1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
64 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
65 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
66 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
69 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
70 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
71 * Ogg seeking improvements
72 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
73 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
74 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
75 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
78 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
79 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
80 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
81 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
82 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
83 and important cleanups and optimisations
84 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
85 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
86 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
87 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
88 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
89 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
90 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
91 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
92 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
93 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
94 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
97 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
98 * New video output for iOS platform
99 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
100 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
101 * Various vmem improvements
102 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
104 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
105 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
106 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
109 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
110 * New audio output in memory (amem)
111 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
112 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
113 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
116 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
117 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
118 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
119 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
120 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
121 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
122 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
123 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
124 * New anti-flickering filter
125 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
126 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
127 blackbox and customizable shadow
130 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
133 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
134 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
135 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
136 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
137 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
138 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
139 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
140 * Major rework of VoD support
141 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
142 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
143 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
144 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
145 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
146 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
147 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
148 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
149 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
152 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
153 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
156 * New capabilities for libVLC:
157 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
158 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
159 list of available audio and video filters
160 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
161 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
164 * asademux: use libass only
165 * subsass: use libass
166 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
167 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
169 * upnp: use upnp_intel
170 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
171 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
172 * removal of the noise filter
173 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
176 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
177 ----------------------------------
180 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
181 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
184 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
185 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
186 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
187 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
188 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
190 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
191 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
192 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
194 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
195 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
198 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
201 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
204 * Fix quitting on Linux
205 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
209 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
212 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
215 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
216 ---------------------------------
218 Windows and Mac OS X:
219 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
222 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
223 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
226 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
229 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
232 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
234 Miscellaneous fixes in:
235 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
237 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
238 * RTP output and XML export
239 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
243 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
244 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
245 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
246 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
249 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
250 --------------------------------
252 Windows and Mac OS X:
253 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
256 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
259 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
260 * Improve Apple Remote handling
261 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
262 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
263 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
264 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
267 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
268 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
272 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
273 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
274 * New Luganda Translation
277 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
278 --------------------------------
281 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
284 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
285 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
286 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
287 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
290 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
292 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
293 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
294 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
295 * mp4 demuxer improvements
296 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
297 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
298 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
299 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
301 Miscellaneous fixes in:
302 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
303 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
304 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
305 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
306 * Configure and build system improvements
307 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
310 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
311 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
312 * New icelandic translation
315 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
316 --------------------------------
319 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
323 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
324 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
325 and stability reasons
328 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
332 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
335 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
336 ----------------------------------
339 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
342 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
343 ---------------------------------
346 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
347 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
348 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
349 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
352 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
355 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
356 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
357 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
358 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
361 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
362 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
363 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
365 Subtitles and renderer:
366 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
367 * Mark more freetype options as safe
368 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
369 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
370 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
373 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
374 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
375 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
376 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
379 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
380 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
383 * KDE device solid actions
385 * Transcode integer overflow
386 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
387 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
390 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
391 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
392 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
395 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
396 ----------------------------------
399 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
403 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
