1 Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
2 -------------------------------------
6 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
7 See 'Access:' for more info.
10 * Instantaneous pausing
11 * Frame-by-Frame playback
13 * Timeshift for most medias
14 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
15 * RTSP trickplay support
19 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
22 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
23 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
24 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
25 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
28 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
29 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
30 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
31 * Metadata for mod files are supported
32 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
33 * A new rawaud demuxer supports raw PCM streams
36 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
37 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
40 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
41 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
42 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
43 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
44 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
45 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
46 * DVB scanning on linux
47 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
48 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
49 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
50 * MTP device access on Unix
51 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
52 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
55 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
56 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
60 * Export the playlist in HTML
61 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
62 * Better metadata handling and reading
64 Linux/Windows interface:
65 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
66 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
67 * Recently played items list
68 * Interface toolbar customizations
69 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
72 - Improvements on many dialogs
73 - New dialog for plugins listing
74 - Fixed-size mode for videos
75 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
76 * Better integration in GTK environments
79 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
80 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
81 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
82 * Additional usability improvements
85 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
86 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
87 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
88 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
89 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
92 * New Maemo port with:
93 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
94 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
97 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
100 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
101 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
104 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
105 * Surround support for PulseAudio
108 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
109 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
110 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
111 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
112 The old image video output has been removed.
113 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
114 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
117 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
119 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
120 ---------------------------------
123 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
126 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
129 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
130 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
131 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
132 main controller window.
133 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
136 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
141 * Updates of other localizations
144 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
145 * Lots of small bugfixes.
146 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
147 * Telnet fixes on Windows
148 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
150 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
151 ---------------------------------
154 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
156 Bunch of small bugfixes.
159 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
160 --------------------------------
165 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
166 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
169 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
170 --------------------------------
172 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
173 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
176 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
179 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
180 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
183 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
184 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
187 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
188 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
189 * Various fixed in playlist
192 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
195 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
198 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
199 ------------------------------------
201 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
202 * Fixes several memory leaks.
205 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
206 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
207 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
210 * Stability fix for the video output.
213 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
214 --------------------------------
217 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
218 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
219 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
220 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
221 * Fixed update system bugs
222 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
225 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
226 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
227 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
228 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
229 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
230 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
231 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
232 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
233 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
234 modern Mac OS X versions
237 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
238 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
240 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
241 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
244 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
245 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
246 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
247 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
248 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
249 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
252 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
253 --------------------------------
255 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
256 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
260 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
261 --------------------------------
263 * Multiple bug fixes.
266 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
267 ---------------------------------
271 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
272 recent to work correctly
273 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
274 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
275 edit the ".hosts" file.
276 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
277 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
278 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
279 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
280 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
281 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
282 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
283 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
284 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
285 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
286 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
287 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
288 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
289 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
290 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
291 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
292 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
293 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
294 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
295 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
296 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
297 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
298 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
299 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
300 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
301 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
302 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
303 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
304 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
305 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
306 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
307 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
308 and postproc modules.
309 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
310 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
311 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
312 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
314 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
316 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
317 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
319 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
320 * Glide video output module has been removed.
326 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
328 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
329 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
332 * Vastly improved playlist support:
333 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
335 * Shoutcast TV listings
336 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
338 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
339 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
341 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
344 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
345 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
346 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
347 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
348 * JACK audio input support
349 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
350 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
351 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
352 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
353 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
354 * Experimental EyeTV access module
355 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
356 (available as a separate download).
357 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
359 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
360 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
361 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
363 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
364 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
367 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
368 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
369 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
370 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
372 * APEv1/2 tags support
373 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
374 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
376 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
377 * TiVo Series 2 support
378 * CD+G karaoke Files support
383 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
384 * Flash Screen Video support
385 * CamStudio Screen Video support
386 * DosBox Capture support
387 * Karl Morton's Video support
388 * limited atrac3 support
390 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
391 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
392 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
394 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
395 * NellyMoser ASAO support
396 * APE (Monkey audio) support
397 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
398 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
401 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
402 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
403 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
404 * AQTitle subtitles support
405 * MKV USF subtitles support
406 * HTML-based subtitles support
407 * MPSub subtitles support
408 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
409 * MPL2 subtitles support
410 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
411 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
412 * Realtext subtitle support
413 * DKS subtitle support
414 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
415 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
418 * Flash Screen Video support
419 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
421 Video outputs and filters:
422 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
423 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
424 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
425 * New puzzle video output filter
426 * Re-written motion detection video filter
427 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
429 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
430 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
431 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
432 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
433 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
434 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
435 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
436 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
437 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
438 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
439 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
440 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
441 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
442 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
444 Audio outputs and filters:
445 * Replay gain support
446 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
447 new scaletempo audio filter)
448 * New spatializer audio filter
449 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
452 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
453 * New RTP payload formats:
454 * Speex voice audio codec
455 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
456 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
457 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
458 * DCCP transport for RTP
459 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
464 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
465 end-user suitable way.
