3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
40 * Vastly improved playlist support:
41 * Media library support
43 * Shoutcast TV listings
44 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
45 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
46 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
49 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
50 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
51 * JACK audio input support
52 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
53 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
54 * Fixed aiff stereo file
55 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
56 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
58 * APEv1/2 tags support
59 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
60 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
64 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
65 * MKV USF subtitles support
66 * HTML based subtitles support
67 * Flash Screen Video support
68 * CamStudio Screen Video support
69 * DosBox Capture support
70 * Karl Morton's Video support
71 * limited atrac3 support
72 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
73 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
76 * Flash Screen Video support
78 Video output and filters:
79 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
80 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
81 * New puzzle video output filter
82 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
83 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
85 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
86 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
87 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
89 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
90 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
91 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
92 was previously part of the mosaic module.
93 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
94 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
95 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
96 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
98 Audio output and filters
99 * Replay gain support.
100 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
101 * New spatializer audio filter.
104 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
105 * New RTP payload formats:
106 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles)
107 (FIXME: * Speex voice audio codec)
108 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) transport for RTP
109 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
113 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
115 * Improved user interaction
116 * Improved mouse gestures
118 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
119 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
120 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
121 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
122 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
123 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
124 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
125 when using an UTF-8 locale.
126 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
129 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
130 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
131 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
134 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
141 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
142 ----------------------------------
144 Various bugfixes, notably:
145 * Windows Vista compatibility
146 * Cropping in Direct3D
147 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
148 * RSS filter string overflow
150 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
152 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
153 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
156 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
159 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
162 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
165 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
168 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
169 ----------------------------------
171 Various bugfixes, notably:
172 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
173 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
174 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
175 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
176 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
177 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
180 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
181 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
184 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
186 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
187 * Diverse usability improvements
188 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
189 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
190 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
193 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
194 ---------------------------------
197 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
200 * Fullscreen controller improvements
203 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
204 --------------------------------
207 * Shoutcast TV listings support
210 * Support for RTSP authentication
211 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
212 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
213 * ATSC support for DVB input
214 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
215 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
216 * Improved support for Flash Video files
219 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
220 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
221 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
222 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
223 * Matroska WavPack support
224 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
225 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
226 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
229 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
230 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
231 * Improved libcaca support
235 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
236 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
238 * Systray support in skins
240 * Support for Apple Remote control
241 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
242 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
243 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
244 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
246 * Notifications using notification-daemon
249 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
251 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
252 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
253 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
254 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
255 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
257 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
258 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
267 * Updates to the libvlc API
268 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
271 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
272 --------------------------------
275 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
276 * Support for downloading updates
280 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
281 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
282 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
283 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
285 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
286 * Improved subtitles encoding support
287 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
290 * Cook (Real audio) support
292 Playlist / Services discovery:
293 * XSPF playlist support
295 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
298 * New JACK audio output
302 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
303 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
304 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
305 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
306 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
307 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
310 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
313 * System to inform the user and request information
314 - HTTP authentication
318 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
319 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
320 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
323 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
324 - Improved playlist handling
325 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
327 - Embedded Video output
328 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
329 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
330 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
331 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
332 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
334 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
335 - A bunch of new RPN functions
338 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
341 * Mac-Intel compatibility
342 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
343 * Growl "Now playing" support
346 * Ability to log to syslog
347 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
350 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
352 * A bit more automatic testing
355 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
356 ---------------------------------
359 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
360 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
363 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
364 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
367 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
370 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
371 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
377 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
380 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
381 --------------------------------
384 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
388 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
389 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
390 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
393 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
394 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
395 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
396 * GnomeVFS input module
397 * Support for RTP packet reordering
398 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
401 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
402 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
403 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
406 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
407 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
413 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
414 Mixer and Dolby Surround
417 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
418 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
419 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
422 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
424 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
425 - New extended controls panel
426 - New bookmarks window
427 - Fixed playlist sorting
428 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
430 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
431 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
432 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
433 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
437 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
438 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
440 - Include macro to include other files
444 * Should now work outside IE as well
447 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
450 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
451 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
454 The following languages were added:
459 The following languages were re-added:
463 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
464 --------------------------------
467 * Rewrite of the playlist
469 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
470 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
471 * Preferences improvements:
472 - New organization, designed to improve usability
473 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
475 * Core image manipulation support
476 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
477 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
478 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
479 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
480 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
481 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
482 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
483 now separated by ':' instead of ','
484 * Access filter architecture
485 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
486 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
490 * Support for SOCKS proxy
491 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
492 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
493 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
494 * Better support for Kasenna streams
495 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
496 * Massive Matroska improvements
497 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
499 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
500 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
501 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
502 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
503 * Support for FTP over IPv6
506 * Dirac decoder and encoder
507 * PNG decoder/encoder
508 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
509 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
512 * New Record and Timeshift filters
515 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
516 * Brand new SAP module
517 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
518 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
519 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
520 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
521 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
522 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
526 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
529 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
530 * Image file video output (png)
531 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
532 * Improvements to wall video filter
533 * Support for font color and opacity
539 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
540 - Seeking support in VoD streams
541 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
545 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
546 - Improved preferences
547 - Improvements to the wizard
548 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
550 - Redesigned playlist
551 - Improved preferences
553 - Support for multiple actions
556 - Support for the new playlist system
558 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
561 * Screensaver disabling fix
562 * DirectShow tuner configuration
563 * Support for no-decoration windows
566 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
567 * The OpenGL video output is back
568 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
569 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
570 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
571 is not yet available in the new module
572 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
575 * Support for single-buffered overlay
584 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
587 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
590 The following languages were added:
596 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
597 --------------------------------
600 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
601 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
604 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
605 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
606 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
609 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
612 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
615 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
618 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
619 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
620 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
624 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
626 * Support of playlist group announcement
629 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
630 --------------------------------
633 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
634 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
635 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
636 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
637 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
638 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
641 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
642 (Stream your desktop)
643 * Improved DVD support:
644 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
645 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
646 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
647 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
648 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
649 (selection of titles/chapters).
