1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
13 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
14 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
15 * Support for Ulead DV audio
16 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
17 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
18 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
19 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
20 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
23 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
26 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
27 * Major improvements in DASH support
28 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
29 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
30 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
31 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
34 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
35 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
36 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
37 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
38 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
39 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
40 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
41 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
42 * Support for more MJPEG streams
45 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
46 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
47 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
48 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
51 * new remapping channel filter
52 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
53 * new VSXu visualization plugin
56 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
57 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
60 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
61 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
62 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
63 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
64 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
65 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
68 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
71 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
72 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
73 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
74 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
75 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
78 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
79 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
82 * add support for multiple video outputs
83 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
85 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
86 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
87 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
88 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
89 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
90 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
91 VLC's internal volume level
92 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
93 selection and to manage the list of presets
94 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
95 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
96 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
97 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
98 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
99 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
100 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
101 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
103 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
104 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
105 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
106 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
110 * Partial support for Qt5.0
111 * Menus modifications and improvements
112 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
113 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
117 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
118 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
119 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
120 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
123 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
124 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
125 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
126 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
127 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
128 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
130 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
131 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
134 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
135 --------------------------------
138 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
139 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
140 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
141 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
142 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
143 during playback on Mac OS X
146 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
147 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
148 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
151 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
152 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
153 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
154 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
155 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
158 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
159 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
160 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
161 * Support Youtube live streams
164 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
167 * Fix media info dialog update
168 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
169 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
170 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
171 * Fix album art display at start
174 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
175 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
176 * Fix menus display and behavior
177 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
178 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
179 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
180 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
181 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
182 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
183 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
186 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
187 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
188 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
189 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
190 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
191 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
192 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
193 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
194 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
197 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
198 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
199 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
200 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
203 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
204 --------------------------------
207 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
210 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
211 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
214 * Add GateKeeper support
215 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
216 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
217 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
220 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
223 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
224 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
225 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
226 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
227 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
230 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
231 --------------------------------
234 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
235 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
236 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
237 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
238 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
239 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
240 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
241 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
242 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
243 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
244 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
248 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
249 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
250 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
251 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
252 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
253 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
254 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
255 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
256 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
257 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
258 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
259 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
262 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
263 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
265 * Fix MP3 free format support
268 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
269 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
270 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
271 * Fix for DVB channels file support
272 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
275 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
276 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
278 Audio filters and output:
279 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
280 * Fix DirectSound device selection
281 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
282 * Do not apply volume in file output
283 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
284 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
287 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
288 the persistant media library
289 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
290 to the media library or the temporary playlist
291 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
292 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
293 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
294 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
295 press on the Play/Pause button
296 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
297 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
298 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
299 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
300 * Many Fullscreen fixes
301 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
302 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
303 Synchronization panel
304 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
305 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
306 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
307 * Fix crashes on exit
308 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
310 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
311 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
312 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
313 automatically reset on the first launch.
314 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
315 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
316 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
319 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
320 * Fixes for icecast SD
323 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
324 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
325 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
326 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
327 * Fix tags and file names display
328 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
331 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
332 * Fix for key events and focus loss
335 * Fix display of some buttons
336 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
337 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
340 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
341 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
342 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
345 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
346 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
347 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
348 Thai translations update
349 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
352 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
353 --------------------------------
356 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
357 * fix the samba module compilation
358 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
359 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
360 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
361 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
364 * Support for MXPEG files
365 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
366 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
369 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
370 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
371 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
374 * Fix ogm header creation
377 * limit spatializer filter distortions
378 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
381 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
382 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
383 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
384 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
387 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
390 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
391 * allow to hide the sidebar
392 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
393 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
394 * noticebly faster launch time
395 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
396 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
397 * improve track synchronization panel
398 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
399 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
402 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
403 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
404 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
405 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
408 * fix for menus display
409 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
410 * documentation update
413 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
414 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
417 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
418 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
419 * Update Jamendo selections
423 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
424 * fix a crash on VLM close
427 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
428 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
429 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
430 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
433 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
436 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
437 ---------------------------------
440 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
441 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
442 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
443 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
444 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
445 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
446 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
447 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
448 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
449 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
450 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
451 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
452 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
453 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
454 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
455 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
456 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
457 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
458 --http-crl (optional CRL).
