3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
39 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
40 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
41 states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
42 FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
43 reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
44 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
46 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
47 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
49 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
55 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
58 * Vastly improved playlist support:
59 * Media library support
61 * Shoutcast TV listings
62 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
64 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
65 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
66 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
67 share/lua/meta/README.txt
70 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
71 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
72 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
73 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
74 * JACK audio input support
75 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
76 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
77 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
78 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
79 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
80 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
81 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
82 (available as a separate download).
84 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
85 taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
86 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
88 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
89 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
92 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
93 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
94 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
95 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
97 * APEv1/2 tags support
98 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
99 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
101 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
102 * TiVo Series 2 support
103 * CD+G karaoke Files support
107 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
108 * Flash Screen Video support
109 * CamStudio Screen Video support
110 * DosBox Capture support
111 * Karl Morton's Video support
112 * limited atrac3 support
113 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
114 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
115 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
116 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
118 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
119 * NellyMoser ASAO support
120 * APE (Monkey audio) support
121 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
122 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
125 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
126 * AQTitle subtitles support
127 * MKV USF subtitles support
128 * HTML-based subtitles support
129 * MPSub subtitles support
130 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
131 * MPL2 subtitles support
132 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
133 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
134 * Realtext subtitle support
135 * DKS subtitle support
136 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
137 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
140 * Flash Screen Video support
141 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
143 Video outputs and filters:
144 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
145 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
146 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
147 * New puzzle video output filter
148 * Re-written motion detection video filter
149 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
151 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
152 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
153 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
154 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
155 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
156 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
157 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
158 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
159 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
160 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
161 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
162 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
163 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
165 Audio outputs and filters:
166 * Replay gain support
167 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
168 * New spatializer audio filter
169 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
172 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
173 * New RTP payload formats:
174 * Speex voice audio codec
175 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
176 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
177 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
178 * DCCP transport for RTP
179 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
184 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
186 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
187 end-user suitable way.
188 * Improved user interaction
189 * Improved mouse gestures
190 * Vastly improved Update checker
191 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
193 * Improved video output features
194 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
195 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
196 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
197 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
199 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
200 if libncursesw is available.
201 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
202 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
204 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
205 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
206 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
207 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
208 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
209 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
210 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
211 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
214 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
215 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
216 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
219 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
220 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
221 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
222 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
223 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
224 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
227 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
228 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
236 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
237 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
238 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
241 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
242 ----------------------------------
245 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
246 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
247 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
250 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
251 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
252 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
253 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
254 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
255 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
256 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
257 to an unexpected application termination
258 * New Serbian translation
259 * Updated Romanian translation
262 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
263 ----------------------------------
266 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
267 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
268 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
269 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
270 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
271 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
272 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
273 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
276 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
277 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
278 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
279 * Fixed AAC resampling
280 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
281 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
284 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
285 ----------------------------------
288 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
289 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
290 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
291 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
292 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
295 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
296 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
297 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
298 * Close MMS access on network timeout
299 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
302 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
303 ----------------------------------
306 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
307 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
310 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
311 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
312 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
313 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
315 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
319 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
322 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
325 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
328 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
331 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
332 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
333 encoding on multi-cpu systems
334 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
335 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
337 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
338 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
339 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
340 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
343 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
346 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
347 ----------------------------------
350 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
351 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
352 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
354 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
355 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
357 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
358 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
361 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
363 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
364 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
365 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
366 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
367 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
368 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
370 * Support for current Ogg file formats
371 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
372 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
375 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
378 * The automatic updating facility was removed
379 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
380 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
381 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
384 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
385 ----------------------------------
387 Various bugfixes, notably:
388 * Windows Vista compatibility
389 * Cropping in Direct3D
390 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
391 * RSS filter string overflow
393 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
395 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
396 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
399 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
400 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
403 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
406 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
409 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
412 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
413 ----------------------------------
415 Various bugfixes, notably:
416 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
417 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
