1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
13 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
14 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
15 * Invmem module improvements
16 * Support for Atrac1 codec
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
20 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
21 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
24 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
25 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
26 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
27 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
28 * Various EGP improvements
29 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
32 * WPL playlist support
33 * ZPL playlist support
34 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
35 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
36 * Podcast images are now displayed
39 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
40 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
41 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
42 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
43 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
44 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
45 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
46 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
47 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
48 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
49 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
52 * new content extensions lua framework
56 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
57 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
58 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
59 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
60 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
61 * NEON assembly audio converter module
62 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
65 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
68 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
69 * Service discovery based on libudev
72 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
73 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
74 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
75 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
76 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
77 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
80 * New smem module, streaming to memory
81 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
82 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
85 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
87 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
90 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
93 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
94 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
95 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
96 by Andy Matuschak et al.
97 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
100 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
101 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
104 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
105 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
109 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
110 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
113 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
116 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
117 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
118 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
120 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
121 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
122 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
123 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
124 * opie, qte and qte_main
125 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
126 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
127 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
129 * cddax. Use cdda instead
130 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
131 * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
132 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
135 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
136 --------------------------------
139 * SubRip extra styles improvements
140 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
143 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
146 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
147 increase performance and fix x264 issues
150 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
151 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
152 Russian, Slovak translation updates
153 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
156 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
157 --------------------------------
160 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
161 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
164 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
165 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
168 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
169 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
172 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
175 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
176 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
179 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
180 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
183 * New Walloon translation
184 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
187 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
188 --------------------------------
191 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
192 regressions in most popular drivers
193 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
196 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
197 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
198 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
201 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
202 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
205 * Update for appletrailers lua script
206 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
207 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
208 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
209 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
212 * New udev module for linux
215 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
218 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
221 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
222 --------------------------------
225 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
226 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
227 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
230 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
231 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
234 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
235 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
238 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
241 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
242 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
243 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
244 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
247 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
248 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
249 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
250 - no support for Goom and SDL
251 - limited text rendering support
252 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
255 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
256 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
257 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
258 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
259 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
260 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
261 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
262 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
263 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
267 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
270 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
273 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
274 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
275 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
276 Arabic and French translation updates
279 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
280 --------------------------------
283 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
284 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
285 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
286 * Fix Dailymotion access script
287 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
288 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
291 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
292 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
295 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
296 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
297 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
300 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
303 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
304 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
307 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
308 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
309 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
310 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
311 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
312 * Fix various crashes
315 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
317 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
320 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
321 ---------------------------------
325 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
326 See 'Access:' for more info.
327 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
330 * Instantaneous pausing
331 * Frame-by-Frame playback
332 * Finer speed control
333 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
334 * Timeshift for most medias
335 * RTSP trickplay support
336 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
339 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
340 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
341 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
342 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
343 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
344 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
345 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
346 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
347 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
348 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
351 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
352 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
353 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
354 * Metadata for mod files are supported
355 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
356 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
357 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
360 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
361 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
364 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
365 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
366 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
367 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
368 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
369 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
370 * DVB scanning on linux
371 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
372 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
373 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
374 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
375 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
376 * MTP device access on Unix
377 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
378 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
381 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
382 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
383 Windows and Mac OS X.
386 * Export the playlist in HTML
387 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
388 * Better metadata handling and reading
390 Linux/Windows interface:
391 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
392 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
393 * Recently played items list
394 * Interface toolbar customizations
395 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
398 - Improvements on many dialogs
399 - New dialog for plugins listing
400 - Fixed-size mode for videos
401 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
402 * Better integration in GTK environments
405 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
406 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
407 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
408 * Additional usability improvements
411 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
412 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
413 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
414 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
415 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
418 * New Maemo port with:
419 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
420 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
423 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
426 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
427 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
428 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
429 * Support for latest iSight models
432 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
433 * Surround support for PulseAudio
436 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
437 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
438 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
439 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
440 The old image video output has been removed.
441 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
442 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
445 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
453 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
454 --------------------------------------
460 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
461 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
462 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
463 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
464 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
465 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
466 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
468 Various fixes to the following modules:
471 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
472 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
475 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
480 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
481 ---------------------------------
484 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
485 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
488 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
489 ---------------------------------
492 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
495 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
498 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
499 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
500 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
501 main controller window.
502 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
505 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
510 * Updates of other localizations
513 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
514 * Lots of small bugfixes.