459 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
460 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
461 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
462 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
463 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
464 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
465 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
467 Important changes for packagers:
468 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
469 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
470 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
471 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
472 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
473 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
474 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
475 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
476 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
477 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
480 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
481 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
482 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
483 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
484 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
485 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
486 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
489 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
490 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
491 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
492 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
493 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
494 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
495 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
496 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
497 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
498 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
499 * PulseAudio audio input support
500 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
501 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
502 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
503 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
504 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
505 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
506 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
507 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
510 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
511 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
512 are notably concerned.
513 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
514 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
515 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
516 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
517 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
518 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
519 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
520 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
521 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
522 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
523 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
524 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
525 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
526 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
527 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
530 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
531 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
532 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
533 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
534 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
535 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
536 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
537 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
538 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
539 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
540 * Improved support of tracker files
541 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
544 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
545 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
546 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
547 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
548 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
549 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
550 and important cleanups and optimisations
551 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
552 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
553 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
554 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
555 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
556 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
557 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
558 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
559 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
560 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
561 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
562 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
563 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
564 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
565 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
566 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
567 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
568 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
569 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
570 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
571 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
574 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
575 * New video output for iOS platform
576 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
577 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
578 * Various vmem improvements
579 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
580 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
581 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
582 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
583 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
584 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
586 Audio Output and Filters:
587 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
588 * New audio output in memory (amem)
589 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
590 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
591 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
592 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
593 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
594 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
595 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
596 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
599 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
600 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
601 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
602 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
603 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
604 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
605 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
606 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
607 * New anti-flickering filter
608 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
609 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
610 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
611 blackbox and customizable shadow.
612 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
613 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
614 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
617 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
618 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
619 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
620 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
621 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
622 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
623 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
624 * Major rework of VoD support
625 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
626 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
627 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
628 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
629 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
630 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
631 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
632 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
633 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
634 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
637 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
638 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
641 * New capabilities for libVLC:
642 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
643 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
644 list of available audio and video filters
645 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
646 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
647 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
650 * asademux, subsass: use libass
651 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
652 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
654 * upnp: use upnp_intel
655 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
656 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
657 * removal of the noise filter
658 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
659 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
660 removed in Growl's next release, too.
661 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
664 * Update of translations for most languages.
665 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
668 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
669 ----------------------------------
672 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
673 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
676 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
677 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
680 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
681 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
682 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
685 * Camtasia decoding fix.
688 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
689 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
692 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
695 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
696 ----------------------------------
699 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
700 including support for OS X Lion
701 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
702 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
705 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
708 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
709 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
710 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
713 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
716 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
717 ----------------------------------
720 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
721 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
724 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
725 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
726 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
727 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
728 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
730 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
731 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
732 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
734 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
735 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
738 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
741 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
744 * Fix quitting on Linux
745 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
749 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
752 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
755 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
756 ---------------------------------
758 Windows and Mac OS X:
759 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
762 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
763 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
766 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
769 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
772 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
774 Miscellaneous fixes in:
775 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
777 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
778 * RTP output and XML export
779 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
783 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
784 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
785 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
786 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
789 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
790 --------------------------------
792 Windows and Mac OS X:
793 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
796 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
799 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
800 * Improve Apple Remote handling
801 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
802 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
803 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
804 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
807 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
808 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
812 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
813 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
814 * New Luganda Translation
817 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
818 --------------------------------
821 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
824 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
825 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
826 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
827 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
830 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
832 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
833 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
834 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
835 * mp4 demuxer improvements
836 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
837 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
838 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
839 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
841 Miscellaneous fixes in:
842 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
843 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
844 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
845 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
846 * Configure and build system improvements
847 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
850 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
851 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
852 * New icelandic translation
855 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
856 --------------------------------
859 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
863 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
864 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
865 and stability reasons
868 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
872 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
875 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
876 ----------------------------------
879 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
882 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
883 ---------------------------------
886 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
887 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
888 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
889 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
892 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
895 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
896 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
897 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
898 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
901 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
902 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
903 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
905 Subtitles and renderer:
906 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
907 * Mark more freetype options as safe
908 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
909 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
910 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
913 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
914 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
915 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
916 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
919 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
920 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
923 * KDE device solid actions
925 * Transcode integer overflow
926 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
927 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
930 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
931 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
932 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
935 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
936 ----------------------------------
939 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
943 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
946 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
949 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
950 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
951 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
952 * Taglib thread-safety fix
955 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
959 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
962 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