406 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
409 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
410 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
411 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
412 * Taglib thread-safety fix
415 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
419 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
422 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
425 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
426 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
428 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
432 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
433 * Miscellaneous fixes
436 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
437 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
439 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
440 * New Asturian translation
443 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
444 ----------------------------------
447 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
449 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
452 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
455 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
456 * Various fixes for Windows
459 * New Armenian translation
460 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
461 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
464 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
465 --------------------------------
468 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
470 * Fix folders opening from the interface
473 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
474 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
477 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
478 --------------------------------
481 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
482 * fix for podcasts parsing
483 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
486 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
487 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
490 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
491 * fix m3u playlists exports
494 * fix video autoresize behaviour
497 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
500 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
503 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
506 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
509 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
510 --------------------------------
513 * Avformat fps displaying fix
514 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
517 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
518 of mono streams, especially on Windows
521 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
522 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
523 * fix console output encoding
525 Interface and extensions:
526 * Youtube and other scripts updates
527 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
530 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
531 --------------------------------
534 * New capabilities for libVLC:
535 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
536 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
537 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
538 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
539 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
540 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
541 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
542 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
543 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
544 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
545 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
546 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
547 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
548 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
549 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
553 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
554 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
555 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
556 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
557 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
560 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
563 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
564 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
565 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
569 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
572 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
573 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
574 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
577 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
578 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
579 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
580 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
583 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
584 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
587 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
588 --------------------------------
590 Important changes for users:
591 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
592 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
594 Important changes for packagers:
595 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
596 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
597 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
598 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
599 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
601 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
603 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
604 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
605 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
606 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
607 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
610 * Support for the sftp protocol
611 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
612 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
613 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
614 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
615 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
618 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
619 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
620 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
622 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
623 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
624 * Invmem module improvements
625 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
626 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
627 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
628 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
629 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
630 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
631 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
632 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
633 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
634 * Support for VP8 codec
635 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
638 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
639 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
640 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
641 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
642 * Various EGP improvements
643 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
644 * Metadata and cover art improvements
647 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
648 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
649 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
650 * Podcast images are now displayed
653 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
654 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
655 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
656 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
657 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
658 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
659 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
660 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
661 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
662 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
663 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
666 * New content extensions lua framework
669 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
670 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
671 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
672 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
673 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
674 * NEON assembly audio converter module
675 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
678 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
679 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
680 * Service discovery based on libudev
681 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
684 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
685 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
686 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
687 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
688 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
689 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
690 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
693 * New smem module, streaming to memory
694 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
695 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
698 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
700 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
701 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
704 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
707 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
708 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
709 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
710 by Andy Matuschak et al.
711 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
712 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
713 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
716 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
717 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
720 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
721 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
722 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
726 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
727 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
728 * Improved Solaris port
731 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
732 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
735 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
736 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
737 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
738 * transrate: broken since too long
739 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
740 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
741 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
742 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
743 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
744 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
745 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
746 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
747 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
748 * cddax: use cdda instead.
