1 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version
11 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
12 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
13 * Invmem modules improvements
16 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
17 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
18 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
19 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
20 * Various EGP improvements
23 * WPL playlist support
24 * ZPL playlist support
25 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
26 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
27 * Podcast images are now displayed
30 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
31 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
32 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
33 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
34 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
35 * NEON assembly audio converter module
38 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
39 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
40 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
41 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
42 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
43 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
46 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
47 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
48 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
49 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
50 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
53 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
56 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
57 * Service discovery based on libudev
60 * New smem module, streaming to memory
63 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
66 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
69 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
76 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead)
77 * HAL (use libudev instead)
78 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
81 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
82 --------------------------------
85 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
86 regressions in most popular drivers
87 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
90 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
91 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
92 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
95 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
96 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
99 * Update for appletrailers lua script
100 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
101 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
102 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
103 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
106 * New udev module for linux
109 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
112 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
115 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
116 --------------------------------
119 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
120 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
121 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
124 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
125 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
128 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
129 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
132 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
135 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
136 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
137 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
138 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
141 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
142 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
143 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
144 - no support for Goom and SDL
145 - limited text rendering support
146 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
149 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
150 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
151 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
152 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
153 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
154 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
155 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
156 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
157 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
161 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
164 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
167 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
168 --------------------------------
171 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
172 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
173 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
174 * Fix Dailymotion access script
175 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
176 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
179 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
180 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
183 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
184 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
185 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
188 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
191 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
192 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
195 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
196 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
197 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
198 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
199 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
200 * Fix various crashes
203 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
205 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
208 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
209 ---------------------------------
213 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
214 See 'Access:' for more info.
215 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
218 * Instantaneous pausing
219 * Frame-by-Frame playback
220 * Finer speed control
221 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
222 * Timeshift for most medias
223 * RTSP trickplay support
224 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
227 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
228 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
229 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
230 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
231 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
232 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
233 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
234 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
235 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
236 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
239 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
240 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
241 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
242 * Metadata for mod files are supported
243 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
244 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
245 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
248 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
249 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
252 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
253 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
254 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
255 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
256 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
257 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
258 * DVB scanning on linux
259 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
260 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
261 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
262 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
263 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
264 * MTP device access on Unix
265 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
266 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
269 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
270 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
271 Windows and Mac OS X.
274 * Export the playlist in HTML
275 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
276 * Better metadata handling and reading
278 Linux/Windows interface:
279 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
280 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
281 * Recently played items list
282 * Interface toolbar customizations
283 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
286 - Improvements on many dialogs
287 - New dialog for plugins listing
288 - Fixed-size mode for videos
289 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
290 * Better integration in GTK environments
293 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
294 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
295 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
296 * Additional usability improvements
299 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
300 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
301 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
302 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
303 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
306 * New Maemo port with:
307 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
308 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
311 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
314 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
315 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
316 * Support for latest iSight models
319 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
320 * Surround support for PulseAudio
323 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
324 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
325 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
326 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
327 The old image video output has been removed.
328 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
329 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
332 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
337 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
338 ---------------------------------
341 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
342 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
345 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
346 ---------------------------------
349 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
352 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
355 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
356 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
357 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
358 main controller window.
359 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
362 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
367 * Updates of other localizations
370 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
371 * Lots of small bugfixes.
372 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
373 * Telnet fixes on Windows
374 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
376 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
377 ---------------------------------
380 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
382 Bunch of small bugfixes.
385 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
386 --------------------------------
391 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
392 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
395 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
396 --------------------------------
398 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
399 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
402 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
405 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
406 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
409 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
410 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
413 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
414 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
415 * Various fixed in playlist
418 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
421 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
424 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
425 ------------------------------------
427 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
428 * Fixes several memory leaks.
431 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
432 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
433 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
436 * Stability fix for the video output.
439 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
440 --------------------------------
443 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
444 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
445 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
446 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
447 * Fixed update system bugs
448 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
451 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
452 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
453 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
454 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
455 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
456 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
457 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
458 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
459 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
460 modern Mac OS X versions
463 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
464 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
466 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
467 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
470 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
471 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
472 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
473 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
474 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
475 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
478 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
479 --------------------------------
481 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
482 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
486 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
487 --------------------------------
489 * Multiple bug fixes.
