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 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
35 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
36 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
39 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
42 * JACK audio input support
43 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
44 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
45 * Fixed aiff stereo file
46 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
47 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
49 * APEv1/2 tags support
50 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
53 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
54 * MKV USF subtitles support
55 * HTML based subtitles support
56 * Flash Screen Video support
57 * CamStudio Screen Video support
58 * DosBox Capture support
59 * Karl Morton's Video support
60 * limited atrac3 support
61 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
64 * Flash Screen Video support
66 Video output and filters:
67 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
68 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
69 * New puzzle video output filter
70 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
71 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
73 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
74 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
75 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
77 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
78 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
79 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
80 was previously part of the mosaic module.
81 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
84 * Replay gain support.
85 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
88 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
92 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
94 * Improved user interaction
95 * Improved mouse gestures
97 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
98 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
99 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
100 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
104 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
111 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
112 ----------------------------------
114 Various bugfixes, notably:
115 * Windows Vista compatibility
116 * Cropping in Direct3D
117 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
118 * RSS filter string overflow
120 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
122 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
123 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
126 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
129 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
132 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
135 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
138 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
139 ----------------------------------
141 Various bugfixes, notably:
142 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
143 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
144 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
145 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
146 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
147 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
150 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
151 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
154 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
156 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
157 * Diverse usability improvements
158 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
159 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
160 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
163 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
164 ---------------------------------
167 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
170 * Fullscreen controller improvements
173 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
174 --------------------------------
177 * Shoutcast TV listings support
180 * Support for RTSP authentication
181 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
182 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
183 * ATSC support for DVB input
184 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
185 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
186 * Improved support for Flash Video files
189 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
190 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
191 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
192 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
193 * Matroska WavPack support
194 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
195 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
196 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
199 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
200 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
201 * Improved libcaca support
205 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
206 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
208 * Systray support in skins
210 * Support for Apple Remote control
211 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
212 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
213 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
214 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
216 * Notifications using notification-daemon
219 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
221 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
222 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
223 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
224 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
225 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
227 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
228 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
237 * Updates to the libvlc API
238 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
241 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
242 --------------------------------
245 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
246 * Support for downloading updates
250 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
251 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
252 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
253 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
255 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
256 * Improved subtitles encoding support
257 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
260 * Cook (Real audio) support
262 Playlist / Services discovery:
263 * XSPF playlist support
265 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
268 * New JACK audio output
272 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
273 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
274 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
275 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
276 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
277 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
280 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
283 * System to inform the user and request information
284 - HTTP authentication
288 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
289 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
290 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
293 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
294 - Improved playlist handling
295 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
297 - Embedded Video output
298 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
299 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
300 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
301 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
302 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
304 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
305 - A bunch of new RPN functions
308 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
311 * Mac-Intel compatibility
312 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
313 * Growl "Now playing" support
316 * Ability to log to syslog
317 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
320 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
322 * A bit more automatic testing
325 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
326 ---------------------------------
329 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
330 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
333 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
334 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
337 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
340 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
341 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
347 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
350 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
351 --------------------------------
354 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
358 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
359 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
360 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
363 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
364 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
365 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
366 * GnomeVFS input module
367 * Support for RTP packet reordering
368 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
371 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
372 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
373 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
376 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
377 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
383 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
384 Mixer and Dolby Surround
387 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
388 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
389 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
392 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
394 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
395 - New extended controls panel
396 - New bookmarks window
397 - Fixed playlist sorting
398 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
400 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
401 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
402 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
403 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
407 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
408 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
410 - Include macro to include other files
414 * Should now work outside IE as well
417 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
420 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
421 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
424 The following languages were added:
429 The following languages were re-added:
433 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
434 --------------------------------
437 * Rewrite of the playlist
439 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
440 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
441 * Preferences improvements:
442 - New organization, designed to improve usability
443 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
445 * Core image manipulation support
446 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
447 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
448 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
449 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
450 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
451 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
452 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
453 now separated by ':' instead of ','
454 * Access filter architecture
455 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
456 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
460 * Support for SOCKS proxy
461 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
462 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
463 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
464 * Better support for Kasenna streams
465 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
466 * Massive Matroska improvements
467 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
469 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
470 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
471 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
472 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
473 * Support for FTP over IPv6
476 * Dirac decoder and encoder
477 * PNG decoder/encoder
478 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
479 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
482 * New Record and Timeshift filters
485 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
486 * Brand new SAP module
487 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
488 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
489 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
490 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
491 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
492 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
496 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
499 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
500 * Image file video output (png)
501 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
502 * Improvements to wall video filter
503 * Support for font color and opacity
509 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
510 - Seeking support in VoD streams
511 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
515 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
516 - Improved preferences
517 - Improvements to the wizard
518 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
520 - Redesigned playlist
521 - Improved preferences
523 - Support for multiple actions
526 - Support for the new playlist system
528 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
531 * Screensaver disabling fix
532 * DirectShow tuner configuration
533 * Support for no-decoration windows
536 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
537 * The OpenGL video output is back
538 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
539 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
540 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
541 is not yet available in the new module
542 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
545 * Support for single-buffered overlay
554 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
557 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
560 The following languages were added:
566 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
567 --------------------------------
570 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
571 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
574 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
575 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
576 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
579 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
582 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
585 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
588 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
589 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
590 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
594 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
596 * Support of playlist group announcement
599 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
600 --------------------------------
603 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
604 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
605 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
606 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
607 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
608 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
611 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
612 (Stream your desktop)
613 * Improved DVD support:
614 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
615 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
616 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
617 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
618 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
619 (selection of titles/chapters).
