3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (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 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
22 * Vastly improved playlist support:
23 * Media library support
25 * Shoutcast TV listings
26 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
29 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
30 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
31 * New puzzle video output filter
35 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
37 * Improved user interaction
40 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
41 --------------------------------
44 * Shoutcast TV listings support
47 * Support for RTSP authentication
48 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
49 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
50 * ATSC support for DVB input
51 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
52 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
53 * Improved support for Flash Video files
56 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
57 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
58 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
59 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
61 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
62 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
63 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
66 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
67 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
68 * Improved libcaca support
72 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
73 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
75 * Systray support in skins
77 * Support for Apple Remote control
78 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
79 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
80 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
81 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
83 * Notifications using notification-daemon
86 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
88 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
89 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
90 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
91 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
92 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
94 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
95 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
104 * Updates to the libvlc API
105 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
108 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
109 ---------------------------------
112 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
113 * Support for downloading updates
117 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
118 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
119 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
120 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
122 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
123 * Improved subtitles encoding support
124 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
127 * Cook (Real audio) support
129 Playlist / Services discovery:
130 * XSPF playlist support
132 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
135 * New JACK audio output
139 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
140 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
141 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
142 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
143 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
144 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
147 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
150 * System to inform the user and request information
151 - HTTP authentication
155 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
156 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
157 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
160 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
161 - Improved playlist handling
162 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
164 - Embedded Video output
165 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
166 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
167 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
168 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
169 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
171 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
172 - A bunch of new RPN functions
175 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
178 * Mac-Intel compatibility
179 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
180 * Growl "Now playing" support
183 * Ability to log to syslog
184 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
187 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
189 * A bit more automatic testing
191 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
192 ---------------------------------
195 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
196 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
199 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
200 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
203 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
206 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
207 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
213 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
215 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
216 --------------------------------
219 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
223 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
224 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
225 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
228 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
229 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
230 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
231 * GnomeVFS input module
232 * Support for RTP packet reordering
233 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
236 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
237 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
238 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
241 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
242 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
248 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
249 Mixer and Dolby Surround
252 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
253 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
254 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
257 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
259 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
260 - New extended controls panel
261 - New bookmarks window
262 - Fixed playlist sorting
263 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
265 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
266 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
267 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
268 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
272 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
273 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
275 - Include macro to include other files
279 * Should now work outside IE as well
282 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
285 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
286 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
289 The following languages were added:
294 The following languages were re-added:
297 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
298 --------------------------------
301 * Rewrite of the playlist
303 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
304 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
305 * Preferences improvements:
306 - New organization, designed to improve usability
307 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
309 * Core image manipulation support
310 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
311 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
312 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
313 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
314 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
315 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
316 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
317 now separated by ':' instead of ','
318 * Access filter architecture
319 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
320 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
324 * Support for SOCKS proxy
325 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
326 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
327 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
328 * Better support for Kasenna streams
329 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
330 * Massive Matroska improvements
331 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
333 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
334 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
335 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
336 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
337 * Support for FTP over IPv6
340 * Dirac decoder and encoder
341 * PNG decoder/encoder
342 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
343 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
346 * New Record and Timeshift filters
349 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
350 * Brand new SAP module
351 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
352 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
353 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
354 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
355 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
356 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
360 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
363 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
364 * Image file video output (png)
365 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
366 * Improvements to wall video filter
367 * Support for font color and opacity
373 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
374 - Seeking support in VoD streams
375 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
379 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
380 - Improved preferences
381 - Improvements to the wizard
382 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
384 - Redesigned playlist
385 - Improved preferences
387 - Support for multiple actions
390 - Support for the new playlist system
392 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
395 * Screensaver disabling fix
396 * DirectShow tuner configuration
397 * Support for no-decoration windows
400 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
401 * The OpenGL video output is back
402 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
403 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
404 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
405 is not yet available in the new module
406 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
409 * Support for single-buffered overlay
418 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
421 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
424 The following languages were added:
430 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
431 -----------------------------------------------------
434 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
435 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
438 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
439 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
440 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
443 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
446 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
449 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
452 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
453 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
454 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
458 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
460 * Support of playlist group announcement
462 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
463 -----------------------------------------------------
466 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
467 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
468 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
469 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
470 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
471 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
474 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
475 (Stream your desktop)
476 * Improved DVD support:
477 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
478 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
479 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
480 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
481 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
482 (selection of titles/chapters).
