1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
6 * Frame-By-Frame Support
8 * RTSP trickplay support
12 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
13 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
14 * Playback for video in Rar archives
15 * DVB-S and ATSC support on Windows
16 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
17 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
20 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
21 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
25 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
26 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
28 * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
29 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
30 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 support
33 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
34 * Major improvements in RealMedia files (.rm and .rmvb)
37 * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
40 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
41 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
42 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
43 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
45 Linux/Windows interface:
46 * Recently played items list
49 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
52 * New Maemo port with:
53 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
54 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
57 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
60 * support to Export the playlist in HTML
61 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
64 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
65 * Surround support for PulseAudio
68 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
71 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
72 ---------------------------------
75 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
77 Bunch of small bugfixes.
80 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
81 --------------------------------
86 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
87 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
90 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
91 --------------------------------
93 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
94 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
97 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
100 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
101 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
104 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
105 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
108 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
109 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
110 * Various fixed in playlist
113 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
116 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
119 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
120 ------------------------------------
122 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
123 * Fixes several memory leaks.
126 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
127 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
128 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
131 * Stability fix for the video output.
134 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
135 --------------------------------
138 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
139 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
140 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
141 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
142 * Fixed update system bugs
143 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
146 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
147 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
148 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
149 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
150 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
151 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
152 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
153 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
154 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
155 modern Mac OS X versions
158 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
159 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
161 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
162 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
165 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
166 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
167 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
168 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
169 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
170 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
173 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
174 --------------------------------
176 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
177 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
181 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
182 --------------------------------
184 * Multiple bug fixes.
187 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
188 ---------------------------------
192 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
193 recent to work correctly
194 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
195 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
196 edit the ".hosts" file.
197 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
198 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
199 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
200 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
201 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
202 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
203 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
204 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
205 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
206 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
207 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
208 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
209 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
210 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
211 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
212 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
213 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
214 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
215 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
216 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
217 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
218 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
219 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
220 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
221 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
222 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
223 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
224 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
225 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
226 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
227 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
228 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
229 and postproc modules.
230 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
231 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
232 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
233 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
235 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
237 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
238 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
240 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
241 * Glide video output module has been removed.
247 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
249 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
250 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
253 * Vastly improved playlist support:
254 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
256 * Shoutcast TV listings
257 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
259 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
260 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
262 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
265 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
266 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
267 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
268 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
269 * JACK audio input support
270 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
271 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
272 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
273 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
274 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
275 * Experimental EyeTV access module
276 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
277 (available as a separate download).
278 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
280 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
281 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
282 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
284 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
285 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
288 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
289 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
290 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
291 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
293 * APEv1/2 tags support
294 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
295 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
297 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
298 * TiVo Series 2 support
299 * CD+G karaoke Files support
304 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
305 * Flash Screen Video support
306 * CamStudio Screen Video support
307 * DosBox Capture support
308 * Karl Morton's Video support
309 * limited atrac3 support
311 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
312 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
313 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
315 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
316 * NellyMoser ASAO support
317 * APE (Monkey audio) support
318 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
319 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
322 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
323 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
324 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
325 * AQTitle subtitles support
326 * MKV USF subtitles support
327 * HTML-based subtitles support
328 * MPSub subtitles support
329 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
330 * MPL2 subtitles support
331 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
332 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
333 * Realtext subtitle support
334 * DKS subtitle support
335 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
336 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
339 * Flash Screen Video support
340 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
342 Video outputs and filters:
343 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
344 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
345 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
346 * New puzzle video output filter
347 * Re-written motion detection video filter
348 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
350 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
351 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
352 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
353 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
354 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
355 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
356 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
357 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
358 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
359 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
360 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
361 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
362 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
363 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
365 Audio outputs and filters:
366 * Replay gain support
367 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
368 new scaletempo audio filter)
369 * New spatializer audio filter
370 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
373 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
374 * New RTP payload formats:
375 * Speex voice audio codec
376 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
377 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
378 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
379 * DCCP transport for RTP
380 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
385 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
386 end-user suitable way.
387 * Improved user interaction
388 * Improved mouse gestures
389 * Vastly improved Update checker
390 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
392 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
393 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
395 * Improved video output features
396 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
397 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
398 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
399 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
400 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
402 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
403 if libncursesw is available.