418 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
419 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
420 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
421 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
424 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
425 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
428 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
430 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
431 * Diverse usability improvements
432 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
433 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
434 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
437 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
438 ---------------------------------
441 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
444 * Fullscreen controller improvements
447 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
448 --------------------------------
451 * Shoutcast TV listings support
454 * Support for RTSP authentication
455 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
456 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
457 * ATSC support for DVB input
458 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
459 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
460 * Improved support for Flash Video files
463 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
464 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
465 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
466 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
467 * Matroska WavPack support
468 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
469 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
470 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
473 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
474 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
475 * Improved libcaca support
479 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
480 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
482 * Systray support in skins
484 * Support for Apple Remote control
485 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
486 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
487 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
488 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
490 * Notifications using notification-daemon
493 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
495 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
496 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
497 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
498 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
499 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
501 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
502 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
511 * Updates to the libvlc API
512 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
515 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
516 --------------------------------
519 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
520 * Support for downloading updates
524 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
525 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
526 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
527 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
529 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
530 * Improved subtitles encoding support
531 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
534 * Cook (Real audio) support
536 Playlist / Services discovery:
537 * XSPF playlist support
539 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
542 * New JACK audio output
546 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
547 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
548 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
549 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
550 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
551 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
554 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
557 * System to inform the user and request information
558 - HTTP authentication
562 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
563 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
564 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
567 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
568 - Improved playlist handling
569 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
571 - Embedded Video output
572 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
573 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
574 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
575 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
576 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
578 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
579 - A bunch of new RPN functions
582 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
585 * Mac-Intel compatibility
586 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
587 * Growl "Now playing" support
590 * Ability to log to syslog
591 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
594 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
596 * A bit more automatic testing
599 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
600 ---------------------------------
603 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
604 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
607 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
608 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
611 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
614 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
615 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
621 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
624 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
625 --------------------------------
628 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
632 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
633 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
634 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
637 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
638 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
639 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
640 * GnomeVFS input module
641 * Support for RTP packet reordering
642 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
645 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
646 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
647 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
650 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
651 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
657 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
658 Mixer and Dolby Surround
661 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
662 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
663 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
666 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
668 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
669 - New extended controls panel
670 - New bookmarks window
671 - Fixed playlist sorting
672 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
674 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
675 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
676 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
677 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
681 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
682 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
684 - Include macro to include other files
688 * Should now work outside IE as well
691 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
694 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
695 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
698 The following languages were added:
703 The following languages were re-added:
707 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
708 --------------------------------
711 * Rewrite of the playlist
713 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
714 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
715 * Preferences improvements:
716 - New organization, designed to improve usability
717 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
719 * Core image manipulation support
720 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
721 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
722 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
723 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
724 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
725 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
726 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
727 now separated by ':' instead of ','
728 * Access filter architecture
729 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
730 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
734 * Support for SOCKS proxy
735 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
736 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
737 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
738 * Better support for Kasenna streams
739 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
740 * Massive Matroska improvements
741 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
743 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
744 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
745 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
746 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
747 * Support for FTP over IPv6
750 * Dirac decoder and encoder
751 * PNG decoder/encoder
752 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
753 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
756 * New Record and Timeshift filters
759 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
760 * Brand new SAP module
761 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
762 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
763 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
764 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
765 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
766 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
770 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
773 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
774 * Image file video output (png)
775 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
776 * Improvements to wall video filter
777 * Support for font color and opacity
783 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
784 - Seeking support in VoD streams
785 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
789 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
790 - Improved preferences
791 - Improvements to the wizard
792 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
794 - Redesigned playlist
795 - Improved preferences
797 - Support for multiple actions
800 - Support for the new playlist system
802 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
805 * Screensaver disabling fix
806 * DirectShow tuner configuration
807 * Support for no-decoration windows
810 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
811 * The OpenGL video output is back
812 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
813 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
814 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
815 is not yet available in the new module
816 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
819 * Support for single-buffered overlay
828 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
831 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
834 The following languages were added:
840 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
841 --------------------------------
844 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
845 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
848 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
849 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
850 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
853 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
856 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
859 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
862 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
863 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
864 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
868 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
870 * Support of playlist group announcement
873 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
874 --------------------------------
877 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
878 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
879 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
880 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
881 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
882 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
885 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
886 (Stream your desktop)
887 * Improved DVD support:
888 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
889 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
890 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
891 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
892 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
893 (selection of titles/chapters).