492 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
493 ---------------------------------
497 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
498 recent to work correctly
499 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
500 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
501 edit the ".hosts" file.
502 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
503 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
504 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
505 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
506 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
507 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
508 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
509 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
510 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
511 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
512 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
513 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
514 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
515 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
516 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
517 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
518 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
519 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
520 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
521 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
522 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
523 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
524 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
525 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
526 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
527 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
528 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
529 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
530 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
531 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
532 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
533 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
534 and postproc modules.
535 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
536 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
537 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
538 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
540 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
542 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
543 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
545 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
546 * Glide video output module has been removed.
552 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
554 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
555 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
558 * Vastly improved playlist support:
559 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
561 * Shoutcast TV listings
562 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
564 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
565 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
567 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
570 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
571 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
572 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
573 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
574 * JACK audio input support
575 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
576 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
577 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
578 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
579 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
580 * Experimental EyeTV access module
581 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
582 (available as a separate download).
583 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
585 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
586 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
587 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
589 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
590 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
593 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
594 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
595 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
596 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
598 * APEv1/2 tags support
599 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
600 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
602 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
603 * TiVo Series 2 support
604 * CD+G karaoke Files support
609 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
610 * Flash Screen Video support
611 * CamStudio Screen Video support
612 * DosBox Capture support
613 * Karl Morton's Video support
614 * limited atrac3 support
616 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
617 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
618 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
620 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
621 * NellyMoser ASAO support
622 * APE (Monkey audio) support
623 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
624 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
627 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
628 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
629 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
630 * AQTitle subtitles support
631 * MKV USF subtitles support
632 * HTML-based subtitles support
633 * MPSub subtitles support
634 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
635 * MPL2 subtitles support
636 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
637 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
638 * Realtext subtitle support
639 * DKS subtitle support
640 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
641 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
644 * Flash Screen Video support
645 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
647 Video outputs and filters:
648 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
649 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
650 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
651 * New puzzle video output filter
652 * Re-written motion detection video filter
653 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
655 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
656 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
657 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
658 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
659 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
660 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
661 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
662 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
663 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
664 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
665 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
666 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
667 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
668 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
670 Audio outputs and filters:
671 * Replay gain support
672 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
673 new scaletempo audio filter)
674 * New spatializer audio filter
675 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
678 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
679 * New RTP payload formats:
680 * Speex voice audio codec
681 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
682 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
683 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
684 * DCCP transport for RTP
685 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
690 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
691 end-user suitable way.
692 * Improved user interaction
693 * Improved mouse gestures
694 * Vastly improved Update checker
695 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
697 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
698 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
700 * Improved video output features
701 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
702 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
703 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
704 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
705 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
707 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
708 if libncursesw is available.
709 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
710 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
711 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
713 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
714 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
715 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
716 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
717 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
718 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
719 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
720 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
723 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
724 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
725 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
728 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
729 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
730 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
731 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
732 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
733 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
736 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
737 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
747 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
748 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
749 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
752 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
753 ----------------------------------
756 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
759 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
760 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
761 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
762 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
763 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
764 * Updated Polish translation
767 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
768 ----------------------------------
771 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
772 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
773 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
776 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
777 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
778 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
779 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
780 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
781 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
782 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
783 to an unexpected application termination
784 * New Serbian translation
785 * Updated Romanian translation
788 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
789 ----------------------------------
792 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
793 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
794 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
795 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
796 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
797 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
798 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
799 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
802 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
803 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
804 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
805 * Fixed AAC resampling
806 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
807 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
810 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
811 ----------------------------------
814 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
815 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
816 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
817 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
818 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
821 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
822 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
823 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
824 * Close MMS access on network timeout
825 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
828 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
829 ----------------------------------
832 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
833 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
836 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
837 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
838 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
839 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
841 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
845 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
848 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
851 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
854 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
857 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
858 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
859 encoding on multi-cpu systems
860 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
861 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
863 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
864 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
865 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
866 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
869 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
872 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
873 ----------------------------------
876 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
877 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
878 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
880 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
881 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
883 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
884 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
887 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
889 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
890 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
891 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
892 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
893 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
894 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
896 * Support for current Ogg file formats
897 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