485 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
486 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
487 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
488 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
489 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
490 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
491 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
492 * Improved Ogg demuxer
493 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
494 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
497 * G.726 audio support
498 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
499 * MPEG-4 text support
500 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
501 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
502 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
506 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
507 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
508 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
509 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
510 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
511 * DVB subtitles encoder
512 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
513 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
515 * Text track muxing for mp4
516 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
517 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
518 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
519 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
520 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
523 * H.263 RTP streaming support
524 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
525 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
528 * New audio equalizer filter
529 * Very trivial volume normalizer
530 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
531 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
532 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
535 * Roku HD1000 Video output
536 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
537 with support for effects.
538 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
539 - New filters can be streamed.
540 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
541 - Centralized scaling and blending
543 - "time", to display current time
544 - "marq", to display a marquee
547 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
548 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
549 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
550 * A few skins2 improvements
551 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
552 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
553 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
554 * Improved CORBA control module
557 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
558 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
559 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
562 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
563 * Experimental SVG rendering module
564 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
567 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
568 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
569 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
570 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
571 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
574 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
577 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
578 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
581 * Server/client network synchronization module
582 * VBrick streams fully supported
583 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
586 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
587 --------------------------------
590 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
591 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
592 * Improved HTTP daemon.
593 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
596 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
597 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
598 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
599 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
600 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
601 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
602 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
605 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
606 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
607 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
608 * Improved directory access module.
609 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
610 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
611 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
612 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
613 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
616 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
617 * mmsh streaming fixes.
618 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
621 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
622 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
623 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
626 * Improved session announcement system.
627 * Minimize threads usage by default.
628 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
629 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
630 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
631 * Improved transrater.
632 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
633 * New configuration system.
634 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
637 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
638 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
639 * Supports live streams and VoD.
640 * Supports scheduling.
641 * Telnet interface for vlm.
642 * HTTP interface for vlm.
645 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
646 - Ability to embed video output.
647 - Support for bitmap fonts.
648 - Lots of improvements.
649 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
650 - New design and set of icons.
651 - Ability to embed video output.
652 - Support for hotkeys.
653 - Support for bookmarks.
655 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
656 - Better hotkeys handling.
659 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
660 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
661 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
662 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
665 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
666 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
667 * Improved Windows installer.
673 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
674 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
676 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
677 ---------------------------------
680 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
681 * Playing MOD files is working now.
684 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
685 ---------------------------------
688 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
689 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
692 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
693 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
694 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
695 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
698 * Internal improvments
699 * Improved import/export
702 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
704 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
705 small and strange formats.
707 * New MOD audio demux.
708 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
709 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
710 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
711 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
714 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
715 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
716 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
722 * New opengl video output plugin.
725 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
726 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
728 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
729 ---------------------------------
732 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
733 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
734 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
735 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
736 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
737 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
738 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
739 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
742 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
747 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
748 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
749 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
750 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
751 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
752 * Reworked DVB tuning.
753 * Better Icecast support.
754 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
755 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
758 * Support for Theora video encoding.
759 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
760 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
761 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
762 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
763 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
764 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
767 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
768 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
769 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
770 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
771 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
772 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
773 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
774 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
775 * Preliminary RTP support.
776 * Fixes to SAP announces.
781 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
782 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
784 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
785 - Improvements and help in preferences
786 - New streaming wizard
787 - Revised Disc Open menu
789 - Improvements of the standard pages
790 - Support for new commands
791 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
794 * Many fixes to the SAP module
795 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
798 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
799 * Text subtitles autodetection.
800 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
801 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
802 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
803 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
804 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
805 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
806 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
809 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
811 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
812 * Support for Panther.
813 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
814 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
817 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
818 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
819 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
820 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
821 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
822 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
823 * Multimonitor support (untested).