652 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
653 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
654 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
655 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
656 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
657 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
658 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
659 * Improved Ogg demuxer
660 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
661 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
664 * G.726 audio support
665 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
666 * MPEG-4 text support
667 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
668 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
669 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
673 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
674 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
675 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
676 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
677 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
678 * DVB subtitles encoder
679 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
680 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
682 * Text track muxing for mp4
683 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
684 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
685 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
686 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
687 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
690 * H.263 RTP streaming support
691 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
692 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
695 * New audio equalizer filter
696 * Very trivial volume normalizer
697 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
698 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
699 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
702 * Roku HD1000 Video output
703 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
704 with support for effects.
705 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
706 - New filters can be streamed.
707 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
708 - Centralized scaling and blending
710 - "time", to display current time
711 - "marq", to display a marquee
714 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
715 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
716 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
717 * A few skins2 improvements
718 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
719 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
720 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
721 * Improved CORBA control module
724 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
725 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
726 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
729 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
730 * Experimental SVG rendering module
731 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
734 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
735 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
736 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
737 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
738 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
741 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
744 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
745 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
748 * Server/client network synchronization module
749 * VBrick streams fully supported
750 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
754 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
755 --------------------------------
758 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
759 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
760 * Improved HTTP daemon.
761 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
764 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
765 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
766 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
767 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
768 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
769 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
770 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
773 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
774 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
775 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
776 * Improved directory access module.
777 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
778 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
779 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
780 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
781 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
784 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
785 * mmsh streaming fixes.
786 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
789 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
790 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
791 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
794 * Improved session announcement system.
795 * Minimize threads usage by default.
796 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
797 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
798 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
799 * Improved transrater.
800 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
801 * New configuration system.
802 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
805 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
806 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
807 * Supports live streams and VoD.
808 * Supports scheduling.
809 * Telnet interface for vlm.
810 * HTTP interface for vlm.
813 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
814 - Ability to embed video output.
815 - Support for bitmap fonts.
816 - Lots of improvements.
817 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
818 - New design and set of icons.
819 - Ability to embed video output.
820 - Support for hotkeys.
821 - Support for bookmarks.
823 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
824 - Better hotkeys handling.
827 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
828 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
829 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
830 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
833 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
834 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
835 * Improved Windows installer.
841 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
842 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
845 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
846 ---------------------------------
849 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
850 * Playing MOD files is working now.
853 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
854 --------------------------------
857 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
858 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
861 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
862 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
863 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
864 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
867 * Internal improvments
868 * Improved import/export
871 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
873 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
874 small and strange formats.
876 * New MOD audio demux.
877 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
878 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
879 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
880 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
883 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
884 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
885 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
891 * New opengl video output plugin.
894 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
895 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
898 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
899 --------------------------------
902 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
903 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
904 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
905 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
906 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
907 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
908 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
909 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
912 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
917 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
918 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
919 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
920 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
921 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
922 * Reworked DVB tuning.
923 * Better Icecast support.
924 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
925 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
928 * Support for Theora video encoding.
929 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
930 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
931 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
932 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
933 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
934 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
937 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
938 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
939 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
940 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
941 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
942 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
943 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
944 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
945 * Preliminary RTP support.
946 * Fixes to SAP announces.
951 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
952 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
954 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
955 - Improvements and help in preferences
956 - New streaming wizard
957 - Revised Disc Open menu
959 - Improvements of the standard pages
960 - Support for new commands
961 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
964 * Many fixes to the SAP module
965 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
968 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
969 * Text subtitles autodetection.