749 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
750 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
751 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
752 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
755 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
756 --------------------------------
759 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
761 Decoders/Packetizers:
762 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
765 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
766 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
767 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
768 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
769 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
772 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
773 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
776 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
777 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
780 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
781 and Walloon translations updated
782 * Sinhala translation started
785 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
786 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
789 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
790 --------------------------------
793 * SubRip extra styles improvements
794 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
797 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
800 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
801 increase performance and fix x264 issues
804 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
805 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
806 Russian, Slovak translation updates
807 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
810 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
811 --------------------------------
814 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
815 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
818 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
819 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
822 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
823 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
826 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
829 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
830 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
833 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
834 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
837 * New Walloon translation
838 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
841 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
842 --------------------------------
845 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
846 regressions in most popular drivers
847 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
850 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
851 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
852 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
855 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
856 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
859 * Update for appletrailers lua script
860 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
861 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
862 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
863 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
866 * New udev module for linux
869 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
872 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
875 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
876 --------------------------------
879 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
880 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
881 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
884 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
885 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
888 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
889 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
892 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
895 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
896 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
897 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
898 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
901 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
902 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
903 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
904 - no support for Goom and SDL
905 - limited text rendering support
906 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
909 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
910 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
911 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
912 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
913 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
914 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
915 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
916 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
917 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
921 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
924 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
927 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
928 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
929 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
930 Arabic and French translation updates
933 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
934 --------------------------------
937 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
938 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
939 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
940 * Fix Dailymotion access script
941 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
942 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
945 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
946 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
949 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
950 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
951 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
954 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
957 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
958 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
961 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
962 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
963 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
964 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
965 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
966 * Fix various crashes
969 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
971 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
974 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
975 ---------------------------------
979 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
980 See 'Access:' for more info.
981 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
984 * Instantaneous pausing
985 * Frame-by-Frame playback
986 * Finer speed control
987 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
988 * Timeshift for most medias
989 * RTSP trickplay support
990 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
993 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
994 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
995 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
996 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
997 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
998 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
999 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1000 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1001 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1002 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1005 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1006 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1007 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1008 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1009 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1010 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1011 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1014 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1015 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1018 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1019 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1020 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1021 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1022 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1023 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1024 * DVB scanning on linux
1025 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1026 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1027 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1028 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1029 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1030 * MTP device access on Unix
1031 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1032 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1035 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1036 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1037 Windows and Mac OS X.
1040 * Export the playlist in HTML
1041 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1042 * Better metadata handling and reading
1044 Linux/Windows interface:
1045 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1046 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1047 * Recently played items list
1048 * Interface toolbar customizations
1049 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1050 - More menus actions
1051 - Finer speed slider
1052 - Improvements on many dialogs
1053 - New dialog for plugins listing
1054 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1055 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1056 * Better integration in GTK environments
1059 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1060 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1061 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1062 * Additional usability improvements
1065 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1066 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1067 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1068 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1069 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1072 * New Maemo port with:
1073 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1074 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1077 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1080 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1081 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1082 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1083 * Support for latest iSight models
1086 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1087 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1090 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1091 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1092 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1093 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1094 The old image video output has been removed.
1095 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1096 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1099 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1107 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1108 --------------------------------------
1114 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1115 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1116 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1117 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1118 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1119 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1120 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1122 Various fixes to the following modules:
1125 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1126 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1127 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1129 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1134 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1135 ---------------------------------
1138 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1139 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1142 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1143 ---------------------------------
1146 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1149 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1152 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1153 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1154 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1155 main controller window.
1156 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1159 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1164 * Updates of other localizations
1167 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1168 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1169 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1170 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1171 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1174 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1175 ---------------------------------
1178 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1180 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1183 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1184 --------------------------------
1189 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1190 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1193 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1194 --------------------------------
1196 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1197 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1200 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1203 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1204 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1207 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1208 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1211 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1212 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1213 * Various fixed in playlist
1216 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1219 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1222 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1223 ------------------------------------
1225 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1226 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1229 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1230 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1231 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1234 * Stability fix for the video output.
1237 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1238 --------------------------------
1241 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1242 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1243 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1244 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1245 * Fixed update system bugs
1246 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1249 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1250 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1251 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1252 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1253 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1254 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1255 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1256 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1257 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1258 modern Mac OS X versions
1261 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1262 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1264 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1265 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1268 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1269 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1270 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1271 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1272 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1273 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1276 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1277 --------------------------------
1279 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1280 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1281 * Multiple bugfixes.
1284 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1285 --------------------------------
1287 * Multiple bug fixes.
1290 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1291 ---------------------------------
1295 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1296 recent to work correctly
1297 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1298 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1299 edit the ".hosts" file.
1300 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1301 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1302 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1303 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1304 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1305 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1306 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1307 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1308 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1309 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1310 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1311 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1312 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1313 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1314 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1315 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1316 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1317 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1318 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1319 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1320 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1321 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1322 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1323 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1324 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1325 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1326 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1327 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1328 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1329 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1330 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1331 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1332 and postproc modules.
1333 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1334 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1335 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1336 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1338 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1339 filter. For example:
1340 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1341 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1343 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1344 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1350 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1352 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1353 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1356 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1357 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1359 * Shoutcast TV listings
1360 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1362 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1363 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1365 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1368 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1369 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1370 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1371 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1372 * JACK audio input support
1373 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1374 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1375 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1376 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1377 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1378 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1379 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1380 (available as a separate download).
