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
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
37 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
38 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
42 * MKV USF subtitles support
43 * HTML based subtitles support
44 * Flash Screen Video support
47 * Flash Screen Video support
49 Video output and filters:
50 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
51 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
52 * New puzzle video output filter
53 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
54 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
56 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
57 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
58 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
60 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
61 * Add support for a transparency mask in the mosaic_bridge module.
64 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
68 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
70 * Improved user interaction
72 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
75 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
76 ----------------------------------
77 Various bugfixes notably:
78 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
79 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
80 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
81 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
84 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
85 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
88 * rectified behaviour and improved usability
90 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
91 * diverse usability improvements
92 * new wizard option to include subtitles
93 * screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
94 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
97 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
98 ---------------------------------
101 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
104 * Fullscreen controller improvements
107 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
108 --------------------------------
111 * Shoutcast TV listings support
114 * Support for RTSP authentication
115 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
116 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
117 * ATSC support for DVB input
118 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
119 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
120 * Improved support for Flash Video files
123 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
124 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
125 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
126 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
127 * Matroska WavPack support
128 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
129 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
130 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
133 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
134 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
135 * Improved libcaca support
139 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
140 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
142 * Systray support in skins
144 * Support for Apple Remote control
145 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
146 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
147 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
148 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
150 * Notifications using notification-daemon
153 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
155 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
156 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
157 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
158 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
159 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
161 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
162 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
171 * Updates to the libvlc API
172 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
176 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
177 ---------------------------------
180 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
181 * Support for downloading updates
185 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
186 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
187 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
188 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
190 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
191 * Improved subtitles encoding support
192 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
195 * Cook (Real audio) support
197 Playlist / Services discovery:
198 * XSPF playlist support
200 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
203 * New JACK audio output
207 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
208 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
209 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
210 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
211 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
212 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
215 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
218 * System to inform the user and request information
219 - HTTP authentication
223 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
224 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
225 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
228 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
229 - Improved playlist handling
230 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
232 - Embedded Video output
233 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
234 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
235 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
236 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
237 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
239 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
240 - A bunch of new RPN functions
243 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
246 * Mac-Intel compatibility
247 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
248 * Growl "Now playing" support
251 * Ability to log to syslog
252 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
255 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
257 * A bit more automatic testing
259 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
260 ---------------------------------
263 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
264 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
267 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
268 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
271 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
274 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
275 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
281 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
283 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
284 --------------------------------
287 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
291 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
292 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
293 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
296 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
297 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
298 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
299 * GnomeVFS input module
300 * Support for RTP packet reordering
301 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
304 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
305 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
306 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
309 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
310 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
316 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
317 Mixer and Dolby Surround
320 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
321 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
322 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
325 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
327 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
328 - New extended controls panel
329 - New bookmarks window
330 - Fixed playlist sorting
331 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
333 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
334 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
335 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
336 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
340 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
341 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
343 - Include macro to include other files
347 * Should now work outside IE as well
350 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
353 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
354 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
357 The following languages were added:
362 The following languages were re-added:
365 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
366 --------------------------------
369 * Rewrite of the playlist
371 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
372 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
373 * Preferences improvements:
374 - New organization, designed to improve usability
375 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
377 * Core image manipulation support
378 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
379 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
380 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
381 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
382 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
383 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
384 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
385 now separated by ':' instead of ','
386 * Access filter architecture
387 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
388 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
392 * Support for SOCKS proxy
393 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
394 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
395 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
396 * Better support for Kasenna streams
397 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
398 * Massive Matroska improvements
399 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
401 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
402 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
403 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
404 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
405 * Support for FTP over IPv6
408 * Dirac decoder and encoder
409 * PNG decoder/encoder
410 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
411 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
414 * New Record and Timeshift filters
417 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
418 * Brand new SAP module
419 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
420 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
421 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
422 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
423 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
424 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
428 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
431 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
432 * Image file video output (png)
433 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
434 * Improvements to wall video filter
435 * Support for font color and opacity
441 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
442 - Seeking support in VoD streams
443 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
447 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
448 - Improved preferences
449 - Improvements to the wizard
450 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
452 - Redesigned playlist
453 - Improved preferences
455 - Support for multiple actions
458 - Support for the new playlist system
460 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
463 * Screensaver disabling fix
464 * DirectShow tuner configuration
465 * Support for no-decoration windows
468 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
469 * The OpenGL video output is back
470 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
471 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
472 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
473 is not yet available in the new module
474 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
477 * Support for single-buffered overlay
486 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
489 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
492 The following languages were added:
498 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
499 -----------------------------------------------------
502 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
503 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
506 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
507 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
508 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
511 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
514 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
517 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
520 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
521 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
522 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
526 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
528 * Support of playlist group announcement
530 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
531 -----------------------------------------------------
534 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
535 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
536 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
537 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
538 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
539 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
542 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
543 (Stream your desktop)
544 * Improved DVD support:
545 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
546 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
547 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
548 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
549 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
550 (selection of titles/chapters).