970 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
971 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
972 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
973 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
974 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
975 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
976 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
979 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
981 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
982 * Support for Panther.
983 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
984 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
987 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
988 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
989 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
990 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
991 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
992 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
993 * Multimonitor support (untested).
994 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
997 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
998 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
999 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1002 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1005 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1006 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1007 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1008 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1011 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1012 --------------------------------
1015 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1018 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1019 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1022 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1023 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1026 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1029 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1030 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1033 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1036 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1039 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1040 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1044 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1045 --------------------------------
1048 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1049 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1053 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1054 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1055 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1057 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1058 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1061 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1064 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1067 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1068 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1072 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1073 --------------------------------
1076 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1077 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1081 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1082 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1083 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1084 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1085 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1088 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1089 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1090 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1093 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1094 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1095 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1098 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1099 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1100 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1101 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1102 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1105 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1106 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1107 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1110 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1113 * Improved build system.
1114 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1115 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1116 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1117 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1120 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1121 --------------------------------
1124 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1127 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1128 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1129 * Video 4 Linux support
1130 * CD Digital Audio support
1131 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1134 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1135 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1136 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1137 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1140 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1141 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1142 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1143 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1144 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1145 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1146 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1149 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1150 * New HTTP remote control interface
1153 * 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.
1154 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1155 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1156 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1159 * New reset option for the preferences
1160 * You can set your language in the prefences
1161 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1162 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1163 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1164 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1167 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1168 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1169 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1172 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1173 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1174 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1175 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1176 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1177 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1178 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1179 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1180 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1181 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1184 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1185 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1186 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1187 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1188 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1189 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1190 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1193 * Interface localization
1194 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1195 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1196 * New full-featured Preferences window
1199 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1200 --------------------------------
1203 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1204 * support for skins at the interface level
1205 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1206 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1207 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1208 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1209 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1212 * fixed HTTP redirects
1213 * support for opening an entire directory
1214 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1215 * new video4linux access plug-in
1216 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1219 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1220 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1221 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1224 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1225 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1226 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1227 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1228 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1229 * new codec for raw I420 video
1230 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1233 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1234 (although it still misses some important features)
1235 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1238 * new HTTP output support
1239 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1240 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1243 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1246 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1249 * reorderable playlist
1250 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1251 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1252 * support for mono audio output devices
1253 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1254 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1255 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1256 * the messages window remembers more lines
1257 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1258 * http and ogg stream output options
1259 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1262 * new skinnable interface
1263 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1265 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1266 * support for FLAC audio format
1267 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1269 * network tab in the interface
1270 * "apply" handling in preferences
1273 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1274 ---------------------------------
1277 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1278 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1279 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1280 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1282 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1283 * DTS S/PDIF support
1286 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1287 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1288 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1289 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1292 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1293 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1296 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1299 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1302 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1304 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1305 * rc interface is now fully useable
1306 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1309 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1310 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1311 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1312 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1313 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1315 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1316 * support for mouse gestures
1317 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1320 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1321 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1324 * improved ID3 tag detection
1325 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1326 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1327 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1329 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1332 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1333 ---------------------------------
1336 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1337 English was set as the preferred language
1340 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1341 --------------------------------
1344 * new mouse gesture interface
1345 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1349 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1350 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1351 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1354 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1355 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1359 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1362 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1363 without the user consent
1366 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1368 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1369 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1370 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1373 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1374 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1375 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1376 * playlist enhancements
1377 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1378 * new step forward/step backward commands
1379 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1380 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1381 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1384 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1385 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1386 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1389 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1390 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1393 * native video output is working again
1394 * only commandline interface support
1395 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1398 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1399 --------------------------------
1402 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1403 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1404 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1405 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1406 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1407 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1408 and A/52 streams are supported)
1409 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1414 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1415 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1416 * VCD entry points support
1417 * VCD image file support
1420 * support for *.asf format
1421 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1422 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1423 * support for ogg encapsulation
1424 * support for raw DV format
1425 * support for *.wav format
1426 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1429 Stream discovery & playlists:
1430 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1431 * support for .m3u file format
1432 * support for .asx file format
1433 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1436 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1437 (only available with the .avi demux)
1438 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1439 * support for raw PCM data
1440 * support for Cinepak video codec
1441 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1442 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1443 * support for Xvid codec
1444 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1445 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1446 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1448 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1450 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1453 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1456 * new WxWindows interface
1457 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1458 device and the channels configuration
1459 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1460 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1461 format that VLC can play
1462 * new swedish translation
1463 * enhancements of the playlist window
1464 * new messages window to see debug info
1465 * fixed a few crashes
1468 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1469 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1470 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1471 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working