515 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
516 * Telnet fixes on Windows
517 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
520 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
521 ---------------------------------
524 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
526 Bunch of small bugfixes.
529 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
530 --------------------------------
535 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
536 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
539 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
540 --------------------------------
542 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
543 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
546 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
549 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
550 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
553 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
554 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
557 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
558 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
559 * Various fixed in playlist
562 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
565 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
568 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
569 ------------------------------------
571 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
572 * Fixes several memory leaks.
575 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
576 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
577 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
580 * Stability fix for the video output.
583 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
584 --------------------------------
587 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
588 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
589 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
590 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
591 * Fixed update system bugs
592 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
595 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
596 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
597 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
598 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
599 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
600 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
601 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
602 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
603 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
604 modern Mac OS X versions
607 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
608 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
610 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
611 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
614 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
615 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
616 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
617 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
618 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
619 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
622 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
623 --------------------------------
625 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
626 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
630 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
631 --------------------------------
633 * Multiple bug fixes.
636 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
637 ---------------------------------
641 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
642 recent to work correctly
643 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
644 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
645 edit the ".hosts" file.
646 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
647 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
648 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
649 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
650 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
651 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
652 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
653 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
654 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
655 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
656 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
657 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
658 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
659 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
660 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
661 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
662 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
663 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
664 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
665 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
666 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
667 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
668 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
669 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
670 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
671 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
672 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
673 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
674 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
675 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
676 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
677 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
678 and postproc modules.
679 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
680 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
681 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
682 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
684 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
686 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
687 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
689 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
690 * Glide video output module has been removed.
696 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
698 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
699 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
702 * Vastly improved playlist support:
703 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
705 * Shoutcast TV listings
706 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
708 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
709 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
711 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
714 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
715 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
716 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
717 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
718 * JACK audio input support
719 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
720 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
721 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
722 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
723 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
724 * Experimental EyeTV access module
725 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
726 (available as a separate download).
727 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
729 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
730 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
731 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
733 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
734 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
737 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
738 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
739 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
740 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
742 * APEv1/2 tags support
743 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
744 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
746 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
747 * TiVo Series 2 support
748 * CD+G karaoke Files support
753 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
754 * Flash Screen Video support
755 * CamStudio Screen Video support
756 * DosBox Capture support
757 * Karl Morton's Video support
758 * limited atrac3 support
760 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
761 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
762 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
764 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
765 * NellyMoser ASAO support
766 * APE (Monkey audio) support
767 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
768 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
771 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
772 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
773 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
774 * AQTitle subtitles support
775 * MKV USF subtitles support
776 * HTML-based subtitles support
777 * MPSub subtitles support
778 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
779 * MPL2 subtitles support
780 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
781 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
782 * Realtext subtitle support
783 * DKS subtitle support
784 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
785 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
788 * Flash Screen Video support
789 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
791 Video outputs and filters:
792 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
793 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
794 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
795 * New puzzle video output filter
796 * Re-written motion detection video filter
797 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
799 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
800 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
801 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
802 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
803 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
804 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
805 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
806 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
807 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
808 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
809 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
810 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
811 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
812 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
814 Audio outputs and filters:
815 * Replay gain support
816 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
817 new scaletempo audio filter)
818 * New spatializer audio filter
819 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
822 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
823 * New RTP payload formats:
824 * Speex voice audio codec
825 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
826 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
827 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
828 * DCCP transport for RTP
829 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
834 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
835 end-user suitable way.
836 * Improved user interaction
837 * Improved mouse gestures
838 * Vastly improved Update checker
839 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
841 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
842 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
844 * Improved video output features
845 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
846 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
847 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
848 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
849 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
851 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
852 if libncursesw is available.