898 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
901 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
904 * The automatic updating facility was removed
905 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
906 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
907 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
910 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
911 ----------------------------------
913 Various bugfixes, notably:
914 * Windows Vista compatibility
915 * Cropping in Direct3D
916 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
917 * RSS filter string overflow
919 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
921 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
922 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
925 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
926 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
929 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
932 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
935 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
938 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
939 ----------------------------------
941 Various bugfixes, notably:
942 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
943 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
944 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
945 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
946 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
947 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
950 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
951 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
954 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
956 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
957 * Diverse usability improvements
958 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
959 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
960 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
963 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
964 ---------------------------------
967 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
970 * Fullscreen controller improvements
973 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
974 --------------------------------
977 * Shoutcast TV listings support
980 * Support for RTSP authentication
981 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
982 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
983 * ATSC support for DVB input
984 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
985 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
986 * Improved support for Flash Video files
989 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
990 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
991 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
992 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
993 * Matroska WavPack support
994 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
995 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
996 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
999 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1000 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1001 * Improved libcaca support
1005 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1006 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1008 * Systray support in skins
1010 * Support for Apple Remote control
1011 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1012 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1013 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1014 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1016 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1019 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1020 Windows 9x/ME users:
1021 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1022 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1023 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1024 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1025 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1027 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1028 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1037 * Updates to the libvlc API
1038 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1041 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1042 --------------------------------
1045 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1046 * Support for downloading updates
1050 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1051 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1052 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1053 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1055 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1056 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1057 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1060 * Cook (Real audio) support
1062 Playlist / Services discovery:
1063 * XSPF playlist support
1065 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1068 * New JACK audio output
1071 * New video filters:
1072 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1073 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1074 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1075 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1076 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1077 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1080 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1083 * System to inform the user and request information
1084 - HTTP authentication
1088 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1089 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1090 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1093 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1094 - Improved playlist handling
1095 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1097 - Embedded Video output
1098 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1099 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1100 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1101 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1102 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1104 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1105 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1108 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1111 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1112 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1113 * Growl "Now playing" support
1116 * Ability to log to syslog
1117 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1120 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1122 * A bit more automatic testing
1125 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1126 ---------------------------------
1129 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1130 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1133 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1134 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1137 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1140 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1141 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1147 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1150 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1151 --------------------------------
1154 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1158 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1159 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1160 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1163 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1164 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1165 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1166 * GnomeVFS input module
1167 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1168 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1171 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1172 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1173 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1176 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1177 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1183 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1184 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1187 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1188 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1189 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1192 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1194 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1195 - New extended controls panel
1196 - New bookmarks window
1197 - Fixed playlist sorting
1198 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1200 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1201 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1202 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1203 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1207 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1208 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1210 - Include macro to include other files
1214 * Should now work outside IE as well
1217 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1220 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1221 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1224 The following languages were added:
1228 * Simplified Chinese
1229 The following languages were re-added:
1233 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1234 --------------------------------
1237 * Rewrite of the playlist
1239 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1240 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1241 * Preferences improvements:
1242 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1243 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1245 * Core image manipulation support
1246 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1247 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1248 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1249 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1250 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1251 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1252 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1253 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1254 * Access filter architecture
1255 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1256 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1260 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1261 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1262 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1263 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1264 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1265 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1266 * Massive Matroska improvements
1267 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1269 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1270 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1271 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1272 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1273 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1275 Decoders / Encoders:
1276 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1277 * PNG decoder/encoder
1278 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1279 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1282 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1285 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1286 * Brand new SAP module
1287 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1288 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1289 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1290 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1291 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1292 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1296 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1299 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1300 * Image file video output (png)
1301 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1302 * Improvements to wall video filter
1303 * Support for font color and opacity
1309 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1310 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1311 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1315 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1316 - Improved preferences
1317 - Improvements to the wizard
1318 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1320 - Redesigned playlist
1321 - Improved preferences
1323 - Support for multiple actions
1326 - Support for the new playlist system
1328 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1331 * Screensaver disabling fix
1332 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1333 * Support for no-decoration windows
1336 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1337 * The OpenGL video output is back
1338 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1339 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1340 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1341 is not yet available in the new module
1342 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1345 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1354 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1357 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1360 The following languages were added:
1366 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1367 --------------------------------
1370 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1371 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1374 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1375 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1376 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1379 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1382 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1385 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1388 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1389 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1390 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1394 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1396 * Support of playlist group announcement
1399 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1400 --------------------------------
1403 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1404 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1405 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1406 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1407 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1408 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1411 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1412 (Stream your desktop)
1413 * Improved DVD support:
1414 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1415 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1416 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1417 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1418 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1419 (selection of titles/chapters).