466 * Improved user interaction
467 * Improved mouse gestures
468 * Vastly improved Update checker
469 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
471 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
472 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
474 * Improved video output features
475 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
476 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
477 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
478 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
479 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
481 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
482 if libncursesw is available.
483 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
484 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
485 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
487 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
488 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
489 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
490 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
491 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
492 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
493 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
494 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
497 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
498 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
499 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
502 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
503 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
504 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
505 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
506 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
507 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
510 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
511 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
521 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
522 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
523 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
526 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
527 ----------------------------------
530 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
533 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
534 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
535 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
536 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
537 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
538 * Updated Polish translation
541 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
542 ----------------------------------
545 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
546 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
547 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
550 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
551 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
552 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
553 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
554 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
555 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
556 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
557 to an unexpected application termination
558 * New Serbian translation
559 * Updated Romanian translation
562 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
563 ----------------------------------
566 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
567 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
568 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
569 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
570 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
571 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
572 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
573 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
576 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
577 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
578 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
579 * Fixed AAC resampling
580 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
581 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
584 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
585 ----------------------------------
588 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
589 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
590 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
591 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
592 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
595 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
596 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
597 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
598 * Close MMS access on network timeout
599 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
602 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
603 ----------------------------------
606 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
607 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
610 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
611 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
612 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
613 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
615 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
619 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
622 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
625 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
628 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
631 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
632 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
633 encoding on multi-cpu systems
634 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
635 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
637 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
638 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
639 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
640 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
643 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
646 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
647 ----------------------------------
650 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
651 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
652 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
654 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
655 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
657 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
658 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
661 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
663 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
664 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
665 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
666 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
667 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
668 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
670 * Support for current Ogg file formats
671 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
672 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
675 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
678 * The automatic updating facility was removed
679 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
680 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
681 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
684 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
685 ----------------------------------
687 Various bugfixes, notably:
688 * Windows Vista compatibility
689 * Cropping in Direct3D
690 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
691 * RSS filter string overflow
693 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
695 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
696 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
699 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
700 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
703 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
706 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
709 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
712 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
713 ----------------------------------
715 Various bugfixes, notably:
716 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
717 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
718 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
719 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
720 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
721 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
724 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
725 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
728 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
730 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
731 * Diverse usability improvements
732 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
733 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
734 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
737 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
738 ---------------------------------
741 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
744 * Fullscreen controller improvements
747 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
748 --------------------------------
751 * Shoutcast TV listings support
754 * Support for RTSP authentication
755 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
756 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
757 * ATSC support for DVB input
758 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
759 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
760 * Improved support for Flash Video files
763 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
764 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
765 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
766 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
767 * Matroska WavPack support
768 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
769 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
770 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
773 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
774 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
775 * Improved libcaca support
779 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
780 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
782 * Systray support in skins
784 * Support for Apple Remote control
785 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
786 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
787 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
788 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
790 * Notifications using notification-daemon
793 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
795 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
796 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
797 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
798 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
799 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
801 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
802 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
811 * Updates to the libvlc API
812 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
815 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
816 --------------------------------
819 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
820 * Support for downloading updates
824 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
825 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
826 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
827 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
829 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
830 * Improved subtitles encoding support
831 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
834 * Cook (Real audio) support
836 Playlist / Services discovery:
837 * XSPF playlist support
839 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
842 * New JACK audio output
846 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
847 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
848 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
849 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
850 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
851 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
854 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
857 * System to inform the user and request information
858 - HTTP authentication
862 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
863 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
864 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
867 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
868 - Improved playlist handling
869 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
871 - Embedded Video output
872 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
873 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
874 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
875 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
876 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
878 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
879 - A bunch of new RPN functions
882 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
885 * Mac-Intel compatibility
886 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
887 * Growl "Now playing" support
890 * Ability to log to syslog
891 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
894 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
896 * A bit more automatic testing
899 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
900 ---------------------------------
903 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
904 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
907 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
908 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
911 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
914 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
915 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
921 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
924 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
925 --------------------------------
928 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
932 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
933 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
934 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
937 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
938 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
939 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
940 * GnomeVFS input module
941 * Support for RTP packet reordering
942 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
945 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
946 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
947 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
950 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
951 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
957 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
958 Mixer and Dolby Surround
961 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
962 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
963 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
966 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
968 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
969 - New extended controls panel
970 - New bookmarks window
971 - Fixed playlist sorting
972 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
974 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
975 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
976 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
977 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
981 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
982 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
984 - Include macro to include other files
988 * Should now work outside IE as well
991 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
994 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
995 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
998 The following languages were added:
1002 * Simplified Chinese
1003 The following languages were re-added:
1007 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1008 --------------------------------
1011 * Rewrite of the playlist
1013 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1014 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1015 * Preferences improvements:
1016 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1017 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1019 * Core image manipulation support
1020 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1021 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1022 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1023 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1024 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1025 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1026 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1027 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1028 * Access filter architecture
1029 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1030 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1034 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1035 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1036 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1037 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1038 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1039 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1040 * Massive Matroska improvements
1041 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1043 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1044 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1045 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1046 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1047 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1049 Decoders / Encoders:
1050 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1051 * PNG decoder/encoder
1052 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1053 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1056 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1059 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1060 * Brand new SAP module
1061 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1062 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1063 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1064 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1065 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1066 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1070 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1073 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1074 * Image file video output (png)
1075 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1076 * Improvements to wall video filter
1077 * Support for font color and opacity
1083 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1084 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1085 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1089 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1090 - Improved preferences
1091 - Improvements to the wizard
1092 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1094 - Redesigned playlist
1095 - Improved preferences
1097 - Support for multiple actions
1100 - Support for the new playlist system
1102 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1105 * Screensaver disabling fix
1106 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1107 * Support for no-decoration windows
1110 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1111 * The OpenGL video output is back
1112 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1113 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1114 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1115 is not yet available in the new module
1116 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1119 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1128 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1131 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1134 The following languages were added:
1140 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1141 --------------------------------
1144 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1145 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1148 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1149 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1150 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1153 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1156 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1159 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1162 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1163 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1164 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1168 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1170 * Support of playlist group announcement
1173 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1174 --------------------------------
1177 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1178 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1179 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1180 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1181 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1182 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1185 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1186 (Stream your desktop)
1187 * Improved DVD support:
1188 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1189 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1190 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1191 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1192 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1193 (selection of titles/chapters).
1196 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1197 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1198 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1199 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1200 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1201 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1202 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1203 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1204 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1205 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1208 * G.726 audio support
1209 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1210 * MPEG-4 text support
1211 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1212 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1213 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1217 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1218 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1219 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1220 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1221 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1222 * DVB subtitles encoder
1223 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1224 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1226 * Text track muxing for mp4
1227 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1228 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1229 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1230 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1231 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1232 * Improved ASF muxer
1234 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1235 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1236 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1239 * New audio equalizer filter
1240 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1241 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1242 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1243 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1246 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1247 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1248 with support for effects.
1249 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1250 - New filters can be streamed.
1251 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1252 - Centralized scaling and blending
1254 - "time", to display current time
1255 - "marq", to display a marquee
1258 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1259 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1260 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1261 * A few skins2 improvements
1262 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1263 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1264 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1265 * Improved CORBA control module
1268 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1269 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1270 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1273 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1274 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1275 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1278 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1279 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1280 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1281 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1282 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1285 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1288 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1289 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1292 * Server/client network synchronization module
1293 * VBrick streams fully supported
1294 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1298 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1299 --------------------------------
1302 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1303 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1304 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1305 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1308 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1309 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1310 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1311 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1312 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1313 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1314 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1317 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1318 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1319 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1320 * Improved directory access module.
1321 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1322 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1323 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1324 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1325 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1328 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1329 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1330 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1333 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1334 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1335 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1338 * Improved session announcement system.
1339 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1340 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1341 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1342 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1343 * Improved transrater.
1344 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1345 * New configuration system.
1346 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1349 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1350 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1351 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1352 * Supports scheduling.
1353 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1354 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1357 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1358 - Ability to embed video output.
1359 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1360 - Lots of improvements.
1361 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1362 - New design and set of icons.
1363 - Ability to embed video output.
1364 - Support for hotkeys.
1365 - Support for bookmarks.
1367 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1368 - Better hotkeys handling.
1371 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1372 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1373 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1374 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1377 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1378 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1379 * Improved Windows installer.
1385 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1386 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1389 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1390 ---------------------------------
1393 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1394 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1397 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1398 --------------------------------
1401 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1402 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1405 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1406 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1407 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1408 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1411 * Internal improvments
1412 * Improved import/export
1415 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1417 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1418 small and strange formats.
1420 * New MOD audio demux.
1421 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1422 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1423 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1424 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1427 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1428 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1429 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1435 * New opengl video output plugin.
1438 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1439 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1442 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1443 --------------------------------
1446 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1447 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1448 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1449 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1450 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1451 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1452 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1453 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1456 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1461 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1462 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1463 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1464 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1465 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1466 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1467 * Better Icecast support.
1468 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1469 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1472 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1473 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1474 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1475 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1476 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1477 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1478 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1481 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1482 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1483 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1484 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1485 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1486 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1487 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1488 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1489 * Preliminary RTP support.