404 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
405 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
406 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
408 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
409 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
410 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
411 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
412 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
413 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
414 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
415 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
418 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
419 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
420 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
423 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
424 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
425 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
426 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
427 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
428 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
431 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
432 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
442 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
443 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
444 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
447 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
448 ----------------------------------
451 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
454 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
455 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
456 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
457 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
458 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
459 * Updated Polish translation
462 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
463 ----------------------------------
466 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
467 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
468 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
471 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
472 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
473 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
474 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
475 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
476 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
477 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
478 to an unexpected application termination
479 * New Serbian translation
480 * Updated Romanian translation
483 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
484 ----------------------------------
487 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
488 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
489 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
490 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
491 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
492 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
493 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
494 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
497 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
498 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
499 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
500 * Fixed AAC resampling
501 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
502 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
505 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
506 ----------------------------------
509 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
510 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
511 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
512 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
513 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
516 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
517 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
518 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
519 * Close MMS access on network timeout
520 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
523 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
524 ----------------------------------
527 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
528 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
531 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
532 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
533 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
534 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
536 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
540 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
543 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
546 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
549 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
552 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
553 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
554 encoding on multi-cpu systems
555 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
556 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
558 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
559 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
560 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
561 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
564 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
567 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
568 ----------------------------------
571 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
572 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
573 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
575 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
576 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
578 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
579 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
582 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
584 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
585 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
586 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
587 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
588 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
589 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
591 * Support for current Ogg file formats
592 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
593 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
596 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
599 * The automatic updating facility was removed
600 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
601 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
602 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
605 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
606 ----------------------------------
608 Various bugfixes, notably:
609 * Windows Vista compatibility
610 * Cropping in Direct3D
611 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
612 * RSS filter string overflow
614 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
616 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
617 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
620 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
621 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
624 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
627 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
630 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
633 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
634 ----------------------------------
636 Various bugfixes, notably:
637 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
638 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
639 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
640 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
641 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
642 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
645 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
646 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
649 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
651 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
652 * Diverse usability improvements
653 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
654 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
655 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
658 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
659 ---------------------------------
662 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
665 * Fullscreen controller improvements
668 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
669 --------------------------------
672 * Shoutcast TV listings support
675 * Support for RTSP authentication
676 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
677 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
678 * ATSC support for DVB input
679 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
680 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
681 * Improved support for Flash Video files
684 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
685 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
686 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
687 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
688 * Matroska WavPack support
689 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
690 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
691 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
694 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
695 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
696 * Improved libcaca support
700 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
701 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
703 * Systray support in skins
705 * Support for Apple Remote control
706 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
707 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
708 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
709 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
711 * Notifications using notification-daemon
714 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
716 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
717 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
718 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
719 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
720 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
722 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
723 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
732 * Updates to the libvlc API
733 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
736 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
737 --------------------------------
740 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
741 * Support for downloading updates
745 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
746 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
747 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
748 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
750 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
751 * Improved subtitles encoding support
752 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
755 * Cook (Real audio) support
757 Playlist / Services discovery:
758 * XSPF playlist support
760 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
763 * New JACK audio output
767 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
768 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
769 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
770 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
771 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
772 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
775 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
778 * System to inform the user and request information
779 - HTTP authentication
783 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
784 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
785 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
788 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
789 - Improved playlist handling
790 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
792 - Embedded Video output
793 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
794 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
795 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
796 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
797 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
799 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
800 - A bunch of new RPN functions
803 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
806 * Mac-Intel compatibility
807 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
808 * Growl "Now playing" support
811 * Ability to log to syslog
812 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
815 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
817 * A bit more automatic testing
820 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
821 ---------------------------------
824 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
825 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
828 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
829 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
832 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
835 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
836 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
842 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
845 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
846 --------------------------------
849 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
853 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
854 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
855 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
858 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
859 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
860 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
861 * GnomeVFS input module
862 * Support for RTP packet reordering
863 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
866 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
867 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
868 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
871 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
872 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
878 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
879 Mixer and Dolby Surround
882 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
883 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
884 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
887 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
889 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
890 - New extended controls panel
891 - New bookmarks window
892 - Fixed playlist sorting
893 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
895 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
896 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
897 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
898 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
902 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
903 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
905 - Include macro to include other files
909 * Should now work outside IE as well
912 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
915 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
916 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
919 The following languages were added:
924 The following languages were re-added:
928 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Rewrite of the playlist
934 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
935 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
936 * Preferences improvements:
937 - New organization, designed to improve usability
938 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
940 * Core image manipulation support
941 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
942 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
943 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
944 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
945 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
946 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
947 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
948 now separated by ':' instead of ','
949 * Access filter architecture
950 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
951 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
955 * Support for SOCKS proxy
956 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
957 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
958 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
959 * Better support for Kasenna streams
960 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
961 * Massive Matroska improvements
962 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
964 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
965 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
966 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
967 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
968 * Support for FTP over IPv6
971 * Dirac decoder and encoder
972 * PNG decoder/encoder
973 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
974 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
977 * New Record and Timeshift filters
980 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
981 * Brand new SAP module
982 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
983 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
984 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
985 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
986 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
987 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
991 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
994 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
995 * Image file video output (png)
996 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
997 * Improvements to wall video filter
998 * Support for font color and opacity
1004 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1005 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1006 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1010 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1011 - Improved preferences
1012 - Improvements to the wizard
1013 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1015 - Redesigned playlist
1016 - Improved preferences
1018 - Support for multiple actions
1021 - Support for the new playlist system
1023 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1026 * Screensaver disabling fix
1027 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1028 * Support for no-decoration windows
1031 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1032 * The OpenGL video output is back
1033 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1034 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1035 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1036 is not yet available in the new module
1037 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1040 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1049 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1052 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1055 The following languages were added:
1061 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1062 --------------------------------
1065 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1066 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1069 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1070 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1071 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1074 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1077 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1080 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1083 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1084 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1085 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1089 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1091 * Support of playlist group announcement
1094 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1095 --------------------------------
1098 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1099 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1100 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1101 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1102 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1103 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1106 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1107 (Stream your desktop)
1108 * Improved DVD support:
1109 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1110 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1111 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1112 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1113 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1114 (selection of titles/chapters).