1422 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1423 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1424 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1425 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1426 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1427 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1428 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1429 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1430 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1431 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1434 * G.726 audio support
1435 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1436 * MPEG-4 text support
1437 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1438 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1439 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1443 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1444 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1445 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1446 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1447 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1448 * DVB subtitles encoder
1449 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1450 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1452 * Text track muxing for mp4
1453 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1454 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1455 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1456 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1457 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1458 * Improved ASF muxer
1460 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1461 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1462 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1465 * New audio equalizer filter
1466 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1467 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1468 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1469 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1472 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1473 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1474 with support for effects.
1475 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1476 - New filters can be streamed.
1477 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1478 - Centralized scaling and blending
1480 - "time", to display current time
1481 - "marq", to display a marquee
1484 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1485 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1486 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1487 * A few skins2 improvements
1488 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1489 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1490 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1491 * Improved CORBA control module
1494 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1495 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1496 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1499 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1500 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1501 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1504 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1505 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1506 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1507 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1508 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1511 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1514 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1515 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1518 * Server/client network synchronization module
1519 * VBrick streams fully supported
1520 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1524 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1525 --------------------------------
1528 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1529 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1530 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1531 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1534 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1535 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1536 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1537 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1538 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1539 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1540 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1543 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1544 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1545 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1546 * Improved directory access module.
1547 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1548 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1549 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1550 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1551 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1554 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1555 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1556 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1559 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1560 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1561 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1564 * Improved session announcement system.
1565 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1566 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1567 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1568 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1569 * Improved transrater.
1570 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1571 * New configuration system.
1572 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1575 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1576 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1577 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1578 * Supports scheduling.
1579 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1580 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1583 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1584 - Ability to embed video output.
1585 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1586 - Lots of improvements.
1587 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1588 - New design and set of icons.
1589 - Ability to embed video output.
1590 - Support for hotkeys.
1591 - Support for bookmarks.
1593 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1594 - Better hotkeys handling.
1597 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1598 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1599 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1600 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1603 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1604 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1605 * Improved Windows installer.
1611 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1612 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1615 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1616 ---------------------------------
1619 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1620 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1623 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1624 --------------------------------
1627 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1628 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1631 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1632 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1633 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1634 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1637 * Internal improvments
1638 * Improved import/export
1641 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1643 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1644 small and strange formats.
1646 * New MOD audio demux.
1647 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1648 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1649 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1650 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1653 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1654 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1655 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1661 * New opengl video output plugin.
1664 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1665 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1668 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1669 --------------------------------
1672 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1673 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1674 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1675 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1676 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1677 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1678 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1679 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1682 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1687 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1688 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1689 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1690 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1691 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1692 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1693 * Better Icecast support.
1694 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1695 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1698 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1699 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1700 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1701 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1702 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1703 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1704 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1707 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1708 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1709 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1710 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1711 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1712 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1713 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1714 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1715 * Preliminary RTP support.
1716 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1721 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1722 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1724 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1725 - Improvements and help in preferences
1726 - New streaming wizard
1727 - Revised Disc Open menu
1729 - Improvements of the standard pages
1730 - Support for new commands
1731 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1734 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1735 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1738 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1739 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1740 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1741 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1742 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1743 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1744 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1745 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1746 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1749 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1751 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1752 * Support for Panther.