965 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
966 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
968 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
972 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
973 * Miscellaneous fixes
976 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
977 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
979 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
980 * New Asturian translation
983 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
984 ----------------------------------
987 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
989 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
992 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
995 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
996 * Various fixes for Windows
999 * New Armenian translation
1000 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1001 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1004 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1005 --------------------------------
1008 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1009 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1010 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1013 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1014 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1017 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1018 --------------------------------
1020 Access and demuxers:
1021 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1022 * fix for podcasts parsing
1023 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1026 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1027 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1030 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1031 * fix m3u playlists exports
1034 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1037 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1040 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1043 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1046 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1049 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1050 --------------------------------
1053 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1054 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1057 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1058 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1061 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1062 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1063 * fix console output encoding
1065 Interface and extensions:
1066 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1067 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1070 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1071 --------------------------------
1074 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1075 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1076 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1077 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1078 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1079 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1080 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1081 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1082 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1083 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1084 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1085 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1086 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1087 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1088 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1089 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1093 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1094 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1095 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1096 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1097 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1100 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1103 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1104 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1105 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1109 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1112 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1113 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1114 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1117 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1118 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1119 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1120 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1123 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1124 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1127 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1128 --------------------------------
1130 Important changes for users:
1131 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1132 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1134 Important changes for packagers:
1135 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1136 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1137 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1138 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1139 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1141 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1143 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1144 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1145 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1146 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1147 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1150 * Support for the sftp protocol
1151 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1152 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1153 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1154 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1155 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1158 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1159 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1160 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1162 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1163 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1164 * Invmem module improvements
1165 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1166 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1167 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1168 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1169 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1170 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1171 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1172 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1173 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1174 * Support for VP8 codec
1175 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1178 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1179 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1180 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1181 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1182 * Various EGP improvements
1183 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1184 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1187 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1188 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1189 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1190 * Podcast images are now displayed
1193 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1194 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1195 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1196 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1197 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1198 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1199 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1200 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1201 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1202 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1203 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1206 * New content extensions lua framework
1209 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1210 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1211 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1212 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1213 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1214 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1215 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1218 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1219 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1220 * Service discovery based on libudev
1221 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1224 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1225 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1226 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1227 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1228 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1229 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1230 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1233 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1234 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1235 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1238 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1240 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1241 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1244 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1247 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1248 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1249 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1250 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1251 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1252 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1253 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1256 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1257 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1260 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1261 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1262 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1266 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1267 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1268 * Improved Solaris port
1271 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1272 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1275 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1276 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1277 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1278 * transrate: broken since too long
1279 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1280 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1281 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1282 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1283 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1284 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1285 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1286 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1287 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1288 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1289 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1290 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1291 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1292 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1295 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1301 Decoders/Packetizers:
1302 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1305 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1306 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1307 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1308 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1309 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1312 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1313 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1316 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1317 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1320 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1321 and Walloon translations updated
1322 * Sinhala translation started
1325 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1326 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1329 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1330 --------------------------------
1333 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1334 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1337 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1340 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1341 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1344 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1345 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1346 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1347 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1350 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1351 --------------------------------
1354 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1355 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1358 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1359 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1362 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1363 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1366 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1369 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1370 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1373 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1374 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1377 * New Walloon translation
1378 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1381 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1382 --------------------------------
1385 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1386 regressions in most popular drivers
1387 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1390 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1391 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1392 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1395 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1396 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1399 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1400 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1401 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1402 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1403 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1406 * New udev module for linux
1409 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1412 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1415 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1416 --------------------------------
1419 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1420 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1421 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1424 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1425 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1428 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1429 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1432 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1435 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1436 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1437 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1438 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1441 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1442 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1443 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1444 - no support for Goom and SDL
1445 - limited text rendering support
1446 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1449 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1450 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1451 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1452 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1453 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1454 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1455 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1456 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1457 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1461 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1464 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1467 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1468 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1469 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1470 Arabic and French translation updates
1473 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1474 --------------------------------
1477 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1478 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1479 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1480 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1481 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1482 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1485 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1486 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1487 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1490 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1491 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1492 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1495 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1498 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1499 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1502 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1503 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1504 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1505 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1506 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1507 * Fix various crashes
1510 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1512 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1516 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1517 ---------------------------------
1521 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1522 See 'Access:' for more info.