853 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
854 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
855 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
857 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
858 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
859 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
860 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
861 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
862 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
863 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
864 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
867 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
868 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
869 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
872 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
873 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
874 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
875 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
876 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
877 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
880 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
881 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
891 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
892 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
893 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
896 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
897 ----------------------------------
900 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
903 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
904 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
905 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
906 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
907 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
908 * Updated Polish translation
911 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
912 ----------------------------------
915 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
916 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
917 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
920 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
921 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
922 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
923 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
924 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
925 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
926 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
927 to an unexpected application termination
928 * New Serbian translation
929 * Updated Romanian translation
932 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
933 ----------------------------------
936 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
937 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
938 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
939 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
940 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
941 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
942 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
943 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
946 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
947 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
948 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
949 * Fixed AAC resampling
950 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
951 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
954 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
955 ----------------------------------
958 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
959 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
960 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
961 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
962 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
965 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
966 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
967 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
968 * Close MMS access on network timeout
969 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
972 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
973 ----------------------------------
976 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
977 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
980 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
981 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
982 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
983 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
985 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
989 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
992 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
995 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
998 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1001 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1002 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1003 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1004 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1005 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1007 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1008 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1009 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1010 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1013 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1016 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1017 ----------------------------------
1020 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1021 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1022 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1024 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1025 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1027 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1028 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1031 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1033 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1034 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1035 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1036 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1037 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1038 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1039 two different movies
1040 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1041 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1042 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1045 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1048 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1049 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1050 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1051 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1054 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1055 ----------------------------------
1057 Various bugfixes, notably:
1058 * Windows Vista compatibility
1059 * Cropping in Direct3D
1060 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1061 * RSS filter string overflow
1063 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1065 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1066 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1069 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1070 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1073 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1076 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1079 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1082 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1083 ----------------------------------
1085 Various bugfixes, notably:
1086 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1087 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1088 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1089 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1090 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1091 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1094 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1095 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1098 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1100 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1101 * Diverse usability improvements
1102 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1103 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1104 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1107 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1108 ---------------------------------
1110 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1111 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1114 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1117 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1118 --------------------------------
1121 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1124 * Support for RTSP authentication
1125 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1126 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1127 * ATSC support for DVB input
1128 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1129 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1130 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1133 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1134 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1135 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1136 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1137 * Matroska WavPack support
1138 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1139 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1140 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1143 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1144 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1145 * Improved libcaca support
1149 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1150 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1152 * Systray support in skins
1154 * Support for Apple Remote control
1155 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1156 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1157 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1158 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1160 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1163 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1164 Windows 9x/ME users:
1165 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1166 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1167 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1168 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1169 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1171 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1172 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1181 * Updates to the libvlc API
1182 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1185 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1186 --------------------------------
1189 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1190 * Support for downloading updates
1194 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1195 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1196 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1197 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1199 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1200 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1201 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1204 * Cook (Real audio) support
1206 Playlist / Services discovery:
1207 * XSPF playlist support
1209 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1212 * New JACK audio output
1215 * New video filters:
1216 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1217 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1218 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1219 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1220 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1221 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1224 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1227 * System to inform the user and request information
1228 - HTTP authentication
1232 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1233 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1234 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1237 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1238 - Improved playlist handling
1239 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1241 - Embedded Video output
1242 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1243 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1244 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1245 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1246 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1248 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1249 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1252 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1255 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1256 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1257 * Growl "Now playing" support
1260 * Ability to log to syslog
1261 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1264 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1266 * A bit more automatic testing
1269 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1270 ---------------------------------
1273 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1274 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1277 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1278 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1281 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1284 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1285 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1291 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1294 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1295 --------------------------------
1298 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1302 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1303 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1304 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1307 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1308 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1309 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1310 * GnomeVFS input module
1311 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1312 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1315 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1316 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1317 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1320 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1321 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1327 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1328 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1331 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1332 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1333 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1336 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1338 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1339 - New extended controls panel
1340 - New bookmarks window
1341 - Fixed playlist sorting
1342 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1344 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1345 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1346 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1347 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1351 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1352 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1354 - Include macro to include other files
1358 * Should now work outside IE as well
1361 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1364 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1365 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1368 The following languages were added:
1372 * Simplified Chinese
1373 The following languages were re-added:
1377 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1378 --------------------------------
1381 * Rewrite of the playlist
1383 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1384 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1385 * Preferences improvements:
1386 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1387 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1389 * Core image manipulation support
1390 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1391 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1392 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1393 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1394 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1395 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1396 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1397 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1398 * Access filter architecture
1399 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1400 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1404 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1405 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1406 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1407 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1408 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1409 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1410 * Massive Matroska improvements
1411 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1413 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1414 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1415 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1416 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1417 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1419 Decoders / Encoders:
1420 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1421 * PNG decoder/encoder
1422 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1423 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1426 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1429 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1430 * Brand new SAP module
1431 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1432 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1433 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1434 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1435 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1436 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1440 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1443 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1444 * Image file video output (png)
1445 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1446 * Improvements to wall video filter
1447 * Support for font color and opacity
1453 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1454 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1455 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1459 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1460 - Improved preferences
1461 - Improvements to the wizard
1462 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1464 - Redesigned playlist
1465 - Improved preferences
1467 - Support for multiple actions
1470 - Support for the new playlist system
1472 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1475 * Screensaver disabling fix
1476 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1477 * Support for no-decoration windows
1480 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1481 * The OpenGL video output is back
1482 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1483 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1484 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1485 is not yet available in the new module
1486 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1489 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1498 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1501 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1504 The following languages were added:
1510 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1511 --------------------------------
1514 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1515 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1518 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1519 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1520 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1523 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1526 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1529 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1532 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1533 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1534 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1538 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1540 * Support of playlist group announcement
1543 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1544 --------------------------------
1547 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1548 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1549 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1550 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1551 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1552 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1555 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1556 (Stream your desktop)
1557 * Improved DVD support:
1558 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1559 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1560 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1561 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1562 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1563 (selection of titles/chapters).