1753 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1754 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1757 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1758 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1759 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1760 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1761 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1762 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1763 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1764 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1767 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1768 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1769 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1772 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1775 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1776 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1777 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1778 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1781 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1782 --------------------------------
1785 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1788 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1789 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1792 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1793 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1796 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1799 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1800 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1803 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1806 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1809 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1810 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1814 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1815 --------------------------------
1818 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1819 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1823 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1824 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1825 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1827 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1828 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1831 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1834 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1837 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1838 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1842 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1843 --------------------------------
1846 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1847 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1851 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1852 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1853 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1854 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1855 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1858 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1859 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1860 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1863 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1864 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1865 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1868 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1869 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1870 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1871 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1872 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1875 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1876 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1877 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1880 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1883 * Improved build system.
1884 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1885 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1886 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1887 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1890 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1891 --------------------------------
1894 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1897 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1898 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1899 * Video 4 Linux support
1900 * CD Digital Audio support
1901 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1904 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1905 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1906 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1907 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1910 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1911 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1912 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1913 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1914 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1915 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1916 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1919 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1920 * New HTTP remote control interface
1923 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1924 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1925 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1926 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1929 * New reset option for the preferences
1930 * You can set your language in the prefences
1931 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1932 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1933 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1934 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1937 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1938 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1939 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1942 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1943 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1944 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1945 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1946 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1947 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1948 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1949 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1950 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1951 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1954 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1955 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1956 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1957 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1958 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1959 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1960 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1963 * Interface localization
1964 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1965 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1966 * New full-featured Preferences window
1969 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1970 --------------------------------
1973 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1974 * support for skins at the interface level
1975 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1976 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1977 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1978 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1979 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1982 * fixed HTTP redirects
1983 * support for opening an entire directory
1984 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1985 * new video4linux access plug-in
1986 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1989 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1990 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1991 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1994 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1995 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1996 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1997 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1998 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1999 * new codec for raw I420 video
2000 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2003 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2004 (although it still misses some important features)
2005 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2008 * new HTTP output support
2009 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2010 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2013 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2016 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2019 * reorderable playlist
2020 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2021 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2022 * support for mono audio output devices
2023 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2024 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2025 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2026 * the messages window remembers more lines
2027 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2028 * http and ogg stream output options
2029 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2032 * new skinnable interface
2033 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2035 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2036 * support for FLAC audio format
2037 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2039 * network tab in the interface
2040 * "apply" handling in preferences
2043 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2044 ---------------------------------
2047 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2048 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2049 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2050 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2052 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2053 * DTS S/PDIF support
2056 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2057 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2058 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2059 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2062 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2063 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2066 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2069 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2072 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2074 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2075 * rc interface is now fully useable
2076 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2079 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2080 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2081 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2082 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2083 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2085 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2086 * support for mouse gestures
2087 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2090 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2091 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2094 * improved ID3 tag detection
2095 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2096 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2097 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2099 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2102 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2103 ---------------------------------
2106 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2107 English was set as the preferred language
2110 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2111 --------------------------------
2114 * new mouse gesture interface
2115 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2119 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2120 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2121 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2124 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2125 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2129 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2132 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2133 without the user consent
2136 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2138 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2139 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2140 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2143 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2144 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2145 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2146 * playlist enhancements
2147 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2148 * new step forward/step backward commands
2149 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2150 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2151 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2154 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2155 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2156 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2159 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2160 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2163 * native video output is working again
2164 * only commandline interface support
2165 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2168 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2169 --------------------------------
2172 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2173 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2174 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2175 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2176 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2177 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2178 and A/52 streams are supported)
2179 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2184 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2185 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2186 * VCD entry points support
2187 * VCD image file support
2190 * support for *.asf format
2191 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2192 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2193 * support for ogg encapsulation
2194 * support for raw DV format
2195 * support for *.wav format
2196 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2199 Stream discovery & playlists:
2200 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2201 * support for .m3u file format
2202 * support for .asx file format
2203 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2206 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2207 (only available with the .avi demux)
2208 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2209 * support for raw PCM data
2210 * support for Cinepak video codec
2211 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2212 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2213 * support for Xvid codec
2214 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2215 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2216 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2218 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2220 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2223 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2226 * new WxWindows interface
2227 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2228 device and the channels configuration
2229 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2230 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2231 format that VLC can play
2232 * new swedish translation
2233 * enhancements of the playlist window
2234 * new messages window to see debug info
2235 * fixed a few crashes
2238 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2239 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2240 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2241 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working