553 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
554 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
555 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
556 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
557 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
558 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
559 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
560 * Improved Ogg demuxer
561 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
562 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
565 * G.726 audio support
566 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
567 * MPEG-4 text support
568 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
569 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
570 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
574 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
575 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
576 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
577 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
578 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
579 * DVB subtitles encoder
580 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
581 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
583 * Text track muxing for mp4
584 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
585 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
586 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
587 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
588 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
591 * H.263 RTP streaming support
592 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
593 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
596 * New audio equalizer filter
597 * Very trivial volume normalizer
598 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
599 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
600 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
603 * Roku HD1000 Video output
604 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
605 with support for effects.
606 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
607 - New filters can be streamed.
608 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
609 - Centralized scaling and blending
611 - "time", to display current time
612 - "marq", to display a marquee
615 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
616 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
617 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
618 * A few skins2 improvements
619 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
620 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
621 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
622 * Improved CORBA control module
625 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
626 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
627 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
630 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
631 * Experimental SVG rendering module
632 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
635 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
636 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
637 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
638 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
639 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
642 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
645 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
646 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
649 * Server/client network synchronization module
650 * VBrick streams fully supported
651 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
654 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
655 --------------------------------
658 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
659 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
660 * Improved HTTP daemon.
661 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
664 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
665 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
666 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
667 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
668 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
669 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
670 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
673 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
674 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
675 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
676 * Improved directory access module.
677 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
678 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
679 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
680 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
681 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
684 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
685 * mmsh streaming fixes.
686 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
689 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
690 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
691 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
694 * Improved session announcement system.
695 * Minimize threads usage by default.
696 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
697 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
698 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
699 * Improved transrater.
700 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
701 * New configuration system.
702 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
705 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
706 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
707 * Supports live streams and VoD.
708 * Supports scheduling.
709 * Telnet interface for vlm.
710 * HTTP interface for vlm.
713 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
714 - Ability to embed video output.
715 - Support for bitmap fonts.
716 - Lots of improvements.
717 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
718 - New design and set of icons.
719 - Ability to embed video output.
720 - Support for hotkeys.
721 - Support for bookmarks.
723 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
724 - Better hotkeys handling.
727 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
728 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
729 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
730 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
733 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
734 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
735 * Improved Windows installer.
741 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
742 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
744 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
745 ---------------------------------
748 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
749 * Playing MOD files is working now.
752 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
753 ---------------------------------
756 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
757 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
760 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
761 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
762 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
763 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
766 * Internal improvments
767 * Improved import/export
770 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
772 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
773 small and strange formats.
775 * New MOD audio demux.
776 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
777 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
778 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
779 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
782 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
783 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
784 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
790 * New opengl video output plugin.
793 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
794 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
796 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
797 ---------------------------------
800 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
801 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
802 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
803 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
804 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
805 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
806 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
807 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
810 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
815 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
816 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
817 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
818 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
819 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
820 * Reworked DVB tuning.
821 * Better Icecast support.
822 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
823 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
826 * Support for Theora video encoding.
827 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
828 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
829 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
830 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
831 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
832 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
835 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
836 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
837 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
838 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
839 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
840 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
841 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
842 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
843 * Preliminary RTP support.
844 * Fixes to SAP announces.
849 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
850 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
852 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
853 - Improvements and help in preferences
854 - New streaming wizard
855 - Revised Disc Open menu
857 - Improvements of the standard pages
858 - Support for new commands
859 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
862 * Many fixes to the SAP module
863 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
866 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
867 * Text subtitles autodetection.
868 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
869 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
870 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
871 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
872 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
873 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
874 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
877 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
879 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
880 * Support for Panther.
881 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
882 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
885 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
886 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
887 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
888 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
889 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
890 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
891 * Multimonitor support (untested).