1523 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1526 * Instantaneous pausing
1527 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1528 * Finer speed control
1529 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1530 * Timeshift for most medias
1531 * RTSP trickplay support
1532 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1535 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1536 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1537 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1538 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1539 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1540 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1541 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1542 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1543 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1544 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1547 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1548 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1549 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1550 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1551 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1552 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1553 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1556 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1557 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1560 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1561 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1562 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1563 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1564 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1565 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1566 * DVB scanning on linux
1567 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1568 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1569 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1570 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1571 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1572 * MTP device access on Unix
1573 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1574 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1577 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1578 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1579 Windows and Mac OS X.
1582 * Export the playlist in HTML
1583 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1584 * Better metadata handling and reading
1586 Linux/Windows interface:
1587 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1588 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1589 * Recently played items list
1590 * Interface toolbar customizations
1591 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1592 - More menus actions
1593 - Finer speed slider
1594 - Improvements on many dialogs
1595 - New dialog for plugins listing
1596 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1597 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1598 * Better integration in GTK environments
1601 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1602 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1603 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1604 * Additional usability improvements
1607 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1608 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1609 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1610 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1611 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1614 * New Maemo port with:
1615 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1616 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1619 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1622 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1623 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1624 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1625 * Support for latest iSight models
1628 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1629 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1632 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1633 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1634 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1635 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1636 The old image video output has been removed.
1637 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1638 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1641 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1649 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1650 --------------------------------------
1656 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1657 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1658 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1659 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1660 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1661 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1662 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1664 Various fixes to the following modules:
1667 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1668 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1669 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1671 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1676 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1677 ---------------------------------
1680 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1681 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1684 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1685 ---------------------------------
1688 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1691 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1694 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1695 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1696 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1697 main controller window.
1698 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1701 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1706 * Updates of other localizations
1709 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1710 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1711 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1712 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1713 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1716 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1717 ---------------------------------
1720 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1722 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1725 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1726 --------------------------------
1731 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1732 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1735 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1736 --------------------------------
1738 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1739 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1742 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1745 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1746 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1749 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1750 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1753 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1754 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1755 * Various fixed in playlist
1758 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1761 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1764 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1765 ------------------------------------
1767 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1768 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1771 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1772 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1773 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1776 * Stability fix for the video output.
1779 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1780 --------------------------------
1783 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1784 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1785 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1786 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1787 * Fixed update system bugs
1788 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1791 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1792 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1793 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1794 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1795 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1796 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1797 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1798 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1799 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1800 modern Mac OS X versions
1803 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1804 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1806 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1807 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1810 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1811 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1812 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1813 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1814 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1815 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1818 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1819 --------------------------------
1821 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1822 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1823 * Multiple bugfixes.
1826 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1827 --------------------------------
1829 * Multiple bug fixes.
1832 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1833 ---------------------------------
1837 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1838 recent to work correctly
1839 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1840 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1841 edit the ".hosts" file.
1842 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1843 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1844 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1845 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1846 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1847 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1848 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1849 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1850 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1851 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1852 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1853 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1854 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1855 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1856 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1857 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1858 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1859 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1860 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1861 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1862 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1863 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1864 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1865 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1866 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1867 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1868 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1869 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1870 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1871 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1872 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1873 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1874 and postproc modules.