824 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
827 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
828 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
829 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
832 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
835 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
836 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
837 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
838 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
840 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
841 ---------------------------------
844 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
847 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
848 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
851 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
852 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
855 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
858 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
859 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
862 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
865 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
868 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
869 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
872 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
873 ---------------------------------
876 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
877 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
881 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
882 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
883 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
885 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
886 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
889 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
892 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
895 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
896 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
899 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
900 ---------------------------------
903 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
904 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
908 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
909 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
910 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
911 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
912 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
915 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
916 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
917 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
920 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
921 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
922 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
925 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
926 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
927 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
928 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
929 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
932 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
933 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
934 * A new CORBA control plugin.
937 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
940 * Improved build system.
941 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
942 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
943 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
944 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
947 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
948 ---------------------------------
951 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
954 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
955 * Fixed large file support on Windows
956 * Video 4 Linux support
957 * CD Digital Audio support
958 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
961 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
962 * Support for OpenDML avi files
963 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
964 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
967 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
968 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
969 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
970 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
971 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
972 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
973 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
976 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
977 * New HTTP remote control interface
980 * 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.
981 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
982 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
983 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
986 * New reset option for the preferences
987 * You can set your language in the prefences
988 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
989 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
990 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
991 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
994 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
995 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
996 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
999 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1000 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1001 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1002 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1003 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1004 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1005 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1006 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1007 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1008 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1011 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1012 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1013 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1014 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1015 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1016 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1017 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1020 * Interface localization
1021 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1022 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1023 * New full-featured Preferences window
1025 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1026 ---------------------------------
1029 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1030 * support for skins at the interface level
1031 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1032 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1033 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1034 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1035 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1038 * fixed HTTP redirects
1039 * support for opening an entire directory
1040 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1041 * new video4linux access plug-in
1042 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1045 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1046 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1047 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1050 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1051 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1052 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1053 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1054 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1055 * new codec for raw I420 video
1056 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1059 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1060 (although it still misses some important features)
1061 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1064 * new HTTP output support
1065 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1066 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1069 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1072 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1075 * reorderable playlist
1076 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1077 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1078 * support for mono audio output devices
1079 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1080 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1081 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1082 * the messages window remembers more lines
1083 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1084 * http and ogg stream output options
1085 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1088 * new skinnable interface
1089 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1091 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1092 * support for FLAC audio format
1093 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1095 * network tab in the interface
1096 * "apply" handling in preferences
1099 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1100 ---------------------------------
1103 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1104 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1105 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1106 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1108 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1109 * DTS S/PDIF support
1112 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1113 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1114 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1115 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1118 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1119 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1122 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1125 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1128 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1130 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1131 * rc interface is now fully useable
1132 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1135 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1136 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1137 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1138 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1139 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1141 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1142 * support for mouse gestures
1143 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1146 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1147 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1150 * improved ID3 tag detection
1151 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1152 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1153 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1155 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1158 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1159 ---------------------------------
1162 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1163 English was set as the preferred language
1166 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1167 --------------------------------
1170 * new mouse gesture interface
1171 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1175 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1176 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1177 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1180 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1181 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1185 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1188 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1189 without the user consent
1192 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1194 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1195 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1196 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1199 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1200 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1201 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1202 * playlist enhancements
1203 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1204 * new step forward/step backward commands
1205 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1206 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1207 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1210 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1211 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1212 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1215 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1216 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1219 * native video output is working again
1220 * only commandline interface support
1221 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1224 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1225 --------------------------------
1228 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1229 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1230 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1231 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1232 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1233 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1234 and A/52 streams are supported)
1235 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1240 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1241 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1242 * VCD entry points support
1243 * VCD image file support
1246 * support for *.asf format
1247 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1248 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1249 * support for ogg encapsulation
1250 * support for raw DV format
1251 * support for *.wav format
1252 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1255 Stream discovery & playlists:
1256 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1257 * support for .m3u file format
1258 * support for .asx file format
1259 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1262 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1263 (only available with the .avi demux)
1264 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1265 * support for raw PCM data
1266 * support for Cinepak video codec
1267 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1268 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1269 * support for Xvid codec
1270 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1271 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1272 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1274 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1276 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1279 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1282 * new WxWindows interface
1283 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1284 device and the channels configuration
1285 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1286 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1287 format that VLC can play
1288 * new swedish translation
1289 * enhancements of the playlist window
1290 * new messages window to see debug info
1291 * fixed a few crashes
1294 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1295 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1296 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1297 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working