1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
14 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
15 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
17 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
18 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
22 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
23 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
24 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
25 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
26 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
27 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
30 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
31 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
32 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
33 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
34 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
35 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
36 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
37 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
38 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
39 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
40 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
41 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
42 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
43 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
44 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
47 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
48 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
49 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
50 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
51 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
52 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
55 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
56 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
57 * Ogg seeking improvements
58 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
59 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
60 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
63 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
64 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
65 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
66 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
67 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
68 and important cleanups and optimisations
69 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
70 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
71 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
72 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
73 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
74 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
75 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
76 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
77 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
80 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
81 * New video output for iOS platform
82 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
83 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
84 * Various vmem improvements
85 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
87 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
88 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
91 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
92 * New audio output in memory (amem)
93 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
94 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
97 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
98 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
99 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
100 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
101 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
102 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
103 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
104 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
105 * New anti-flickering filter
106 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
107 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
108 blackbox and customizable shadow
111 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
114 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
115 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
116 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
117 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
118 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
119 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
120 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
121 * Major rework of VoD support
122 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
123 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
124 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
125 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
126 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
127 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
128 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
129 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
130 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
133 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
134 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
137 * New capabilities for libVLC:
138 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
139 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
140 list of available audio and video filters
141 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
142 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
145 * asademux: use libass only
146 * subsass: use libass
147 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
148 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
150 * upnp: use upnp_intel
151 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
152 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
153 * remove of the noise filter
156 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
157 ----------------------------------
160 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
161 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
164 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
165 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
166 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
167 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
168 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
170 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
171 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
172 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
174 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
175 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
178 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
181 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
184 * Fix quitting on Linux
185 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
189 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
192 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
195 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
196 ---------------------------------
198 Windows and Mac OS X:
199 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
202 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
203 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
206 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
209 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
212 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
214 Miscellaneous fixes in:
215 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
217 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
218 * RTP output and XML export
219 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
223 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
224 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
225 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
226 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
229 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
230 --------------------------------
232 Windows and Mac OS X:
233 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
236 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
239 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
240 * Improve Apple Remote handling
241 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
242 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
243 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
244 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
247 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
248 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
252 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
253 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
254 * New Luganda Translation
257 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
258 --------------------------------
261 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
264 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
265 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
266 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
267 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
270 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
272 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
273 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
274 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
275 * mp4 demuxer improvements
276 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
277 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
278 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
279 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
281 Miscellaneous fixes in:
282 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
283 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
284 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
285 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
286 * Configure and build system improvements
287 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
290 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
291 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
292 * New icelandic translation
295 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
296 --------------------------------
299 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
303 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
304 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
305 and stability reasons
308 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
312 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
315 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
316 ----------------------------------
319 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
322 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
323 ---------------------------------
326 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
327 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
328 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
329 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
332 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
335 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
336 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
337 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
338 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
341 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
342 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
343 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
345 Subtitles and renderer:
346 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
347 * Mark more freetype options as safe
348 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
349 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
350 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
353 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
354 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
355 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
356 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
359 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