1381 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1382 * RTMP input support
1383 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1384 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1385 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1387 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1388 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1391 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1392 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1393 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1394 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1396 * APEv1/2 tags support
1397 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1398 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1400 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1401 * TiVo Series 2 support
1402 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1407 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1408 * Flash Screen Video support
1409 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1410 * DosBox Capture support
1411 * Karl Morton's Video support
1412 * limited atrac3 support
1414 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1415 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1416 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1417 * H.264 PAFF support
1418 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1419 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1420 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1421 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1422 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1425 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1426 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1427 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1428 * AQTitle subtitles support
1429 * MKV USF subtitles support
1430 * HTML-based subtitles support
1431 * MPSub subtitles support
1432 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1433 * MPL2 subtitles support
1434 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1435 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1436 * Realtext subtitle support
1437 * DKS subtitle support
1438 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1439 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1442 * Flash Screen Video support
1443 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1445 Video outputs and filters:
1446 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1447 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1448 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1449 * New puzzle video output filter
1450 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1451 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1453 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1454 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1455 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1456 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1457 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1458 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1459 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1460 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1461 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1462 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1463 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1464 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1465 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1466 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1468 Audio outputs and filters:
1469 * Replay gain support
1470 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1471 new scaletempo audio filter)
1472 * New spatializer audio filter
1473 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1476 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1477 * New RTP payload formats:
1478 * Speex voice audio codec
1479 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1480 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1481 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1482 * DCCP transport for RTP
1483 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1488 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1489 end-user suitable way.
1490 * Improved user interaction
1491 * Improved mouse gestures
1492 * Vastly improved Update checker
1493 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1495 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1496 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1498 * Improved video output features
1499 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1500 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1501 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1502 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1503 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1505 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1506 if libncursesw is available.
1507 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1508 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1509 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1511 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1512 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1513 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1514 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1515 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1516 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1517 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1518 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1521 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1522 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1523 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1526 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1527 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1528 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1529 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1530 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1531 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1534 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1535 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1545 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1546 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1547 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1550 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1551 ----------------------------------
1554 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1557 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1558 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1559 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1560 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1561 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1562 * Updated Polish translation
1565 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1566 ----------------------------------
1569 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1570 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1571 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1574 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1575 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1576 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1577 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1578 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1579 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1580 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1581 to an unexpected application termination
1582 * New Serbian translation
1583 * Updated Romanian translation
1586 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1587 ----------------------------------
1590 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1591 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1592 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1593 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1594 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1595 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1596 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1597 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1600 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1601 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1602 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1603 * Fixed AAC resampling
1604 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1605 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1608 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1609 ----------------------------------
1612 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1613 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1614 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1615 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1616 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1619 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1620 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1621 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1622 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1623 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1626 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1627 ----------------------------------
1630 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1631 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1634 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1635 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1636 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1637 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1639 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1643 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1646 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1649 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1652 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1655 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1656 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1657 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1658 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1659 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1661 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1662 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1663 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1664 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1667 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1670 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1671 ----------------------------------
1674 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1675 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1676 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1678 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1679 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1681 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1682 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1685 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1687 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1688 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1689 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1690 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1691 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1692 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1693 two different movies
1694 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1695 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1696 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1699 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1702 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1703 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1704 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1705 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1708 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1709 ----------------------------------
1711 Various bugfixes, notably:
1712 * Windows Vista compatibility
1713 * Cropping in Direct3D
1714 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1715 * RSS filter string overflow
1717 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1719 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1720 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1723 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1724 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1727 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1730 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1733 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1736 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1737 ----------------------------------
1739 Various bugfixes, notably:
1740 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1741 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1742 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1743 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1744 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1745 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1748 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1749 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1752 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1754 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1755 * Diverse usability improvements
