1431 * New opengl video output plugin.
1434 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1435 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1438 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1439 --------------------------------
1442 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1443 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1444 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1445 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1446 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1447 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1448 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1449 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1452 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1457 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1458 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1459 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1460 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1461 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1462 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1463 * Better Icecast support.
1464 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1465 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1468 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1469 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1470 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1471 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1472 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1473 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1474 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1477 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1478 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1479 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1480 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1481 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1482 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1483 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1484 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1485 * Preliminary RTP support.
1486 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1491 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1492 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1494 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1495 - Improvements and help in preferences
1496 - New streaming wizard
1497 - Revised Disc Open menu
1499 - Improvements of the standard pages
1500 - Support for new commands
1501 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1504 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1505 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1508 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1509 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1510 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1511 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1512 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1513 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1514 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1515 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1516 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1519 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1521 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1522 * Support for Panther.
1523 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1524 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1527 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1528 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1529 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1530 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1531 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1532 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1533 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1534 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1537 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1538 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1539 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1542 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1545 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1546 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1547 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1548 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1551 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1552 --------------------------------
1555 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1558 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1559 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1562 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1563 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1566 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1569 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1570 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1573 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1576 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1579 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1580 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1584 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1585 --------------------------------
1588 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1589 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1593 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1594 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1595 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1597 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1598 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1601 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1604 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1607 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1608 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1612 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1613 --------------------------------
1616 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1617 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1621 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1622 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1623 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1624 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1625 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1628 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1629 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1630 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1633 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1634 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1635 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1638 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1639 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1640 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1641 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1642 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1645 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1646 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1647 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1650 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1653 * Improved build system.
1654 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1655 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1656 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1657 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1660 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1661 --------------------------------
1664 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1667 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1668 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1669 * Video 4 Linux support
1670 * CD Digital Audio support
1671 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1674 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1675 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1676 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1677 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1680 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1681 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1682 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1683 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1684 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1685 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1686 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1689 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1690 * New HTTP remote control interface
1693 * 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.
1694 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1695 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1696 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1699 * New reset option for the preferences
1700 * You can set your language in the prefences
1701 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1702 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1703 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1704 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1707 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1708 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1709 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1712 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1713 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1714 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1715 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1716 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1717 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1718 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1719 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1720 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1721 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1724 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1725 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1726 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1727 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1728 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1729 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1730 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1733 * Interface localization
1734 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1735 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1736 * New full-featured Preferences window
1739 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1740 --------------------------------
1743 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1744 * support for skins at the interface level
1745 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1746 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1747 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1748 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1749 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1752 * fixed HTTP redirects
1753 * support for opening an entire directory
1754 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1755 * new video4linux access plug-in
1756 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1759 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1760 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1761 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1764 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1765 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1766 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1767 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1768 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1769 * new codec for raw I420 video
1770 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1773 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1774 (although it still misses some important features)
1775 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1778 * new HTTP output support
1779 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1780 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1783 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1786 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1789 * reorderable playlist
1790 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1791 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1792 * support for mono audio output devices
1793 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1794 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1795 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1796 * the messages window remembers more lines
1797 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1798 * http and ogg stream output options
1799 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1802 * new skinnable interface
1803 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1805 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1806 * support for FLAC audio format
1807 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1809 * network tab in the interface
1810 * "apply" handling in preferences
1813 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1814 ---------------------------------
1817 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1818 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1819 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1820 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1822 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1823 * DTS S/PDIF support
1826 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1827 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1828 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1829 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1832 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1833 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1836 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1839 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1842 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1844 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1845 * rc interface is now fully useable
1846 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1849 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1850 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1851 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1852 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1853 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1855 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1856 * support for mouse gestures
1857 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1860 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1861 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1864 * improved ID3 tag detection
1865 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1866 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1867 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1869 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1872 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1873 ---------------------------------
1876 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1877 English was set as the preferred language
1880 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1881 --------------------------------
1884 * new mouse gesture interface
1885 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1889 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1890 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1891 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1894 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1895 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1899 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1902 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1903 without the user consent
1906 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1908 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1909 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1910 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1913 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1914 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1915 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1916 * playlist enhancements
1917 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1918 * new step forward/step backward commands
1919 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1920 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1921 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1924 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1925 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1926 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1929 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1930 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1933 * native video output is working again
1934 * only commandline interface support
1935 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1938 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1939 --------------------------------
1942 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1943 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1944 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1945 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1946 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1947 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1948 and A/52 streams are supported)
1949 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1954 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1955 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1956 * VCD entry points support
1957 * VCD image file support
1960 * support for *.asf format
1961 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1962 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1963 * support for ogg encapsulation
1964 * support for raw DV format
1965 * support for *.wav format
1966 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1969 Stream discovery & playlists:
1970 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1971 * support for .m3u file format
1972 * support for .asx file format
1973 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1976 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1977 (only available with the .avi demux)
1978 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1979 * support for raw PCM data
1980 * support for Cinepak video codec
1981 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1982 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1983 * support for Xvid codec
1984 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1985 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1986 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1988 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1990 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1993 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1996 * new WxWindows interface
1997 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1998 device and the channels configuration
1999 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2000 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2001 format that VLC can play
2002 * new swedish translation
2003 * enhancements of the playlist window
2004 * new messages window to see debug info
2005 * fixed a few crashes
2008 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2009 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2010 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2011 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working