360 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
363 * KDE device solid actions
365 * Transcode integer overflow
366 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
367 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
370 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
371 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
372 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
375 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
376 ----------------------------------
379 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
383 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
386 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
389 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
390 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
391 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
392 * Taglib thread-safety fix
395 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
399 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
402 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
405 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
406 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
408 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
412 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
413 * Miscellaneous fixes
416 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
417 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
419 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
420 * New Asturian translation
423 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
424 ----------------------------------
427 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
429 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
432 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
435 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
436 * Various fixes for Windows
439 * New Armenian translation
440 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
441 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
444 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
445 --------------------------------
448 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
450 * Fix folders opening from the interface
453 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
454 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
457 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
458 --------------------------------
461 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
462 * fix for podcasts parsing
463 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
466 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
467 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
470 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
471 * fix m3u playlists exports
474 * fix video autoresize behaviour
477 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
480 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
483 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
486 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
489 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
490 --------------------------------
493 * Avformat fps displaying fix
494 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
497 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
498 of mono streams, especially on Windows
501 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
502 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
503 * fix console output encoding
505 Interface and extensions:
506 * Youtube and other scripts updates
507 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
510 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
511 --------------------------------
514 * New capabilities for libVLC:
515 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
516 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
517 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
518 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
519 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
520 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
521 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
522 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
523 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
524 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
525 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
526 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
527 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
528 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
529 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
533 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
534 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
535 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
536 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
537 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
540 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
543 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
544 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
545 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
549 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
552 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
553 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
554 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
557 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
558 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
559 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
560 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
563 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
564 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
567 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
568 --------------------------------
570 Important changes for users:
571 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
572 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
574 Important changes for packagers:
575 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
576 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
577 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
578 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
579 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
581 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
583 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
584 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
585 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
586 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
587 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
590 * Support for the sftp protocol
591 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
592 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
593 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
594 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
595 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
598 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
599 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
600 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
602 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
603 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
604 * Invmem module improvements
605 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
606 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
607 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
608 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
609 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
610 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
611 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
612 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
613 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
614 * Support for VP8 codec
615 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
618 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
619 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
620 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
621 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
622 * Various EGP improvements
623 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
624 * Metadata and cover art improvements
627 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
628 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
629 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
630 * Podcast images are now displayed
633 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
634 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
635 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
636 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
637 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
638 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
639 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
640 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
641 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
642 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
643 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
646 * New content extensions lua framework
649 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
650 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
651 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
652 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
653 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
654 * NEON assembly audio converter module
655 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
658 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
659 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
660 * Service discovery based on libudev
661 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
664 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
665 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
666 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
667 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
668 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
669 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
670 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
673 * New smem module, streaming to memory
674 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
675 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
678 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
680 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
681 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
684 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
687 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
688 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
689 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
690 by Andy Matuschak et al.
691 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
692 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
693 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
696 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
697 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
700 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
701 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
702 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
706 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
707 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
708 * Improved Solaris port
711 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
712 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
715 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
716 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
717 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
718 * transrate: broken since too long
719 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
720 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
721 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
722 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
723 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
724 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
725 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
726 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
727 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
728 * cddax: use cdda instead.