1875 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1876 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1877 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1878 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1880 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1881 filter. For example:
1882 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1883 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1885 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1886 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1892 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1894 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1895 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1898 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1899 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1901 * Shoutcast TV listings
1902 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1904 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1905 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1907 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1910 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1911 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1912 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1913 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1914 * JACK audio input support
1915 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1916 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1917 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1918 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1919 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1920 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1921 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1922 (available as a separate download).
1923 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1924 * RTMP input support
1925 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1926 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1927 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1929 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1930 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1933 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1934 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1935 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1936 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1938 * APEv1/2 tags support
1939 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1940 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1942 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1943 * TiVo Series 2 support
1944 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1949 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1950 * Flash Screen Video support
1951 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1952 * DosBox Capture support
1953 * Karl Morton's Video support
1954 * limited atrac3 support
1956 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1957 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1958 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1959 * H.264 PAFF support
1960 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1961 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1962 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1963 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1964 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1967 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1968 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1969 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1970 * AQTitle subtitles support
1971 * MKV USF subtitles support
1972 * HTML-based subtitles support
1973 * MPSub subtitles support
1974 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1975 * MPL2 subtitles support
1976 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1977 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1978 * Realtext subtitle support
1979 * DKS subtitle support
1980 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1981 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1984 * Flash Screen Video support
1985 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1987 Video outputs and filters:
1988 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1989 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1990 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1991 * New puzzle video output filter
1992 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1993 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1995 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1996 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1997 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1998 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1999 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2000 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2001 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2002 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2003 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2004 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2005 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2006 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2007 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2008 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2010 Audio outputs and filters:
2011 * Replay gain support
2012 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2013 new scaletempo audio filter)
2014 * New spatializer audio filter
2015 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2018 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2019 * New RTP payload formats:
2020 * Speex voice audio codec
2021 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2022 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2023 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2024 * DCCP transport for RTP
2025 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2030 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2031 end-user suitable way.
2032 * Improved user interaction
2033 * Improved mouse gestures
2034 * Vastly improved Update checker
2035 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2037 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2038 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2040 * Improved video output features
2041 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2042 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2043 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2044 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2045 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2047 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2048 if libncursesw is available.
2049 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2050 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2051 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2053 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2054 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2055 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2056 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2057 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2058 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2059 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2060 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2063 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2064 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2065 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2068 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2069 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2070 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2071 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2072 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2073 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2076 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2077 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2087 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2088 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2089 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2092 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2093 ----------------------------------
2096 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2099 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2100 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2101 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2102 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2103 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2104 * Updated Polish translation
2107 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2108 ----------------------------------
2111 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2112 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2113 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2116 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2117 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2118 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2119 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2120 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2121 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2122 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2123 to an unexpected application termination
2124 * New Serbian translation
2125 * Updated Romanian translation
2128 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2129 ----------------------------------
2132 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2133 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2134 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2135 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2136 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2137 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2138 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2139 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2142 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2143 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2144 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2145 * Fixed AAC resampling
2146 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2147 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2150 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2151 ----------------------------------
2154 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2155 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2156 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2157 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2158 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2161 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2162 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2163 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2164 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2165 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2168 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2169 ----------------------------------
2172 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2173 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2176 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2177 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2178 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2179 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2181 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2185 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2188 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2191 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2194 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2197 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2198 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2199 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2200 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2201 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2203 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2204 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2205 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2206 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2209 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2212 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2213 ----------------------------------
2216 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2217 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2218 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2220 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2221 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2223 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2224 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2227 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2229 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2230 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2231 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2232 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2233 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2234 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2235 two different movies
2236 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2237 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2238 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2241 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2244 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2245 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2246 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2247 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2250 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2251 ----------------------------------
2253 Various bugfixes, notably:
2254 * Windows Vista compatibility
2255 * Cropping in Direct3D
2256 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2257 * RSS filter string overflow
2259 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2261 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2262 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2265 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2266 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2269 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2272 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2275 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2278 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2279 ----------------------------------