1566 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1567 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1568 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1569 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1570 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1571 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1572 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1573 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1574 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1575 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1578 * G.726 audio support
1579 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1580 * MPEG-4 text support
1581 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1582 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1583 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1587 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1588 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1589 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1590 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1591 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1592 * DVB subtitles encoder
1593 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1594 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1596 * Text track muxing for mp4
1597 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1598 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1599 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1600 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1601 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1602 * Improved ASF muxer
1604 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1605 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1606 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1609 * New audio equalizer filter
1610 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1611 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1612 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1613 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1616 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1617 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1618 with support for effects.
1619 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1620 - New filters can be streamed.
1621 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1622 - Centralized scaling and blending
1624 - "time", to display current time
1625 - "marq", to display a marquee
1628 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1629 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1630 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1631 * A few skins2 improvements
1632 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1633 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1634 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1635 * Improved CORBA control module
1638 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1639 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1640 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1643 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1644 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1645 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1648 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1649 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1650 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1651 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1652 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1655 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1658 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1659 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1662 * Server/client network synchronization module
1663 * VBrick streams fully supported
1664 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1668 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1669 --------------------------------
1672 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1673 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1674 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1675 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1678 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1679 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1680 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1681 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1682 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1683 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1684 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1687 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1688 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1689 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1690 * Improved directory access module.
1691 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1692 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1693 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1694 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1695 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1698 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1699 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1700 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1703 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1704 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1705 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1708 * Improved session announcement system.
1709 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1710 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1711 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1712 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1713 * Improved transrater.
1714 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1715 * New configuration system.
1716 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1719 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1720 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1721 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1722 * Supports scheduling.
1723 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1724 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1727 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1728 - Ability to embed video output.
1729 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1730 - Lots of improvements.
1731 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1732 - New design and set of icons.
1733 - Ability to embed video output.
1734 - Support for hotkeys.
1735 - Support for bookmarks.
1737 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1738 - Better hotkeys handling.
1741 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1742 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1743 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1744 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1747 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1748 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1749 * Improved Windows installer.
1755 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1756 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1759 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1760 ---------------------------------
1763 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1764 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1767 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1768 --------------------------------
1771 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1772 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1775 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1776 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1777 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1778 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1781 * Internal improvments
1782 * Improved import/export
1785 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1787 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1788 small and strange formats.
1790 * New MOD audio demux.
1791 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1792 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1793 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1794 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1797 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1798 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1799 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1805 * New opengl video output plugin.
1808 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1809 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1812 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1813 --------------------------------
1816 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1817 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1818 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1819 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1820 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1821 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1822 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1823 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1826 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1831 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1832 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1833 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1834 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1835 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1836 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1837 * Better Icecast support.
1838 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1839 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1842 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1843 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1844 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1845 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1846 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1847 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1848 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1851 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1852 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1853 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1854 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1855 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1856 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1857 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1858 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1859 * Preliminary RTP support.
1860 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1865 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1866 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1868 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1869 - Improvements and help in preferences
1870 - New streaming wizard
1871 - Revised Disc Open menu
1873 - Improvements of the standard pages
1874 - Support for new commands
1875 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1878 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1879 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1882 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1883 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1884 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1885 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1886 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1887 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1888 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1889 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1890 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1893 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1895 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1896 * Support for Panther.