729 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
730 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
731 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
732 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
735 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
736 --------------------------------
739 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
741 Decoders/Packetizers:
742 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
745 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
746 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
747 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
748 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
749 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
752 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
753 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
756 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
757 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
760 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
761 and Walloon translations updated
762 * Sinhala translation started
765 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
766 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
769 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
770 --------------------------------
773 * SubRip extra styles improvements
774 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
777 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
780 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
781 increase performance and fix x264 issues
784 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
785 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
786 Russian, Slovak translation updates
787 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
790 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
791 --------------------------------
794 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
795 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
798 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
799 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
802 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
803 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
806 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
809 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
810 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
813 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
814 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
817 * New Walloon translation
818 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
821 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
822 --------------------------------
825 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
826 regressions in most popular drivers
827 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
830 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
831 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
832 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
835 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
836 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
839 * Update for appletrailers lua script
840 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
841 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
842 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
843 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
846 * New udev module for linux
849 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
852 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
855 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
856 --------------------------------
859 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
860 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
861 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
864 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
865 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
868 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
869 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
872 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
875 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
876 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
877 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
878 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
881 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
882 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
883 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
884 - no support for Goom and SDL
885 - limited text rendering support
886 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
889 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
890 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
891 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
892 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
893 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
894 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
895 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
896 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
897 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
901 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
904 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
907 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
908 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
909 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
910 Arabic and French translation updates
913 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
918 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
919 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
920 * Fix Dailymotion access script
921 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
922 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
925 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
926 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
929 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
930 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
931 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
934 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
937 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
938 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
941 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
942 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
943 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
944 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
945 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
946 * Fix various crashes
949 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
951 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
954 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
955 ---------------------------------
959 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
960 See 'Access:' for more info.
961 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
964 * Instantaneous pausing
965 * Frame-by-Frame playback
966 * Finer speed control
967 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
968 * Timeshift for most medias
969 * RTSP trickplay support
970 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
973 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
974 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
975 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
976 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
977 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
978 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
979 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
980 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
981 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
982 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
985 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
986 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
987 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
988 * Metadata for mod files are supported
989 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
990 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
991 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
994 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
995 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
998 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
999 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1000 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1001 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1002 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1003 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1004 * DVB scanning on linux
1005 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1006 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1007 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1008 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1009 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1010 * MTP device access on Unix
1011 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1012 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1015 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1016 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1017 Windows and Mac OS X.
1020 * Export the playlist in HTML
1021 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1022 * Better metadata handling and reading
1024 Linux/Windows interface:
1025 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1026 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1027 * Recently played items list
1028 * Interface toolbar customizations
1029 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1030 - More menus actions
1031 - Finer speed slider
1032 - Improvements on many dialogs
1033 - New dialog for plugins listing
1034 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1035 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1036 * Better integration in GTK environments
1039 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1040 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1041 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1042 * Additional usability improvements
1045 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1046 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1047 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1048 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1049 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1052 * New Maemo port with:
1053 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1054 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1057 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1060 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1061 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1062 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1063 * Support for latest iSight models
1066 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1067 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1070 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1071 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1072 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1073 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1074 The old image video output has been removed.
1075 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1076 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1079 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1087 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1088 --------------------------------------
1094 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1095 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1096 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1097 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1098 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1099 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1100 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1102 Various fixes to the following modules:
1105 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1106 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1107 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1109 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1114 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1115 ---------------------------------
1118 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1119 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1122 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1123 ---------------------------------
1126 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1129 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1132 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1133 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1134 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1135 main controller window.
1136 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1139 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1144 * Updates of other localizations
1147 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1148 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1149 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1150 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1151 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1154 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1155 ---------------------------------
1158 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1160 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1163 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1164 --------------------------------
1169 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1170 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1173 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1174 --------------------------------
1176 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1177 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1180 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1183 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1184 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1187 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1188 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1191 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1192 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1193 * Various fixed in playlist
1196 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1199 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1202 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1203 ------------------------------------
1205 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1206 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1209 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1210 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1211 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1214 * Stability fix for the video output.
1217 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1218 --------------------------------
1221 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1222 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1223 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1224 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1225 * Fixed update system bugs
1226 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1229 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1230 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1231 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1232 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1233 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1234 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1235 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1236 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1237 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1238 modern Mac OS X versions
1241 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1242 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1244 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1245 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1248 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1249 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1250 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1251 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1252 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1253 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1256 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1257 --------------------------------
1259 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1260 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1261 * Multiple bugfixes.
1264 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1265 --------------------------------
1267 * Multiple bug fixes.
1270 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1271 ---------------------------------
1275 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1276 recent to work correctly
1277 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1278 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1279 edit the ".hosts" file.
1280 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1281 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1282 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1283 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1284 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1285 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1286 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1287 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1288 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1289 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1290 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1291 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1292 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1293 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1294 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1295 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1296 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1297 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1298 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1299 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1300 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1301 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1302 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1303 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1304 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1305 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1306 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1307 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1308 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1309 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1310 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1311 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1312 and postproc modules.
1313 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1314 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1315 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1316 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1318 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1319 filter. For example:
1320 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1321 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1323 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1324 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1330 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1332 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1333 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1336 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1337 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1339 * Shoutcast TV listings
1340 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1342 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1343 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1345 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1348 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1349 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1350 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1351 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1352 * JACK audio input support
1353 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1354 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1355 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1356 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1357 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1358 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1359 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1360 (available as a separate download).