2281 Various bugfixes, notably:
2282 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2283 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2284 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2285 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2286 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2287 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2290 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2291 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2294 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2296 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2297 * Diverse usability improvements
2298 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2299 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2300 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2303 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2304 ---------------------------------
2306 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2307 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2310 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2313 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2314 --------------------------------
2317 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2320 * Support for RTSP authentication
2321 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2322 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2323 * ATSC support for DVB input
2324 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2325 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2326 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2329 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2330 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2331 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2332 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2333 * Matroska WavPack support
2334 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2335 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2336 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2339 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2340 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2341 * Improved libcaca support
2345 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2346 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2348 * Systray support in skins
2350 * Support for Apple Remote control
2351 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2352 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2353 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2354 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2356 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2359 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2360 Windows 9x/ME users:
2361 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2362 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2363 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2364 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2365 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2367 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2368 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2377 * Updates to the libvlc API
2378 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2381 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2382 --------------------------------
2385 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2386 * Support for downloading updates
2390 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2391 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2392 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2393 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2395 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2396 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2397 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2400 * Cook (Real audio) support
2402 Playlist / Services discovery:
2403 * XSPF playlist support
2405 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2408 * New JACK audio output
2411 * New video filters:
2412 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2413 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2414 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2415 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2416 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2417 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2420 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2423 * System to inform the user and request information
2424 - HTTP authentication
2428 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2429 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2430 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2433 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2434 - Improved playlist handling
2435 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2437 - Embedded Video output
2438 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2439 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2440 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2441 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2442 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2444 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2445 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2448 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2451 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2452 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2453 * Growl "Now playing" support
2456 * Ability to log to syslog
2457 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2460 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2462 * A bit more automatic testing
2465 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2466 ---------------------------------
2469 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2470 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2473 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2474 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2477 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2480 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2481 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2487 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2490 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2491 --------------------------------
2494 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2498 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2499 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2500 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2503 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2504 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2505 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2506 * GnomeVFS input module
2507 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2508 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2511 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2512 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2513 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2516 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2517 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2523 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2524 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2527 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2528 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2529 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2532 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2534 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2535 - New extended controls panel
2536 - New bookmarks window
2537 - Fixed playlist sorting
2538 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2540 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2541 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2542 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2543 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2547 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2548 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2550 - Include macro to include other files
2554 * Should now work outside IE as well
2557 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2560 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2561 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2564 The following languages were added:
2568 * Simplified Chinese
2569 The following languages were re-added:
2573 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2574 --------------------------------
2577 * Rewrite of the playlist
2579 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2580 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2581 * Preferences improvements:
2582 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2583 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2585 * Core image manipulation support
2586 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2587 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2588 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2589 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2590 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2591 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2592 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2593 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2594 * Access filter architecture
2595 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2596 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2600 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2601 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2602 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2603 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2604 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2605 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2606 * Massive Matroska improvements
2607 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2609 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2610 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2611 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2612 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2613 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2615 Decoders / Encoders:
2616 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2617 * PNG decoder/encoder
2618 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2619 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2622 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2625 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2626 * Brand new SAP module
2627 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2628 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2629 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2630 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2631 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2632 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2636 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2639 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2640 * Image file video output (png)
2641 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2642 * Improvements to wall video filter
2643 * Support for font color and opacity
2649 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2650 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2651 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2655 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2656 - Improved preferences
2657 - Improvements to the wizard
2658 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2660 - Redesigned playlist
2661 - Improved preferences
2663 - Support for multiple actions
2666 - Support for the new playlist system
2668 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2671 * Screensaver disabling fix
2672 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2673 * Support for no-decoration windows
2676 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2677 * The OpenGL video output is back
2678 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2679 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2680 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2681 is not yet available in the new module
2682 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2685 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2694 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2697 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2700 The following languages were added:
2706 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2707 --------------------------------
2710 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2711 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2714 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2715 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2716 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2719 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2722 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2725 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2728 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2729 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2730 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2734 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2736 * Support of playlist group announcement
2739 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2740 --------------------------------
2743 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2744 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2745 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2746 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2747 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2748 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2751 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2752 (Stream your desktop)
2753 * Improved DVD support:
2754 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2755 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2756 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2757 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2758 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2759 (selection of titles/chapters).
