3 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6-svn (not released yet)
4 --------------------------------------------------
7 * Video Filter2 filters can now be selected for local display using --video-filter
8 * improved Interaction dialogues
14 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters have been ported to the Video Filter2 API. They can now be streamed.
18 - right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
19 - support for Apple's remote (courtesy Martin Kahr)
22 * Notification plugin.
28 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
29 ---------------------------------
32 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
33 * Support for downloading updates
37 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
38 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
39 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
40 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
42 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
43 * Improved subtitles encoding support
44 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
47 * Cook (Real audio) support
49 Playlist / Services discovery:
50 * XSPF playlist support
52 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
55 * New JACK audio output
59 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
60 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
61 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
62 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
63 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
64 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
67 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
70 * System to inform the user and request information
75 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
76 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
77 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
80 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
81 - Improved playlist handling
82 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
84 - Embedded Video output
85 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
86 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
87 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
88 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
89 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
91 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
92 - A bunch of new RPN functions
95 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
98 * Mac-Intel compatibility
99 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
100 * Growl "Now playing" support
103 * Ability to log to syslog
104 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
107 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
109 * A bit more automatic testing
111 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
112 ---------------------------------
115 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
116 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
119 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
120 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
123 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
126 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
127 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
133 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
135 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
136 --------------------------------
139 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
143 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
144 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
145 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
148 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
149 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
150 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
151 * GnomeVFS input module
152 * Support for RTP packet reordering
153 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
156 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
157 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
158 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
161 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
162 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
168 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
169 Mixer and Dolby Surround
172 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
173 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
174 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
177 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
179 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
180 - New extended controls panel
181 - New bookmarks window
182 - Fixed playlist sorting
183 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
185 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
186 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
187 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
188 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
192 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
193 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
195 - Include macro to include other files
199 * Should now work outside IE as well
202 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
205 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
206 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
209 The following languages were added:
214 The following languages were re-added:
217 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
218 --------------------------------
221 * Rewrite of the playlist
223 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
224 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
225 * Preferences improvements:
226 - New organization, designed to improve usability
227 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
229 * Core image manipulation support
230 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
231 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
232 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
233 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
234 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
235 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
236 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
237 now separated by ':' instead of ','
238 * Access filter architecture
239 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
240 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
244 * Support for SOCKS proxy
245 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
246 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
247 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
248 * Better support for Kasenna streams
249 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
250 * Massive Matroska improvements
251 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
253 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
254 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
255 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
256 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
257 * Support for FTP over IPv6
260 * Dirac decoder and encoder
261 * PNG decoder/encoder
262 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
263 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
266 * New Record and Timeshift filters
269 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
270 * Brand new SAP module
271 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
272 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
273 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
274 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
275 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
276 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
280 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
283 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
284 * Image file video output (png)
285 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
286 * Improvements to wall video filter
287 * Support for font color and opacity
293 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
294 - Seeking support in VoD streams
295 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
299 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
300 - Improved preferences
301 - Improvements to the wizard
302 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
304 - Redesigned playlist
305 - Improved preferences
307 - Support for multiple actions
310 - Support for the new playlist system
312 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
315 * Screensaver disabling fix
316 * DirectShow tuner configuration
317 * Support for no-decoration windows
320 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
321 * The OpenGL video output is back
322 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
323 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
324 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
325 is not yet available in the new module
326 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
329 * Support for single-buffered overlay
338 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
341 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
344 The following languages were added:
350 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
351 -----------------------------------------------------
354 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
355 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
358 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
359 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
360 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
363 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
366 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
369 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
372 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
373 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
374 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
378 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
380 * Support of playlist group announcement
382 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
383 -----------------------------------------------------
386 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
387 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
388 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
389 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
390 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
391 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
394 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
395 (Stream your desktop)
396 * Improved DVD support:
397 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
398 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
399 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
400 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
401 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
402 (selection of titles/chapters).