1361 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1362 * RTMP input support
1363 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1364 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1365 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1367 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1368 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1371 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1372 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1373 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1374 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1376 * APEv1/2 tags support
1377 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1378 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1380 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1381 * TiVo Series 2 support
1382 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1387 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1388 * Flash Screen Video support
1389 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1390 * DosBox Capture support
1391 * Karl Morton's Video support
1392 * limited atrac3 support
1394 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1395 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1396 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1397 * H.264 PAFF support
1398 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1399 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1400 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1401 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1402 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1405 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1406 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1407 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1408 * AQTitle subtitles support
1409 * MKV USF subtitles support
1410 * HTML-based subtitles support
1411 * MPSub subtitles support
1412 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1413 * MPL2 subtitles support
1414 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1415 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1416 * Realtext subtitle support
1417 * DKS subtitle support
1418 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1419 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1422 * Flash Screen Video support
1423 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1425 Video outputs and filters:
1426 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1427 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1428 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1429 * New puzzle video output filter
1430 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1431 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1433 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1434 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1435 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1436 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1437 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1438 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1439 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1440 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1441 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1442 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1443 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1444 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1445 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1446 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1448 Audio outputs and filters:
1449 * Replay gain support
1450 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1451 new scaletempo audio filter)
1452 * New spatializer audio filter
1453 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1456 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1457 * New RTP payload formats:
1458 * Speex voice audio codec
1459 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1460 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1461 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1462 * DCCP transport for RTP
1463 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1468 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1469 end-user suitable way.
1470 * Improved user interaction
1471 * Improved mouse gestures
1472 * Vastly improved Update checker
1473 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1475 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1476 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1478 * Improved video output features
1479 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1480 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1481 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1482 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1483 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1485 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1486 if libncursesw is available.
1487 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1488 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1489 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1491 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1492 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1493 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1494 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1495 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1496 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1497 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1498 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1501 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1502 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1503 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1506 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1507 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1508 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1509 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1510 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1511 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1514 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1515 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1525 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1526 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1527 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1530 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1531 ----------------------------------
1534 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1537 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1538 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1539 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1540 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1541 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1542 * Updated Polish translation
1545 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1546 ----------------------------------
1549 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1550 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1551 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1554 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1555 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1556 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1557 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1558 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1559 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1560 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1561 to an unexpected application termination
1562 * New Serbian translation
1563 * Updated Romanian translation
1566 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1567 ----------------------------------
1570 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1571 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1572 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1573 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1574 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1575 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1576 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1577 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1580 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1581 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1582 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1583 * Fixed AAC resampling
1584 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1585 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1588 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1589 ----------------------------------
1592 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1593 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1594 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1595 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1596 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1599 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1600 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1601 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1602 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1603 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1606 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1607 ----------------------------------
1610 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1611 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1614 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1615 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1616 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1617 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1619 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1623 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1626 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1629 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1632 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1635 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1636 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1637 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1638 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1639 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1641 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1642 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1643 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1644 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1647 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1650 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1651 ----------------------------------
1654 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1655 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1656 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1658 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1659 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1661 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1662 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1665 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1667 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1668 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1669 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1670 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1671 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1672 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1673 two different movies
1674 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1675 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1676 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1679 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1682 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1683 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1684 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1685 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1688 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1689 ----------------------------------
1691 Various bugfixes, notably:
1692 * Windows Vista compatibility
1693 * Cropping in Direct3D
1694 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1695 * RSS filter string overflow
1697 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1699 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1700 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1703 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1704 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1707 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1710 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1713 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1716 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1717 ----------------------------------
1719 Various bugfixes, notably:
1720 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1721 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1722 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1723 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1724 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1725 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1728 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1729 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1732 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1734 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1735 * Diverse usability improvements