2762 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2763 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2764 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2765 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2766 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2767 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2768 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2769 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2770 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2771 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2774 * G.726 audio support
2775 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2776 * MPEG-4 text support
2777 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2778 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2779 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2783 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2784 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2785 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2786 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2787 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2788 * DVB subtitles encoder
2789 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2790 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2792 * Text track muxing for mp4
2793 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2794 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2795 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2796 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2797 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2798 * Improved ASF muxer
2800 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2801 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2802 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2805 * New audio equalizer filter
2806 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2807 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2808 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2809 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2812 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2813 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2814 with support for effects.
2815 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2816 - New filters can be streamed.
2817 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2818 - Centralized scaling and blending
2820 - "time", to display current time
2821 - "marq", to display a marquee
2824 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2825 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2826 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2827 * A few skins2 improvements
2828 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2829 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2830 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2831 * Improved CORBA control module
2834 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2835 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2836 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2839 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2840 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2841 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2844 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2845 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2846 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2847 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2848 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2851 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2854 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2855 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2858 * Server/client network synchronization module
2859 * VBrick streams fully supported
2860 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2864 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2865 --------------------------------
2868 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2869 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2870 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2871 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2874 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2875 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2876 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2877 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2878 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2879 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2880 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2883 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2884 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2885 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2886 * Improved directory access module.
2887 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2888 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2889 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2890 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2891 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2894 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2895 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2896 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2899 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2900 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2901 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2904 * Improved session announcement system.
2905 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2906 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2907 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2908 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2909 * Improved transrater.
2910 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2911 * New configuration system.
2912 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2915 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2916 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2917 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2918 * Supports scheduling.
2919 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2920 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2923 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2924 - Ability to embed video output.
2925 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2926 - Lots of improvements.
2927 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2928 - New design and set of icons.
2929 - Ability to embed video output.
2930 - Support for hotkeys.
2931 - Support for bookmarks.
2933 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2934 - Better hotkeys handling.
2937 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2938 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2939 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2940 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2943 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2944 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2945 * Improved Windows installer.
2951 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2952 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2955 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2956 ---------------------------------
2959 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2960 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2963 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2964 --------------------------------
2967 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2968 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2971 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2972 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2973 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2974 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2977 * Internal improvments
2978 * Improved import/export
2981 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2983 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2984 small and strange formats.
2986 * New MOD audio demux.
2987 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2988 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2989 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2990 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2993 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2994 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2995 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3001 * New opengl video output plugin.
3004 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3005 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3008 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3009 --------------------------------
3012 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3013 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3014 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3015 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3016 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3017 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3018 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3019 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3022 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3027 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3028 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3029 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3030 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3031 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3032 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3033 * Better Icecast support.
3034 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3035 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3038 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3039 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3040 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3041 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3042 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3043 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3044 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3047 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3048 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3049 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3050 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3051 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3052 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3053 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3054 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3055 * Preliminary RTP support.
3056 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3061 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3062 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3064 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3065 - Improvements and help in preferences
3066 - New streaming wizard
3067 - Revised Disc Open menu
3069 - Improvements of the standard pages
3070 - Support for new commands
3071 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3074 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3075 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3078 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3079 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3080 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3081 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3082 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3083 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3084 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3085 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3086 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3089 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3091 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3092 * Support for Panther.
3093 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3094 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3097 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3098 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3099 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3100 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3101 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3102 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3103 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3104 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3107 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3108 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3109 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3112 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3115 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3116 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3117 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3118 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3121 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3122 --------------------------------
3125 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3128 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3129 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3132 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3133 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3136 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3139 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3140 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3143 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3146 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3149 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3150 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3154 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3155 --------------------------------
3158 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3159 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3163 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3164 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3165 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3167 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3168 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3171 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3174 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3177 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3178 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3182 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3183 --------------------------------
3186 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3187 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3191 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3192 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3193 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3194 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3195 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3198 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3199 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3200 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3203 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3204 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3205 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3208 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3209 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3210 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3211 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3212 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3215 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3216 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3217 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3220 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3223 * Improved build system.