892 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
895 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
896 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
897 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
900 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
903 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
904 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
905 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
906 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
908 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
909 ---------------------------------
912 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
915 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
916 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
919 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
920 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
923 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
926 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
927 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
930 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
933 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
936 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
937 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
940 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
941 ---------------------------------
944 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
945 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
949 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
950 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
951 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
953 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
954 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
957 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
960 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
963 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
964 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
967 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
968 ---------------------------------
971 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
972 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
976 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
977 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
978 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
979 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
980 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
983 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
984 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
985 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
988 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
989 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
990 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
993 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
994 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
995 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
996 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
997 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1000 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1001 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1002 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1005 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1008 * Improved build system.
1009 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1010 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1011 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1012 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1015 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1016 ---------------------------------
1019 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1022 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1023 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1024 * Video 4 Linux support
1025 * CD Digital Audio support
1026 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1029 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1030 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1031 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1032 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1035 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1036 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1037 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1038 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1039 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1040 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1041 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1044 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1045 * New HTTP remote control interface
1048 * 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.
1049 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1050 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1051 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1054 * New reset option for the preferences
1055 * You can set your language in the prefences
1056 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1057 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1058 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1059 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1062 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1063 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1064 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1067 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1068 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1069 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1070 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1071 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1072 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1073 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1074 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1075 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1076 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1079 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1080 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1081 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1082 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1083 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1084 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1085 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1088 * Interface localization
1089 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1090 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1091 * New full-featured Preferences window
1093 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1094 ---------------------------------
1097 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1098 * support for skins at the interface level
1099 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1100 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1101 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1102 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1103 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1106 * fixed HTTP redirects
1107 * support for opening an entire directory
1108 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1109 * new video4linux access plug-in
1110 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1113 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1114 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1115 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1118 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1119 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1120 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1121 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1122 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1123 * new codec for raw I420 video
1124 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1127 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1128 (although it still misses some important features)
1129 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1132 * new HTTP output support
1133 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1134 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1137 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1140 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1143 * reorderable playlist
1144 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1145 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1146 * support for mono audio output devices
1147 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1148 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1149 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1150 * the messages window remembers more lines
1151 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1152 * http and ogg stream output options
1153 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1156 * new skinnable interface
1157 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1159 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1160 * support for FLAC audio format
1161 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1163 * network tab in the interface
1164 * "apply" handling in preferences
1167 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1168 ---------------------------------
1171 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1172 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1173 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1174 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1176 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1177 * DTS S/PDIF support
1180 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1181 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1182 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1183 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1186 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1187 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1190 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1193 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1196 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1198 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1199 * rc interface is now fully useable
1200 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1203 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1204 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1205 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1206 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1207 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1209 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1210 * support for mouse gestures
1211 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1214 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1215 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1218 * improved ID3 tag detection
1219 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1220 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1221 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1223 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1226 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1227 ---------------------------------
1230 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1231 English was set as the preferred language
1234 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1235 --------------------------------
1238 * new mouse gesture interface
1239 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1243 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1244 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1245 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1248 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1249 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1253 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1256 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1257 without the user consent
1260 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1262 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1263 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1264 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1267 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1268 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1269 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1270 * playlist enhancements
1271 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1272 * new step forward/step backward commands
1273 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1274 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1275 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1278 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1279 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1280 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1283 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1284 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1287 * native video output is working again
1288 * only commandline interface support
1289 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1292 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1293 --------------------------------
1296 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1297 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1298 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1299 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1300 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1301 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1302 and A/52 streams are supported)
1303 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1308 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1309 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1310 * VCD entry points support
1311 * VCD image file support
1314 * support for *.asf format
1315 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1316 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1317 * support for ogg encapsulation
1318 * support for raw DV format
1319 * support for *.wav format
1320 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1323 Stream discovery & playlists:
1324 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1325 * support for .m3u file format
1326 * support for .asx file format
1327 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1330 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1331 (only available with the .avi demux)
1332 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1333 * support for raw PCM data
1334 * support for Cinepak video codec
1335 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1336 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1337 * support for Xvid codec
1338 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1339 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1340 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1342 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1344 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1347 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1350 * new WxWindows interface
1351 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1352 device and the channels configuration
1353 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1354 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1355 format that VLC can play
1356 * new swedish translation
1357 * enhancements of the playlist window
1358 * new messages window to see debug info
1359 * fixed a few crashes
1362 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1363 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1364 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1365 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working