1736 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1737 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1738 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1741 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1742 ---------------------------------
1744 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1745 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1748 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1751 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1752 --------------------------------
1755 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1758 * Support for RTSP authentication
1759 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1760 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1761 * ATSC support for DVB input
1762 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1763 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1764 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1767 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1768 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1769 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1770 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1771 * Matroska WavPack support
1772 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1773 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1774 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1777 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1778 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1779 * Improved libcaca support
1783 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1784 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1786 * Systray support in skins
1788 * Support for Apple Remote control
1789 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1790 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1791 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1792 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1794 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1797 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1798 Windows 9x/ME users:
1799 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1800 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1801 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1802 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1803 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1805 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1806 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1815 * Updates to the libvlc API
1816 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1819 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1820 --------------------------------
1823 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1824 * Support for downloading updates
1828 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1829 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1830 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1831 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1833 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1834 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1835 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1838 * Cook (Real audio) support
1840 Playlist / Services discovery:
1841 * XSPF playlist support
1843 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1846 * New JACK audio output
1849 * New video filters:
1850 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1851 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1852 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1853 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1854 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1855 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1858 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1861 * System to inform the user and request information
1862 - HTTP authentication
1866 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1867 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1868 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1871 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1872 - Improved playlist handling
1873 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1875 - Embedded Video output
1876 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1877 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1878 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1879 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1880 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1882 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1883 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1886 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1889 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1890 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1891 * Growl "Now playing" support
1894 * Ability to log to syslog
1895 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1898 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1900 * A bit more automatic testing
1903 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1904 ---------------------------------
1907 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1908 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1911 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1912 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1915 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1918 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1919 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1925 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1928 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1929 --------------------------------
1932 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1936 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1937 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1938 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1941 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1942 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1943 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1944 * GnomeVFS input module
1945 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1946 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1949 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1950 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1951 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1954 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1955 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1961 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1962 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1965 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1966 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1967 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1970 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1972 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1973 - New extended controls panel
1974 - New bookmarks window
1975 - Fixed playlist sorting
1976 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1978 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1979 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1980 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1981 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1985 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1986 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1988 - Include macro to include other files
1992 * Should now work outside IE as well
1995 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1998 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1999 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2002 The following languages were added:
2006 * Simplified Chinese
2007 The following languages were re-added:
2011 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2012 --------------------------------
2015 * Rewrite of the playlist
2017 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2018 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2019 * Preferences improvements:
2020 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2021 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2023 * Core image manipulation support
2024 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2025 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2026 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2027 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2028 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2029 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2030 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2031 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2032 * Access filter architecture
2033 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2034 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2038 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2039 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2040 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2041 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2042 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2043 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2044 * Massive Matroska improvements
2045 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2047 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2048 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2049 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2050 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2051 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2053 Decoders / Encoders:
2054 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2055 * PNG decoder/encoder
2056 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2057 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2060 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2063 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2064 * Brand new SAP module
2065 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2066 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2067 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2068 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2069 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2070 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2074 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2077 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2078 * Image file video output (png)
2079 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2080 * Improvements to wall video filter
2081 * Support for font color and opacity
2087 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2088 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2089 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2093 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2094 - Improved preferences
2095 - Improvements to the wizard
2096 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2098 - Redesigned playlist
2099 - Improved preferences
2101 - Support for multiple actions
2104 - Support for the new playlist system
2106 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2109 * Screensaver disabling fix
2110 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2111 * Support for no-decoration windows
2114 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2115 * The OpenGL video output is back
2116 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2117 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2118 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2119 is not yet available in the new module
2120 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2123 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2132 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2135 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2138 The following languages were added:
2144 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2145 --------------------------------
2148 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2149 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2152 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2153 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2154 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2157 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2160 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2163 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2166 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2167 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2168 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2172 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2174 * Support of playlist group announcement
2177 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2178 --------------------------------
2181 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2182 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2183 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2184 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2185 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2186 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2189 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2190 (Stream your desktop)
2191 * Improved DVD support:
2192 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2193 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2194 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2195 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2196 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2197 (selection of titles/chapters).