1756 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1757 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1758 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1761 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1762 ---------------------------------
1764 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1765 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1768 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1771 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1772 --------------------------------
1775 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1778 * Support for RTSP authentication
1779 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1780 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1781 * ATSC support for DVB input
1782 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1783 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1784 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1787 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1788 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1789 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1790 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1791 * Matroska WavPack support
1792 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1793 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1794 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1797 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1798 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1799 * Improved libcaca support
1803 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1804 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1806 * Systray support in skins
1808 * Support for Apple Remote control
1809 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1810 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1811 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1812 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1814 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1817 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1818 Windows 9x/ME users:
1819 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1820 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1821 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1822 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1823 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1825 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1826 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1835 * Updates to the libvlc API
1836 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1839 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1840 --------------------------------
1843 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1844 * Support for downloading updates
1848 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1849 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1850 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1851 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1853 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1854 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1855 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1858 * Cook (Real audio) support
1860 Playlist / Services discovery:
1861 * XSPF playlist support
1863 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1866 * New JACK audio output
1869 * New video filters:
1870 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1871 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1872 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1873 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1874 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1875 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1878 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1881 * System to inform the user and request information
1882 - HTTP authentication
1886 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1887 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1888 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1891 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1892 - Improved playlist handling
1893 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1895 - Embedded Video output
1896 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1897 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1898 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1899 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1900 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1902 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1903 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1906 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1909 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1910 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1911 * Growl "Now playing" support
1914 * Ability to log to syslog
1915 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1918 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1920 * A bit more automatic testing
1923 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1924 ---------------------------------
1927 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1928 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1931 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1932 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1935 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1938 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1939 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1945 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1948 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1949 --------------------------------
1952 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1956 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1957 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1958 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1961 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1962 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1963 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1964 * GnomeVFS input module
1965 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1966 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1969 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1970 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1971 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1974 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1975 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1981 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1982 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1985 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1986 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1987 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1990 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1992 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1993 - New extended controls panel
1994 - New bookmarks window
1995 - Fixed playlist sorting
1996 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1998 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1999 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2000 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2001 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2005 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2006 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2008 - Include macro to include other files
2012 * Should now work outside IE as well
2015 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2018 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2019 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2022 The following languages were added:
2026 * Simplified Chinese
2027 The following languages were re-added:
2031 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2032 --------------------------------
2035 * Rewrite of the playlist
2037 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2038 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2039 * Preferences improvements:
2040 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2041 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2043 * Core image manipulation support
2044 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2045 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2046 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2047 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2048 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2049 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2050 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2051 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2052 * Access filter architecture
2053 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2054 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2058 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2059 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2060 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2061 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2062 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2063 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2064 * Massive Matroska improvements
2065 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2067 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2068 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2069 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2070 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2071 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2073 Decoders / Encoders:
2074 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2075 * PNG decoder/encoder
2076 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2077 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2080 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2083 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2084 * Brand new SAP module
2085 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2086 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2087 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2088 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2089 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2090 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2094 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2097 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2098 * Image file video output (png)
2099 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2100 * Improvements to wall video filter
2101 * Support for font color and opacity
2107 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2108 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2109 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2113 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2114 - Improved preferences
2115 - Improvements to the wizard
2116 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2118 - Redesigned playlist
2119 - Improved preferences
2121 - Support for multiple actions
2124 - Support for the new playlist system
2126 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2129 * Screensaver disabling fix
2130 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2131 * Support for no-decoration windows
2134 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2135 * The OpenGL video output is back
2136 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2137 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2138 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2139 is not yet available in the new module
2140 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2143 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2152 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2155 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2158 The following languages were added:
2164 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2165 --------------------------------
2168 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2169 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2172 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2173 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2174 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2177 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2180 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2183 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2186 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2187 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2188 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2192 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2194 * Support of playlist group announcement
2197 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2198 --------------------------------
2201 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2202 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2203 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2204 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2205 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2206 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2209 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2210 (Stream your desktop)
2211 * Improved DVD support:
2212 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2213 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2214 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2215 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2216 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2217 (selection of titles/chapters).