3224 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3225 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3226 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3227 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3230 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3231 --------------------------------
3234 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3237 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3238 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3239 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3240 * Video 4 Linux support
3241 * CD Digital Audio support
3242 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3245 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3246 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3247 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3248 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3251 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3252 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3253 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3254 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3255 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3256 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3257 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3260 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3261 * New HTTP remote control interface
3264 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3265 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3266 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3267 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3268 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3271 * New reset option for the preferences
3272 * You can set your language in the prefences
3273 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3274 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3275 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3276 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3279 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3280 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3281 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3284 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3285 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3286 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3287 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3288 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3289 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3290 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3291 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3292 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3293 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3296 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3297 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3298 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3299 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3300 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3301 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3302 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3305 * Interface localization
3306 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3307 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3308 * New full-featured Preferences window
3311 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3312 --------------------------------
3315 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3316 * support for skins at the interface level
3317 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3318 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3319 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3320 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3321 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3324 * fixed HTTP redirects
3325 * support for opening an entire directory
3326 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3327 * new video4linux access plug-in
3328 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3331 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3332 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3333 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3336 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3337 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3338 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3339 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3340 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3341 * new codec for raw I420 video
3342 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3345 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3346 (although it still misses some important features)
3347 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3350 * new HTTP output support
3351 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3352 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3355 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3358 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3361 * reorderable playlist
3362 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3363 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3364 * support for mono audio output devices
3365 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3366 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3367 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3368 * the messages window remembers more lines
3369 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3370 * http and ogg stream output options
3371 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3374 * new skinnable interface
3375 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3377 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3378 * support for FLAC audio format
3379 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3381 * network tab in the interface
3382 * "apply" handling in preferences
3385 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3386 ---------------------------------
3389 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3390 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3391 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3392 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3394 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3395 * DTS S/PDIF support
3398 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3399 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3400 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3401 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3404 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3405 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3408 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3411 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3414 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3416 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3417 * rc interface is now fully useable
3418 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3421 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3422 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3423 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3424 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3425 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3427 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3428 * support for mouse gestures
3429 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3432 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3433 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3436 * improved ID3 tag detection
3437 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3438 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3439 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3441 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3444 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3445 ---------------------------------
3448 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3449 English was set as the preferred language
3452 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3453 --------------------------------
3456 * new mouse gesture interface
3457 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3461 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3462 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3463 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3466 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3467 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3471 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3474 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3475 without the user consent
3478 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3480 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3481 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3482 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3485 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3486 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3487 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3488 * playlist enhancements
3489 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3490 * new step forward/step backward commands
3491 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3492 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3493 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3496 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3497 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3498 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3501 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3502 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3505 * native video output is working again
3506 * only commandline interface support
3507 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3510 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3511 --------------------------------
3514 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3515 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3516 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3517 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3518 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3519 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3520 and A/52 streams are supported)
3521 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3526 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3527 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3528 * VCD entry points support
3529 * VCD image file support
3532 * support for *.asf format
3533 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3534 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3535 * support for ogg encapsulation
3536 * support for raw DV format
3537 * support for *.wav format
3538 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3541 Stream discovery & playlists:
3542 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3543 * support for .m3u file format
3544 * support for .asx file format
3545 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3548 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3549 (only available with the .avi demux)
3550 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3551 * support for raw PCM data
3552 * support for Cinepak video codec
3553 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3554 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3555 * support for Xvid codec
3556 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3557 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3558 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3560 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3562 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3565 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3568 * new WxWindows interface
3569 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3570 device and the channels configuration
3571 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3572 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3573 format that VLC can play
3574 * new swedish translation
3575 * enhancements of the playlist window
3576 * new messages window to see debug info
3577 * fixed a few crashes
3580 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3581 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3582 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3583 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working