2200 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2201 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2202 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2203 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2204 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2205 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2206 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2207 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2208 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2209 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2212 * G.726 audio support
2213 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2214 * MPEG-4 text support
2215 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2216 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2217 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2221 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2222 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2223 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2224 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2225 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2226 * DVB subtitles encoder
2227 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2228 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2230 * Text track muxing for mp4
2231 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2232 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2233 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2234 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2235 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2236 * Improved ASF muxer
2238 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2239 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2240 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2243 * New audio equalizer filter
2244 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2245 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2246 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2247 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2250 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2251 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2252 with support for effects.
2253 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2254 - New filters can be streamed.
2255 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2256 - Centralized scaling and blending
2258 - "time", to display current time
2259 - "marq", to display a marquee
2262 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2263 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2264 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2265 * A few skins2 improvements
2266 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2267 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2268 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2269 * Improved CORBA control module
2272 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2273 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2274 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2277 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2278 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2279 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2282 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2283 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2284 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2285 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2286 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2289 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2292 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2293 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2296 * Server/client network synchronization module
2297 * VBrick streams fully supported
2298 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2302 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2303 --------------------------------
2306 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2307 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2308 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2309 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2312 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2313 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2314 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2315 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2316 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2317 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2318 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2321 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2322 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2323 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2324 * Improved directory access module.
2325 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2326 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2327 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2328 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2329 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2332 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2333 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2334 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2337 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2338 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2339 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2342 * Improved session announcement system.
2343 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2344 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2345 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2346 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2347 * Improved transrater.
2348 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2349 * New configuration system.
2350 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2353 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2354 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2355 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2356 * Supports scheduling.
2357 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2358 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2361 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2362 - Ability to embed video output.
2363 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2364 - Lots of improvements.
2365 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2366 - New design and set of icons.
2367 - Ability to embed video output.
2368 - Support for hotkeys.
2369 - Support for bookmarks.
2371 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2372 - Better hotkeys handling.
2375 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2376 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2377 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2378 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2381 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2382 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2383 * Improved Windows installer.
2389 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2390 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2393 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2394 ---------------------------------
2397 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2398 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2401 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2402 --------------------------------
2405 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2406 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2409 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2410 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2411 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2412 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2415 * Internal improvments
2416 * Improved import/export
2419 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2421 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2422 small and strange formats.
2424 * New MOD audio demux.
2425 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2426 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2427 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2428 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2431 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2432 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2433 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2439 * New opengl video output plugin.
2442 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2443 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2446 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2447 --------------------------------
2450 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2451 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2452 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2453 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2454 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2455 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2456 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2457 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2460 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2465 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2466 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2467 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2468 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2469 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2470 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2471 * Better Icecast support.
2472 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2473 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2476 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2477 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2478 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2479 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2480 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2481 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2482 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2485 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2486 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2487 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2488 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2489 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2490 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2491 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2492 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2493 * Preliminary RTP support.
2494 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2499 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2500 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2502 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2503 - Improvements and help in preferences
2504 - New streaming wizard
2505 - Revised Disc Open menu
2507 - Improvements of the standard pages
2508 - Support for new commands
2509 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2512 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2513 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2516 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2517 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2518 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2519 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2520 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2521 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2522 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2523 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2524 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2527 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2529 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2530 * Support for Panther.
2531 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2532 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2535 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2536 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2537 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2538 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2539 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2540 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2541 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2542 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2545 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2546 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2547 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2550 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2553 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2554 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2555 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2556 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2559 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2560 --------------------------------
2563 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2566 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2567 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2570 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2571 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2574 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2577 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2578 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2581 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2584 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2587 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2588 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2592 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2593 --------------------------------
2596 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2597 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2601 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2602 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2603 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2605 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2606 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2609 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2612 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2615 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2616 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2620 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2621 --------------------------------
2624 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2625 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2629 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2630 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2631 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2632 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2633 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2636 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2637 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2638 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2641 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2642 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2643 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2646 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2647 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2648 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2649 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2650 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2653 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2654 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2655 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2658 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2661 * Improved build system.