2220 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2221 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2222 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2223 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2224 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2225 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2226 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2227 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2228 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2229 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2232 * G.726 audio support
2233 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2234 * MPEG-4 text support
2235 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2236 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2237 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2241 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2242 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2243 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2244 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2245 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2246 * DVB subtitles encoder
2247 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2248 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2250 * Text track muxing for mp4
2251 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2252 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2253 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2254 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2255 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2256 * Improved ASF muxer
2258 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2259 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2260 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2263 * New audio equalizer filter
2264 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2265 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2266 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2267 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2270 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2271 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2272 with support for effects.
2273 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2274 - New filters can be streamed.
2275 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2276 - Centralized scaling and blending
2278 - "time", to display current time
2279 - "marq", to display a marquee
2282 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2283 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2284 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2285 * A few skins2 improvements
2286 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2287 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2288 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2289 * Improved CORBA control module
2292 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2293 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2294 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2297 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2298 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2299 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2302 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2303 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2304 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2305 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2306 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2309 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2312 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2313 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2316 * Server/client network synchronization module
2317 * VBrick streams fully supported
2318 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2322 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2323 --------------------------------
2326 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2327 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2328 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2329 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2332 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2333 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2334 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2335 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2336 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2337 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2338 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2341 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2342 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2343 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2344 * Improved directory access module.
2345 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2346 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2347 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2348 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2349 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2352 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2353 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2354 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2357 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2358 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2359 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2362 * Improved session announcement system.
2363 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2364 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2365 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2366 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2367 * Improved transrater.
2368 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2369 * New configuration system.
2370 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2373 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2374 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2375 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2376 * Supports scheduling.
2377 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2378 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2381 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2382 - Ability to embed video output.
2383 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2384 - Lots of improvements.
2385 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2386 - New design and set of icons.
2387 - Ability to embed video output.
2388 - Support for hotkeys.
2389 - Support for bookmarks.
2391 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2392 - Better hotkeys handling.
2395 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2396 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2397 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2398 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2401 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2402 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2403 * Improved Windows installer.
2409 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2410 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2413 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2414 ---------------------------------
2417 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2418 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2421 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2422 --------------------------------
2425 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2426 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2429 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2430 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2431 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2432 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2435 * Internal improvments
2436 * Improved import/export
2439 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2441 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2442 small and strange formats.
2444 * New MOD audio demux.
2445 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2446 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2447 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2448 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2451 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2452 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2453 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2459 * New opengl video output plugin.
2462 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2463 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2466 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2467 --------------------------------
2470 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2471 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2472 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2473 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2474 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2475 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2476 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2477 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2480 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2485 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2486 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2487 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2488 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2489 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2490 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2491 * Better Icecast support.
2492 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2493 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2496 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2497 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2498 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2499 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2500 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2501 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2502 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2505 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2506 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2507 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2508 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2509 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2510 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2511 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2512 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2513 * Preliminary RTP support.
2514 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2519 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2520 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2522 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2523 - Improvements and help in preferences
2524 - New streaming wizard
2525 - Revised Disc Open menu
2527 - Improvements of the standard pages
2528 - Support for new commands
2529 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2532 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2533 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2536 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2537 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2538 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2539 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2540 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2541 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2542 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2543 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2544 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2547 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2549 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2550 * Support for Panther.
2551 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2552 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2555 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2556 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2557 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2558 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2559 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2560 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2561 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2562 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2565 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2566 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2567 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2570 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2573 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2574 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2575 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2576 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2579 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2580 --------------------------------
2583 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2586 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2587 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2590 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2591 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2594 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2597 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2598 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2601 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2604 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2607 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2608 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2612 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2613 --------------------------------
2616 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2617 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2621 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2622 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2623 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2625 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2626 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2629 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2632 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2635 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2636 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2640 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2641 --------------------------------
2644 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2645 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2649 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2650 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2651 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2652 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2653 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2656 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2657 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2658 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2661 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2662 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2663 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2666 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2667 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2668 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2669 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2670 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2673 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2674 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2675 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2678 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2681 * Improved build system.