896 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
897 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
898 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
899 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
900 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
901 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
902 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
903 * Improved Ogg demuxer
904 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
905 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
908 * G.726 audio support
909 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
910 * MPEG-4 text support
911 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
912 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
913 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
917 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
918 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
919 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
920 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
921 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
922 * DVB subtitles encoder
923 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
924 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
926 * Text track muxing for mp4
927 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
928 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
929 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
930 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
931 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
934 * H.263 RTP streaming support
935 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
936 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
939 * New audio equalizer filter
940 * Very trivial volume normalizer
941 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
942 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
943 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
946 * Roku HD1000 Video output
947 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
948 with support for effects.
949 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
950 - New filters can be streamed.
951 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
952 - Centralized scaling and blending
954 - "time", to display current time
955 - "marq", to display a marquee
958 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
959 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
960 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
961 * A few skins2 improvements
962 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
963 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
964 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
965 * Improved CORBA control module
968 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
969 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
970 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
973 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
974 * Experimental SVG rendering module
975 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
978 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
979 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
980 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
981 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
982 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
985 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
988 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
989 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
992 * Server/client network synchronization module
993 * VBrick streams fully supported
994 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
998 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
999 --------------------------------
1002 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1003 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1004 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1005 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1008 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1009 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1010 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1011 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1012 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1013 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1014 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1017 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1018 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1019 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1020 * Improved directory access module.
1021 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1022 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1023 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1024 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1025 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1028 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1029 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1030 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1033 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1034 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1035 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1038 * Improved session announcement system.
1039 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1040 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1041 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1042 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1043 * Improved transrater.
1044 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1045 * New configuration system.
1046 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1049 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1050 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1051 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1052 * Supports scheduling.
1053 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1054 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1057 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1058 - Ability to embed video output.
1059 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1060 - Lots of improvements.
1061 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1062 - New design and set of icons.
1063 - Ability to embed video output.
1064 - Support for hotkeys.
1065 - Support for bookmarks.
1067 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1068 - Better hotkeys handling.
1071 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1072 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1073 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1074 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1077 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1078 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1079 * Improved Windows installer.
1085 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1086 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1089 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1090 ---------------------------------
1093 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1094 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1097 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1098 --------------------------------
1101 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1102 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1105 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1106 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1107 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1108 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1111 * Internal improvments
1112 * Improved import/export
1115 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1117 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1118 small and strange formats.
1120 * New MOD audio demux.
1121 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1122 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1123 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1124 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1127 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1128 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1129 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1135 * New opengl video output plugin.
1138 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1139 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1142 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1143 --------------------------------
1146 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1147 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1148 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1149 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1150 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1151 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1152 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1153 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1156 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1161 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1162 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1163 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1164 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1165 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1166 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1167 * Better Icecast support.
1168 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1169 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1172 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1173 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1174 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1175 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1176 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1177 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1178 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1181 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1182 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1183 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1184 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1185 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1186 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1187 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1188 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1189 * Preliminary RTP support.
1190 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1195 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1196 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1198 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1199 - Improvements and help in preferences
1200 - New streaming wizard
1201 - Revised Disc Open menu
1203 - Improvements of the standard pages
1204 - Support for new commands
1205 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1208 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1209 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1212 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1213 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1214 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1215 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1216 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1217 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1218 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1219 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1220 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1223 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1225 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1226 * Support for Panther.
1227 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1228 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1231 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1232 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1233 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1234 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1235 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1236 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1237 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1238 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1241 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1242 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1243 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1246 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1249 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1250 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1251 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1252 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1255 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1256 --------------------------------
1259 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1262 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1263 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1266 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1267 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1270 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1273 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1274 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1277 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1280 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1283 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1284 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1288 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1289 --------------------------------
1292 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1293 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1297 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1298 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1299 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1301 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1302 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1305 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1308 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1311 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1312 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1316 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1317 --------------------------------
1320 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1321 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1325 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1326 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1327 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1328 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1329 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1332 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1333 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1334 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1337 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1338 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1339 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1342 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1343 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1344 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1345 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1346 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1349 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1350 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1351 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1354 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1357 * Improved build system.