1117 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1118 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1119 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1120 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1121 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1122 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1123 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1124 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1125 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1126 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1129 * G.726 audio support
1130 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1131 * MPEG-4 text support
1132 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1133 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1134 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1138 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1139 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1140 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1141 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1142 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1143 * DVB subtitles encoder
1144 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1145 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1147 * Text track muxing for mp4
1148 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1149 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1150 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1151 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1152 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1153 * Improved ASF muxer
1155 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1156 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1157 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1160 * New audio equalizer filter
1161 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1162 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1163 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1164 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1167 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1168 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1169 with support for effects.
1170 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1171 - New filters can be streamed.
1172 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1173 - Centralized scaling and blending
1175 - "time", to display current time
1176 - "marq", to display a marquee
1179 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1180 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1181 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1182 * A few skins2 improvements
1183 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1184 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1185 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1186 * Improved CORBA control module
1189 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1190 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1191 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1194 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1195 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1196 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1199 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1200 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1201 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1202 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1203 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1206 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1209 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1210 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1213 * Server/client network synchronization module
1214 * VBrick streams fully supported
1215 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1219 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1220 --------------------------------
1223 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1224 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1225 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1226 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1229 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1230 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1231 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1232 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1233 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1234 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1235 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1238 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1239 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1240 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1241 * Improved directory access module.
1242 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1243 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1244 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1245 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1246 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1249 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1250 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1251 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1254 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1255 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1256 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1259 * Improved session announcement system.
1260 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1261 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1262 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1263 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1264 * Improved transrater.
1265 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1266 * New configuration system.
1267 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1270 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1271 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1272 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1273 * Supports scheduling.
1274 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1275 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1278 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1279 - Ability to embed video output.
1280 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1281 - Lots of improvements.
1282 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1283 - New design and set of icons.
1284 - Ability to embed video output.
1285 - Support for hotkeys.
1286 - Support for bookmarks.
1288 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1289 - Better hotkeys handling.
1292 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1293 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1294 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1295 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1298 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1299 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1300 * Improved Windows installer.
1306 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1307 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1310 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1311 ---------------------------------
1314 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1315 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1318 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1319 --------------------------------
1322 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1323 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1326 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1327 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1328 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1329 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1332 * Internal improvments
1333 * Improved import/export
1336 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1338 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1339 small and strange formats.
1341 * New MOD audio demux.
1342 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1343 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1344 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1345 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1348 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1349 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1350 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1356 * New opengl video output plugin.
1359 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1360 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1363 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1364 --------------------------------
1367 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1368 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1369 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1370 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1371 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1372 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1373 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1374 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1377 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1382 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1383 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1384 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1385 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1386 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1387 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1388 * Better Icecast support.
1389 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1390 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1393 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1394 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1395 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1396 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1397 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1398 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1399 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1402 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1403 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1404 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1405 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1406 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1407 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1408 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1409 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1410 * Preliminary RTP support.
1411 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1416 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1417 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1419 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1420 - Improvements and help in preferences
1421 - New streaming wizard
1422 - Revised Disc Open menu
1424 - Improvements of the standard pages
1425 - Support for new commands
1426 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1429 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1430 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1433 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1434 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1435 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1436 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1437 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1438 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1439 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1440 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1441 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1444 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1446 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1447 * Support for Panther.