2682 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2683 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2684 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2685 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2688 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2689 --------------------------------
2692 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2695 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2696 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2697 * Video 4 Linux support
2698 * CD Digital Audio support
2699 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2702 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2703 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2704 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2705 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2708 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2709 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2710 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2711 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2712 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2713 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2714 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2717 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2718 * New HTTP remote control interface
2721 * 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.
2722 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2723 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2724 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2727 * New reset option for the preferences
2728 * You can set your language in the prefences
2729 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2730 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2731 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2732 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2735 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2736 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2737 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2740 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2741 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2742 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2743 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2744 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2745 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2746 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2747 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2748 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2749 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2752 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2753 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2754 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2755 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2756 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2757 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2758 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2761 * Interface localization
2762 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2763 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2764 * New full-featured Preferences window
2767 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2768 --------------------------------
2771 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2772 * support for skins at the interface level
2773 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2774 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2775 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2776 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2777 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2780 * fixed HTTP redirects
2781 * support for opening an entire directory
2782 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2783 * new video4linux access plug-in
2784 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2787 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2788 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2789 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2792 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2793 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2794 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2795 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2796 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2797 * new codec for raw I420 video
2798 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2801 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2802 (although it still misses some important features)
2803 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2806 * new HTTP output support
2807 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2808 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2811 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2814 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2817 * reorderable playlist
2818 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2819 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2820 * support for mono audio output devices
2821 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2822 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2823 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2824 * the messages window remembers more lines
2825 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2826 * http and ogg stream output options
2827 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2830 * new skinnable interface
2831 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2833 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2834 * support for FLAC audio format
2835 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2837 * network tab in the interface
2838 * "apply" handling in preferences
2841 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2842 ---------------------------------
2845 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2846 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2847 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2848 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2850 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2851 * DTS S/PDIF support
2854 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2855 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2856 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2857 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2860 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2861 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2864 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2867 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2870 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2872 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2873 * rc interface is now fully useable
2874 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2877 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2878 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2879 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2880 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2881 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2883 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2884 * support for mouse gestures
2885 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2888 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2889 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2892 * improved ID3 tag detection
2893 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2894 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2895 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2897 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2900 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2901 ---------------------------------
2904 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2905 English was set as the preferred language
2908 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2909 --------------------------------
2912 * new mouse gesture interface
2913 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2917 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2918 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2919 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2922 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2923 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2927 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2930 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2931 without the user consent
2934 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2936 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2937 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2938 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2941 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2942 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2943 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2944 * playlist enhancements
2945 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2946 * new step forward/step backward commands
2947 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2948 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2949 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2952 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2953 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2954 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2957 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2958 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2961 * native video output is working again
2962 * only commandline interface support
2963 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2966 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2967 --------------------------------
2970 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2971 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2972 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2973 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2974 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2975 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2976 and A/52 streams are supported)
2977 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2982 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2983 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2984 * VCD entry points support
2985 * VCD image file support
2988 * support for *.asf format
2989 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2990 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2991 * support for ogg encapsulation
2992 * support for raw DV format
2993 * support for *.wav format
2994 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2997 Stream discovery & playlists:
2998 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2999 * support for .m3u file format
3000 * support for .asx file format
3001 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3004 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3005 (only available with the .avi demux)
3006 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3007 * support for raw PCM data
3008 * support for Cinepak video codec
3009 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3010 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3011 * support for Xvid codec
3012 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3013 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3014 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3016 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3018 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3021 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3024 * new WxWindows interface
3025 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3026 device and the channels configuration
3027 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3028 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3029 format that VLC can play
3030 * new swedish translation
3031 * enhancements of the playlist window
3032 * new messages window to see debug info
3033 * fixed a few crashes
3036 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3037 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3038 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3039 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working