405 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
406 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
407 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
408 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
409 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
410 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
411 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
412 * Improved Ogg demuxer
413 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
414 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
417 * G.726 audio support
418 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
419 * MPEG-4 text support
420 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
421 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
422 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
426 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
427 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
428 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
429 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
430 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
431 * DVB subtitles encoder
432 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
433 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
435 * Text track muxing for mp4
436 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
437 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
438 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
439 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
440 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
443 * H.263 RTP streaming support
444 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
445 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
448 * New audio equalizer filter
449 * Very trivial volume normalizer
450 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
451 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
452 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
455 * Roku HD1000 Video output
456 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
457 with support for effects.
458 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
459 - New filters can be streamed.
460 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
461 - Centralized scaling and blending
463 - "time", to display current time
464 - "marq", to display a marquee
467 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
468 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
469 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
470 * A few skins2 improvements
471 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
472 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
473 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
474 * Improved CORBA control module
477 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
478 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
479 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
482 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
483 * Experimental SVG rendering module
484 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
487 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
488 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
489 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
490 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
491 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
494 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
497 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
498 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
501 * Server/client network synchronization module
502 * VBrick streams fully supported
503 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
506 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
507 --------------------------------
510 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
511 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
512 * Improved HTTP daemon.
513 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
516 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
517 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
518 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
519 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
520 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
521 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
522 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
525 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
526 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
527 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
528 * Improved directory access module.
529 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
530 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
531 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
532 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
533 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
536 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
537 * mmsh streaming fixes.
538 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
541 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
542 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
543 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
546 * Improved session announcement system.
547 * Minimize threads usage by default.
548 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
549 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
550 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
551 * Improved transrater.
552 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
553 * New configuration system.
554 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
557 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
558 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
559 * Supports live streams and VoD.
560 * Supports scheduling.
561 * Telnet interface for vlm.
562 * HTTP interface for vlm.
565 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
566 - Ability to embed video output.
567 - Support for bitmap fonts.
568 - Lots of improvements.
569 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
570 - New design and set of icons.
571 - Ability to embed video output.
572 - Support for hotkeys.
573 - Support for bookmarks.
575 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
576 - Better hotkeys handling.
579 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
580 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
581 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
582 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
585 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
586 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
587 * Improved Windows installer.
593 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
594 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
596 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
597 ---------------------------------
600 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
601 * Playing MOD files is working now.
604 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
605 ---------------------------------
608 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
609 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
612 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
613 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
614 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
615 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
618 * Internal improvments
619 * Improved import/export
622 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
624 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
625 small and strange formats.
627 * New MOD audio demux.
628 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
629 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
630 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
631 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
634 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
635 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
636 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
642 * New opengl video output plugin.
645 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
646 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
648 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
649 ---------------------------------
652 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
653 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
654 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
655 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
656 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
657 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
658 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
659 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
662 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
667 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
668 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
669 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
670 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
671 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
672 * Reworked DVB tuning.
673 * Better Icecast support.
674 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
675 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
678 * Support for Theora video encoding.
679 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
680 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
681 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
682 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
683 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
684 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
687 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
688 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
689 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
690 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
691 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
692 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
693 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
694 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
695 * Preliminary RTP support.
696 * Fixes to SAP announces.
701 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
702 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
704 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
705 - Improvements and help in preferences
706 - New streaming wizard
707 - Revised Disc Open menu
709 - Improvements of the standard pages
710 - Support for new commands
711 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
714 * Many fixes to the SAP module
715 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
718 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
719 * Text subtitles autodetection.
720 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
721 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
722 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
723 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
724 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
725 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
726 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
729 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
731 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
732 * Support for Panther.
733 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
734 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
737 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
738 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
739 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
740 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
741 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
742 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
743 * Multimonitor support (untested).
744 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
747 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
748 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
749 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
752 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
755 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
756 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
757 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
758 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
760 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
761 ---------------------------------
764 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
767 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
768 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
771 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
772 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
775 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
778 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
779 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
782 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
785 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
788 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
789 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
792 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
793 ---------------------------------
796 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
797 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
801 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
802 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
803 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
805 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
806 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
809 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
812 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
815 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
816 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
819 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
820 ---------------------------------
823 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
824 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
828 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
829 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
830 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
831 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
832 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
835 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
836 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
837 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
840 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
841 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
842 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
845 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
846 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
847 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
848 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
849 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
852 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
853 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
854 * A new CORBA control plugin.