622 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
623 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
624 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
625 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
626 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
627 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
628 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
629 * Improved Ogg demuxer
630 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
631 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
634 * G.726 audio support
635 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
636 * MPEG-4 text support
637 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
638 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
639 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
643 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
644 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
645 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
646 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
647 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
648 * DVB subtitles encoder
649 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
650 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
652 * Text track muxing for mp4
653 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
654 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
655 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
656 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
657 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
660 * H.263 RTP streaming support
661 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
662 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
665 * New audio equalizer filter
666 * Very trivial volume normalizer
667 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
668 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
669 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
672 * Roku HD1000 Video output
673 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
674 with support for effects.
675 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
676 - New filters can be streamed.
677 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
678 - Centralized scaling and blending
680 - "time", to display current time
681 - "marq", to display a marquee
684 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
685 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
686 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
687 * A few skins2 improvements
688 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
689 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
690 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
691 * Improved CORBA control module
694 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
695 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
696 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
699 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
700 * Experimental SVG rendering module
701 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
704 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
705 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
706 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
707 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
708 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
711 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
714 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
715 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
718 * Server/client network synchronization module
719 * VBrick streams fully supported
720 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
724 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
725 --------------------------------
728 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
729 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
730 * Improved HTTP daemon.
731 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
734 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
735 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
736 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
737 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
738 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
739 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
740 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
743 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
744 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
745 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
746 * Improved directory access module.
747 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
748 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
749 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
750 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
751 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
754 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
755 * mmsh streaming fixes.
756 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
759 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
760 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
761 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
764 * Improved session announcement system.
765 * Minimize threads usage by default.
766 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
767 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
768 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
769 * Improved transrater.
770 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
771 * New configuration system.
772 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
775 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
776 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
777 * Supports live streams and VoD.
778 * Supports scheduling.
779 * Telnet interface for vlm.
780 * HTTP interface for vlm.
783 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
784 - Ability to embed video output.
785 - Support for bitmap fonts.
786 - Lots of improvements.
787 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
788 - New design and set of icons.
789 - Ability to embed video output.
790 - Support for hotkeys.
791 - Support for bookmarks.
793 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
794 - Better hotkeys handling.
797 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
798 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
799 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
800 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
803 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
804 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
805 * Improved Windows installer.
811 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
812 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
815 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
816 ---------------------------------
819 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
820 * Playing MOD files is working now.
823 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
824 --------------------------------
827 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
828 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
831 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
832 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
833 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
834 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
837 * Internal improvments
838 * Improved import/export
841 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
843 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
844 small and strange formats.
846 * New MOD audio demux.
847 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
848 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
849 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
850 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
853 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
854 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
855 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
861 * New opengl video output plugin.
864 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
865 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
868 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
869 --------------------------------
872 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
873 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
874 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
875 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
876 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
877 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
878 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
879 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
882 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
887 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
888 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
889 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
890 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
891 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
892 * Reworked DVB tuning.
893 * Better Icecast support.
894 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
895 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
898 * Support for Theora video encoding.
899 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
900 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
901 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
902 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
903 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
904 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
907 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
908 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
909 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
910 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
911 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
912 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
913 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
914 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
915 * Preliminary RTP support.
916 * Fixes to SAP announces.
921 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
922 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
924 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
925 - Improvements and help in preferences
926 - New streaming wizard
927 - Revised Disc Open menu
929 - Improvements of the standard pages
930 - Support for new commands
931 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
934 * Many fixes to the SAP module
935 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
938 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
939 * Text subtitles autodetection.