1490 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1495 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1496 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1498 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1499 - Improvements and help in preferences
1500 - New streaming wizard
1501 - Revised Disc Open menu
1503 - Improvements of the standard pages
1504 - Support for new commands
1505 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1508 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1509 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1512 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1513 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1514 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1515 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1516 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1517 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1518 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1519 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1520 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1523 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1525 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1526 * Support for Panther.
1527 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1528 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1531 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1532 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1533 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1534 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1535 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1536 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1537 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1538 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1541 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1542 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1543 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1546 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1549 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1550 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1551 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1552 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1555 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1556 --------------------------------
1559 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1562 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1563 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1566 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1567 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1570 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1573 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1574 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1577 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1580 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1583 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1584 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1588 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1589 --------------------------------
1592 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1593 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1597 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1598 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1599 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1601 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1602 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1605 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1608 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1611 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1612 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1616 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1617 --------------------------------
1620 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1621 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1625 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1626 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1627 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1628 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1629 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1632 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1633 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1634 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1637 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1638 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1639 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1642 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1643 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1644 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1645 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1646 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1649 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1650 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1651 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1654 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1657 * Improved build system.
1658 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1659 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1660 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1661 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1664 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1665 --------------------------------
1668 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1671 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1672 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1673 * Video 4 Linux support
1674 * CD Digital Audio support
1675 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1678 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1679 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1680 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1681 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1684 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1685 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1686 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1687 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1688 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1689 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1690 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1693 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1694 * New HTTP remote control interface
1697 * 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.
1698 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1699 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1700 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1703 * New reset option for the preferences
1704 * You can set your language in the prefences
1705 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1706 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1707 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1708 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1711 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1712 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1713 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1716 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1717 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1718 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1719 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1720 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1721 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1722 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1723 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1724 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1725 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1728 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1729 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1730 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1731 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1732 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1733 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1734 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1737 * Interface localization
1738 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1739 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1740 * New full-featured Preferences window
1743 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1744 --------------------------------
1747 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1748 * support for skins at the interface level
1749 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1750 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1751 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1752 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1753 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1756 * fixed HTTP redirects
1757 * support for opening an entire directory
1758 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1759 * new video4linux access plug-in
1760 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1763 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1764 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1765 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1768 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1769 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1770 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1771 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1772 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1773 * new codec for raw I420 video
1774 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1777 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1778 (although it still misses some important features)
1779 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1782 * new HTTP output support
1783 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1784 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1787 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1790 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1793 * reorderable playlist
1794 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1795 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1796 * support for mono audio output devices
1797 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1798 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1799 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1800 * the messages window remembers more lines
1801 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1802 * http and ogg stream output options
1803 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1806 * new skinnable interface
1807 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1809 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1810 * support for FLAC audio format
1811 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1813 * network tab in the interface
1814 * "apply" handling in preferences
1817 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1818 ---------------------------------
1821 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1822 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1823 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1824 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1826 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1827 * DTS S/PDIF support
1830 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1831 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1832 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1833 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1836 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1837 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1840 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1843 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1846 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1848 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1849 * rc interface is now fully useable
1850 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1853 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1854 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1855 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1856 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1857 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1859 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1860 * support for mouse gestures
1861 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1864 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1865 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1868 * improved ID3 tag detection
1869 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1870 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1871 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1873 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1876 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1877 ---------------------------------
1880 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1881 English was set as the preferred language
1884 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1885 --------------------------------
1888 * new mouse gesture interface
1889 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1893 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1894 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1895 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1898 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1899 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1903 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1906 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1907 without the user consent
1910 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1912 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1913 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1914 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1917 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1918 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1919 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1920 * playlist enhancements
1921 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1922 * new step forward/step backward commands
1923 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1924 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1925 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1928 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1929 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1930 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1933 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1934 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1937 * native video output is working again
1938 * only commandline interface support
1939 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1942 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1943 --------------------------------
1946 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1947 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1948 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1949 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1950 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1951 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1952 and A/52 streams are supported)
1953 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1958 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1959 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1960 * VCD entry points support
1961 * VCD image file support
1964 * support for *.asf format
1965 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1966 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1967 * support for ogg encapsulation
1968 * support for raw DV format
1969 * support for *.wav format
1970 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1973 Stream discovery & playlists:
1974 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1975 * support for .m3u file format
1976 * support for .asx file format
1977 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1980 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1981 (only available with the .avi demux)
1982 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1983 * support for raw PCM data
1984 * support for Cinepak video codec
1985 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1986 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1987 * support for Xvid codec
1988 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1989 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1990 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1992 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1994 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1997 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2000 * new WxWindows interface
2001 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2002 device and the channels configuration
2003 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2004 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2005 format that VLC can play
2006 * new swedish translation
2007 * enhancements of the playlist window
2008 * new messages window to see debug info
2009 * fixed a few crashes
2012 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2013 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2014 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2015 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working