857 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
860 * Improved build system.
861 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
862 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
863 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
864 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
867 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
868 ---------------------------------
871 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
874 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
875 * Fixed large file support on Windows
876 * Video 4 Linux support
877 * CD Digital Audio support
878 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
881 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
882 * Support for OpenDML avi files
883 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
884 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
887 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
888 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
889 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
890 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
891 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
892 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
893 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
896 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
897 * New HTTP remote control interface
900 * 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.
901 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
902 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
903 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
906 * New reset option for the preferences
907 * You can set your language in the prefences
908 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
909 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
910 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
911 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
914 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
915 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
916 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
919 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
920 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
921 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
922 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
923 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
924 * New icons by Davor Orel.
925 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
926 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
927 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
928 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
931 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
932 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
933 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
934 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
935 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
936 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
937 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
940 * Interface localization
941 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
942 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
943 * New full-featured Preferences window
945 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
946 ---------------------------------
949 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
950 * support for skins at the interface level
951 * new OSD module using Freetype2
952 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
953 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
954 input level before dropping out of date frames.
955 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
958 * fixed HTTP redirects
959 * support for opening an entire directory
960 * EOF should be detected more reliably
961 * new video4linux access plug-in
962 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
965 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
966 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
967 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
970 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
971 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
972 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
973 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
974 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
975 * new codec for raw I420 video
976 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
979 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
980 (although it still misses some important features)
981 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
984 * new HTTP output support
985 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
986 * fixed AV synchronization issues
989 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
992 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
995 * reorderable playlist
996 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
997 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
998 * support for mono audio output devices
999 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1000 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1001 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1002 * the messages window remembers more lines
1003 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1004 * http and ogg stream output options
1005 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1008 * new skinnable interface
1009 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1011 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1012 * support for FLAC audio format
1013 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1015 * network tab in the interface
1016 * "apply" handling in preferences
1019 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1020 ---------------------------------
1023 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1024 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1025 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1026 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1028 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1029 * DTS S/PDIF support
1032 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1033 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1034 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1035 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1038 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1039 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1042 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1045 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1048 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1050 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1051 * rc interface is now fully useable
1052 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1055 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1056 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1057 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1058 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1059 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1061 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1062 * support for mouse gestures
1063 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1066 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1067 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1070 * improved ID3 tag detection
1071 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1072 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1073 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1075 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1078 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1079 ---------------------------------
1082 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1083 English was set as the preferred language
1086 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1087 --------------------------------
1090 * new mouse gesture interface
1091 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1095 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1096 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1097 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1100 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1101 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1105 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1108 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1109 without the user consent
1112 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1114 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1115 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1116 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1119 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1120 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1121 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1122 * playlist enhancements
1123 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1124 * new step forward/step backward commands
1125 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1126 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1127 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1130 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1131 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1132 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1135 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1136 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1139 * native video output is working again
1140 * only commandline interface support
1141 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1144 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1145 --------------------------------
1148 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1149 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1150 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1151 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1152 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1153 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1154 and A/52 streams are supported)
1155 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1160 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1161 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1162 * VCD entry points support
1163 * VCD image file support
1166 * support for *.asf format
1167 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1168 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1169 * support for ogg encapsulation
1170 * support for raw DV format
1171 * support for *.wav format
1172 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1175 Stream discovery & playlists:
1176 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1177 * support for .m3u file format
1178 * support for .asx file format
1179 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1182 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1183 (only available with the .avi demux)
1184 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1185 * support for raw PCM data
1186 * support for Cinepak video codec
1187 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1188 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1189 * support for Xvid codec
1190 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1191 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1192 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1194 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1196 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1199 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1202 * new WxWindows interface
1203 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1204 device and the channels configuration
1205 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1206 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1207 format that VLC can play
1208 * new swedish translation
1209 * enhancements of the playlist window
1210 * new messages window to see debug info
1211 * fixed a few crashes
1214 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1215 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1216 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1217 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working