1448 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1449 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1452 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1453 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1454 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1455 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1456 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1457 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1458 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1459 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1462 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1463 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1464 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1467 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1470 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1471 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1472 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1473 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1476 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1477 --------------------------------
1480 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1483 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1484 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1487 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1488 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1491 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1494 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1495 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1498 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1501 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1504 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1505 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1509 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1510 --------------------------------
1513 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1514 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1518 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1519 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1520 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1522 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1523 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1526 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1529 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1532 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1533 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1537 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1538 --------------------------------
1541 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1542 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1546 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1547 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1548 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1549 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1550 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1553 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1554 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1555 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1558 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1559 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1560 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1563 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1564 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1565 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1566 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1567 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1570 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1571 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1572 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1575 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1578 * Improved build system.
1579 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1580 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1581 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1582 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1585 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1586 --------------------------------
1589 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1592 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1593 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1594 * Video 4 Linux support
1595 * CD Digital Audio support
1596 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1599 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1600 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1601 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1602 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1605 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1606 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1607 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1608 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1609 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1610 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1611 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1614 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1615 * New HTTP remote control interface
1618 * 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.
1619 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1620 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1621 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1624 * New reset option for the preferences
1625 * You can set your language in the prefences
1626 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1627 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1628 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1629 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1632 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1633 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1634 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1637 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1638 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1639 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1640 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1641 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1642 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1643 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1644 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1645 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1646 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1649 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1650 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1651 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1652 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1653 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1654 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1655 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1658 * Interface localization
1659 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1660 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1661 * New full-featured Preferences window
1664 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1665 --------------------------------
1668 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1669 * support for skins at the interface level
1670 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1671 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1672 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1673 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1674 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1677 * fixed HTTP redirects
1678 * support for opening an entire directory
1679 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1680 * new video4linux access plug-in
1681 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1684 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1685 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1686 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1689 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1690 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1691 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1692 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1693 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1694 * new codec for raw I420 video
1695 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1698 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1699 (although it still misses some important features)
1700 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1703 * new HTTP output support
1704 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1705 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1708 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1711 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1714 * reorderable playlist
1715 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1716 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1717 * support for mono audio output devices
1718 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1719 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1720 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1721 * the messages window remembers more lines
1722 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1723 * http and ogg stream output options
1724 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1727 * new skinnable interface
1728 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1730 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1731 * support for FLAC audio format
1732 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1734 * network tab in the interface
1735 * "apply" handling in preferences
1738 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1739 ---------------------------------
1742 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1743 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1744 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1745 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1747 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1748 * DTS S/PDIF support
1751 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1752 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1753 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1754 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1757 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1758 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1761 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1764 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1767 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1769 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1770 * rc interface is now fully useable
1771 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1774 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1775 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1776 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1777 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1778 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1780 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1781 * support for mouse gestures
1782 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1785 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1786 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1789 * improved ID3 tag detection
1790 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1791 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1792 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1794 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1797 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1798 ---------------------------------
1801 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1802 English was set as the preferred language
1805 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1806 --------------------------------
1809 * new mouse gesture interface
1810 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1814 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1815 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1816 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1819 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1820 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1824 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1827 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1828 without the user consent
1831 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1833 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1834 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1835 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1838 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1839 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1840 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1841 * playlist enhancements
1842 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1843 * new step forward/step backward commands
1844 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1845 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1846 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1849 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1850 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1851 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1854 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1855 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1858 * native video output is working again
1859 * only commandline interface support
1860 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1863 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1864 --------------------------------
1867 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1868 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1869 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1870 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1871 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1872 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1873 and A/52 streams are supported)
1874 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1879 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1880 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1881 * VCD entry points support
1882 * VCD image file support
1885 * support for *.asf format
1886 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1887 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1888 * support for ogg encapsulation
1889 * support for raw DV format
1890 * support for *.wav format
1891 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1894 Stream discovery & playlists:
1895 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1896 * support for .m3u file format
1897 * support for .asx file format
1898 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1901 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1902 (only available with the .avi demux)
1903 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1904 * support for raw PCM data
1905 * support for Cinepak video codec
1906 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1907 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1908 * support for Xvid codec
1909 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1910 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1911 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1913 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1915 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1918 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1921 * new WxWindows interface
1922 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1923 device and the channels configuration
1924 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1925 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1926 format that VLC can play
1927 * new swedish translation
1928 * enhancements of the playlist window
1929 * new messages window to see debug info
1930 * fixed a few crashes
1933 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1934 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1935 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1936 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working