2662 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2663 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2664 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2665 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2668 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2669 --------------------------------
2672 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2675 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2676 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2677 * Video 4 Linux support
2678 * CD Digital Audio support
2679 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2682 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2683 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2684 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2685 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2688 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2689 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2690 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2691 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2692 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2693 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2694 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2697 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2698 * New HTTP remote control interface
2701 * 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.
2702 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2703 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2704 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2707 * New reset option for the preferences
2708 * You can set your language in the prefences
2709 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2710 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2711 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2712 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2715 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2716 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2717 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2720 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2721 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2722 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2723 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2724 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2725 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2726 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2727 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2728 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2729 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2732 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2733 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2734 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2735 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2736 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2737 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2738 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2741 * Interface localization
2742 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2743 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2744 * New full-featured Preferences window
2747 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2748 --------------------------------
2751 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2752 * support for skins at the interface level
2753 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2754 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2755 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2756 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2757 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2760 * fixed HTTP redirects
2761 * support for opening an entire directory
2762 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2763 * new video4linux access plug-in
2764 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2767 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2768 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2769 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2772 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2773 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2774 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2775 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2776 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2777 * new codec for raw I420 video
2778 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2781 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2782 (although it still misses some important features)
2783 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2786 * new HTTP output support
2787 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2788 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2791 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2794 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2797 * reorderable playlist
2798 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2799 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2800 * support for mono audio output devices
2801 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2802 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2803 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2804 * the messages window remembers more lines
2805 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2806 * http and ogg stream output options
2807 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2810 * new skinnable interface
2811 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2813 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2814 * support for FLAC audio format
2815 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2817 * network tab in the interface
2818 * "apply" handling in preferences
2821 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2822 ---------------------------------
2825 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2826 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2827 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2828 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2830 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2831 * DTS S/PDIF support
2834 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2835 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2836 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2837 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2840 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2841 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2844 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2847 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2850 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2852 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2853 * rc interface is now fully useable
2854 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2857 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2858 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2859 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2860 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2861 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2863 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2864 * support for mouse gestures
2865 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2868 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2869 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2872 * improved ID3 tag detection
2873 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2874 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2875 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2877 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2880 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2881 ---------------------------------
2884 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2885 English was set as the preferred language
2888 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2889 --------------------------------
2892 * new mouse gesture interface
2893 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2897 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2898 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2899 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2902 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2903 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2907 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2910 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2911 without the user consent
2914 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2916 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2917 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2918 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2921 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2922 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2923 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2924 * playlist enhancements
2925 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2926 * new step forward/step backward commands
2927 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2928 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2929 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2932 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2933 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2934 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2937 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2938 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2941 * native video output is working again
2942 * only commandline interface support
2943 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2946 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2947 --------------------------------
2950 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2951 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2952 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2953 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2954 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2955 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2956 and A/52 streams are supported)
2957 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2962 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2963 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2964 * VCD entry points support
2965 * VCD image file support
2968 * support for *.asf format
2969 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2970 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2971 * support for ogg encapsulation
2972 * support for raw DV format
2973 * support for *.wav format
2974 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2977 Stream discovery & playlists:
2978 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2979 * support for .m3u file format
2980 * support for .asx file format
2981 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2984 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2985 (only available with the .avi demux)
2986 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2987 * support for raw PCM data
2988 * support for Cinepak video codec
2989 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2990 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2991 * support for Xvid codec
2992 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2993 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2994 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2996 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2998 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3001 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3004 * new WxWindows interface
3005 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3006 device and the channels configuration
3007 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3008 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3009 format that VLC can play
3010 * new swedish translation
3011 * enhancements of the playlist window
3012 * new messages window to see debug info
3013 * fixed a few crashes
3016 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3017 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3018 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3019 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working