940 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
941 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
942 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
943 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
944 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
945 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
946 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
949 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
951 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
952 * Support for Panther.
953 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
954 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
957 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
958 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
959 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
960 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
961 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
962 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
963 * Multimonitor support (untested).
964 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
967 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
968 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
969 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
972 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
975 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
976 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
977 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
978 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
981 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
982 --------------------------------
985 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
988 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
989 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
992 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
993 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
996 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
999 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1000 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1003 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1006 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1009 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1010 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1014 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1015 --------------------------------
1018 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1019 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1023 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1024 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1025 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1027 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1028 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1031 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1034 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1037 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1038 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1042 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1043 --------------------------------
1046 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1047 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1051 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1052 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1053 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1054 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1055 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1058 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1059 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1060 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1063 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1064 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1065 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1068 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1069 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1070 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1071 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1072 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1075 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1076 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1077 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1080 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1083 * Improved build system.
1084 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1085 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1086 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1087 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1090 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1091 --------------------------------
1094 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1097 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1098 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1099 * Video 4 Linux support
1100 * CD Digital Audio support
1101 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1104 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1105 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1106 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1107 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1110 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1111 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1112 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1113 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1114 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1115 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1116 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1119 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1120 * New HTTP remote control interface
1123 * 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.
1124 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1125 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1126 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1129 * New reset option for the preferences
1130 * You can set your language in the prefences
1131 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1132 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1133 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1134 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1137 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1138 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1139 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1142 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1143 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1144 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1145 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1146 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1147 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1148 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1149 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1150 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1151 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1154 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1155 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1156 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1157 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1158 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1159 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1160 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1163 * Interface localization
1164 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1165 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1166 * New full-featured Preferences window
1169 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1170 --------------------------------
1173 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1174 * support for skins at the interface level
1175 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1176 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1177 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1178 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1179 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1182 * fixed HTTP redirects
1183 * support for opening an entire directory
1184 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1185 * new video4linux access plug-in
1186 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1189 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1190 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1191 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1194 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1195 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1196 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1197 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1198 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1199 * new codec for raw I420 video
1200 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1203 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1204 (although it still misses some important features)
1205 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1208 * new HTTP output support
1209 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1210 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1213 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1216 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1219 * reorderable playlist
1220 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1221 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1222 * support for mono audio output devices
1223 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1224 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1225 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1226 * the messages window remembers more lines
1227 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1228 * http and ogg stream output options
1229 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1232 * new skinnable interface
1233 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1235 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1236 * support for FLAC audio format
1237 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1239 * network tab in the interface
1240 * "apply" handling in preferences
1243 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1244 ---------------------------------
1247 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1248 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1249 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1250 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1252 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1253 * DTS S/PDIF support
1256 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1257 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1258 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1259 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1262 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1263 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1266 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1269 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1272 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1274 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1275 * rc interface is now fully useable
1276 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1279 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1280 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1281 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1282 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1283 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1285 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1286 * support for mouse gestures
1287 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1290 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1291 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1294 * improved ID3 tag detection
1295 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1296 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1297 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1299 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1302 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1303 ---------------------------------
1306 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1307 English was set as the preferred language
1310 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1311 --------------------------------
1314 * new mouse gesture interface
1315 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1319 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1320 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1321 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1324 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1325 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1329 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1332 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1333 without the user consent
1336 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1338 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1339 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1340 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1343 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1344 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1345 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1346 * playlist enhancements
1347 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1348 * new step forward/step backward commands
1349 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1350 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1351 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1354 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1355 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1356 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1359 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1360 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1363 * native video output is working again
1364 * only commandline interface support
1365 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1368 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1369 --------------------------------
1372 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1373 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1374 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1375 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1376 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1377 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1378 and A/52 streams are supported)
1379 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1384 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1385 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1386 * VCD entry points support
1387 * VCD image file support
1390 * support for *.asf format
1391 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1392 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1393 * support for ogg encapsulation
1394 * support for raw DV format
1395 * support for *.wav format
1396 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1399 Stream discovery & playlists:
1400 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1401 * support for .m3u file format
1402 * support for .asx file format
1403 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1406 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1407 (only available with the .avi demux)
1408 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1409 * support for raw PCM data
1410 * support for Cinepak video codec
1411 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1412 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1413 * support for Xvid codec
1414 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1415 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1416 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1418 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1420 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1423 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1426 * new WxWindows interface
1427 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1428 device and the channels configuration
1429 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1430 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1431 format that VLC can play
1432 * new swedish translation
1433 * enhancements of the playlist window
1434 * new messages window to see debug info
1435 * fixed a few crashes
1438 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1439 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1440 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1441 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working