1358 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1359 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1360 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1361 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1364 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1365 --------------------------------
1368 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1371 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1372 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1373 * Video 4 Linux support
1374 * CD Digital Audio support
1375 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1378 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1379 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1380 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1381 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1384 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1385 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1386 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1387 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1388 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1389 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1390 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1393 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1394 * New HTTP remote control interface
1397 * 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.
1398 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1399 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1400 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1403 * New reset option for the preferences
1404 * You can set your language in the prefences
1405 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1406 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1407 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1408 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1411 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1412 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1413 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1416 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1417 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1418 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1419 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1420 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1421 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1422 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1423 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1424 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1425 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1428 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1429 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1430 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1431 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1432 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1433 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1434 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1437 * Interface localization
1438 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1439 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1440 * New full-featured Preferences window
1443 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1444 --------------------------------
1447 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1448 * support for skins at the interface level
1449 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1450 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1451 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1452 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1453 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1456 * fixed HTTP redirects
1457 * support for opening an entire directory
1458 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1459 * new video4linux access plug-in
1460 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1463 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1464 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1465 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1468 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1469 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1470 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1471 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1472 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1473 * new codec for raw I420 video
1474 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1477 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1478 (although it still misses some important features)
1479 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1482 * new HTTP output support
1483 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1484 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1487 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1490 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1493 * reorderable playlist
1494 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1495 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1496 * support for mono audio output devices
1497 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1498 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1499 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1500 * the messages window remembers more lines
1501 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1502 * http and ogg stream output options
1503 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1506 * new skinnable interface
1507 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1509 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1510 * support for FLAC audio format
1511 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1513 * network tab in the interface
1514 * "apply" handling in preferences
1517 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1518 ---------------------------------
1521 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1522 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1523 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1524 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1526 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1527 * DTS S/PDIF support
1530 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1531 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1532 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1533 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1536 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1537 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1540 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1543 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1546 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1548 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1549 * rc interface is now fully useable
1550 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1553 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1554 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1555 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1556 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1557 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1559 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1560 * support for mouse gestures
1561 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1564 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1565 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1568 * improved ID3 tag detection
1569 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1570 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1571 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1573 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1576 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1577 ---------------------------------
1580 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1581 English was set as the preferred language
1584 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1585 --------------------------------
1588 * new mouse gesture interface
1589 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1593 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1594 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1595 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1598 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1599 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1603 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1606 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1607 without the user consent
1610 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1612 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1613 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1614 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1617 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1618 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1619 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1620 * playlist enhancements
1621 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1622 * new step forward/step backward commands
1623 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1624 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1625 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1628 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1629 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1630 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1633 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1634 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1637 * native video output is working again
1638 * only commandline interface support
1639 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1642 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1643 --------------------------------
1646 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1647 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1648 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1649 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1650 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1651 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1652 and A/52 streams are supported)
1653 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1658 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1659 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1660 * VCD entry points support
1661 * VCD image file support
1664 * support for *.asf format
1665 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1666 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1667 * support for ogg encapsulation
1668 * support for raw DV format
1669 * support for *.wav format
1670 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1673 Stream discovery & playlists:
1674 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1675 * support for .m3u file format
1676 * support for .asx file format
1677 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1680 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1681 (only available with the .avi demux)
1682 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1683 * support for raw PCM data
1684 * support for Cinepak video codec
1685 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1686 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1687 * support for Xvid codec
1688 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1689 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1690 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1692 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1694 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1697 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1700 * new WxWindows interface
1701 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1702 device and the channels configuration
1703 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1704 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1705 format that VLC can play
1706 * new swedish translation
1707 * enhancements of the playlist window
1708 * new messages window to see debug info
1709 * fixed a few crashes
1712 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1713 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1714 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1715 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working