1897 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1898 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1901 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1902 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1903 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1904 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1905 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1906 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1907 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1908 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1911 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1912 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1913 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1916 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1919 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1920 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1921 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1922 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1925 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1926 --------------------------------
1929 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1932 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1933 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1936 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1937 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1940 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1943 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1944 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1947 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1950 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1953 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1954 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1958 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1959 --------------------------------
1962 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1963 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1967 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1968 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1969 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1971 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1972 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1975 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1978 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1981 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1982 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1986 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1987 --------------------------------
1990 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1991 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1995 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1996 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1997 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1998 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1999 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2002 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2003 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2004 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2007 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2008 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2009 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2012 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2013 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2014 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2015 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2016 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2019 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2020 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2021 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2024 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2027 * Improved build system.
2028 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2029 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2030 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2031 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2034 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2035 --------------------------------
2038 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2041 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2042 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2043 * Video 4 Linux support
2044 * CD Digital Audio support
2045 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2048 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2049 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2050 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2051 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2054 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2055 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2056 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2057 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2058 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2059 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2060 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2063 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2064 * New HTTP remote control interface
2067 * 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.
2068 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2069 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2070 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2073 * New reset option for the preferences
2074 * You can set your language in the prefences
2075 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2076 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2077 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2078 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2081 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2082 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2083 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2086 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2087 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2088 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2089 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2090 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2091 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2092 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2093 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2094 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2095 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2098 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2099 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2100 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2101 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2102 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2103 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2104 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2107 * Interface localization
2108 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2109 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2110 * New full-featured Preferences window
2113 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2114 --------------------------------
2117 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2118 * support for skins at the interface level
2119 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2120 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2121 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2122 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2123 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2126 * fixed HTTP redirects
2127 * support for opening an entire directory
2128 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2129 * new video4linux access plug-in
2130 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2133 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2134 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2135 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2138 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2139 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2140 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2141 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2142 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2143 * new codec for raw I420 video
2144 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2147 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2148 (although it still misses some important features)
2149 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2152 * new HTTP output support
2153 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2154 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2157 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2160 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2163 * reorderable playlist
2164 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2165 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2166 * support for mono audio output devices
2167 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2168 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2169 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2170 * the messages window remembers more lines
2171 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2172 * http and ogg stream output options
2173 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2176 * new skinnable interface
2177 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2179 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2180 * support for FLAC audio format
2181 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2183 * network tab in the interface
2184 * "apply" handling in preferences
2187 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2188 ---------------------------------
2191 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2192 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2193 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2194 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2196 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2197 * DTS S/PDIF support
2200 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2201 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2202 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2203 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2206 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2207 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2210 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2213 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2216 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2218 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2219 * rc interface is now fully useable
2220 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2223 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2224 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2225 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2226 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2227 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2229 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2230 * support for mouse gestures
2231 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2234 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2235 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2238 * improved ID3 tag detection
2239 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2240 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2241 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2243 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2246 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2247 ---------------------------------
2250 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2251 English was set as the preferred language
2254 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2255 --------------------------------
2258 * new mouse gesture interface
2259 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2263 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2264 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2265 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2268 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2269 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2273 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2276 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2277 without the user consent
2280 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2282 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2283 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2284 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2287 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2288 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2289 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2290 * playlist enhancements
2291 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2292 * new step forward/step backward commands
2293 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2294 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2295 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2298 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2299 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2300 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2303 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2304 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2307 * native video output is working again
2308 * only commandline interface support
2309 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2312 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2313 --------------------------------
2316 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2317 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2318 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2319 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2320 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2321 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2322 and A/52 streams are supported)
2323 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2328 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2329 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2330 * VCD entry points support
2331 * VCD image file support
2334 * support for *.asf format
2335 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2336 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2337 * support for ogg encapsulation
2338 * support for raw DV format
2339 * support for *.wav format
2340 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2343 Stream discovery & playlists:
2344 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2345 * support for .m3u file format
2346 * support for .asx file format
2347 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2350 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2351 (only available with the .avi demux)
2352 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2353 * support for raw PCM data
2354 * support for Cinepak video codec
2355 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2356 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2357 * support for Xvid codec
2358 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2359 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2360 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2362 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2364 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2367 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2370 * new WxWindows interface
2371 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2372 device and the channels configuration
2373 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2374 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2375 format that VLC can play
2376 * new swedish translation
2377 * enhancements of the playlist window
2378 * new messages window to see debug info
2379 * fixed a few crashes
2382 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2383 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2384 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2385 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working